{"id":592933,"date":"2021-07-15T23:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=592933"},"modified":"2021-07-15T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T03:51:00","slug":"watch-let-them-die-top-pta-naacp-official-says-in-tirade-about-anti-critical-race-theory-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-let-them-die-top-pta-naacp-official-says-in-tirade-about-anti-critical-race-theory-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: \u2018Let Them Die,\u2019 Top PTA, NAACP Official Says In Tirade About Anti-Critical Race Theory Parents"},"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%2Fwatch-let-them-die-top-pta-naacp-official-says-in-tirade-about-anti-critical-race-theory-parents%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=592933&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\/07\/ptaspeech.png?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As parents concerned about politicization and standards-lowering in schools gathered in Fairfax County, Virginia, a top PTA and NAACP official led a counter-protest in which she ended a tirade about parents who oppose critical race theory with the exhortation, \u201cLet them die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Leete is both Vice President of Training at the Virginia <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210118081657\/https:\/\/vapta.org\/contact-us\">state PTA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fccpta.org\/officers-and-committee-chairs\/\">Vice President of Communications<\/a> for the Fairfax County PTA. Fairfax has nearly 1.2 million residents. She is also First Vice President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairfaxnaacp.org\/executive-committee\/\">Fairfax County NAACP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-protesters listening to Leete\u2019s speech on Thursday burst into cheers and applause at the line, according to video by education activist Asra Nomani.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8301886792453\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLet them die,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FairfaxNAACP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FairfaxNAACP<\/a> leader Michelle Leete at protest before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fcpsnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@fcpsnews<\/a> board. Folks against critical race theory are here, with protestors including Leete opposing them. It\u2019ll be \ud83e\udde8 tonight. Watch at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KuScNenTVQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/KuScNenTVQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Csb5faEYKG\">pic.twitter.com\/Csb5faEYKG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asra Q. Nomani (@AsraNomani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsraNomani\/status\/1415798146916048898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anti-CRT parents gathered outside the Thursday night school board meeting for an event billed as a \u201cSTOP CRT RALLY,\u201d with a flyer saying \u201cWhile they deny it\u2019s being taught, NEA doubles down. It\u2019s not about race or equity, it\u2019s about a Communist Radical Takeover of America!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Counter-protesters also showed up. Leete spoke before a circle of them and said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"31\">\n<p>So let\u2019s meet and remain steadfast in speaking truth, tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let\u2019s not allow any double downing on lies. Let\u2019s prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let\u2019s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live-and-let live people. Let them die. (everyone cheers) Don\u2019t let these uncomfortable people deter us from our bold march forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nomani, whose son just graduated from Fairfax County Public Schools, told The Daily Wire she filmed the speech as she went between the dueling protests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened, stunned, as Michelle Leete, an executive of the NAACP and the PTA, put a target on the backs of parents just because they have a different point of view,\u201d she said. Nomani, who is a PTA member and immigrated to the U.S. from India, helps run the watchdog group <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/\">Parents Defending Education.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer words were a call to violence, and that\u2019s not acceptable. Ironically, her hateful, intolerant words are a perfect illustration of the divisive ideology of critical race theory in action. In the name of tolerance, it preaches intolerance and is a betrayal of all values of humanity and decency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leete did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire to explain her remarks, nor did Fairfax PTA president Kara Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p>If the remarks implied a wish for death to parents who have a different opinion about school policy than her, it would appear to apply to a majority of parents, many of whom were, until last year, under the impression the PTA represented their interests.<\/p>\n<p>A June <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iandprior\/status\/1403347804790087688\/photo\/1\">poll<\/a> by Public Opinion Strategies found that nearly three-quarters of Fairfax and neighboring Loudoun County \u201coppose eliminating advanced math courses\u201d and that significantly more voters opposed critical race theory than supported it.<\/p>\n<p>Though Fairfax has a supermajority of Democratic voters, those results are not surprising since CRT opposes traditional liberal values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Critique [sic] of liberalism, [sic] stems from the ideas of color-blindness, the neutrality of the law,<br \/>incremental change, and equal opportunity for all,\u201d according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/theequitycollaborative.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Intro-To-Critical-Race-Theory.pdf\">\u201cIntro To Critical Race Theory\u201d<\/a> by diversity consultant Equity Collaborative, which Loudoun County Public Schools have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously reported, Fairfax abolished the test used to gain admission into Thomas Jefferson School for Science and Technology, ranked the top math school in the country, after activists complained there were too many Asians and not enough blacks.<\/p>\n<p>The shift from merit to a \u201cmerit lottery\u201d resulted in a large decrease in the number of Asians and an increase in the number of whites in the school.<\/p>\n<p>The magnet school\u2019s PTA chapter held an election for board officers, and no white people won, but a majority of the board opposed doing away with objective criteria and lowering the rigor of the school.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the Virginia state PTA intervened and demanded that the principal (who is neither a parent nor a teacher, but who supports the racial policies) be allowed to sit on the PTA\u2019s executive committee. When the parents resisted, the state PTA\u2019s president-elect Jenna Alexander told them that \u201cthe PTSA operates within a school with the permission of the school division and principal and as a fundamental construct of PTA\u2019s mission and values, we operate for the purpose of creating a strong collaborative partnership between school and families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia PTA State President Pamela Croom later threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/state-pta-threatens-to-disband-tj-pta-after-its-asian-parents-reject-anti-merit-policies\">shut down the PTA chapter<\/a> because of a \u201cdisregard for the authority of Virginia PTA\u201d and for purported malfeasance such as criticizing the principal and making \u201cregular FIOA [sic] requests\u201d to learn about school operations, according to the letter, which was authored by Virginia PTA State President Pamela Croom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the PTA trying to overthrow the democratically-elected officers of the TJ PTSA who want to protect merit admissions at TJ, it\u2019s particularly frightening that the vice president of training for the Virginia PTA is saying, \u2018Let them die,\u2019 about parents who oppose changes to admissions policies,\u201d Nomani said.<\/p>\n<p>In a three-part series, The Daily Wire previously reported how the PTA \u2014 which for decades parents assumed was a suitable way to be involved in their children\u2019s education \u2014 has repeatedly lobbied for positions preferred by teachers, and against those preferred by parents. Its findings included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In December, the national PTA indicated that it believes its role is influencing parents, rather than parents influencing school administrators, writing: \u201cNational PTA has engaged in, and is committed to, deep, program-wide work and advocating on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/with-children-fully-indoctrinated-schools-have-a-new-target-parents\">parents<\/a>&nbsp;and students alike\u2026 We call upon our PTA members to listen, educate and advocate to demand meaningful change to end institutional racism.\u201d It leveled accusations against parents\u2019 young children, encouraging parents to read an article called \u201cYour 5-Year Old Is Already Racially Biased.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In July, despite anger by parents at schools\u2019 prolonged coronavirus closures, the PTA joined with the NEA national teachers union to oppose a push to open schools, writing, \u201cThe president should not be brazenly making these decisions.\u201d The PTA has taken multiple positions that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-the-pta-sold-out-parents-for-politics\">contradict the opinion<\/a>&nbsp;of the majority of parents according to polls, including its opposition to vouchers and typical charter schools and support for transgender students in locker rooms and bathrooms, which a 2016 poll found that fewer than a third of parents wanted.<\/li>\n<li>Teachers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/teachers-unions-infiltrate-pta\">union officials have permeated<\/a>&nbsp;the PTA leadership from top to bottom. In one case, the same woman is both vice president of the Colorado PTA and on the national board of the NEA teachers union; another man went from being an officer of the Massachusetts teachers union to an officer of the National PTA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As parents concerned about politicization and standards-lowering in schools gathered in Fairfax County, Virginia, a top PTA and NAACP official led a counter-protest in which she ended a tirade about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592933","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\/592933","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=592933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}