“I’m an Activist, Mommy”: Dems Claim CRT-Steeped Doctrine “Doesn’t Exist” As WRAL Reports on Durham Antiracist Summer Camp
Sponsoring organization “WEARE” is partnered with Durham Public Schools
Group also hosts educator workshops to “facilitate K-5 lessons with an antiracist lens”
Leading “antiracism” thinker Ibram X. Kendi: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination”
Raleigh, N.C. — Democratic politicians in North Carolina claim that Critical Race Theory-inspired doctrines in public schools “doesn’t exist.”
They claim this even as an organization partnered with Durham Public Schools hosts antiracism summer camps and teacher workshops to “facilitate K-5 lessons with an antiracist lens.”
The group is called “WEARE,” which is short for “Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education,” and they partner with Durham Public Schools to impose a doctrine on students and teachers.
An organizer for WEARE told WRAL their work is critical right now “with there being so much pushback of this critical race theory.”
A parent of a child in the summer camp said her daughter came home saying, “Now I’m an activist, Mommy.”
Antiracism sounds nice — who wouldn’t want to be an antiracist? But the doctrine of antiracism, an outgrowth of Critical Race Theory, teaches adherents to view everything in the world through the lens of race. Its most famous proponent, Ibram X. Kendi, says to be antiracist is to believe discrimination by race “is not inherently racist,” and “the only remedy for past discrimination is present discrimination.”
The basic problem with antiracism is that it advocates discrimination based on race.
These teacher and student training exercises and summer camps shouldn’t come as any surprise — Durham’s city government authorized and endorsed a report calling on teachers to host “in-class conversations about…white privilege and how white people can be supportive of antiracism.”
They seek to upend the current public school system, which Durham’s city government says “is working as it was designed: to indoctrinate all students with the internalized belief that the white race is superior.”
Parents are rightfully concerned about teachers using this doctrine to teach students there is only one way to view the world, and that’s through the lens of race. Parents deserve an honest conversation about whether that’s appropriate, not false claims that the doctrine “doesn’t exist.”
