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The Nation’s Biggest Teachers Union Says it Will Finance Effort to Promote the Critical Race Theory in Schools Across the Country

Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2021
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WASHINGTON, DC, July 8 — “In my judgment, Critical Race Theory [CRT] is cynical, ahistorical, sophomoric, insipid, and dumb as a bag of hair.” That’s what Senator John Kennedy [R-LA] had to say about the controversial and divisive efforts of progressive socialist educators to foment racial discord in our nation’s schools. He went on to explain that it “teaches that white children are born bad. It teaches that black children are born trapped — there’s almost no hope for them.”

Kennedy’s remarks came soon after it was revealed that the National Education Association [NEA] has launched a well-funded campaign to teach younger generations that America is not the “home of the free and the brave” but the home of racist white people. The NEA is the biggest teachers union in the U.S., and its CRT movement is aimed at indoctrinating the kids in 14,000 school districts across all 50 states by shaming the white children and instigating the black children.

The Critical Race Theory is not something new; it’s been around for some four decades. It has its roots in “the Marxist-oriented critical theory,” according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

In recent years it has been co-opted by some educators as a teaching platform. Rather than being a tool to promote racial tolerance, it has grievously distorted American history and the meaning of being an American Citizen.

The NEA’s campaign to win the hearts and minds of schoolchildren has created a new backlash among parents, some teachers, and the public at large. As activist mom, Quisha King told the Epoch Times: “Truly these teachers’ unions have a lot of power and a lot of money, and they have the resources to do something like that. But obviously, parents are tired of what’s going on. We’re trying to make a difference, and we’re trying to draw attention to this thing. It’s bullying to me. It’s a bully tactic.”

You may recall Ms. King as the mom that gave the Duvall County, Florida, school board “what for” in opposition to its position on CRT. She told the board that “CRT is not racial sensitivity or simply teaching unfavorable American history … CRT is deeper and more dangerous than that.”

King is also a member of Moms for Liberty, whose co-founder, Tina Descovich, told the Epoch Times that “Parents are not standing for this. You already see them standing up all around the country, and they will continue to push back against this.” She went on to point out that “we are coming out of the worst year on record for modern education, and you would think the NEA would focus on reading and writing and math instead of trying to divide us by our skin color.”

Investigative journalist Christopher Rufo is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of the Institute’s City Journal. He’s also considered to be among the most well-informed authorities regarding the CRT movement. Rufo’s revelations of CRT faults and failures have made him, some would say, a target of the leftist media, including the Washington Post, which saw fit to print a 3,000-word alleged expose’ attacking his credibility.

Rufo went through the Post’s article “line-by-line” and found fabrications, misquotes, and made-up reporting.

He posted his findings on social media and apparently got the Post reporters in deep trouble because the Post was forced to retract the story.

It was yet another example of “Fake News” that is ready, willing, and able to pull the wool over your eyes, notwithstanding the importance of the truth. And the truth about the Critical Race Theory is that it is a misguided, misrepresented, and critically dangerous concept for our children and for the future of America.

According to Rufo, the truth is that: “I’ve been on the front lines of this battle. My investigative reporting has exposed critical race theory in American education, with disturbing firsthand reports about public schools forcing eight-year-olds to deconstruct their racial identities, telling white teachers that they must undergo ‘antiracist therapy,’ and encouraging white parents to become ‘white traitors’ and advocate for ‘white abolition.'”

John Grimaldi served on the first non-partisan communications department in the New York State Assembly and is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Priva Technologies, Inc. He has served for more than thirty years as a Trustee of Daytop Village Foundation, which oversees a worldwide drug rehabilitation network.

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Max
Max
2 years ago

Teachers Unions have NO business funding and driving the course of education in this country!

Chris
Chris
2 years ago

The NEA is the biggest teachers union in the U.S.and they Should be Defunded of taxpayer funds.
Defund the NEA

OPS
OPS
2 years ago

A vote for a Democrat is a vote against America.

2020 Teachers Union funded $6,785,271 or 98% to Democrats.

2020 Teachers Unions funded $125,634 or 2% to Republicans…opensecrets.org

Teachers Union and Democrats in the same bucket pushing CRT down the throats of our youth!!!
They are the cancer in our education system!

Greg
Greg
2 years ago

If you want to control a population; first take control of the schools. The liberals don’t understand hat this will lead to serious backlash and set back race relations 10 years. Stupid is as stupid does. The teachers union is an insidious influence and these people should not be teaching our children.

MsMariaO
MsMariaO
2 years ago

It is crucial to keep pushing back in every city at every school board meeting to hold board members accountable. But we also have got to find a way to change the narrative away from personal attacks to community based solutions. Solutions grounded in cooperation

J
J
2 years ago

This administration is hell bent on destroying this country !

VoterAnn
VoterAnn
2 years ago

Parents MUST remove their children from public schools immediately. This indoctrination (which started at the college level – and was SO successful in warping
a whole generation of foolish young people who are now rioting and destroying property) has now been implemented on elementary students as well. CRT teaches hatred and divisions among our CHILDREN! Don’t let your precious youngsters become victims of this Marxist teaching and those who perpetrate it.

Arthur
Arthur
2 years ago

A sad picture of our future !!!

Qman
Qman
2 years ago

CRT is designed to make parents pull their kids out of public schools. Once that is accomplished there will be no parents that care left to scream at the school boards, what they will have left are tens of thousands of children that they will indoctrinate to be Marxists with no outside interference.

Don G
Don G
2 years ago

We need to stand up to the liberals and demand that they stop forcing their liberal ideas upon us. God help this nation !

OPS
OPS
2 years ago

All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing!

Richard Ramos
Richard Ramos
2 years ago

These are text books Marxist propaganda to indoctrinat our youth. As parents of this beautiful country, we need to stand and reject any form of Woke-ness, Fascism, Socialism, Communism as fervent determination as they are in changing our country ????

Judith Rotchford
Judith Rotchford
2 years ago

CRT is just another way the leftist are trying to divide this country, There is no real justification for it or productive results to be expected. in this day and time we should all be working together to solve the racial divide problems I grew up in a city where one of my best friends was a girl of color. Her Dad was a city cop. well respected. We had a family of Doctors who were black. very well respected. Large cliental of Patients of both B/W. Attitude adjustments are what is needed.. We are all God’ s children. We can learn to love happy productive lives with each other if we concentrate on Loving ouselves and loving our neighbor as ourself. What is past is past HISTORY It cannot and should not be changed! We need to move forward and mend the fences.

Tim Coleman
Tim Coleman
2 years ago

Why do we not as the public break the union. Regan did it in the 80’s with flight controllers union we can do it again.

If the teacher believes in or attempts to teach critical Race Theory they should be fired period and arrested for breaking state law.

Duane
Duane
2 years ago

It’s hard to forget former National Education Association (NEA) General Counsel Bob Chanin’s farewell address during the 2009 NEA national convention. “It is not because we care about children; and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child,” Chanin boasted. “The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.”

Christian parochial and home schooling education has skyrocketed over 300% the last year. Since the lock downs and along with the corrupt shenanigans of the NEA and teachers union. This last school year, the Catholic complex I work at has had to add TWO ADDITIONAL classes to a grade. This fall they are projecting adding additional classes to keep up with the demand.

Get your kids out of these evil marxists government indoctrination suicide death camps!

Ray P
Ray P
2 years ago

I can understand that the teacher’s union would promote this; but, I wonder how the teachers themselves actually feel. How many of them are parents that don’t want their children brain washed this way but won’t say so for fear of losing their jobs or worse being labeled a racist by their own ‘union’. If they only knew how the unions are financial institutions and never really have protections of the members as a real priority. Just smoke and mirrors to accumulate your dues and now promoting this crap for federal dollars which again come out of our pockets, teachers included. Keep a keen eye on your retirement plans.

Lili Lagan
Lili Lagan
2 years ago

I agree with John Kennedy’s description of CRT. However, I am not surprised that the NEA is taking this action. They have always been left leaning.

Hal
Hal
2 years ago

I guess that the Communistic tendencies of the Democrat Party is going coopting control of the news media to promote their propaganda and is now lurching towards brain washing out children by using the public schools. And I thought the control and responsibility was 99% the responsibility and accountability of the States … not the Feds.

Tina
Tina
2 years ago

Doesn’t this crt sound exactly like what Hitler did in the 1940s. Why aren’t Jewish people speaking up? I find this all very scary.

Rich
Rich
2 years ago

I was a union member for most of my adult career. The unions started out many years ago to actually fight for the working man and woman. They did some great things along the way. Unfortunately, many unions have become too powerful and most are sold out to the liberals and politicians. They can’t see straight anymore and this teachers union is a prime example of how they will destroy the very thing that they should be defending. Political correctness is destroying our country and “we the people” MUST take a stand whenever and wherever we can to put a stop to this madness. The unions will fit right in with Socialism/Marxism and won’t even bat an eye.

Steven Huskey
Steven Huskey
2 years ago

I refuse to send my children to public school anymore. I just wish I didn’t have to pay taxes to these institutions of indoctrination. My kids learned more in homeschooling than public school. They couldn’t keep up and and were falling behind. At home they thrived and succeeded. The Department of Education needs to be closed because they waste taxpayers dollars.

Harry J Welsh
Harry J Welsh
2 years ago

I am fortunate that my grandchildren are now in college so they have escaped most of this crap. The Democrats have always been the racist party, how they managed to make it appear that Republicans are racist is beyond me. Their montra has always been to create the appearance of truth, not the truth itself.
The only way to fix things is for today’s parents to take an active role in their childs education, run for school board, go to meetings and politic for decertification of the teachers union. The first objective of all unions is to remove competition from labor. If teachers in the future do not try their best our levels of education will continue to fall this is a bad situation and I expect I will not be around to see it reversed. Parents today have their hands full and I do not envy them the task ahead.

Hank
Hank
2 years ago

I hope EVERY teacher who does NOT support “critical race theory” RESIGNS from the NEA and ALL state affiliates. The way to stop this nonsense is to CUT OFF the money to these communists who have no problem using it against you.

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
2 years ago

Funny. When I was in public school I remember slavery and Jim Crow already taught as “bad”. It’s all leftist seed to make ppl more amiable to college indoctrination: “Get them while they’re young”…. our own US Cultural Revolution.

Harold Brower
Harold Brower
2 years ago

I am sick of Critical Racist Terrorism. The teachers who support this, are bigots, racists, and need a job digging ditches.

fred
fred
2 years ago

This is not going to end well for public schools or Teachers

DONALD COLONGELI
DONALD COLONGELI
2 years ago

ALL MY SUSPICIONS ABOUT SCHOOL BOARDS WAS CONFIRMED AS A THREE YEAR SITTING BOARD MEMBER IN CORTLAND, NY, TEACHERS ARE PAID WITH PUBLICLY GATHERED TAXES. THEY ARE SUBJECT TO BEING DE-UNUIONIZED AND DEFUNDED BY LAW. ITS TIME WE CUT OFF THE TAIL THATS WAGGING THE DOG. CSEA IS ANOTHER TAX FUNDED ORGANIZATION THAT MUST BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL OR DEFUNDED. THE SCHOOLS LATEST MOVE TO TEACH THAT YOUR WHITE SON OR DAUGHTER IS INFERIOR TO A BLACK ONE HAS TO BE STOPPED AT THE STARTING GATE. DISCRIMINATION IN ITS FINEST HOUR.

Linda Gregory
Linda Gregory
2 years ago

Just another reason why I canceled my lifetime membership sometime ago. It’s important for people to understand that not all educators believe in this garbage. It’s sad to see what’s happened to what I’ve always considered a calling, not a profession.

exposed
exposed
2 years ago

Democrats don’t have any real legitimate values so they’ll lie that the Republicans are racists and use people when the Real Truth is that Democrats are the racists and use people for their own personal gain. Lie, censor, steal and kill!!!

James Kelly
James Kelly
2 years ago

BREAK THEM!

Garye
Garye
2 years ago

If the union supports critical racism teaching in Americas school , WE stop giving them taxpayers money!!
FAILED , useless democrats with another attempt to remove freedom and follow communism!

WindRunner80HD
WindRunner80HD
2 years ago

CAMERAS IN EVERY CLASSROOM! teachers do not have rights to brainwash our children we the people pay with our taxes for children’s education not indoctrination!

JOHN
JOHN
2 years ago

I am old, my health is failing. By the Grace of God I do NOT have children to have to explain what happened to their America. Being WHITE and old make me a convenient target for assault. So I rarely venture out of my home. Democratic manufactured HATE is way things are! I will never see that end. I will NOT be here very much longer and will pass with the fading Memory of What Our America COULD BE!
“The Lord of The Flies” now resided in The White House with his Minions.

Lynn
Lynn
2 years ago

These CRT activists are also useful idiots. When they are no longer needed by their masters, they too, will be killed metaphorically or even physically. Just what was done in USSR, Red China’s Cultural Revolution. No one is ever ideologically pure enough.

JOHN
JOHN
2 years ago

Why would anyone expect less?
Before the Department of Education was established in 1978 by Jimmy Carter we actually had a system of Public Education NOW we have no more Public Education We The People HAVE Government Education that dictates What and How our children are Indoctrinated by useless idiots in Washington that DO not have a clue about what SHOULD be taught in the districts We The People reside!
Communist… Socialist Control is not even so much as a concern.
Their agenda is exactly what the NAZIS implemented with their Kinderbundt and The Hitler Youth!

Garye
Garye
2 years ago

This CRT, Critical Racism Teaching , just exposes further the teachers union as a political fund raising part of the corrupt democrat party.
Its time that taxpayers stop funding colleges and unions who promote division,racism and spew anti american propaganda disguised as
education!!
The ridiculous courses being taught on college campuses and the so called research dollars provided to socialist,non- teaching so called proffessors must end.
It has unleashed way too many mis-guided, un- patriotic, brainwashed young people with degrees but no skills ,work ethics or moral responsiblites to Our Great Country!
Only critical, self serving, un-grateful group of entitled individuals with no sense of contribution or common sense.

Alene Ruth Math
Alene Ruth Math
2 years ago

Why don’t local communities or even states simply fire teachers that are members of unions that are demanding to teach communist dogma? I would guess these unions are stuck like ticks so some legislation would be required to fire teachers that insist on keeping their union membership. Someone needs to talk to former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and see how he drained the teachers unions in Wisconsin….maybe get him to head up a commission to end this reign of communist terror that these out of control unions have brought to our kids at OUR expense. It must be remembered that NOWHERE in the Constitution is it written that the public must finance education so it MUST be legal to remove these unions from our midst

Penny Rayfield
Penny Rayfield
2 years ago

This is the most horrible issue to come into the people of the USA. This is pure ”socialism” that will turn into ”communism.” Where are the voices of the people? What have we allowed to happen in our country? Who do we turn to in order to bring truth to our children? I’m all for ‘private schools, charter schools, Christian schools, etc. These teachers who support this horror are committing suicide to what public schools are all about. I might be a little fish in this big pond, but I have a loud voice via emails, social media, phone calls, letters, etc. I will not sit still and be quiet while these people destroy our children.

james michalicek
james michalicek
2 years ago

The teachers union and anyone who agrees with them can go to hell.

Hazegrey
Hazegrey
2 years ago

I am thinking its time for federal money follow the child! Parents want their children taught not indoctrinated. People have to stand up. But betcha if money does follow the kid, teachers union will start to implode. Stick together, stand up, and remember we have rights ! And even though the teachers may not like them they didn’t come from them they are rights from God. “We The People”

WindRunner80HD
WindRunner80HD
2 years ago

All the pieces are coming together obama mister community organizer who didn’t do anything to help his own city of Chicago plagued with crippling gang violence murder and poverty ended the school voucher program too hurting minority children the most used ACORN to spread his anti American agenda throughout our country moves on to senator only to vote present which gave him a title on his resume for his next step of becoming president in name only giving him complete access for eight long years to corrupt every agency department etc within our government after Trump won obama rents a place outside of D.C. to further his plan using wing man holder the architects of the Dominion voting machine election fraud with soros funding everything seals the deal giving obama his much needed third term to push through at warp speed this terrible regime agenda leaving us in shock not allowing any time to stop or correct it…God bless America the land of the free and the home of the brave at least for now????????????????

Marie
Marie
2 years ago

The real “domestic terrorists”… parents, alert your children!

Edward
Edward
2 years ago

Just like ALL govt employees, the “teachers union” seem to think they are in charge when in fact THEY WORK FOR US!!! ABOLISH THE “DEPT OF EDUCATION” it is unconstitutional!

John
John
2 years ago

Does this funding come from union dues and /or pension funds

Pam
Pam
2 years ago

I don’t know if I should use the word irony or hypocrisy, but the E word in DOE and NEA is education. How terrible that an organization identified with educating children has become so radically political.

Pam
Pam
2 years ago

Any teaching that makes any child, red, yellow, black, brown, white, feel they were born bad or trapped is wrong, and emotionally immoral. Children who do not pass state standard tests are children who live in poverty regardless of race. All children need to be loved and educated so that they see themselves as important. “My teacher will miss me if I’m not there.” Teachers you need to “miss” your students when they are absent.

HocasPocas
HocasPocas
2 years ago

Amen

Hen3ry
Hen3ry
2 years ago

How about instead of racist insidious CRT indoctrination
Teach and encourage common courtesy, respect, and politeness
Or does that make too much sense
And deprive the thuggish teacher unions of their power

This is becoming like a Star Trek plot
The NEA et al trying to turn our children into robot like citizens.

Ralph S
Ralph S
2 years ago

As a LIFE MEMBER of NEA now Retired… I am embarrassed by this BS aka CRT propaganda…
Dr. M. L. King Jr. must be rolling in his grave. The NEA members who buy into this CRT crap have no idea what CHARACTER means. This myopic view based on the color of one’s skin is the antithesis of EDUCATION. I wonder what overlapping circles a Venn Diagram with NEA sheep; people with the I.Q. of a doorknob; and MSM know-nothing motor-mouths would show?

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
2 years ago

Defund all teachers unions & scrap PTA too

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