Posted on 01/12/2016 8:31:42 AM PST by detective
New Trier High School, one of the country's top public schools, is forcing students to attend seminars on racial identity on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
"The goals for this day are to help New Trier students develop a deeper understanding of their own racial identities and the identities of others, and to better understand how we can all work to counter the impact of systemic racism in our lives," reads a statement on the school district's website.
Attendance is mandatory, though other public institutions in New Trier Township will be closed in observance of the holiday.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Now they are turning it into a mandatory indoctrination camp day for students.
Among the classes are:
Why Do I Have to Feel Guilty for Being White?
What is Your Privilege?
Representations of the Middle East: Stereotypes and Islamophobia
Recall the old warning that he who controls the meaning of words controls the outcome of a debate. This was never more true than in the current discourse about race in America.
When Nobel Prize winning poet Tony Morrison can write an New Yorker article titled “Clinton as the first black president” was “Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime,” then what is “black”? In 2009, When the NAACP calls the black conservative Kenneth Gladney, “not black enough”, and “not a brother” then what is “black”? When Time magazine’s Jack White calls Supreme Court Justice Thomas, “the scariest of all the hobgoblins”, saying “Washington seems to be filled with white men who make black people uneasy”, than what is “black”? And when Obama, a man whose mother is Caucasian, and whose father was not fully black, can tell us in his autobiography that in his youth he struggled with his racial identity before *deciding* to be black, what is “black”?
To top off the way progressives really view Justice Thomas, in early July, 2015, actor Jeorge Takei was quoted in TheBlaze as saying he “is a clown in blackface.” Clearly this is a reference to something other than race.
When Bill Maher, during a panel discussion on HBO complains that Obama’s policies are “half-assed” “because he’s only half black.” and that “if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president.”, and that “there’s a white man in him holding him back”, than what is “black”? Indeed, what is “white”?
On October 20, 2011, Pam Spaulding at Firedoglake wrote about two prominent Republicans who happen to be black:
“But back to race. I’ll never understand Herman Cain and his relationship to the GOP establishment; like former puppet Michael Steele, they don’t see (or don’t care) how rancid race-based politics in the Republican party has become… [T]he Republican leadership has made its bed with the fundamentalists and nativist know-nothings, making Cain and other black Republicans curious cases that border on self-loathing.” In this context, what exactly is “black”?
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien writes of a private meeting in 2007 with Jesse Jackson in her book, “The Next Big Story.†During the meeting, Jackson complained to O’Brien, whose mother is a black woman from Cuba, that there weren’t any black anchors on CNN. She wrote, “He looks me in the eye and reaches his fingers over to tap a spot of skin on my right hand. He shakes his head. “You don’t count,†he says.” She closed the section with “[t]he arbiter of blackness had weighed in. I had been measured and found wanting.”
When the results of an August 2010 Missouri ballot proposition directing that state to protect its citizens from being forced into ObamaCare were announced and the voter sentiment scored a record for being such a lopsided adoption of the provision. In one county the vote was 92% in favor of the provision. Juan Williams complained on Fox News this was really about race.
Later, in a January 30, 2012 article in The Hill, Williams wrote that when conservative candidates use the words “Founding Fathers†and the “Constitutionâ€, they are speaking in code. He said that when a candidate suggests that black people should demand jobs instead of food stamps, that he is “ “dog whistling†at certain white audiences”, saying this was “the same rhetorical technique of the segregationist politicians of the past...” This begs the question, if a person reveres the Founding Fathers, what race does Williams presume he is?
Dr. Cornel West, whose official web site describes him as “a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual”, was the subject of an article in the May 18, 2011 Washington Post. Reporter Krissah Thompson opened with, “Scholar Cornel West’s scathing critique of President Obama’s liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.”
More recently, in a review of the movie “Django” published in the December 25, 2012 Boston Globe, critic Wesley Morris complains:
“The movie is too modern for what [Samuel L.] Jackson is doing to be limited to 1853. He’s conjuring the house Negro, yes, but playing him as though he were Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes or Herman Cain or Michael Steele, men whom some black people find embarrassing.”
The December 18, 2012 New York times carried an opinion piece by Adolph Reed, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. The occasion was the appointment of Tim Scott, an African American, to fill a vacant Senate seat. The title of the piece was The Puzzle of Black Republicans.
Of Scott, Reed wrote, “...his politics, like those of the archconservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, are utterly at odds with the preferences of most black Americans. Mr. Scott has been staunchly anti-tax, anti-union and anti-abortion.”
Later, after the general election in November 2014, the NAACP released statement on the outcome and failed to mention that Tim Scott was the first black in the South to be elected to the US Senate. They also failed to mention Mia Love, the first black woman to be elected to the US House from Utah. Both Scott and Love are black.
A study in the April 2014 edition of the authoritative journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that black students who had white friends were seen as “less black.”
Also, as reported in the April 23, 2014 edition of the Washington Free Beacon, Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn urged backers to read an article comparing black Republican voters to Jews who collaborated with the Nazis.
Then in May of 2014, Bloomberg writer Francis Wilkinson wrote a piece claiming that Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who is black, only became a senator because Republicans “lowered the bar” for his appointment.
In July of 2014, after the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., fumed, “the one thing we’re going to do during this work period – sooner rather than later – is to ensure that women’s lives are not determined by virtue of five white men.” Only four of the Justices are Caucasian.
On September 15, 2014, talk show host Sean Hannity interviewed Barack Obama’s half brother, Mark Obama Ndesandjo about his new book. While Ndesandjo’s father was Barack Obama, Sr., he has a different mother, Ruth (Baker) Ndesandjo, an American Jew from Boston. Ruth, like Barack Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunam, was Caucasian.
During the course of the interview, Mark Ndesandjo said that he thought Barack Obama was ashamed of Mark’s “whiteness” and that maybe Barack was a little bit ashamed of his “blackness”.
Stop and consider that such an opinion is only possible if “white” or “black” is far more about factors outside of race than about race itself. Does it change your opinion of Mark Ndesandjo’s “race” to know that he trained as a classical pianist, has a MSc. in Physics, and does international consulting in telecommunications and international marketing?
Also in September of 2014, the website of Teach for America said that “math has traditionally been seen as the domain of old, White men,” and asks “doesn’t our premise of 2 + 2 = 4 look awfully naive?”
Later that year, on December 8, 2014, the Daily Hampshire Gazette published the news that the president of prestigious Smith College, whose alumni include feminists Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, had to issued an apology for telling students in a campus-wide email that “all lives matter” in relation to student concerns over the death of Ferguson resident Michael Brown.
Cecelia Lim, a Smith sophomore, as quoted by the Gazette as saying, “it felt like she was invalidating the experience of black lives.â€
Compare that to the March 5, 2015 tweet by actor D.L. Hughley about conservatives who happened to also be black: “Ben Carson is just Herman Cain who can hold a scalpel instead of a pizza.”
A piece ran in the July 19, 2015 online edition of Vanity Fair titled Rachel Dolezal’s True Lies. Ms. Dolezl, whose parents are both clearly Caucasian, “spent years researching and then perfectly molding her black identity.” About her identity, she states, “I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m black.” [1] If this does not make the exact point that this essay documents, I don’t know what could.
On November 2, 2015 it was annonced that Rachel Dolezal finally admitted to being Caucasian with two Caucasian parents. At the time she said that she continues to “identify as black.”
Now in August of 2015, we find out that Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is in fact Caucasian. It is also alleged that King had received a scholarship to Morehouse College from Oprah Winfrey based on his race.
In October of 2015, another person associated with Black Lives Matter, Blake Simons, wrote an article [2] in which he warned that the United States needs a new Constitution or else “it will be the bullet” for the US.
He wrote “that the Constitution is the root of virtually all our problems in America” and “A Constitution written by only white men will never serve the interests of Black people.”
References to race, and especially to “black”, in all these diverse contexts, is clearly not about “race”. They are about ideology, or more exactly, about socialist ideology. It is the rebuke that these black people refuse to be red.
As far as I am concerned, we are all made in the image of God. I agree with Martin Luther King, that people should be judged on the content of their character and not on the color of their skin. With respect to people, it is not about their genetic heritage, it is about the ideology they advocate and support. It is not about being “black” at all, it is about how thoroughly red that people who call themselves “black” must be or they are not “black” in the eyes of the liberal guardians of our culture.
[1] http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/20/dolezal-im-not-african-american-but-i-am-black/
[2] http://afrikanblackcoalition.org/2015/09/a-new-constitution-or-the-bullet/
I thought the point was to make one's race irrelevant, you know that, "Content of Character" thing?
“My kids were sick that day.....”
How about they ask the kids (and everyone) to identify as individuals instead of by race?
I taught my kids everything they need to know about racial identity:
1. The day has already come when people should not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
2. Anyone whose self-described identity is as a black man, as a lesbian woman, as a Muslim, or as anything other than as a person is someone to be careful around in all respects.
When they encounter this sort of racist racial-identity nonsense, they listen quietly and politely, but see it as a peek into the minds of the mentally ill, not as something pertaining to reality.
Kids should wear t-shirts that read: “Liberals: Stop labeling people.”
I thought liberals hated labels.
Teaching us all to get along by constantly pointing out everyone’s racial differences. Somehow that makes sense to a liberal.
“New Trier High School, one of the country’s top public schools, is forcing students to attend seminars on racial identity on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.”
Homeschooling yet?
If you have been homeschooling for a while and your child is an average child, when he takes any of the standardized tests, he should score at least one grade level higher in competency than the average child of the same grade level in public school.
And thus, in the mind of progressives who are tearing our society apart, such homeschooling is a form of “privilege” that at least must be denigrated, if not outright forbidden.
If the parents don’t stand up to the school administration, I have no sympathy for them.
LOL!!
(mine too)
Just some of the topics covered:
“Why whites suck.”
“Why whites should be thrilled to have the government take their money and give it to nonwhites.”
“NICE whites are happy to be overtaken and replaced by immigrants!”
Aren’t schools closed that day?
The day is coming when people will be forced to march in Martin Luther King Day parades, like the Communists forced people to march on May Day.
You took the words out of my mouth I was going to say that, half the reason I think it is getting better to home school.
‘kay?
:-)
That was my first thought-what can we do when the parents of the kids can’t be bothered to oppose this, or at the least keep their kids home and use the day to teach them some hard truths? I would consider this a good day to read and discuss John Derbyshire’s famous column “The Talk” with my kids, not that my kids would be in public school in the first place. It’s hard to fathom that there are parents who can’t be bothered to care that their kids are being scapegoated and instilled with guilt for being white.
The other day, my best friend told me the PC will likely bring down Western civilization. I told him he was wrong. COWARDICE will precipitate the fall of Western civilization. Think Edmund Burke.
My kids would be SICK ghat day.. I can sign the paper for that right now.
I assume children who look like my kids should wear “proud to be white” shirts to celebrate their racial identity. Or are they only celebrating certain “racial identities” and complaining about others?
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