Architect of North Carolina’s Woke Curriculum Supports Obama’s Anti-Semitic Pastor

freebeacon ^ | MARCH 12, 2021 | Alex Nester

[MarvinStinson]

The North Carolina State Board of Education member responsible for pushing new radical curriculum standards on K-12 students recently lauded anti-American and anti-Semitic preacher Jeremiah Wright.

James Ford, whom Democratic governor Roy Cooper hand-selected for the state board of education, tweeted in February that the black church "left Jeremiah Wright out to dry."

"Let us never forget how many black preachers left Jeremiah Wright out to dry," Ford tweeted. "Neither defending him or the black theological tradition. Glad he is getting his flowers here."

Ford replied to a tweet in January that asked, "We all agree that Colin Kaepernick was right, yea?" with, "Throw Rev. Wright in there too."

Wright's infamous "God Damn America" sermon surfaced in 2008 while the reverend was serving as then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's spiritual adviser. In that speech, Wright compared American leaders to al Qaeda and said the U.S. government manufactured the AIDS epidemic to kill black people.

Obama distanced himself from Wright and denounced his sermon. Wright blamed "them Jews" for the rift.

Education First Alliance NC president Sloan Rachmuth first reported the tweets in a blog post on Wednesday. Rachmuth said Ford's tweets are grounds for removal from the state board of education, and that the governor should move to do so.

"Mr. Ford embraces the anti-Semitic Jeremiah Wright and spews continuous racial hatred via social media, yet he plays an outsized role in what millions of children will be taught in North Carolina," Rachmuth told the Washington Free Beacon. "This is dangerous and we are demanding that our governor remove him from our state's board of education immediately. Governor Cooper needs to send the message that there will be zero tolerance for racial hatred and anti-Semitism in our state's classrooms."

Rachmuth said Ford and other radical education leaders must be kept from "poisoning" America's children.

"We have to stop this SOB and others like him from poisoning the minds of children," Rachmuth said.

The governor selected Ford to join the North Carolina education board in 2018. The self-described "antiracist, pro-equity consultant" previously worked as a public school history teacher and is the executive director of the Center for Racial Equity in Education.

North Carolina's board of education began revising K-12 curriculum standards in April 2019. Ford, a Black Lives Matter activist, thwarted a modified set of standards slated to pass last summer and demanded that history lessons include more precise definitions of marginalized groups. One draft of the standards included teaching kindergartners about "systemic racism" and "gender identity."

The final iteration of the standards passed in February, despite opposition from the state's first black lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson (R.), and others. Now, high school American history students will learn to "explain how slavery, xenophobia, disenfranchisement, and intolerance" change how people think of themselves as Americans and to "compare how some groups in American society have benefited from economic policies while other groups have been systemically denied the same benefits."

Second graders will learn "how various indigenous, religious, gender, and racial groups advocate for freedom and equality." Fourth graders will learn how "revolution, reform, and resistance" shaped North Carolina.

Neither Cooper's office nor the North Carolina State Board of Education responded to the Free Beacon‘s request for comment.

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright - Liberation Theology

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on “Hannity and Colmes:”

WRIGHT: If you’re not going to talk about theology in context, if you’re not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the ‘60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can’t talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I’m a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?
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Quote from James Cone, founder of “Black Liberation Theology”:

“Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal”.

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
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The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other

by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]

by Fr. Robert Sirico - FrontPageMagazine.com | June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These “liberation theologians” saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers. ...”

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WCC [World Council of Churches] welcomes meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill for unity and peace

[note Cuban president Raul Castro, Fidel's murderous brother, off to the right]

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), has issued a statement on behalf of the Council hailing the historic meeting of Pope Francis, pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch Kirill, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The two leaders met on 12 February in Havana, Cuba.

The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest member church in the WCC..."

https://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/wcc-welcomes-meeting-of-pope-francis-and-patriarch-kirill

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES (WCC)

• Long-time proponent of Liberation Theology
• Infiltrated by the KGB during the Cold War
• Funded Marxist insurgent groups throughout the world
• Calls for capitalism's reform according to socialist principles

  [lots more at link...]

  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7514

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  From David Horowitz’s DiscoverTheNetworks org:
  Profile: LIBERATION THEOLOGY

  “...liberation theology’s real creator was the Soviet Union’s foreign intelligence and domestic security agency, the KGB.

  Patriarch Kirill, who today heads Russian Orthodox Church, secretly worked for the KGB under the code name “Mikhailov” and spent some 40 years promoting liberation theology.

  Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West, writes: “Liberation theology has been generally understood to be a marriage of Marxism and Christianity.

  What has not been understood is that it was not the product of Christians who pursued Communism, but of Communists who pursued Christians....

  Its genesis was part of a highly classified Party/State Disinformation Program, formally approved in 1960 by KGB chairman Aleksandr Shelepin and Politburo member Aleksei Kirichenko, then the second in the party hierarchy after Nikita Khrushchev.”

  Adds Pacepa: “In 1971, the KGB sent Kirill — who had just been elevated to the rank of archimandrite — to Geneva as emissary of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches.... Kirill/Mikhailov’s main task was to involve the WCC in spreading the new liberation theology throughout Latin America.

  In 1975, the KGB was able to infiltrate Kirill into the Central Committee of the WCC — a position he held until he was “elected” patriarch of Russia, in 2009. ...”

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  Below, photos of Krill, Putin and leftist "Liberation Theology" Pope Francis

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

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[Slyfox]

It is interesting that Bergoglio worked for the CIA and snitched on a group of a few priests and some lay people who were later thrown out of a plane to their deaths.

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