From Daily Beast (here):
GOP Operative Says It Hurts White Kids When ‘Kids of Color Feel They Belong’
A Republican campaign manager for school board candidates in a Connecticut town has sparked controversy by telling participants of a virtual education forum that “helping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids.”
Mary Beeman put forth that bizarre argument during a virtual education forum where the right-wing boogeyman known as “critical race theory” was discussed, according to local news outlet WFSB.
This, of course, is a manifestation of the GOP’s latest efforts to distract from our country’s real problems by pushing a social wedge issue (in this case, a bogus one).
And, of course, it shows that Republicans are inarticulate followers who can’t think for themselves. This woman is so dependent on her party’s ideology that she tripped over her tongue while trying to peddle the party line.
A website calling itself Back At The Media reports (here) that a local member of Truth In Education, a “nonpartisan” (?) group promoting “parental rights” and “local control” of schools (here), “believes CRT is a problem that needs to be addressed.” (Why? CRT is an only elective academic subject taught in graduate schools, details here. Do we have academic thought police now?)
Obviously, people like him are afraid of those ideas filtering out into the broader society. So he, too, fumbles with words: “We are a great country,” he said. “Our founding documents say that all men are created equal.” Never mind they also enshrined slavery in our laws. He also claims that “equity, social justice (and) inclusion” is “loaded vocabulary.” This is what defending racism sounds like.
And that’s what these people are doing. You don’t have to infer that; they’re laying it right out there.
Photo: Mary Beeman of Guilford, Connecticut