I’m doing battle with the PC crap at the local middle school on a variety of issues, but 2 incidents relate to this issue.
Last year around the inauguration the school had a wall display saying “Celebrate Diversity” and photos of people from every facet of life, none of whom were white or Asian. Two of the people my kids were told to “celebrate” were Malcolm X and Fidel Castro.
I spoke with my son about the need to judge people by the things that they control, the choices they make, rather than by things they can’t control, like their race, abilities, etc. And because the things they can’t control are determined by God, we can be thankful for the things that make each person unique, because we all have something to contribute. Celebrating diversity in the things that are morally neutral basically means valuing every human life for its potential, since we’re all unique.
My son tried to say in class that celebrating diversity isn’t really so much about race, but about valuing everyone for what they can contribute uniquely. The teacher stopped him and said, “No, it’s actually about race but we don’t have time to discuss it.”
This year my same son had a Spanish assignment to research a Latino person who has been successful in one or another area of life. He was stuck with the political area. He was given a list of names to choose from - all of them democrat and when he looked for basic information he was unable to find any person on the list who was not guilty of at least one crime. Finally he just chose somebody randomly - somebody convicted of multiple crimes.
He asked me what he should do, since he was supposed to make a poster in praise of this person’s many accomplishments. I told him what I always tell him: Tell the truth. So he did. The teacher responded by saying, “Sounds like this guy was very successful at being a crook.”
She had no idea that the group she got the lesson plans from was a front group for the communists putting out free lesson plans on the web. She just knew it was free and she had no idea that there are leftist groups who do this.
There are probably some Latino politicians that could be genuinely celebrated. Marco Rubio comes to mind. But this group chose to make lesson plans requiring kids to praise people who are actively involved in crime and in subverting the rule of law in America. And the teacher was clueless that this was the objective of the people who wrote the lesson plans.
The communists have said that they will infiltrate the schools and they have been very successful in doing so.
2. Fidel Castro is the son of European immigrants. As a matter of fact, the ONLY Cuban President "of color" was Fulgencio Batista, the man Fidel overthrown.