Radical School Board Has Parents *Arrested* for Questioning “Critical Race Theory”
By: Kyle Becker
What a great group of patriotic parents! Way to go taking it to that evil school board in Virginia. We the people are standing up for our country and for the future of our children. This is just the beginning of the resistance!
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Radical School Board Has Parents *Arrested* for Questioning “Critical Race Theory”
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On Tuesday night, a school board meeting went off-the-rails as educators were unwilling to listen to parents’ heated criticism of “Critical Race Theory,” a racially divisive agenda that has been smuggled into America’s schools.
The parents had been organizing and preparing to put the school board on blast all afternoon for the Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting, as was shown in extensive video coverage of Reuters reporter Gabriella Borter.
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter Here’s the scene in Ashburn, VA this afternoon as parents protest against critical race theory before the Loudoun County school board meets. Scott Mineo, founder of Parents Against CRT, talking to a crowd of about 200: 
12:34 PM · Jun 22, 202
“More than 100 gathered on the other side of the parking lot in Loudoun County opposing the anti-CRT protesters and supporting a transgender policy that is being discussed at the school board meeting soon,” Borter reported. The concerned parents warmed up with a rendition of the National Anthem.
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter · Jun 22, 2021 Replying to @gabriellaborter Break in the critical race theory protest speaker lineup for the National Anthem: 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter More than 100 gathered on the other side of the parking lot in Loudoun County opposing the anti-CRT protesters and supporting a transgender policy that is being discussed at the school board meeting soon 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter · Jun 22, 2021 Replying to @gabriellaborter More from the anti-critical race theory parent protest happening in Ashburn, VA -> 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter Inside the Loudoun County, VA school board meeting. More than 200 people signed up to make public comment. Agenda includes discussion of transgender affirming policy for students. Critical race theory not an official action item but is the priority for many here 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter · Jun 22, 2021 Replying to @gabriellaborter Update: former VA state senator Dick Black spoke out against critical race theory in the board meeting and crowd couldn’t stay silent. The Loudoun Co school board said if there were eruptions like this they’d end public comment 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter Loudoun County school board ended public comment. Anti-critical race theory protesters react: 
2:58 PM · Jun 22, 2021 1K 195 Share this Tweet When former Virginia state senator Dick Black spoke out, the school board threatened to end public comment. When the board ended public comment, the crowd burst into a patriotic display to shame the radical board members. Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter · Jun 22, 2021 Replying to @gabriellaborter Parents protesting against critical race theory broke into the national anthem when the Loudoun Co., Virginia school board ended public comment because the crowd got too out of hand 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter The Loudoun County sheriff’s office declared the school board meeting an unlawful assembly. Everyone told to get out or will be trespassing. Two arrests made #CriticalRaceTheory 
3:17 PM · Jun 22, 2021 1.7K 283 Share this Tweet The school board then declared an “unlawful assembly” and two of the parents were arrested by police. Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter · Jun 22, 2021 Replying to @gabriellaborter Two arrests made at the Loudoun County, Virginia school board meeting after it was declared an unlawful assembly and some parents here to protest against critical race theory and a transgender policy refused to leave right away #CriticalRaceTheory 
Gabriella Borter @gabriellaborter NEW: The tensions in #loudouncounty, on full display at last night's board meeting, echo a larger battle playing out across the US over how public schools are addressing the topic of racism with students. More on that w/@jamesoliphant@Reuters 
“The tensions in [Loudon County were] on full display at last night’s board meeting, echo a larger battle playing out across the US over how public schools are addressing the topic of racism with students,” Borter noted.
This doesn’t even resemble a scene from America. It is clear that when radicals are in charge, they dispense of American values such as fairness, equality and free speech.
But if that is the way radicals want to have it, they can expect even more pushback from parents across America. The American people will not be silent when it comes to their rights or their children.
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I nominate this mess as one of the least informative seeds ever posted on Newstalkers . The display of photos and captions at the top tells us next to nothing about what the whole things was about, and going to the seed link wasnt any better.
What a waste of time.
Then we have the article that XX posted as the first comment. "Critical race theory" appears in one sentence of the entire article, and then rather vaguely.
This seed is high level incompetence.
Some people can explain what they are posting, and some people are clueless.
The important stuff is to be found in the empty spaces between the photos.
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I second that nomination.
I take it for granted that every person in that room is aware of the theory of evolution even if they weren't steeped in it throughout their 8, 12, 16 or 20 school years.
100% believe in dinosaurs without any living proof.
Probably a third accept evolution, a third think it applies to every living thing except "humans" and a third could care less.
Yet here they are acting like a white tribal mob because they are listening to the sound bites on conservative news that say it will teach children to hate themselves.
You don't learn many of your prejudices at school. You learn almost all of them at home. These parents are the proof.
I seriously doubt if one in ten of these parents could talk coherently about "Critical Race Theory". It is a rightwing boogie man being spread around "conservative media".
And not too surprisingly, there is an audience of people prone to "white grievance" ready to eat this stuff up.
If anyone is wondering why Critical race theory was not an official action item at the schoolboard's meeting ... it's not taught there. Someone must have dumped something into the Kool-Aid of the local Christian Bingo Church.
LOL, drinking the Kool-Aid again.
One of the problems with evaluating what is or isnt critical race theory is that CRT is an academic endeavor related to why the US legal system has been historically prejudiced against non whites. Although I am pretty intelligent , as far as I know , I dont like to wade through critical race theory writings because , not being relatively that well versed in legal matters, the stuff is boring to me.
I could post something right now that is a writing by a critical race theorist and I guarantee that people's eyes would be glazing over within ten seconds.
What we are seeing in the media the last few months is people who are objecting to "wokeness" latching on to CRT as a whipping boy, without really, or at all, knowing what they are talking about. It is a way to distract from all the bad news about Trump's legal troubles , Matt Gaetz legal troubles, and the refusal of the Republicans to investigate the Jan 6 insurrection. Fox News is using propaganda info from a right wing activist named Chris Rufo to spread all this misinformation. For Rufo's part, he is parlaying all this hysteria into a social media money making machine.
Another in a long line of low points in the contemporary history of our country.
yep, 12 million indigenous people just disappeared when the Euros showed up.
CRT doesn't state it's the fault of modern whites, just that they need to be aware of the reality of it.
Same with slavery of blacks and Indians and Chinese.
Systemic government approved racism is still racism.
The irony here is off the charts....
The people defending CRT think it's teaching kids slavery happened.
CRT isnt teaching kids anything.
“CRT isnt teaching kids anything.”
then why have it as part of the curriculum?
Sean, why do so many Americans (over a third) say that slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War?
What happened in the teaching of history that caused this aberration , and continue it across generations?
We have a large part of our population that is not well informed about the history of our country because they dont want to be because an accurate history will upset their long ensconced beliefs in the inherent greatness of their ancestors.
We end up with the "1836 Project", which is sham history. It has to stop somewhere and sometime.
I have yet to hear of a single K-12 school system that says it is teaching kids CRT. If you can find one please post it.
I haven’t seen any that admit it, i guess that’s why loudon county parents are in an uproar.
d o so many Americans (over a third) say that slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War?
Because Americans know nothing about our history. You could find similar results about WWII, the Revolution etc...
"More Americans could identify Michael Jackson as the composer of “Beat It” and “Billie Jean” than could identify the Bill of Rights as a body of amendments to the U.S. Constitution."
p art of our population that is not well informed about the history of our country because they dont want to be because an accurate history will upset their long ensconced beliefs in the inherent greatness of their ancestors.
Absolutely not. We barely teach history at all. And what is taught focuses on civil rights.
" When 2,000 high school students across the United States were asked this questionexcluding presidents and presidents' wivesMartin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman headed the list. The only living American to make the top 10 was Oprah Winfrey, who ranked seventh.
In short, the nation's leading heroes, in the eyes of its youth, are African Americans."
have you ever heard of the success of the Lost Cause mythology? and how it was able to change the direction of the way the history of the South was being presented to the American people?
and how it was able to change the direction of the way the history of the South was being presented to the American people?
Again John, to the extent history has been taught in schools for the last five decades, it's been from a very pro-civil rights prospective. Those numbers from the Stanford survey speak for themselves. Students learn to idolize Harriet Tubman, not Robert E. Lee.
In the 1950s or 60's you might find the civil war taught as the war of northern aggression in the south. Those days are long gone.
it was legal to discriminate against non whites for 100 years after the end of the Civil War, largely because of the success of the Lost Cause mythology. Those 100 years continue to have an effect on what happens today.
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Why isn't straight up dishonest content verboten?
Conflicts like this are playing out in cities and towns across the country, amid the rise of at least 165 local and national groups that aim to disrupt lessons on race and gender, according to an NBC News analysis of media reports and organizations’ promotional materials. Reinforced by conservative think tanks, law firms and activist parents, these groups have found allies in families frustrated over Covid-19 restrictions in schools and have weaponized the right’s opposition to critical race theory, turning it into a political rallying point.
While the efforts vary, they share strategies of disruption, publicity and mobilization. The groups swarm school board meetings, inundate districts with time-consuming public records requests and file lawsuits and federal complaints alleging discrimination against white students. They have become media darlings in conservative circles and made the debate over critical race theory a national issue.
Conservative activist groups are inciting this turmoil.
Conservative activist groups are inciting this turmoil.
No proof of that
No....it's a bunch of fed up parents and other concerned citizens who see this racist left wing propaganda for what it is.
You mean except the link Pat provided right Greg?
Sure Greg, the FACT that 'No Left Turn in Education' was founded by Dr. Elana Yaron Fishbein, who writes for 'The Daily Signal', which is a Heritage Foundation rag, funded by the Koch brothers and other RW oligarchs is just a coincidence.
So... the parents weren't arrested for questioning crt. They were arrested for being disruptive and douchbags. Douchbag alt+righters do seem to have a pattern of not following directions, breaking rules/laws and disrespecting others. Then when called on it blame everyone else but themselves.
Woke people don't take kindly to being ignored and silenced by socialist scum.
These contentious meetings will only grow and spread
So more assholes will be arrested, fined and confined. I like it! Carry on.
The 1950's called and want their meme back.