{"id":1357543,"date":"2022-03-03T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357543"},"modified":"2022-03-03T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T01:08:12","slug":"gretchen-whitmers-critical-race-theory-crusade-we-believe-education-is-the-key-to-promoting-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gretchen-whitmers-critical-race-theory-crusade-we-believe-education-is-the-key-to-promoting-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Whitmer&#039;s Critical Race Theory Crusade: &#039;We Believe Education Is the Key to Promoting Social Justice&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgretchen-whitmers-critical-race-theory-crusade-we-believe-education-is-the-key-to-promoting-social-justice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1229111648-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s (D) government has fought tirelessly to inject critical race theory indoctrination into her state\u2019s schools \u2014 now having her administration provide material promoting race essentialism to teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s Educator Advisory Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/mde\/GEAC_Resources_697529_7.pdf\">published<\/a> a report called \u201cSocial Justice and Anti-Racist Educator Resources\u201d that gives schools and teachers the materials they need to push race-essentialism, ensure that race is seen as a central determinative factor in everyday interactions, and teach some children that they are oppressed and others that they are oppressors based entirely on the color of their skin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe compilation aims to help colleagues begin, continue, and further their own work to FIRST educate themselves and then bring anti-racist teaching to all grade levels and subject areeas [sic],\u201d the report\u2019s opening statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The first resource, to begin \u201cstarting your journey,\u201d is a Medium article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/equality-includes-you\/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234\">titled<\/a> \u201c106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice.\u201d This piece, in what appears to be a February 2022 update to a 2017 article, says, \u201cOur work to fix what we broke and left broken. The work isn\u2019t done until Black folks tell us it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this article recommends that the number one thing white people can do for racial justice is \u201cfollow your local Black Lives Matter chapter\u201d \u2014 the group along with Antifa primarily responsible for burning down American cities in 2020, destroying the lives and livelihoods of an untold number Americans, including and especially black people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Another suggestion is to \u201cUnderstand and share what \u2018defund the police\u2019 really means,\u201d explaining that\u00a0\u201cit\u2019s about a new, smarter approach to public safety, wherein we demilitarize the police and allocate resources into education, social services, and other root causes of crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s Educator Advisory Council\u2019s report is a ten-page document filled with radical, racist materials intended for educator training that are meant to be proliferated throughout all aspects of K-12 public education. In the Council\u2019s mission statement, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/mde\/GEAC_Proclamation_697527_7.pdf\">declares<\/a> \u201cWe, as members of the Governor\u2019s Educator Advisory Council, hear the moral outcry being shouted and felt throughout the world. \u2026\u00a0We believe education is the key to promoting social justice in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe realize we are battling two deadly viruses: COVID-19 and the virus of racism,\u201d it continues. \u201cWe pledge to promote educational policies, practices, and resources which will help put an end to systemic racism. We will fight for more diversity in all aspects of the educational profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another resource, from the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture, <a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/learn\/talking-about-race\/topics\/whiteness\">tells<\/a> teachers \u2014 and by extension, children \u2014 that \u201cwhiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America\u2019s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in Whitmer\u2019s crusade to indoctrinate children to think always in terms of race, \u201cpeople of color must always consider their racial identity, whatever the situation, due to the systemic and interpersonal racism that still exists,\u201d and \u201cwhiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions\u00a0toward people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It is worth nothing that the National Museum of African American History and Culture is taxpayer-funded, censors the achievement of any black conservative like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and implies that black Americans cannot identify with \u201cindividualism,\u201d \u201cself-reliance,\u201d \u201cobjective, rational linear thinking,\u201d \u201cthe nuclear family,\u201d and \u201chard work,\u201d among many other things.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The National Museum of African American History &#038; Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more.  (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RpwWilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RpwWilliams<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k9X3u4Suas\">https:\/\/t.co\/k9X3u4Suas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWYOeEh4vu\">pic.twitter.com\/gWYOeEh4vu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Byron York (@ByronYork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByronYork\/status\/1283372233730203651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Whitmer administration guide also provides the \u201cBlack Lives Matter at School Resource Toolkit\u201d and recommends <em>How to Be an Antiracist<\/em> by critical race theory purveyor Ibram X Kendi, as well as <em>White Fragility<\/em> by Robin DiAngelo.<\/p>\n<p>After publication, Whitmer\u2019s guide was shopped out to local school districts by the Michigan State Board of Education along with a Board-passed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/mde\/Resolution_to_Eradicate_Racism_and_Create_Equitable_and_Inclusive_Schools_FINAL_693356_7.pdf\">resolution<\/a> stating \u201cwe believe that children begin their lives without hatred and bigotry,\u201d but then imply that racism is endemic in American society.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the Michigan House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/test.michiganvotes.org\/RollCall.aspx?ID=831006\">voted<\/a> 55-0 to effectively ban critical race theory being taught in K-12 schools. Every single Democrat refused to participate in the vote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following suit, the Democrat-run state Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzzm13.com\/article\/news\/education\/michigan-board-of-education-opposes-gop-sponsored-critical-race-theory-bills\/69-f78ebb2a-a690-4d50-a35d-602e4130c4cc\">passed<\/a> another resolution, 5-2, opposing the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeachers have the right and responsibility to teach the multifaceted and complex history including the history of race, racism and other biases, which are inextricably connected to the constitutional and statutory history in our country,\u201d Democrat Board member Pamela Pugh said, misrepresenting what critical race theory is.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Nikki Snyder, who voted against the resolution, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Theories that pit student groups against each other through stereotyping, race stereotyping, gender stereotyping are dangerous to kids. It doesn\u2019t allow them to learn. When they learn about themselves as if they are an oppressor or oppressed, how do they then take the education that they are being given and feel like they can actually take that as an opportunity?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMichigan Republicans reject the notion that America is fundamentally racist,\u201d Michigan GOP Communications Director Gustavo Portela told Breitbart News. \u201cWhile we have much work to do when it comes to eliminating inequities and barriers, a major part of the solution is expanding economic and educational opportunity to all of communities. This is something that, under Gretchen Whitmer, has been greatly lacking because of her excessive lockdowns, which have led to record unemployment, students being shut out of the classroom, and record job losses \u2013 all of which have disproportionately affected African American and Latino families across the board. We will not solve this problem by imposing divisive doctrines like critical race theory on our public school children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Gov. 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