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Candidate says white people who quote MLK are ‘trying to uphold white supremacy’ (MN)
Alpha News ^ | 10/22/22 | Sheila Qualls

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.


TOPICS: Minnesota; Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: mlk; white
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To: 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.

I suggest that Jessica Schwinn is exceptionally stupid.

21 posted on 10/22/2022 11:05:27 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Now, MLK words are “cancelled”

The quote that there should be equality in schools was the most numerous, as the left wants no part of equality in the DOJ, Courts, FBI, or any other government agency. Yet, they believe in equity for schools. They don’t believe in Constitutional rights of those still held from Jan 6th, or for even release of potentially Brady material (video), but they want equity. They believe in ‘democracy’ but don’t believe that voting changes, that violated existing election laws of state legislatures, is a problem.

They want what they want when they want it, not equality or justice.


22 posted on 10/22/2022 11:06:17 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

No body can out racist a Black racist.

Except maybe an Asian racist.


23 posted on 10/22/2022 11:06:42 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Just don’t quote the guy, and don’t listen to any of his speeches and don’t read any of his stuff. Just ignore him. But the ironic thing is, if we did that the lefties would call us racist for that!

It just proves the “racist” label has become meaningless.


24 posted on 10/22/2022 11:08:24 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: marron

“People who see racism everywhere they look are toxic and should be avoided at all costs.”

Yup.


25 posted on 10/22/2022 11:09:58 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So we have a federal holiday for a man we can’t make reference to if we are white?


26 posted on 10/22/2022 11:11:51 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

She may be trying to say MLK is being quoted out of context, but being a lefty, she just naturally reverts to accusations and name calling. It’s the only tool in their toolbox.


27 posted on 10/22/2022 11:14:05 AM PDT by Spok (Homelessness will not be solved by incentivizing it; it must be made harder, not easier.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I suppose that when blacks quote a white leader, that makes them racists also?

I didn’t think so.


28 posted on 10/22/2022 11:14:07 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Musics)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sometimes the only people running for school boards are the last ones you want running the schools.

All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.


29 posted on 10/22/2022 11:14:20 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Many moons ago I found the Microaggression pdf from several so-called ‘Universities’ stating that ‘I do not see color when I look at a person’ is now racist and grounds for discipline and re-education, to ‘get your mind right.’

To see some examples, use your favorite search engine and enter “microaggression pdf.” Or, “microaggression pdf (and the name of the university).”


30 posted on 10/22/2022 11:19:42 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: marron

“...to reprimand white people, calling them racist and uninformed. They are “upholding” white supremacy, she said.”

Racist for quoting King?

“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.”

There are others that make Schwinn a racist and totally uninformed with her above statement.

The worst form of inequality is to try to “make” unequal things equal. Aristotle

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Plato

But the real topper belongs in my lifetime:

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. John F. Kennedy

Diversity is the recognition of differences and doesn’t always strive to reduce or correct them. Just to toss them into the pot then put them on the back burner until they are needed again when they can be reshaped to fit the agenda. So what is Kennedy trying to create the opportunity for? Differences not likenesses. And one of the words representing undiversity according to Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus is forced compatability. Thus conflict.

wy69


31 posted on 10/22/2022 11:20:56 AM PDT by whitney69 (quantity)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
SHE is white!
32 posted on 10/22/2022 11:21:35 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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To: Signalman

Cultural appropriation is changing fairy tales written by white Danes and Germans (Hans Christen Andersen, the Brothers Grimm) Making the characters to be of color when they obviously were NOT.

Then crying racism when people complain.


33 posted on 10/22/2022 11:21:41 AM PDT by madison10 (There is no King, but Jesus.)
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To: Nateman
So Martin Luther King was a racist? He must be if quoting him is racist!

Well, if he is a racist then we ought to cancel him. Tear down that MLK memorial in Washington, DC!

(But leave the streets named after MLK. The names serve a very good purpose.)

34 posted on 10/22/2022 11:28:57 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

THIS crap . . . is why it would be good for states to have a electoral college style system (county-by-county) for statewide elections and also why it would be good to overturn Reynolds v. Sims.

Why in the world should the ENTIRE STATE of Minnesota suffer under the dominance of leftoid politics like these in the Twin Cities, which cover but a small portion of the state?


35 posted on 10/22/2022 11:34:52 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: A Navy Vet

An advice columnist named Amy Alkon refers to this state of affairs as “unearned power over others.” That’s what these people are trying to do: obtain unearned power over others.


36 posted on 10/22/2022 11:36:24 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What if someone said that Black people who drive cars, use electricity, and own iphones are guilty of cultural appropriation?


37 posted on 10/22/2022 11:37:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Nateman

Every year for I think 15 years before I retired from the university I attended the all day Martin Luther King Day observances. Voluntary, sort of.

One of the educational sessions had a young professor in front of a white board and a screen for PowerPoint. She showed a line from Dr.King about all Americans deserve equal treatment under the law regardless of race or ethnicity.

She said: “In Dr.King’s day that would have been considered a good thing to say. Today it would be racist. It totally ignores the equity needs for black people to be treated differently than others to make up for past injustices.”


38 posted on 10/22/2022 11:38:19 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: RoosterRedux

“What if someone said that Black people who drive cars, use electricity, and own iphones are guilty of cultural appropriation?”

Someone would most likely get killed.


39 posted on 10/22/2022 11:38:37 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: marron
"People who are obsessed by race assume everyone shares their obsession." -- marron

That is the concept of diversity.
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40 posted on 10/22/2022 11:41:46 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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