{"id":614,"asset_id":"883","title":"JUDICIAL WATCH - Students Taught that \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 Is \u2018Covert White Supremacy\u2019","alias":"judicial-watch-students-taught-that-make-america-great-again-is-covert-white-supremacy","introtext":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Students Taught that \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 Is \u2018Covert White Supremacy\u2019 - JUDICIAL WATCH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>You need to be concerned about our public schools. Maryland shows us why. We received 685 pages of heavily redacted records from Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), including documents related to their \u201cAnti-racist system audit\u201d and critical race theory classes.<\/p>\r\n<p>The documents, obtained under the Maryland Public Information Act, reveal that students of \u201cMaryland\u2019s Largest School District\u201d who attended Thomas Pyle Middle School\u2019s social justice class were taught that the phrase \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d was an example of \u201ccovert white supremacy.\u201d The phrase is ranked on a pyramid just below, \u201clynching,\u201d \u201chate crimes,\u201d \u201cthe N-word\u201d and \u201cracial slurs.\u201d They were also taught that \u201cwhite privilege\u201d means being favored by school authorities and having a positive relationship with the police.<\/p>\r\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/myjw.pr.judicialwatch.org\/wta\/link.php?AGENCY=jw&amp;M=32882017&amp;N=55742&amp;L=24940&amp;F=H&amp;drurl=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuanVkaWNpYWx3YXRjaC5vcmcvd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEvMDUvTUNQUy1BbnRpLVJhY2lzdC1BdWRpdC0yMDIxLXBncy01Ni02MC5wZGY\/dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1kZXBsb3llciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj13ZWVrbHkrdXBkYXRlJnV0bV90ZXJtPW1lbWJlcnMmdXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9MjAyMTA1MjIwNTE4NTI=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the documents show<\/a> that Montgomery County Public Schools allocated over $454,000 for an \u201cAnti-racist system audit\u201d by The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, a company that claims that their \u201cexpertise in using intersectionality as part of its theory of change makes us uniquely positioned to conduct the Anti-Racist Audit and mitigate the root causes of systemic barriers.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>In Thomas Pyle Middle School\u2019s \u201csocial justice\u201d class course curriculum, there is a slide titled \u201cWhat is systemic racism?\u201d in which students are shown a pyramid slide depicting \u201cDifferences between overt and covert hateful white supremacy.\u201d According to the pyramid, \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d is an example of \u201ccovert white supremacy.\u201d The phrase is ranked on a pyramid just below \u201cracial slurs.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","fulltext":"\r\n<p>Examples of other \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d include thinking \u201cbut we\u2019re just one human family,\u201d \u201ccolorblindness,\u201d \u201ccultural appropriation,\u201d \u201ccelebration of Columbus Day,\u201d \u201cpolice murdering POC [people of color],\u201d and \u201cbootstrap theory.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>A separate pyramid begins with the term \u201cgenocide.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The documents include Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium\u2019s \u201canti-racist system audit\u201d proposal, which describes intersectional theory as \u201cpeople are often disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression: their race, class, gender identity, native language, sexual orientation, religion, and other identity markers. Intersectionality recognizes that identity markers (e.g. \u201cfemale\u201d and \u201cBlack\u201d) do not exist independently of each other, and that each informs the others, often creating a complex merging of oppression.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Records regarding Montgomery County Public School\u2019s Thomas Pyle Middle School\u2019s social justice class include a cover letter, noting that the class in question was a one-week \u201cSummer Boost\u201d class called \u201cReading and Taking Action for Social Justice\u201d offered from July 13-17, 2020, and that \u201cno grades were given and no actual work due.\u201d The class material includes a push for students to fill out a form letter with contact information addressed to federal, state and county education officials asking for more critical race theory classes in schools.<\/p>\r\n<p>In a slide titled \u201cWhat is Intersectionality?\u201d the students are told it is defined as:<\/p>\r\n<p>Exposing [one\u2019s] multiple identities can help clarify the ways in which a person can simultaneously experience privilege and oppression\u2026.<\/p>\r\n<p>Per [critical race theory scholar] Kimberl\u00e9 Williams Crenshaw, \u2018Intersectionality is simply a prism to see the Interactive effects of various forms of discrimination and disempowerment. It looks at the way that racism, many times, interacts with patriarchy, heterosexism, classism, xenophobia \u2013 seeing that the overlapping vulnerabilities created by these systems actually create specific kinds of challenges.\u2019<\/p>\r\n<p>A class slide titled \u201cImplicit Bias, Structural Racism\u201d states:<\/p>\r\n<p>Race is created to justify enslaving people from Africa (the economic engine of the country).<\/p>\r\n<p>National narrative (ideology, belief system) about people of color being \u2018less than\u2019 human (and less than white) justifies mistreatment and inequality (white supremacy).<\/p>\r\n<p>Dominant narratives about race (family, media, society) coupled with racialized structural arrangements and differential outcomes by race all prime us to believe that people of color are inferior to white people \u2026<\/p>\r\n<p>The students are asked: \u201cWhat is White Privilege?\u201d and are instructed that white privilege includes, among other things: having \u201ca positive relationship with the police, generally;\u201d \u201csoaking in media blatantly biased toward my race;\u201d and \u201cliving ignorant of the dire state of racism today.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>The students are suggested to view a Ted Talk interview with Patrisse Cullors, a founder of Black Lives Matter. The class is provided \u201cdefinitions\u201d created by www.racialequitytools.org. The terms that are defined include:<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d which is defined as \u201cA political movement to address systemic and state violence against African Americans.\u201d It claims that \u201cBlack Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cPower,\u201d defined among other things as: \u201cWealth, whiteness, citizenship, patriarchy, heterosexism, and education are a few key social mechanisms through which power operates.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cRacist policies,\u201d is defined with the statement, \u201cThere is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWhite Privilege,\u201d which is defined as \u201cto the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.\u201d And \u201cStructure white privilege\u201d is described as \u201cA system of white domination that creates and maintains belief systems that make current racial advantages and disadvantages seem normal.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under the heading \u201cWhite Supremacy,\u201d \u201cWhite supremacy culture,\u201d is defined as referring, \u201cto the dominant, unquestioned standards of behavior and ways of functioning embodied by the vast majority of institutions in the United States.\u201d White supremacy culture is further defined as \u201cthe glue that binds together white-controlled institutions into systems and white-controlled systems into the global white supremacy system.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Other defined terms include: \u201cAnti-black\u201d \u201ccolonization\u201d \u201cracial recognition\u201d \u201cracialization\u201d \u201cstructural racism\u201d and \u201cwhiteness\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>We also received records relating to Montgomery County Public School\u2019s Greenwood Elementary School\u2019s \u201cDual Pandemic\u201d of \u201cCovid-19\/systemic racism\u201d class presentation.<\/p>\r\n<p>The racist, revolutionary claptrap in these documents should be nowhere near a school classroom. These documents show that extremists have access to our schools and are willing to abuse this access to children in order to advance a dangerous, divisive, and likely illegal agenda.<\/p>","state":1,"catid":"62","created":"2021-05-22 12:15:36","created_by":"873","created_by_alias":"","modified":"2021-08-21 03:49:03","modified_by":"873","checked_out":"873","checked_out_time":"2021-08-21 03:47:56","publish_up":"2021-05-22 12:15:36","publish_down":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","images":"{\"image_intro\":\"\",\"float_intro\":\"\",\"image_intro_alt\":\"\",\"image_intro_caption\":\"\",\"image_fulltext\":\"\",\"float_fulltext\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_alt\":\"\",\"image_fulltext_caption\":\"\"}","urls":"{\"urla\":false,\"urlatext\":\"\",\"targeta\":\"\",\"urlb\":false,\"urlbtext\":\"\",\"targetb\":\"\",\"urlc\":false,\"urlctext\":\"\",\"targetc\":\"\"}","attribs":"{\"article_layout\":\"\",\"show_title\":\"\",\"link_titles\":\"\",\"show_tags\":\"\",\"show_intro\":\"\",\"info_block_position\":\"\",\"info_block_show_title\":\"\",\"show_category\":\"\",\"link_category\":\"\",\"show_parent_category\":\"\",\"link_parent_category\":\"\",\"show_associations\":\"\",\"show_author\":\"\",\"link_author\":\"\",\"show_create_date\":\"\",\"show_modify_date\":\"\",\"show_publish_date\":\"\",\"show_item_navigation\":\"\",\"show_icons\":\"\",\"show_print_icon\":\"\",\"show_email_icon\":\"\",\"show_vote\":\"\",\"show_hits\":\"\",\"show_noauth\":\"\",\"urls_position\":\"\",\"alternative_readmore\":\"\",\"article_page_title\":\"\",\"show_publishing_options\":\"\",\"show_article_options\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_backend\":\"\",\"show_urls_images_frontend\":\"\"}","version":4,"ordering":"3","metakey":"","metadesc":"","access":"1","hits":"103","metadata":"{\"robots\":\"\",\"author\":\"\",\"rights\":\"\",\"xreference\":\"\"}","featured":"1","language":"*","xreference":"","note":""}