Posted on 11/30/2021 9:24:36 AM PST by Kaslin
L.A. government schools told parents critical race theory isn't being taught despite bringing in a known critical race theorist to train teachers to 'challenge whiteness.'
The Los Angeles Unified School District Office of Human Relations, Diversity & Equity prepared a presentation that told students critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools while the district made presentations that did precisely that. The district also mandated that teachers take an “antiracism” course taught by a known critical race theorist who told them to “challenge whiteness.”
A LAUSD presentation titled “Critical Race Theory and Racism in K-12 Education” starts out by defining the theory as a “Theoretical Framework through which researchers and scholars try to understand how structural and racial inequities exist and endure in our society.”
The PowerPoint implores students to rename a headline referring to critical race theory, “since we now understand that Critical Race Theory is not taught in schools.” A separate document, which claims “there is no evidence that CRT is widespread in K-12 education,” is also listed on LAUSD’s website.
Although administrators at LAUSD claim CRT isn’t taught in their schools, the district created lesson plans that embed the corrosive theory in their very own classrooms, all after the district brought in a critical race theorist to tell teachers how to “challenge whiteness.”
The LAUSD Office of Human Relations, Diversity and Equity introduces its advisory lessons by highlighting their desire to speak with students “about power, privilege, oppression, and resistance.” The section of the website labeled “Human Relations, Diversity & Equity” lists several critical race theory-inspired presentations, including slideshows that teach Thanksgiving is evil and propose an alternative holiday.
One presentation told students to check their privilege and included a video called “What is Privilege.”It shows people engaging in a privilege walk, an activity that I had to do six years ago as a freshman at my California high school. In it, people line up and take steps forward or backward depending on their answer to a series of questions. It is incredibly easy to manipulate the results through selective questioning in order to make people believe CRT’s sweeping claims of privilege and oppression based on skin color.
The presentation claims that white people, among others, are uniquely privileged, before telling students how to become an ally of left wing social justice movements. There’s also a slideshow about the Black Lives Matter movement that includes a note signed by the LAUSD Human Relations, Diversity and Equity team. The presentation mocks the phrase “all lives matter” in a comic.
It also includes the infamous tagline “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family” and featured a grab bag of intersectional insanity, imploring students to “celebrate queer people,” “dismantle patriarchal practices,” and undermine “hetero normative thinking.” One graphic demanded that our society “fund counselors not cops” and “mandate black history and ethnic studies.”
The presentation discussed white supremacy, which it defined as “The belief that white people are better than other races” and claimed that “Some systems, like schools and jails, have white supremacy built into them because white people have had so much power for so long.”
The administrators are evidently not fazed by the irony of peddling the conspiracy theory that America’s schools are fundamentally controlled by hegemonic white supremacy while they, as influential members of the nation’s second-largest school district, engender animosity against their white students by offering a state-sponsored crash course on racial identity politics.
A wide variety of other presentations also peddled the same themes and pushed for CRT.
Teaching critical race theory and then lying about its presence in schools isn’t new. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has claimed CRT isn’t taught in schools after her organization boasted of teaching it on national television.
One slideshow focused on the Cleveland Indians changing their name, claiming that various teams were named after racial slurs and that Native Americans are the only people group whose identity has been turned into a mascot, conveniently forgetting about teams such as the Minnesota Vikings, Boston Celtics, and Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
A whole section on the LAUSD website is dedicated to “Election, Insurrection, and More.” One slideshow focused on “domestic terrorism,” invoking Jan. 6, 2020. It also features discussion of white supremacist domestic terrorism, while making no mention of Black Lives Matter riots or the rape and murder-infested Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
When asked why the Human Relations, Diversity and Equity team told students that CRT is not being taught in schools despite teaching it themselves, the team’s coordinator Judy Chiasson avoided the issue, responding, “We encourage students to hear different perspectives, become critical thinkers, and build camaraderie across identities so they may become the leaders of tomorrow.”
Lest you believe these presentations were simply the handiwork of a rogue team of far left administrators, turn your attention to this memorandum from the LAUSD that mandates that teachers take a course dubbed the “Anti-Racist Journey.”
The series was taught by Tyrone C. Howard, a UCLA professor and critical race theorist. Howard wrote the foreword to a book titled “Critical Race Theory in Teacher Education: Informing Classroom Culture and Practice,” which “promotes the widespread application of Critical Race Theory.” He also co-authored an academic article titled “Critical Race Theory 20 Years Later: Where Do We Go From Here?” which lays out an intersectional approach for the future of CRT.
During the training, Howard tells teachers to “celebrate people of color,” and then discusses the need to “challenge whiteness,” which he bizarrely connects to ideas of merit and individualism. As Howard and one facilitator guide notes, “Whiteness’ … does not mean an indictment of white people and refers to a majority perspective and construct.”
But critical race theorists frequently use the term to secure this indictment. Psychoanalyst Donald Moss published an article claiming that whiteness is a “parasitic condition” without a “permanent cure,” while Noel Ignatiev, the communist and Harvard lecturer who founded the journal “Race Traitor” and claimed that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity,” argued that “abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.”
Yet we’re somehow expected to believe that these critical race advocates are just trying to end racism. They’re not being anti-white. They’ve simply constructed an ideology around attributing some of the worst evils to “whiteness.”
In the face of the district’s lies, there might be reason to rejoice. It might be an indicator that even school districts in incredibly far-left areas have realized just how quickly they’re losing ground on the issue among decent people of all races. By lying, LAUSD might’ve accidentally admitted a greater truth about critical race theory: that parents and voters can stop it.
Howard, the LAUSD School Board, and Superintendent Reilly did not respond to requests for comment.
Never forget, “Whiteness” is Western Civilization.
That is what they are really attacking.
Exactly!
Depends on what your definition of is is.
I guess the phrase “That’s mighty white of you” is an insult, now.
I firmly believe that CRT, The 1619 Project, most all of the alleged “Civil Rights” icons and certain members of Congre$$ have created more racists than the KKK ever thought possible.
This is easy to fix, Almost NO Public Employee’s, especially Teachers and Administrators send thier children to Public Schools, If we had a LAW requiring ALL Public Employee’s to send thier children to the Public School System or be Terminated and LOSE All Pension benefits, this would END Overnight
How many white people are in the LAUSD, and how many of them are actually racist?
They Aren’t Teaching Critical Race Theory
And that guy in your driveway is putting wheels on your car huh.
This kind of fan dance is what happens when they say the quiet part out loud.
“I firmly believe that CRT, The 1619 Project, most all of the alleged “Civil Rights” icons and certain members of Congre$$ have created more racists than the KKK ever thought possible.”
Impossible. You can’t be racist against white people.
No, really. That’s what they think.
Their statement is that they’re openly teaching the tenets, core assumptions, secondary beliefs, and normative processes of Critical Race Theory but not CRT itself. Sorry, but that feathered thing with webbed feet that’s waddling around quacking - it’s a duck.
Little Ray wrote: Never forget, “Whiteness” is Western Civilization. That is what they are really attacking.
Excellent point.
This is the city. Dallas. I GTFOO Los Angeles. This is Sergeant Joe Friday. Left my pension, my mother’s grave, even my partner behind. It’s a nut house. I’m done. Now I’m a bagger at the local Piggly Wiggly. Fine. At least they let me shoot flash-mob looters here. Except the long-time residents usually beat me to it.
The alt-far-left-communist-democRATs lie as you and I breath, out of shear necessity and in order to live. They and their ‘fellow travelers’ also ruin everything that they touch. I saw an article on the latest victim, “AMA bringing dangerous levels of wokeness into the medical profession”, and you can give that a look at HotAir. Best to eat right, exercise and avoid dangerous activity so you don’t need to see a doctor (unless you already have a good one you can trust; but the left will be working to get rid of those). CRT was bragged about for YEARS, and then when people started speaking out about it we were told it never existed. THAT is gaslighting!
I miss Piggly Wiggly. It’s a store folks. LOL
Contrary to what leftists say, ‘civil rights’ do NOT mean ‘black’. We all have civil rights. Democrats try to take ours way every day.
I’m assuming they have them in Dallas. I remember one in Charleston when I was there on a construction crew (as scrap wood picker upper and partner in the crew [formed a corporation, kept books, arranged insurance]).
They're not lying.
"Critical Race Theory" is just three words. Keep up the pressure, they will change the name. And the anti-CRT people will declare victory.
What they are teaching in LAUSD, and everywhere else, is anti-white race hatred, designed to hobble and handicap white children, especially the little ones.
And they won't stop.
Not even when we are living like this will it stop.
Artificially held down by quotas and laws similar to South Africa's Black Empowerment laws. Unable to move economically. Unable to physically move around for fear of our safety. Like SA farmers, violently murdered in our homes.
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