Conservative Parent Groups Working to Reclaim Schools from Leftists
A group of American conservatives established a national grassroot organization, Parents Defending Education, to fight left-wing indoctrination in the classroom. Neily, a civil rights advocate, and Asra Nomani, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, were among the leader. The group’s objective is to “reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.”
“In recent years activists have targeted public, private, and charter schools across the country with a campaign to impose toxic new curriculums and to force our kids into divisive identity groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, and gender. Many schools have already embraced this model, and many more are preparing to embrace it,” the organization posted on its website.
. A public school in New York City has provoked a firestorm of outrage by asking parents to become “white traitors” and promote “white abolition” in an effort to allegedly fight racism. The controversial letter was sent by Mark Federman, principal of the East Side Community School in New York City. It included an “ethnography of whiteness” written by Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse who ranks all whites on a color-coded scale of “The 8 White Identities” which range from “White Supremacist” to “White Abolitionist.” ““There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are one of these,’’ Hesse explains in an introduction above the list.
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I don’t know about you but I’ve always wondered just how racist I am compared to other whites. I’m curious not just out of a sense of guilt and curiosity, but because I pride myself on being trendy and up to speed on all things woke.
My curiosity is now satisfied. Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, has created this handy graph where you can place your relative “whiteness” on a scale and discover your true, glorious, racist self.
Mark Federman, principal at the East Side Community High School in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, mailed the graph to parents no doubt thinking it would cement his standing as an anti-racist crusader.
Mark Federman, principal of East Side Community High School in New York City, is a man on a rather dubious mission. In a burst of âwokeness,â Federman sent white parents of students in grades 6-12 a handout asking them to âreflectâ on their âwhiteness.â It was accompanied by a color-coordinated graph of â8 White Identities,â ranging from a red zone on the left titled âWhite Supremacistâ to a green zone on the far right labeled âWhite Abolitionist.â
This screed was authored by Barnor Hesse, a Northwestern University professor of African American studies, political science, and sociology. Hesse also teaches a course called âUnsettling Whiteness,â and the professor makes it clear the content of oneâs character takes a distant back seat to the color of oneâs skin â if it matters at all. âThere is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities,â he insists in a statement
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Gone Crazy A New York City public school principal calls on white parents to “subvert white authority.”
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New York’s East Side Community School recently sent a letter encouraging white parents to become “white traitors” and advocate for “white abolition.”
The message, sent by principal Mark Federman, showed a graphic outlining eight stages of white identity development from the lowest form, “white supremacist,” to the intermediate forms of “white confessional” and “white traitor,” to the highest form, “white abolitionist.” The goal of this process, according to the graphic’s creator, Northwestern University professor Barnor Hesse, is to challenge the “regime of whiteness” and eventually to “subvert white authority” and “not [allow] whiteness to reassert itself.”