{"id":1677416,"date":"2022-10-07T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1677416"},"modified":"2022-10-07T06:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:53:40","slug":"wisconsin-gov-tony-evers-dept-of-public-instruction-told-white-people-to-wear-wristbands-as-reminder-of-your-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-gov-tony-evers-dept-of-public-instruction-told-white-people-to-wear-wristbands-as-reminder-of-your-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 Dept. Of Public Instruction Told White People to Wear Wristbands as &#8220;Reminder of Your Privilege&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/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%2Fwisconsin-gov-tony-evers-dept-of-public-instruction-told-white-people-to-wear-wristbands-as-reminder-of-your-privilege%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=1677416&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--><p class=\"subheading\">White people were told to engage in a racial shaming exercise to remind them of their privilege by Wisconsin Democrat Governor Tony Evers\u2019 Department of Public Instruction (DPI) when he was its superintendent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">A document promoted by the Department of Public Instruction, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, suggested white people \u201cwear a white wristband as a reminder about your privilege.\u201d<\/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><span>Democrat Governor Tony Evers, who is up for reelection, was the Superintendent of the Department of Public Instruction from 2009 to 2019.\u00a0<\/span><span>During his time as Superintendent, the department worked alongside Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Evers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091231133451\/https:\/dpi.wi.gov\/eis\/pdf\/dpinr2009_62.pdf\"><span>spoke highly<\/span><\/a><span> of VISTA, remarking that Wisconsin was \u201cvery fortunate\u201d to have assistance from VISTA volunteers, and that their work was \u201cvery important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><span>A document titled \u201c<\/span><i><span>Addressing Racial Privilege: A Mental Model for White Anti-Racists<\/span><\/i><span>,\u201d was distributed at a joint DPI-VISTA training in 2013, while Evers was the Superintendent. The document urged people to engage in a number of anti-white racial shaming exercises, including wearing wristbands as \u201ca reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/10\/Addressing-Racial-Privilege.jpg\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The document also told white people to \u201cfind a person of color who is willing to hold you accountable for addressing privilege\u201d and to \u201cmake a daily list of the ways privilege played out, and steps taken or not taken to address privilege.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSet aside sections of the day to critically examine how privilege is working,\u201d it read. Another section demanded attendees \u201cbe willing to teach others and hold them accountable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The document asked a number of questions, including \u201cWhat am I doing today to undo my privilege? and \u201cHow do I define my moral obligation?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><span>All of the questions, demands, and action items were centered around the \u201cbig question,\u201d which read \u201cHow do I live with my privilege?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>As the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Evers had control over the curriculum of Wisconsin public schools. After initial outcry about the racially charged document, the Wisconsin DPI scrubbed the document from their website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A section of their website, titled \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/dpi.wi.gov\/dpi-vista-project\/resources-1\/power-and-privilege-resources\"><span>Power and Privilege<\/span><\/a><span>,<\/span><span>\u201d denies that DPI officials had asked students or school personnel to wear wristbands to atone for their white privilege.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The website does, however, say that after a training session with VISTA volunteers, \u201c\u200b\u200b<\/span><span>a packet of \u2018additional resources\u2019 was offered by the trainers as the volunteers left. Subsequently, that entire resource packet was posted to the VISTA web site.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Users who click on the link to the document currently on the website are directed to a page that says, \u201cMisconceptions and misinformation about the document are being spread by an out-of-state entity that has no connection with the public schools in Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\"><span>Politifact has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2013\/apr\/15\/george-will\/wisconsin-dpi-urged-white-students-wear-white-priv\/\">stated<\/a> \u201cDPI was responsible for a flier given to 13 federally paid workers that suggests white people consider wearing the white wristbands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Breitbart News contacted the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, asking the department if it was \u201cwilling to denounce exercises or activities that intend to get white students, volunteers, or personnel to atone or apologize for racial privilege.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Communications Director Abigail Swetz told Breitbart News,\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cI assume it was removed because it does not reflect best practices in equity trainings, and as an education agency, we are constantly learning and continue to revise best practices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Swetz did not offer any condemnation of such exercises or activities, but rather went on to say,\u00a0<\/span><span>\u201cThe Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction strongly supports equity in education, which includes trainings about combatting racism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before becoming the Communications Director of DPI, Swetz was engaged in leftist activism and <a href=\"https:\/\/ourliveswisconsin.com\/article\/the-power-of-vulnerability\/\">called herself<\/a> a \u201cproud queer public school teacher.\u201d Swetz also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abigail-swetz-9194b6153\/\">spoke<\/a> at the Women\u2019s March in Madison and received the \u201cTeacher of the Year\u201d award from GSafe, a <a href=\"https:\/\/gsafewi.org\/events\/\">leftist organization<\/a> that organizes teachers and students to engage in progressive activism.<\/p>\n<p><span>The guide was produced by the New Jersey-based Beyond Diversity Resource Center, an organization that offers \u201canti-oppression\u201d training sessions and \u201cdiversity climate\u201d studies. The organization even sells a <\/span><span>\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/beyonddiversity.org\/fight-hate-wristband\/\"><span>fight hate\u201d wristband<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The wristband\u2019s description reads \u201cLearning about privilege\u2014the ways society gives people advantages because of their memberships in groups\u2014is just as important as learning about oppression.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier this year, Evers vetoed a bill that would have prohibited Critical Race Theory from being taught in Wisconsin schools. Evers\u2019s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/span><span>Evers is running against <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/10\/trump-endorsed-tim-michels-wins-wisconsin-republican-primary-race-for-governor\/\"><span>Tim Michels<\/span><\/a><span>, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for governor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Spencer Lindquist is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerLndqst\"><b><i>@SpencerLndqst<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> and reach out at slindquist@breitbart.com.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White people were told to engage in a racial shaming exercise to remind them of their privilege by Wisconsin Democrat Governor Tony Evers\u2019 Department of Public Instruction (DPI) when he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1677418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1677418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}