Posted on 10/22/2022 10:43:05 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Centennial School Board candidate Jessica Schwinn suggested white people who quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are racist and accused them of advocating for white supremacy.
Schwinn called a “family meeting” in an undated TikTok video to reprimand white people, calling them racist and uninformed. They are “upholding” white supremacy, she said.
Schwinn is running for school board with a slate of candidates calling themselves “4Centennial,” which includes Andrew Meyer, Laura Gannon, and Kara Schmitz. The Centennial School District encompasses Blaine, Centerville, Circle Pines, Lexington, and Lino Lakes.
The text introducing the video reads: “ATTN: white people: Family meeting time. How are we going to call out our ‘cousins’ who misrepresent and/or misconstrue Dr. Martin Luther King’s words and memory on Monday?”
The video, which is just over a minute long, opens with Schwinn saying, “Hey white people, yeah, you. You’re white.”
Schwinn was endorsed by TakeAction Minnesota, a far-left progressive organization.
“The same grifters who have attacked our democracy, rigged the Supreme Court in favor of the rich and powerful, and sown division in our communities over masks and vaccines are promoting hate in our schools and trying to force our teachers to lie about our history,” the group said in its endorsement.
In the TikTok video, Schwinn says to white people, “We need to have a little chat. So Monday there’s about to be a lot of wild tweets and wild posts quoting Dr. Martin Luther King and the people who are posting these are … mmm … not informed and racist and trying to uphold white supremacy.”
She encouraged others to join her in “calling out” other white people who quote King.
“So it is on us, as white people, to call out our cousins, fellow white people … call ’em out … call ’em out,” Schwinn says in the video.
She concludes the video by saying, “We [white people] cannot put this on people of color and black people. It’s not on them. It’s our turn. We need to take this on. We need to call out … call them out. And we’ll be busy on Monday but it’s what we need to do.”
Equity in schools is a cornerstone of Schwinn’s school board campaign. She was recently criticized online for objecting to the “parental rights movement.”
Meyer, one of her fellow candidates, responded to this criticism, saying “parent concerns are important and should be heard,” but not at the expense of student privacy.
“If a student chooses to share something about themselves with an educator that they wish to remain confidential, and the educator does not think said student is in danger, then they should be allowed to keep that confidential,” he said.
Schwinn also appears to be in favor of keeping sexually graphic books in schools. She said in one Facebook post that she’s against “banning books” and included a list of the “10 most challenged books.” At the top of that last is “Gender Queer,” which includes graphic illustrations of oral sex and masturbation.
According to Parents Defending Education, Centennial School District provides teachers and parents with resources on equity and gender ideology and promotes an organization that helps transgender individuals acquire free “chest binders.”
Alpha News reached out to Schwinn but she did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Fat coal burner says what?...
At least they are bring logically consistent.
People who are obsessed by race assume everyone shares their obsession.
People who see racism everywhere they look are toxic and should be avoided at all costs.
So Martin Luther King was a racist? He must be if quoting him is racist! He is also the reason why the Actress who played Lt. Uhura did not quit Star Trek. Star Trek must also be raaaaaacist!
Black people who quote Abraham Lincoln are racist black supremacist, white supremacist wannabes.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…..little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
“This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning. ‘My country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.’” This country needs “a new birth of freedom” to keep faith with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as the embodiment of the American ideal. Ronald Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the blood stream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same”. Now it is our turn.
If a black person uses a computer, is that cultural appropriation?
Asking for a friend.
Candidate says white people who quote MLK are ‘trying to uphold white supremacy’
Well, obviously because MLK was a white supremacist.
Just shut up Jessica.
First one to inject race into it is the racist.
Now pay your reparations, hand over your technology (which you stole from Africa), and go extinct!
So now I'm a white racist who believed in that virtue before I heard of MLK? These TRUE racists will never give it up. It's there way to hold on to power/money they don't deserve. I have a list saved somewhere of all the Black conservatives I admire, respect, and would follow in a counter-racist demonstration. Feel free to name those who you admire.
The race card’s been overplayed to the point it’s boring and stupid to even try to use it.
And guilty white people? It’s a mental illness sweetie...
I’ve lost all patience with little piggies like the racist Jessica. If she doesn’t like America, I suggest she goes back to a place where there are NO WHITE PEOPLE. She’d obviously be a lot happier. Effin bigoted idiot.
DNC is a party with a richly deserved bad conscience, which they are forever trying to project onto everyone else.
“Candidate says White people who breathe oxygen are trying to uphold White Supremacy.”
I never knew how much the Far Left hated MLK. It’s so bad. They, in their quest to accuse others, are only exposing their own blatant racism and white supremacy.
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