Posted on 08/20/2021 4:28:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There are direct parallels between what happened in China during the Cultural Revolution and what is happening right now in America.
Nowhere is the abuse of power in directing government manpower and spending more blatant than in the Biden administration’s promotion of Critical Race Theory (CRT) training throughout all federal government agencies. The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Education (DoE) -- two agencies that have the most people under their administration and instruction -- have incorporated this divisive Marxist ideology-based indoctrination in the training curricula for their staff members, and to all the enlisted in the case of the military. Given that warfighting capability can be critical to a nation’s survival, and that the youth of today represent the nation’s future citizens and leaders, these decisions are not without serious repercussions.
The job of teachers and schools is straightforward: It’s to train students to achieve competence in the basic subjects of reading, writing, verbal, math, science, history and geography. Yet according to the latest Nation’s Report Card only 23% of 12th-grade public school students in America reach basic proficiency. So with our nation’s public school system failing in its primary mission there is no justification for diverting resources and manpower away from essential education curricula and teaching to a controversial program like CRT.
Many parents across the country passionately shared this position just months ago when the school year was coming to a close. In May and June various videos produced by parents meeting and confronting school administrators and school boards demanding that CRT indoctrination programs be dropped went viral, being streamed cross country throughout social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Communism is the abuse of power from so many different directions that citizen’s free will is broken.
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Not *everyone* in Vermont are LIEberals. Kudos to Rep. Smith & Russ Ingalls.
https://vtdigger.org/2021/08/19/vermont-state-rep-im-proud-to-be-white/
At a forum last week in the Northeast Kingdom, a Vermont state representative took the floor to express pride in his racial identity.
“I’m really quite proud to be white,” Rep. Brian Smith, R-Derby, told a crowd that was largely, if not entirely, white. “And I don’t think too many people want to say that, but I’m glad I am.”
Smith made the comments during the latest in a series of meetings held around the state to discuss “critical race theory” and oppose discussion of structural racism in public schools. Video of the event, held last Friday in Brighton, was captured by NEK-TV and posted to YouTube.
In an interview with VTDigger on Thursday, Smith stood by his earlier comments — and disputed the existence of white privilege.
“I have been listening to people complain that being white is not a good thing to be anymore. And I’m just to the point where I’m tired of hearing it,” he said. “I was born white, and I don’t consider it a privilege to be white. But I’m proud to be white. Just like any African American man, woman or child should be proud to be Black. I don’t think enough people say that.”
Sen. Russ Ingalls, R-Essex/Orleans, helped organize Friday’s event and other similar gatherings. In an interview with VTDigger, he defended Smith’s comments.
“I think everybody should be proud of everything that they are,” Ingalls said. “You should be proud that you’re white, and you should be proud if you’re Black. You should be proud of any skin color that you’d like.”
Events such as Friday’s are part of a nationwide push by conservative activists to ban discussion of race and racism in school curricula.
The event in Brighton included other notable exchanges.
Immediately after Smith’s comments — about an hour into the recording of the meeting — a white man stood up in front of the seated crowd and said, “Anybody in this room know who the first slave traders were? They were colored people.”
A voice from the crowd responded, “Yes they were.”
The man continued, “They rounded them up, sold them. They come to the United States to work.”
He then spoke of Vermont’s contributions to the Civil War and made the historically inaccurate statement, “Ninety-nine percent of the colored people stayed in the South because they weren’t that bad treated.”
The man concluded his speech, “So please don’t tell me I’m a racist. I’m not.”
Many in the room applauded, including Ingalls, who stood at the front.
We should be aiming at excellence in our schools & our children’s training, not at the lowest common denominators. Much of this “training” they seem to be pushing nowadays is nothing but indoctrination & a waste of precious time during the learning years & will lead to nothing good.
We should be aiming at excellence in our schools & our children’s training, not at the lowest common denominators. Much of this “training” they seem to be pushing nowadays is nothing but indoctrination & a waste of precious time during the learning years & will lead to nothing good.
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