By Marian Wright Edelman
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant and I would dream that some mighty man of great wealth built us a new school building or that our parents got together and surprised us with this grand new building and we had a big celebration and I even imagined that a great storm came through and blew down the main building and splattered the shacks to splinters and out of this wreckage rose this magnificent building and all the students were joyous and even the teachers cried . . .”
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TRAGEDY AS A WEAPON
Christopher Rufo was able to get his hands on the lesson plan created by Philadelphia’s Office of School Climate and Culture. It teaches children K-2nd grade to discuss what happened to George Floyd and the goals of the Black Lives Matter [communist] movement.
The story is taught in racial terms: “George Floyd was killed by a police officer”; “Mr. Floyd was African American, the officer was white.” The lesson teaches that for years, “some police officers have hurt African Americans.”
NOTICE THE COLORS
Teachers are then told to discuss the “Pyramid of Hate” with the children as young as four years old, teaching that “our society” is built on “biased attitudes,” “systemic discrimination,” and “bias-motivated violence,” which can lead to “genocide.”