{"id":501625,"date":"2021-05-12T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501625"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:20:54","slug":"black-parent-compares-critical-race-theory-to-kkk-intimidation-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-parent-compares-critical-race-theory-to-kkk-intimidation-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Parent Compares Critical Race Theory to KKK Intimidation Tactics"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fblack-parent-compares-critical-race-theory-to-kkk-intimidation-tactics%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=501625&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\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-12-at-5.06.16-PM-1024x566-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A black mother slammed critical race theory at a school board meeting in the nation&#8217;s richest county Tuesday, comparing the radical education standards to tactics used by Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan to demean black people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Critical race theory is not an honest dialogue, it is a tactic that was used by Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan on slavery very many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we could not think for ourselves,&#8221; Shawntel Cooper said at the Loudoun County School Board meeting Tuesday night. &#8220;Critical race theory is racist, it is abusive, it discriminates against one&#8217;s color. \u2026 You can not tell me what is or is not racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Cooper told the <em>Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>that the mother doesn&#8217;t want to speak out nationally, citing fear of negative publicity. The Loudoun County School Board did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of Loudoun County Public Schools students have rebelled against the district&#8217;s efforts to adopt radical curriculum standards. One parent group launched a recall campaign against six of the Loudoun County School Board members in March. Other groups have tracked the school board&#8217;s attempts to silence parents who oppose the district&#8217;s recently adopted &#8220;culturally responsive&#8221; curriculum framework.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper spoke during the comment section of a contentious school board meeting, where parents expressed concerns ranging from school reopening to critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>Several parents objected to the books included in the district&#8217;s Diverse Book Collection, an initiative designed to expose students to authors of varying races, gender identities, and sexual orientations. A group of parents that included Elizabeth Perrin and Patti Menders read aloud passages from <em>Monday&#8217;s Not Coming<\/em>, a sexually explicit novel assigned to students in an honors English class.<\/p>\n<p>Menders read a section of the book that describes a girl being assaulted. She told the board members that if they felt uncomfortable listening, the book should not be offered to high school students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is inappropriate for me to read to you, this is inappropriate for our children,&#8221; Menders said. &#8220;Get these dirty books out of our schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For kindergartners, the Diverse Book Collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcps.org\/cms\/lib\/VA01000195\/Centricity\/Domain\/20\/GRADE%20K%20Diverse%20Book%20Collections%20with%20Annotations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offers<\/a><em> My Princess Boy<\/em>, which tells the story of a young boy who enjoys wearing dresses and playing with girls&#8217; toys. Juniors can read <em>Whatever.: Or How Junior Year Became Totally F$@cked<\/em>, which tells the tale of a teenager who faces an identity crisis after drunkenly kissing another male at a party.<\/p>\n<p>Perrin told the<em>\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em> that it should be parents, not schools, teaching morals and values to their children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Schools should not be imparting their belief structure on our children. That should be left to the parents to share their values, morals, and ethics in a family setting,&#8221; Perrin said. &#8220;That is the most important. Those should be for the parents to impart to their children, not the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s school board meeting was the latest flare up in a yearlong battle in Loudoun County. Parents have clashed over the district&#8217;s decision to adopt a &#8220;culturally responsive&#8221; curriculum framework, which called on the school community to dismantle &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tensions heightened this spring when a Facebook group that included six school board members <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/gofundme-deactivates-page-run-by-virginia-parents-fighting-woke-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> an intimidation campaign against parents who spoke out in favor of opening schools or against the culturally responsive framework.<\/p>\n<p>Perrin told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> the group, Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County, targeted her for calling on district officials to reopen schools. Police are investigating an incident where strangers gathered outside of her home and took pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Prior, a parent who spoke at Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that opposition to the district&#8217;s new curriculum hit a &#8220;critical mass&#8221; after the Anti-Racist Parents&#8217; campaign. Prior is one of several parents leading the recall campaign against the six board members who allegedly participated in the crusade against anti-critical theory parents. The petition has received more than 1,500 signatures so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This school board, the administration, and the Facebook mob \u2026 put Loudoun County as ground zero in a national fight against critical race theory,&#8221; Prior said at the meeting. &#8220;Every single one of these parents would step in front of a train for their kids, and they will step in front of you too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A diverse group of parents support the movement to counter Loudoun County school officials, Prior said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a Democrat, Independent, Republican, white, Asian, black, Hispanic. Everyone needs to be a part of this movement because our kids are bigger than any party, any socially constructed identity group,&#8221; Prior told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;If people want their kids to be free thinkers who are successful as adults, then this stuff needs to be torn out from the roots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Loudoun County has spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on critical race theory diversity training in recent years, according to documents reviewed by the <em>Free Beacon. <\/em>Superintendent Scott Ziegler in September proposed changing the district&#8217;s employee code of conduct to ban teachers from speaking out against the district&#8217;s new educational framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A black mother slammed critical race theory at a school board meeting in the nation&#8217;s richest county Tuesday, comparing the radical education standards to tactics used by Nazis and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277995,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-12-at-5.06.16-PM-1024x566-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Black Parent Compares Critical Race Theory to KKK Intimidation Tactics","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-12-at-5.06.16-PM-1024x566-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Black Parent Compares Critical Race Theory to KKK Intimidation Tactics","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501625","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=501625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}