“They were not Southern plantation owners, as Vermont’s governor, Legislature and some statutes are saying they were. H.273 says that Vermont benefited from sharecropping and Jim Crow laws to push black people off farm land. That is a falsehood.”
Any curriculum or training program that does any of these things is classic critical race theory. Any functionary who denies it has simply not read her Derrick Bell — or may be lying to you.
On Tuesday evening the Rutland City School Board held a public forum and again heard from both sides on whether to keep the Raiders name and arrowhead logo for its sports teams.
A 9-year-old girl was seen on video criticizing her school board for putting Black Lives Matter posters around her school, despite a ban on political posters.
“There are different cultures, of course, and we’re being told in Vermont that ours is very terrible, that it’s a white supremacist culture. Really, we’re a proud tradition of agriculture.”
“We cannot create an unsafe environment at our pool, nor can we create a situation where any of our residents feel unsafe or unwelcome at our pool,” they said. So he’s fired.
A parent-led rebellion against critical race theory is storming school boards across the country and demanding accountability for what is being taught to American children. At least 165 local and national groups have formed to combat CRT instruction in schools across the U.S.
“Basically,” Brenda Lebsack adds, “whoever does not agree with the union’s ideology, including students, was compared to the KKK. This intolerant, extremist, union-promoted viewpoint will create hostile school environments for many students and school employees. It’s dangerous, it’s hateful, and it’s exclusive.”
Adm. Michael M. Gilday told the House Armed Services Committee that Kendi’s controversial book “How to Be an Antiracist” would lead to “a better Navy” by promoting more discussion on racism in America.
Using the laughably naive slogan “equity” at every turn, Vermont’s Gov. Phil Scott and his bevy of enlightened “woke” white progressives are unveiling a broad effort to implement “equity” in Vermont, whether the citizenry likes it or not.
On June 16 in Rutland, Vermonters For Vermont will host a town hall discussion of critical race theory in Vermont’s public schools. A variety of speakers will lead, including John Klar and Essex-Westford School District Board member Liz Cady.
Vermont’s Farm to Plate program has offered up yet another example of the fictional absurdity, and blatant unconstitutionality, of the government’s effort to use the race card to subjugate Vermonters into submission.