By Emma Colton
A father in Colorado Springs who is the descendant of slaves slammed critical race theory during a public school district’s board meeting, saying racism in America would “by and large be dead” if not for institutions such as the education system “keeping it on life support.”
“I am a direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black. All four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great great grandparents, and all 16 of my great greats. On my mother’s side, my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father’s side, we were enslaved in Texas,” he said during a board meeting last week.
“I am not oppressed. I’m not oppressed and I’m not a victim.”
The unidentified father went on to say that “racism in America would by and large be dead today if it were not for certain people and institutions keeping it on life support.”
“Sadly, one of those institutions is the American education system.”
The father of three went on to say that he “can think of nothing more damaging to a society than to tell a baby born today, that she has grievances against another baby born today, simply because of what their ancestors may have done two centuries ago.”
“There’s simply no point in doing that to our children, and putting critical race theory into our classrooms in part does that. Putting critical theory into our classrooms is not combating racism. It’s fanning the flames of what little embers are left. I encourage you to support this resolution. Let racism die the death it deserves.”
The Colorado Springs School District 49 school board voted 3-2 banning critical race theory from its classrooms last Thursday following parents’ testimonies.
“The driving force behind CRT and antiracism is the acceptance of a worldview that encompasses specific notions about history, philosophy, sociology, and public policy,” board director Ivy Liu and secretary Rick Van Wieren wrote in a summary of the ban. “By its own terms, CRT/antiracism excludes individuals who merely advocate for neutral principles of the Constitution, or who deny or question the extent to which white supremacy shapes our institutions.”
The father went on to say in the video that his three children “are not oppressed, either, though they are victims.”
“I taught my children they were victims of three things: Their own ignorance, their own laziness and their own poor decision making. That is all,” he said.
The video, which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media, comes after dozens of other parents have voiced outrage during board meetings due to critical race theory being implemented in classrooms.
One teacher in Kansas even recently resigned from his job over critical race theory and a mask mandate in his school district.
“I can’t believe the lack of transparency with curriculums, teacher trainings, in class activities based on the trainings, and top-down regulations used as indoctrination tools,” former teacher for the Shawnee Mission School District Josiah Enyart told Fox News last week.
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“As a teacher, I can see these things, but after talking to hundreds of parents, they can’t. Why wouldn’t the public school system want the parents to know everything that their child is being exposed to? Why aren’t the parents being asked before these decisions are being made? And when they do, why do the board decisions not match the data on the surveys? As a district that prides itself on being ‘data driven,’ they do not seem to be following any real data on any of the issues.”
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A Colorado Springs, Colo., school district has banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory in a 3-2 vote.
Prior to the vote in District 49 on Thursday, several community members gave speeches regarding their thoughts on the measure, Fox 21 News reported.
One parent in support of Critical Race Theory said, “We do not become great by sticking our fingers in our ears and pretending we have no flaws. There is no shame in saying that we still have far to go…that constant striving to better ourselves–that is American exceptionalism…I am not afraid of our history. The real question is, why are you?”
A woman who opposed Critical Race Theory said, “My mother was Hispanic, Native American, raised in poverty, and she was the first in her family to graduate high school. She was the first to graduate college and she was the first to become a homeowner. I do not come from a family that says I am defined by anything as artificial as the color of my skin, the color of my skin, my ancestry or anything else.”
Another parent argued that “CRT indoctrinates our children into racism,” the Washington Examiner reported.
Following speeches from the community members, the school board members briefly explained the reasoning behind their votes, according to Fox 21 News.
“As long as I am a D49 school board member, it will be my single-minded mission to ensure that D49 remains one of the top-notch districts and protection from any infusion of insidious indoctrination,” school board director Ivy Liu said, receiving a standing ovation.
Well does this mean that it’s going to take the Black community to step up and tell these totalitarian school boards that CRT is not the right choice to get them to drop it? If this is what it takes are the blacks going to confront the school boards? Are the black parents going to finally demand that these school districts step up and start giving their kids an education that will give their children a chance at a good life? It shouldn’t have to come down to race, every parent should be on the same page on this issue. These schools are supported and financed from our tax dollars. They work for us the American tax payer. But these days it seems they are acting like our Fed. government and they don’t think they have to answer to us. Come on Americans, let them know who we are and who they work for.