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While documenting my former high schools attempt to indoctrinate me with critical race theory six years ago, I remarked that now, several years later, the situation has undoubtedly worsened. Worsened it has. Now,Campbell Union High School District has promoted more than 100 equity resources to students and staff, including a document that taught students how to put a curse on those who say all lives matter.

The page serves as a vast library for CRT resources and features 60 different links, including a Google Drive folder with 45 different documents.The list made sure to include the full range of CRT buzzwords, with links like Raising Race Conscious Children, the infamous 1619 Project, Anti-Racism for Beginners, andSocial Identities and Systems of Oppression, among others.

One link takes you to anAnti-Racism Resource List, which teaches about white fragility and claims that racism can only be perpetrated by white people. One of the resources provided was a Trevor Noah speech labeled Why rioting makes sense, followed by an unhinged anti-white rant from Sonya Renee Taylor, demanding that white people throw your white body on police officers and put their bodies on the line for the purpose of justice.

The list also addresses white people when it says, We are socialized into white supremacy from the moment we are born before going on to sayIt is about completely dismantling how you see yourself and how you see the world, so that you can dismantle white supremacy.

Samuel Martin graduated from CUHSDs Branham High School in 2019 and was appalled by the districts actions. He told The Federalist, The idea that white students must dismantle themselves in the context of their personality is cultish. Not only is it cultish, but it is deliberate in that this school system wants its white students to hate themselves. Do these people honestly think that drilling racial identitarianism into childrens heads from a young age is going to make them less racist?

CUHSD also links to theBlack Lives Matter Resource Guide, specifically their section labeled high school, which itself includes 45 different texts. Amid a wide variety of CRT inspired assignments is a document that includes writing prompts on police brutality and racist violence.

One section titled Hex tells the reader, Hexing people is an important way to get out anger and frustration. It becomes increasingly deranged, suggesting that those who say all lives matter or commit microaggressions, should be targeted. Write your own hex poem, cursing that person, it instructs.

When asked her thoughts on the document that instructed K-12 students to use witchcraft on political opponents, Branham teacher Meredith Allen told The Federalist she hasnt read the documents her district recommends, so she cant comment, but that she is generally opposed to the all lives matter message.

Another section labeled A World With No Police cites police and military as systems or institutions that contribute to oppression. It asks What would the world be like without them? before telling the reader to write a poem discussing a world without these institutions.

The Black Radical Tradition, is a 565-page e-book that includes articles from the Communist League and Noel Ignatiev under the pen name Noel Ignatin. Ignatiev was a Marxist whoargued that abolishing the white race is so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists.

Then theres a slide show entitled What is the Black Lives Matter Movement? which is made for children and was produced in part by teachers at LAUSD.It includes a glossary of terms like white supremacy, the definition of which includes the line, systems, like schools and jails, have white supremacy built into them because white people have had so much power for so long.

The ADLs linked document George Floyd, Racism, and Law Enforcement defines racism as the oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people, a definition that reinforces the malicious lie that white people cant be the victims of anti-white racism.

Another ADL resourcecondemns colorblindness and provides carefully crafted methods to indoctrinate white students with the idea that they have privilege without incurring backlash while a Racial Equity Resource Guide advertises the White Privilege Conference.

The districts equity resources page is just the most visible result of a series of steps in support of CRT that started long ago. In fact, the district was a testing ground for CRT before it spread throughout the nation. The book Research Studies on Educating for Diversity and Social Justice was published in 2018 and describes the process. An entire chapter, written in part by my former teacher, is dedicated to discussing how CRT was used at my high school so it could be replicated.

The book noted the use of the theory, saying, CRT is used here to centralize the discussion of race and racism at Branham High School. It went on to describe an equity advisory class that I was placed in as a sophomore, where Students learn about the different types of oppression along with the privilege it affords the oppressors.The authors hoped their tactics would spread, writing, the intent behind sharing the process Branham underwent is to provide a model that could be followed by other schools across the nation.

The districts Board of Trustees supports this agenda, recently offering unanimous support for a resolutionresolving to dismantle institutionalized racism in our society and our school district and is committed to implicit bias training, Ethnic Studies, and resources that foster dialogue around the guiding principles of #BlackLivesMatter.

Note the districts adoption of the term equity rather than equality. Heressuperintendent Robert Bravotwo hours and 39 minutes into a board meeting saying he believes equity is about equity of outcomes.

CUHSD even established an Anti-Racism Team, which is divided into eight Equity Teams that include teachers, principals, administrators, and even two students who must be BIPOC. That means white students are banned from the Equity Teams. Theyre tasked with challenging imbalances of power and privilege, among other roles.

Michael Espinoza is a member of one such Equity Team and a teacher at Branham High School who won the districts teacher of the year award. Here he is calling a Native American tribe the rightful stewards of the lands our schools and district offices stand on and telling teachers to recognize the power of critical race theory and use it in our lesson plans.

He also gave a speech to the class of 2021, where he levied leftwing complaints against America and quoted Huey Newton, imploring students to engage in revolution instead of conforming to the machine that is the United States. On his Instagram account, Espinoza celebrates mandates for ethnic studies classes and complains of living under white supremacist, heteropatriarchal rule in a plea to his co-conspirators.

If this is CUHSDs model teacher, what does their model student look like?Espinozas students created a variety of leftwing postersin his ethnic literature class.One poster demanded Dear White PPL: Start Listening, Stop Talking and others that said Wear UR F-cking Mask and Give us back our land.Principal Lawton took down the posters amid outcry before caving in and apologizing to the leftwing agitators.

The full ramifications of our education systems descent into leftwing radicalism is yet to be fully realized, although we can be certain that many of the students it doesnt lose to homeschooling will be successfully transformed into co-conspirators. But as the rhetoric of revolution becomes standard for stodgy school administrators, its appeal to youth might wane.

Conversely, they run the risk of creating a small but clever cadre of conservative youth who understand from firsthand childhood experiences the consequences of toxic racial grievance politics.Dont be surprised if the propagandizers who intend to give permanency to left-wing hegemony instead give rise to a nascent conservative political force that will uproot it.

Update: After publication, CUHSD removed the Black Lives Matter Resource Guide. CUHSDs original equity resources list can be viewed here.

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A 311-year-old school in southwest England named after the slave trader Edward Colston is to change its name following a wide-ranging consultation

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press

December 6, 2021, 6:40 PM

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LONDON -- First his statue met a watery end during last year's Black Lives Matter protests. Now another school in southwest England that bears the name of slave trader Edward Colston is changing its name.

The governors of Colstons School, which was set up in 1710 in Bristol, said Monday that the private school will be renamed next summer, and that current and former students, parents and staff will all have a say in the choice.

They said the events that took place during the protests in Bristol in June 2020, which saw the toppling of Colston's statue in the city, prompted renewed questions about keeping his name at locations across the city.

"What became clear is that the name Colston has become a symbol of the citys extensive links to slavery and will forever be associated with the enslavement and deaths of African men, women and children," it said.

Colston, who was born in 1636 to a wealthy merchant family, became prominently involved in Englands sole official slaving company at the time, the Royal African Company, and Bristol was at the heart of it.

The company transported tens of thousands of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, mainly to work the sugar plantations in the Caribbean and to cultivate the tobacco fields burgeoning in the new colony of Virginia.

Bristol, as an international port, was at the center of the slave trade and benefited hugely financially not just by shipbuilders and slavers, but also investors like Colston, who would buy a stake in the triangular slave voyage between England, West Africa and the Caribbean.

Colston gave a lot of money to local charities, which explains why his name has donned so many public buildings in the city.

This school was not named after Colston, rather it was named by Colston, the governors said.

Colston has been a figure of huge controversy in Bristol for years and last November, Colstons Girls School in Bristol announced it would become Montpelier High School after a vote by current students and staff.

Many residents of the city, which has a big community hailing from the Caribbean, are ashamed of what Colston represents. That shame came to the fore during last years Black Lives Matter protests when his statue was pulled down and rolled into the nearby harbor. It was later recovered and placed in a museum.

Britain formally abolished the slave trade in 1807 but slavery itself was only formally outlawed in British territories in 1834. Overall, more than 12 million Africans are estimated to have been sent to the New World, of whom around 2 million are believed to have perished en route.

The decision by the school follows a survey, which received more than 2,500 responses, including 1,096 from the general public. Though more than 80% of the members of the public who took part said Colston's name should be retained, the school said the vast majority of responses from people with links to the school backed the name change.

The governors said they didn't want to "erase the schools history and insisted that the slave trade and Colston's role in Bristols history will remain a key part of the schools curriculum.

However, it is hoped that a new identity will do more to reflect the character of this diverse and inclusive school and to make it even more welcoming to the local community it is proud to serve, the governors said.

Across the world, protests have raised questions about many monuments and statues connected to people with links to slavery and racism.

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The American Museum of Natural History has covered up a monument to the past.

A statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has stood on the front steps of the Manhattan museum for more than 80 years is now blocked from view, photos taken by The Post show Monday.

The bronze effigy to the nations 26th president, criticized for glorifying colonialism and racism, is being sent to North Dakota on a long-term loan to the upcoming Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.

Just two weeks after the move was announced, the statue is already completely hidden from view, covered by scaffolding and a tarp, The Posts pics show.

The removal, being carried out by the museum with help from the city, is expected to take several months to complete, officials said when announcing the deal.

Opposition to the statue mounted in recent years, especially after the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests sparked by George Floyds murder by a Minneapolis cop in May 2020.

In June 2020, officials at the museum which is privately run but sits on public land proposed removing the statue amid a nationwide movement to remove public works honoring Confederate leaders.

The New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously that month to relocate it.

One of the ex-presidents descendants, Theodore Roosevelt V, supported removing the statue, which he conceded is problematic in its hierarchical depiction of its subjects.

Rather than burying a troubling work of art, we ought to learn from it.

It is fitting that the statue is being relocated to a place where its composition can be recontextualized to facilitate difficult, complex, and inclusive discussions, he said of the North Dakota librarys plans.

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Black Lives Matter raised eyebrows with a Thanksgiving post that characterized America as "stolen land."

"You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land," BLM's national arm wrote on Twitter Thursday. The post included a graphic repeating the "stolen land" claim.

"You are on stolen land. Colonization never ended, it just became normalized," the graphic said, instructing Americans to learn "which ancestral homeland" they are "currently occupying."

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The tweet quickly sparked backlash on social media.

BLM, which supports defunding the police, has been a constant source of controversy.

Co-founder Patrisse Cullors announced her departure from BLM earlier this year, amid scrutiny of the group's finances. Cullors had garnered scrutiny by purchasing several homes worth millions of dollars.

BLM sparked backlash in July after releasing a statement that appeared to side with Cuba's communist regime over freedom-seeking protesters.

A Black Lives Matter banner is displayed on the building of the U.S. Embassy in Spain, on May 25, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Oscar Caas/Europa Press via Getty Images)

The statement originally posted on Instagram and later tweeted and retweeted blamed the U.S. embargo for the country's instability and credited the Cuban government for historically granting "Black revolutionaries" asylum.

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Cuba is being "punished by the U.S. government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination," the statement read. The group said Cuba has been an ally with "oppressed peoples of African descent" and praised the countrys effort to protect "Black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur."

Shakur, also known as JoAnne Chesimard, was convicted of being an accomplice in the 1973 slaying of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who left behind a wife and 3-year-old son. Shakur later escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where former Cuban leader Fidel Castro granted her asylum.

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Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter explains how the 3 core tenets of the Black Xmas campaign are building Black, buying Black, and banking Black.

The holiday season is in full swing, with Christmas carols on the radio and shopping sales luring customers to spend their cash. In spite of rising inflation,retail numbers are highand economists predict a robust Black Friday sales surge. But this year, rather than giving into the consumerist pressure of the season, theBlack Xmascampaign started by Black Lives Matter Los Angeles urges shoppers to use their dollars wisely and in service of racial justice.

In November 2013, Melina Abdullah, one of the founders of Black Xmas, wrote the following in a Facebookpost four months after the formation ofBlack Lives Matter:

Under capitalism, we are trained to compete rather than cooperate, to hoard rather than share, and to hate rather than love. Capitalism breeds a coarse, cold, cruel world. As revolutionaries, we are charged with transforming the system. Living a life of loving kindness is a good first step. #BeKind.

Abdullah is a professor in the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. A prominent leader inBLMLA, she helped start the Black Xmas campaign to promote Black-led organizations and Black-owned businesses and banks during the holiday season.

Abdullah spoke with YES! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar about how the campaign was started and what it aims to do.

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Kolhatkar: Did the Facebook post you wrote in November 2013 express the philosophical basis for theBlack Xmascampaign?

Abdullah: Theres always been an analysis of the relationship between racism and capitalism. Malcolm X says you cannot have capitalism without racism, and thats absolutely a truism that we see emerge in this Black Lives Matter movement/moment.

When we were birthed, BLM had a critique of capitalism, and understood that capitalism necessitates harm brought on Black communities and the exploitation of Black labor, exploitation of Black consumers, exploitation of people of color. We understood that from the very beginning.

With the murder ofJohn Crawfordinside a Walmart store [in Ohio], it really brought everything home. It helped us to understand that as we confront systems of policing, as we recognize police as the descendants of slave catchers, we also have to think about them as protectors of capital and protectors of the ownership class and how that steals Black life, including the life of Crawford.

We also began to think about the role of White supremacist capitalism and the theft of Black life. And so, we birthed Black Xmas and really tried to get Black people to be conscious of the way in which we use our dollars and our resources. Are we feeding a system of White supremacy that steals Black Life, or are we using resources to really build stronger Black communities?

Remember that you dont just have to be in a frenzy and run into these stores and buy people things that they dont need. You can use your dollars to really build strong Black communities.

Over the last six years, Black Xmas has had three core tenets: Building Black, Buying Black, and Banking Black.

Take Building Black. Rather than buying people things, think about what your mother would want other than, say, a sweater. Maybe your mother is a lover of the arts, and maybe she would be grateful if you would donate in her name to theFernando Pullum Community Arts Center,which provides free arts programs for Black children.

Maybe your aunt is a survivor of domestic violence, and maybe she would appreciate a donation in her name to theJenesse Center,which provides housing and resources for survivorsespecially Black women survivorsof domestic violence.

Thats really what Black Xmas is about. Its about shaking off the chains of consumerism and confronting White capitalism but also building new traditions.

Kolhatkar: Is there a reason why its Black Xmas and not Christmas?

Abdullah: Well, Im not that Christian, but I was absolutely raised in a Christian church by a mother who still practices Christianity, by a family thats largely Christian.

And we have to remember that the largest groups of Muslimsthe plurality of Muslims in this countryare Black. We have to remember that there are a lot of Black folks who dont identify with Christianity, and even Christians who dont practice Christmas. So, we wanted it to be as inclusive as possible.

We call the holiday season a Season of Giving, and we actually have, on our Black Xmas website, cards that people can download that say, This season of giving, please donate in my name rather than buying me a gift. So Black Xmas is being used as a more inclusive term for people who practice Christmas, for people who practice Kwanzaa or any other holiday during this season, or no holiday at all, but still want to practice giving and building Black communities.

Kolhatkar: In addition to making donations to organizations, what about also supporting Black entrepreneurs and artists?

Abdullah: The second tenet of Black Xmas is Buying Black. Sometimes, your mother really does need a sweater. Rather than giving your money to Macys, you can go toNobody Jonesor other Black boutiques.

Rather than buying from Amazon, a company that we know exploits its workers, you can go to small Black-owned bookstores, likeEso Won Books orMalik Books.

Did you know that theres a Black-owned skateboard shop? If your kid really needs a skateboard for the holidays, you can go toThe Rad Black Kidsand buy a skateboard. The brother there who started Rad Black Kids has intentionally based his business in Compton and employs Compton residents to work there.

So rather than going to businesses that dont value Black people, that dont contribute to the building of Black community, we have a pretty strong list of Black organizations and businesses that youcan buy from.

Kolhatkar: What about the third tenet of Banking Black?

Abdullah: Remembering where our dollars are housed is also important. So if you bank atCitibank, you are financing our oppression. If you bank atBank of America or Wells Fargo, you need to think about how they invest in private prisons and ask, are your dollars being used for the financing of environmental degradation, like the Dakota Access Pipeline and other problematic projects? So we encourage people to move their money toBlack-owned banks.

Kolhatkar: Is engaging with Black Xmas this year a chance for non-Black people who say Black Lives Matter to prove it?

Abdullah: Put your money where your mouth isliterally. So if you want to say Black Lives Matter, make Black lives matter by investing in Black communities.

We know throughout the pandemic about 40% of Black-owned businesses permanently shuttered. This is a way of supporting those that remained and investing in those that are seeking to emerge coming back out of this pandemic.

A lot of Black folks also lost their jobs, so theyre launching new businesses. So this is a way for all people all around the world to really make Black lives matter.

Kolhatkar: How do you square your critique of capitalism by encouraging people to still engage in consumerism but just narrow it to Black-owned businesses and banks?

Abdullah: Were not seeking to create richer Black capitalists. When we say Buy Black, were really looking at small Black-owned businesses. Most Black-owned businesses have 12 employees, and oftentimes, the employees are the owners and the owners families. This is not about enriching Black capitalists. This is about building strong Black communities so that we can have a degree of autonomy and self-determination.

When we think also about what Black-owned businesses do for the Black community, theymore than any other type of businessalso create livable-wage jobs for other Black people. I think about restaurants in Los Angeles, likeSimply Wholesome, which intentionally employsreturning citizens.

So this is not about trading Black capitalism for White capitalism. This is about really thinking about what cooperative economics the principle of Ujamaa is and how we can use our dollars to begin to create those systems.

Kolhatkar: The Black Xmas website lists businesses in Southern California, including Los Angeles and Long Beach. But it also includes South Bend, Indiana, and Michigan. What is the geographic reach of the campaign?

Abdullah: Black Lives Matter is a global movement, which means many of our chapters are becoming involved in Black Xmas. The campaign originated in Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, which was the first chapter of Black Lives Matter and is still the largest one. But other BLM chapters are also engaging. All of the BLM chapters in Michigan and BLM in South Bend, Indiana, are also participating.

If businesses want to be featured, they can send an email to[emailprotected]. Were still trying to carry the bulk of the work, but if they email us, regardless of where they are, well look at their business, and if we have a chapter there, we can feature their business on our social media platforms.

Were not the only organization that does Buy Black work. There is a website calledWeBuyBlack.comthat has things like laundry detergent, batteries, and toilet paper! All of these things that you probably didnt know exist as Black-owned businesses.

Many of the businesses that we feature are online rather than solely brick-and-mortar. So you can always order online.

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