It seems fitting not to celebrate the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, or went in to effect in theory, but instead celebrate the day when it went in to effect, in practice, for the very last people in the uttermost reaches of our United States.
Inequitably spending trillions of dollars presents the most obvious failure of the reparations argument — the delusion that money will cure social problems. Those seeking reparations are opportunists who thirst for money and power.
Though Randolph Union High School has resumed respect for the law and removed the illegal BLM flag, social justice agitators such as former RUHS principal Elijah Hawkes continue to agitate for more attacks against children’s rights.
With approval from Gov. Phil Scott last Friday, the state of Vermont has a new bureaucratic responsibility to tally racial justice statistics from within all government operations.
Every time Vermont’s government sets out to fashion new magic, it creates yet greater inequities. Examples include the homestead exemption, the universal lunch program, universal daycare, net metering, Covid funds, and more.
So long as Superintendent Millington condemns Vermont students as racists for resisting his clearly illegal conduct, the conflagration in Randolph will fester and grow. Perhaps parents must bring the matter to court to restore order and law.
Vermont is on the front lines of a constitutional battle — the entire state education apparatus has enthusiastically leaped onto the BLM bandwagon to virtue-signal its violation of voters’ basic constitutional liberties.
Following a remarkable summary of the ideology unpacked in his current bestseller “Race Marxism: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and Praxis,” Dr. Lindsay presented an award to a Vermont school board member named Elizabeth Cady.
“I’m not here tonight because of the antisemitism that has confronted us; I am here because brave Jewish people — adults, students, people connected to campus and not — came together last fall and fought against the BDS revolution that was taking place,” Wiesel said.
Superintendent Millington conceded on May 4 that the school cannot favor one group over another, then boasted that they knew this in Randolph and displayed the BLM flag anyway because most citizens didn’t know — until this 9-0 Supreme Court case.
This is more than a betrayal of public trust — it is a slanderous denigration of Vermont, and a betrayal of the supposed farming education purposes for which this nonprofit was created.
Flying the BLM flag and policing students from wearing conservative messaging on their clothes (such as “There are only two genders,” “I love Chick-fil-A,” or “Let’s Go Brandon”) while permitting free speech to liberal views, is what has seeded this conflict.