Christopher Rufo Reports: Critical Race Theory Takes Root in Public Grade Schools and High Schools from Coast to Coast

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Christopher Rufo has been reporting on Critical Race Theory in our schools for the past year. His eleven headlines (and articles) below demoralize me. These are the teachings of Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi in action. I hope that attorneys file lawsuits with regard to every one of these situations for creating hostile race environments. This is also child abuse, but most of the parents either don’t know what is being taught to their children or they are afraid to speak up because doing so will cause them to be ostracized or branded “racists.”

Here are Rufo’s headlines and synopses. Each of the eleven locations below contains a link to Rufo’s full story of the way those schools are teaching CRT. Many of these stories are based upon whistle-blower oral and written disclosures to Rufo:

Seattle [Public Grade School]

Seattle Public Schools tells teachers that the education system is guilty of “spirit murder” against black children and that white teachers must “bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance.”

San Diego [Public K – 8]

San Diego Public Schools accuses white teachers of being colonizers on stolen Native American land and tells them “you are racist” and “you are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.” They recommend that the teachers undergo “antiracist therapy.”

Cupertino, California [Public School, Third Graders]

A Cupertino, California, elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” They separate the eight-year-old children into oppressors and oppressed.

Springfield, Missouri [Public Middle School]

A middle school in Springfield, Missouri, forces teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” claiming that white heterosexual Protestant males are inherently oppressors and must atone for their “covert white supremacy.”

Philadelphia [Public School – Fifth grade]

A Philadelphia elementary school forces fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to “free Angela Davis” from prison. At this school, 87 percent of students will fail to achieve basic literacy by graduation.

New York [Public School, Grades 6 – 12]

The principal of the East Side Community School in New York sent an email to white parents telling them that they should “subvert white authority,” become “white traitors,” and then advocate for full “white abolition.”

Buffalo [Public Grade Schools]

Buffalo Public Schools teaches students that “all white people” perpetuate systemic racism and forces kindergarteners to watch a video of dead black children warning them about “racist police and state-sanctioned violence” who might kill them at any time.

Arizona [ Department of Education Report regarding Babies]

The Arizona Department of Education created an “equity” toolkit claiming that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children become full racists—”strongly biased in favor of whiteness”—by age five.

California [Department of Education – Primary and Secondary School Students]

The California Department of Education passed an “ethnic studies” curriculum that calls for the “decolonization” of American society and has students chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice. The solution, according to one author, is “countergenocide.”

North Carolina [Public grade schools and high schools]

North Carolina’s largest school district launches a campaign against “whiteness in educational spaces”—and encourages teachers to subvert families and push the ideology of “antiracism” directly onto students without parental consent.

Santa Clara, California [Public grade schools and high schools]

Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a “parasitic system” based on the “invasion” of “white male settlers” and encourages teachers to “cash in on kids’ inherent empathy” in order to recruit them into political activism.

When you are finished absorbing the highly divisive course materials used by these schools, also consider the numerous violations of the NEA teacher code of conduct.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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  1. Avatar of Bill Heath
    Bill Heath

    This is state-sanctioned racism and state-sanctioned child abuse. Are you aware of any public-interest law firms big enough to survive bringing a class action lawsuit against teachers, principals, teachers’ unions and politicians who encourage or even just allow this to happen? I’ll gladly help advertise it and work on a gofundme page. My children have been out of public school since 1992 and 1995. I probably have no standing except as a taxpayer concerned about the direction his country is taking.

    1. Avatar of Erich Vieth
      Erich Vieth

      Bill, I’ve heard of some lawyers starting to take an interest in these sorts of cases. As you know, I am an attorney and I would consider suing one of these school districts for civil rights violations: Compelled speech, hostile racial environment, perhaps even imposed religion, intentional infliction of emotional distress, perhaps other theories as well.

  2. Avatar of Ruth Henriquez
    Ruth Henriquez

    I agree with Bill Heath. It seems this can only be addressed in the courts. But if I’m wrong, I’d like someone with legal knowledge to write about why it is wrong.

  3. Avatar of Erich Vieth
    Erich Vieth

    John McWhorter has also experienced CRT denial: people who claim that people like McWhorter, Christopher Rufo–and I–are making shit up when we claim that a newish virulent and divisive version of CRT is rapidly spreading through American schools. McWhorter’s experience (from his Substack website:

    . . . [T]his kind of thought should certainly not be the fulcrum of a school’s entire curriculum, as has been reported at schools like Dalton and others in New York. . . There is type who . . . insists that the modern version of CRT is not actually being foisted upon students anywhere – or at least, not enough to matter.

    Well, there are crystal clear reports of the takeover of this ideology at several schools in the New York area these days – I am aware of seven at this writing. Then, there are reports of school boards actively considering ideas like these nationwide. Then there is a source that I admit needs to be processed so that it can be aired officially, that we could call “Glenn Loury and John McWhorter’s inboxes” – a good 15 messages we get from concerned parents and teachers every single week (now since last summer) about this ideology permeating schools nationwide. The organization FAIR will also attest to the sheer volume of cases of this kind. As do the contents of the message sections of certain Substack newsletters.

    Still just a bunch of anecdotes? Okay, let’s try this. If there were this volume of reports of exactly this kind – the same combination of media and independent testimony – of cop killings of black men, it would treated with no hesitation as evidence of a national scourge. It would treated that way if the corpus consisted of about a quarter of the volume of the one I refer to. Anyone who claimed that this body of reportage and testimony qualified as mere “anecdote,” and that there could be no verdict until the data were all in and subjected to years’ worth of statistical analysis (over which the experts would then fight for another decade then yielding no real conclusion …), would be dismissed as a pariah within milliseconds. . .

    [I]n the meantime, we must understand:

    1) Criticizing Critical Race Theory as it operates in 2021 does not require perusing the oeuvre of Kimberlé Crenshaw, and the critique is not invalidated by the differences between what articles like that contained and what’s happening in our schools now.

    2) Criticizing Critical Race Theory does not mean teaching students that America has been nothing but great. Constructive dialogue about complex and sensitive issues is impossible within the pretense that all matters reduce to binary oppositions. The Elect cannot reasonably insist America be more sensitive in their perspectives while responding to all critique with sandbox logic based on yes vs. no, off vs. on, and Selma vs. utopia.

    Quibbles and cavils and performance art over what we call what’s happening in our schools are just that. The urgent thing is not what we call these developments, and pretending you have to be a legal scholar to have anything to say about them but Amen.

    The urgent thing is to stand up against this rule of terror by people sincere yet misled, brandishing the mighty tool of calling us names on social media if we displease them.

    A mature society cannot operate in this way.

  4. Avatar of johnE
    johnE

    I dunno… personally, the woke movement reminds me of McCarthyism and allied witch hunts more than anything else. The shift is from “innocent until proven guilty,” to “innocent until accused.”

    1. Avatar of Erich Vieth
      Erich Vieth

      johnE – It seems to me that it is “Guilty by Color! Case closed!

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    Anonymous

    As current as most of this is, I would ask the question, why is it that this claptrap of Jane Elliot, co-opted by modern black leftists, is more difficult to shove back under the rock from where it reared its ugly head when the purveyor of the scam is no longer a pasty-white prude? In short, JE tried to sell the lie, but then realized that people would feel guilty about rejecting it if it came from a sales agent they could be guilted into buying from? I don’t usually comment on these forums, but I do think that any campaign to destroy this stupidity has to start at the root of the tree. Fix the stupidity in the white so-called liberal class, and the rest of the crowd will feel less guilty about kicking it to the curb.

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