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Story 1 - Teacher at elite Virginia school caught on camera forcing controversial race theory on students
Located on the outskirts of Washington, DC, the Loudoun County Public School District is one of the wealthiest in the nation, with the average household there pulling in $136,000 per year. It’s also emerged lately as a hotbed of Critical Race Theory (CRT) – a set of ideas that puts race at the center of every human interaction, views the US as “structurally racist,” and maintains that “white supremacy” and “white privilege” permeate every institution in the country.
Video footage posted on Monday shows how this plays out in the classroom. In a bizarre lecture at one of the district’s schools in Ashburn, a teacher shows his students an image of two women standing beside each other, one white and one black. “Tell me what this seems to be a picture of?” he asks.
“Right, just two people. Nothing more to that picture?” the teacher shoots back.
“Nah, not really. Just two people chillin’.”
The teacher then accuses the student of being “intentionally coy” about what he sees in the picture, saying, “I don’t believe that you look at this as just two people.”
“Are you trying to get me to say that there are two different races in this picture?” the student asks.
“Yes, I am asking you to say that,” the teacher admits.
The student then accuses the teacher of “feeding into the problem” of racism, but the teacher insists that “you can’t look at the people and not acknowledge that there are racial differences.”
After parents emailed the school board asking why Critical Race Theory was being taught in the classroom, board member Beth Barts posted an explanation on Facebook, stating that the video showed part of a “Dual Enrollment College Level English course,” in which students were “exposed to different literacy theories as a way of critiquing different pieces of literature,” CRT among them, according to the Daily Wire.
In a statement last week, Interim Superintendent Scott Ziegler said that while Loudoun County schools discuss “concepts such as white supremacy and systemic racism,” CRT has not been formally brought into the curriculum.
A certain group of woke teachers and parents, however, have taken matters into their own hands. Police previously said they were investigating the ‘Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County’ Facebook group, where members compiled lists of parents they felt opposed the teaching of CRT. Members, including board member Beth Barts, planned on exposing these supposedly “racist” parents publicly, “infiltrating” their own Facebook groups with fake profiles, and spreading malicious rumors about them, according to the Daily Wire.
One parent on the list told the Daily Mail that the group “wanted to send postcards to our neighbors calling us racist and come to our home with a megaphone and call us racists.”
Though the police are investigating the group, the Daily Wire reported that the county’s prosecutor, Buta Biberaj, is also a member of the group. Biberaj was elected in 2019, after her campaign received more than $650,000 in donations from a Super PAC funded by billionaire liberal financier George Soros.
Critical Race Theory emerged from academia and into the public eye last year, amid nationwide ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests. As corporations, universities, schools, and corporations began teaching its doctrine to their employees and students, former President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to stop teaching CRT, calling it a “malign ideology” and “anti-American propaganda.”
President Joe Biden, however, has rescinded Trump’s ban, insisting that CRT is little more than harmless “diversity training.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/519611-virginia-school-race-theory/
Story 2 - CDC vows to tackle RACISM epidemic as ‘serious public health threat
Racism “is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans. As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Thursday.
Reflecting on the impact of Covid-19, Walensky said it was “felt most severely, in communities of color” and that the pandemic “illuminated inequities that have existed for generations” to reveal racism as an “epidemic” impacting public health.
Walensky’s statement defines racism as “not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently.”
However, the ‘Racism and Health’ portal launched by the CDC defines it as “a system consisting of structures, policies, practices, and norms – that assigns value and determines opportunity based on the way people look or the color of their skin.”
While not perfectly aligned, both definitions define racism as systemic, in line with the critical race theory (CRT) that has informed the Biden administration’s position on “equity” – equality of outcomes that requires treating groups differently – in all things.
The notion that racism was a public health emergency and opposing it was more important than even the Covid-19 lockdowns was first publicly asserted in June 2020, in a letter signed by some 1,200 public health professionals endorsing the Black Lives Matter “racial justice protests” across the US after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. This now appears to be the official position of the Biden administration.
“To build a healthier America for all, we must confront the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational injustice that has given rise to racial and ethnic health inequities,” the new CDC portal says on its landing page.
In addition to the racism and health portal, Walensky said the CDC will “continue to study the impact of social determinants on health outcomes” and propose solutions, use Covid-19 funding to make “new and expanded investments in racial and ethnic minority communities and other disproportionately affected communities around the country,” and expand internal efforts to “foster greater diversity” and inclusion.
Earlier this week, Vermont announced that it would practice health equity by prioritizing Covid-19 vaccinations for people who identify as “black, indigenous or a person of color (BIPOC).” Last month, the city of Oakland, California launched a guaranteed income project, giving $500 a month to 600 families – but only to those identifying as BIPOC.
https://www.rt.com/usa/520530-cdc-epidemic-racism-health/
Story 3 - Vermont opens up Covid-19 vaccine eligibility to anyone 16 and over... as long as they ‘identify’ as any color other than WHITE
“If you or anyone in your household identifies as black, indigenous or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years,” Scott, who identifies as Republican, announced on Thursday. And to clarify, by Scott's definition, white is not a color.
Vermont already offers vaccination clinics specifically for people from BIPOC households. The state's eligibility criteria also favors certain other categories of people – including conventional high-priority segments such as school and healthcare workers – and “English language learners and people in immigrant/refugee communities.” Immigrants also have dedicated clinics available to them.
“We still have much more to do to address the significant disparities in the rates of Covid-19 infection, hospitalization and death among Vermonters who are black, indigenous and people of color,” the state health department said on its website.
This coordinated vaccination effort is an important step in working with and compensating trusted community partner networks to reach some of the most historically marginalized people in Vermont.
But critics pointed out that making potentially life-saving vaccines available based on skin color may violate both the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which require equal treatment under the law. “This is not even close to legal,” podcast host Matt Walsh said.
Conservative commentator Jeremy Frankel agreed, saying, “Fourteenth Amendment for sure is violated here, not to mention just the downright immorality behind such a ridiculous mindset.”
Journalist Steve Sailer said such race-based governance shouldn't come as a surprise from a government that has made its ideology known. He made his point by penning a mock letter from Vermont's government to white people: “Why are you acting so surprised? We said our highest priority is Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE). When we said DIE, we mean DIE.”
Vermont set up its special race-based vaccination clinics in response to a letter from “racial-justice” activists asking the government to prioritize non-whites. “What we're asking the governor to do is to place, as a priority, the BIPOC community for vaccinations,” activist Mark Hughes of the Vermont Racial Justice Alliance said in March. “Period. Lift all of the other restrictions. Let's go ahead and get the work done that needs to happen.”
Governor Scott has now put that request into effect. According to 2019 estimates by the US Census Bureau, Vermont's population of nearly 624,000 is 94.2% white. Only Maine had a higher percentage of white population, at 94.4%.
https://www.rt.com/usa/520015-vermont-racist-vaccine-eligibility/
Story 4 - ‘Racist’ & ‘unconstitutional’? California city to offer $500 checks to low-income families – but not if they’re white
Announced earlier this month, the ‘Oakland Resilient Families’ plan was described by the mayor’s office as one of America’s “largest efforts to determine the effectiveness of monthly unconditional payments” aimed at helping people “overcome economic instability.”
Supported by the Family Independence Initiative and Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, the scheme would see 600 families in the city getting an unconditional $500 per month, for at least 18 months.
Families with at least one child under 18 and a total income of less than or equal to $59,000 per year for a family of three can apply, the announcement says, adding that half the spots would be specifically reserved for families of three with a total income of $30,000 per year or lower. The families will be chosen on a “randomly selected” basis.
Yet, there’s one issue about the otherwise charitable endeavor that has sparked uproar on social media: Poor white people may not apply. The announcement from the mayor’s office explicitly states the project is only open to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
Mayor Libby Schaaf said the scheme is not just a step to fight poverty, but intended as a blow against “systemic” racism, seemingly explaining why white families are not included.
“The poverty we all witness today is not a personal failure, it is a systems failure,” Schaaf said. “I’m proud to work with such committed local partners to build a new system that can help undo centuries of economic and racial injustice, and point us all toward a more just society.”
Oakland authorities justified the decision by pointing to the city’s
Equity Index, which showed that white households earn more than any
other, on average, earning almost three times as much as African
American ones.
The same report also said that 26% of African Americans in Oakland live at or below the poverty rate as well as almost 22% of Latinos. It added, though, that more than eight percent of the city’s white people are living at or below the poverty line.
Schaaf’s decision received instant pushback on social media, with many branding it “racist” and some even suggesting suing authorities over it.
One Reddit commenter called it an “explicity racist policy” while others accused the mayor’s office of just “pretending” to care about poverty and criticized the “lottery” principle.
Harmeet Dhillon, a co-chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association, branded the initiative “unconstitutional” and offered her services to any white person “otherwise eligible” for the program, who would like to “challenge it in court.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/519206-california-city-low-income-white/
Story 5 - Chicago suburban city becomes first in US to approve REPARATIONS for black residents
The city of Evanston, Illinois is poised to become the first municipality in the United States to offer reparations to black residents to compensate for past discrimination, as the controversial policy receives growing support.
Evanston’s city council voted 8-1 on Monday to approve a plan that would distribute $400,000 to eligible black households. The first phase of the initiative will provide $25,000 to a small number of black residents for home repairs, down payments or mortgage payments.
The move stems from the passage of the 2019 resolution, “Commitment to End Structural Racism and Achieve Racial Equity,” which aimed to address “the historical wealth and opportunity gaps that African American/Black residents of Evanston experienced.”
Under the plan, Evanston will use community donations and revenue from a 3% tax on recreational marijuana to create a reparations fund. The city of 73,000 people, located just north of Chicago, pledged to distribute $10 million over the next decade, and will dole out the first $400,000 to aid black residents with housing.
Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, who first proposed the reparations program, hailed Monday’s vote as a crucial first step toward achieving racial equity, but stressed that more work is needed to be done.
“It is, alone, not enough,” Simmons said. “We all know that the road to repair and justice in the Black community is going to be a generation of work.”
She said that more funding and programs would be needed to properly address the issue.
Alderman
Cicely Fleming, who cast the lone vote against the plan, said that the
city council had passed a housing plan disguised as reparations. While
she said that she supported compensation for black families, Fleming
argued that the current program was paternalistic and assumed black
people are unable to support themselves financially.
The idea of reparations for black Americans has become a hot-button issue that has received national attention in recent weeks. President Joe Biden has signaled that he is open to the idea. Last month the White House confirmed that Biden supported a bill in Congress that would establish a study to examine the history of slavery and discrimination in the United States. The survey would also examine the possibility of paying reparations.
While other cities and communities across the country have said they are considering their own forms of compensation to black people, critics have pointed to numerous logistical and ethical issues involved with reparations, including how they would be paid, and who would actually qualify for such a program.
https://www.rt.com/usa/518873-evanston-black-reparations-first-city/
Biden signals green light for reparations study as Congress press bill to examine slavery & discrimination from 1619 to present
The White House has confirmed President Joe Biden's support for studying reparations, boosting a push in Congress to seek “appropriate remedies” for slavery and discrimination against black Americans dating from 1619 to today.
Biden “certainly would support a study of reparations” and the “continuing impacts of slavery,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday. “He continues to demonstrate his commitment to taking comprehensive action to address the systemic racism that persists today,” and the reparations study is one part of that “across-government” approach, she added.
The statement came as a House subcommittee debated a bill that would fund a study of “slavery and discrimination in the Colonies and the US from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies,” including possible reparations to black people. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, reintroduced the bill in January.
The latest progress in the push for reparations marks a shift in the Democratic Party, after such leaders as former President Barack Obama, 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) declined to endorse such a program. But with identity politics becoming even more of a driving force in Democrat campaign strategy, reparations became a serious issue in the party's primary elections.
Biden wouldn't commit on the campaign trail to funding reparations, but he did signal support for studying the idea. He told the Washington Post that “there can be no realization of the American dream without grappling with the original sin of slavery.” With Democrats also controlling the House and Senate, the study may finally have a chance to go forward after being proposed for decades.
The political push is so intense that CNN reported Tuesday on a Harvard Medical School study asserting that reparations could have reduced Covid-19 deaths among blacks.
But even if the study bill is passed and signed by Biden, the reparations movement may be a long way from making slavery-compensation payments a reality. Among other issues, the government would have to decide whether payments would go to all black Americans, all blacks in America, or only descendants of slavery. Congress also would need to define who is considered black, or how a person would prove his or her qualifications for payment. Then there would be the question of how to pay for reparations, which would essentially mean penalizing non-black taxpayers for their skin color.
Or perhaps reparations would need to go further. Writer Tiffany Elliott argued that reparations represent a necessary “repentance of our national sin” and should be extended to “all undesirables,” including women, homosexuals, transgender people and HIV victims. In her view, apparently, only heterosexual and able-bodied white and Hispanic males would need to fund payments to virtually everyone else. Most wouldn't be descendants of slaveholders, and some would be migrants to the country.
Of course, pushback can be expected from those white males and other conservatives. “This is insane for people to have to pay for other people's horrific mistakes that we had nothing to do with,” said conservative commenter Chastity Guinn.
Other observers said support for reparations – or even studying reparations – is contrary to Biden's message of uniting the country. Still others pointed out that Republicans enacted the true remedy for slavery by ending it. Many observers suggested that merely supporting a study wouldn't lead to any real action, and Psaki's statement was an artful way to “say no without using that word.”
The Dems are extremely good at taking half an hour to say no without using that word.
— notreallyaperson (@neverpersonally) February 17, 2021
“Joe, you only won because you're not Donald Trump, period,” one commenter said. “Try this stuff, and you'll lose your House and Senate majorities as independents and libertarians hit the
polls hard to stop the idiocy.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/515872-biden-reparations-study-congress/
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