This week, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took the extraordinary step of preemptively banning the implementation of a radical new school curriculum called “critical race theory.”
“Let me be clear. There’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money,” said DeSantis.
Critical race theory is a concept incubated in universities, implemented in some of corporate America, and is now trickling down to K-12 schools. It holds that unconscious bias, racism, and oppression are implicit in white people and must be remedied through equity and equality programs.
Cornell University Law professor William Jacobson has documented critical race theory’s ubiquitous spread on a website, saying, “We’ve created critical race dot org, which is a database with an interactive map where people can find out what the colleges and universities to which they may be sending their children or their children may be going. … We have 220 universities in the database now, and we’re expecting to expand it to 500. … Maybe you like it. Maybe you want your children to be sent to a school where they get indoctrinated, or maybe you’re going to send them to a school where you don’t know what’s going on, and this is a way to find out.”
For his efforts, Jacobson has been hounded and harassed. Fifteen student groups have boycotted his law classes. He’s been threatened by Black Lives Matter protesters. Others have sought to revoke his tenure. He’s not budging. He has written, “We are living in extraordinarily dangerous times, reminiscent of the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution, in which professors guilty of wrongthink were publicly denounced and fired at the behest of students who insisted on absolute ideological orthodoxy. It’s a way of instilling terror in other students, faculty, staff, and society so that others shut up and don’t voice dissenting views.”
That’s whats happening now in Loudoun County, Virginia, by some estimates the wealthiest county in America, where schools have adopted critical race theory. Some parents have spoken out against it and its binary view of racism.
“You are either racist or anti-racist, and given that [they are part of] the system, which teachers are being told is racist, so they’re racist. And not only that, teachers are being told … not only, ‘You’re racist,’ but you’re actually complicit in the physical and spiritual murder of black students daily unless you adopt our opinion,” said Max Eden, Loudoun County public school parent.
For expressing that thought, Eden and many other Loudoun parents opposed to the critical race theory curriculum have been targeted. As documented by Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak, a private Facebook group called “Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County” named parents opposed to critical race theory. The group asked for volunteers to “gather information, list of folks who are in charge of the anti-CRT movement, Infiltrate (create fake online profiles and join these groups to collect and communicate information, hackers who can either shut down their websites or redirect them to pro-CRT/anti-racist informational webpages), expose these people publicly, create online petitions, create counter-mailings.” Some posts used violent rhetoric. A moderator wrote, “The racists have a Go Fund Me … Burn it down.”
Another wrote,“I don’t argue with people who Harriet Tubman would have shot.” The matter has been referred to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. It told the Daily Wire that it is “aware of the situation, and the information has been forwarded to our criminal investigations division to review the matter.”
According to the members list, the Facebook group appears to include at least three members of the school board and Loudoun County’s top prosecutor, Buta Biberaj. She was elected last year, with the help of a $659,000 dollar campaign contribution from a super PAC founded by George Soros.
Mark Meadows, former Trump White House chief of staff, said, “We have to finally look at common sense and say enough is enough. … We’re not going to actually indoctrinate future generations.”
Before DeSantis this week announced the banning of critical race theory, nearly a thousand people were moving to Florida every day, fleeing blue-state taxes and COVID-19 lockdowns. Look for those numbers to increase as parents flee the radicalization of school curricula.
