{"id":602941,"date":"2021-07-26T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602941"},"modified":"2021-07-26T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:50:21","slug":"dallas-racial-activists-ask-white-parents-to-pledge-not-to-send-children-to-ivy-league-schools-to-help-correct-historical-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dallas-racial-activists-ask-white-parents-to-pledge-not-to-send-children-to-ivy-league-schools-to-help-correct-historical-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Racial Activists Ask White Parents To Pledge Not To Send Children To Ivy League Schools \u2018To Help Correct Historical Wrongs\u2019"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fdallas-racial-activists-ask-white-parents-to-pledge-not-to-send-children-to-ivy-league-schools-to-help-correct-historical-wrongs%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=602941&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\/shutterstock_357767822-scaled-e1603990245900.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The racial activism group Dallas Justice Now is asking white parents to sign a pledge not to send their children to Ivy League schools to \u201chelp correct historic wrongs.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cAs a white person with privilege both from my whiteness and my neighborhood I recognize the need to make sacrifices for the purpose of correcting hundreds of years of murder, slavery, discrimination, and lack of educational and economic opportunities perpetrated upon people of color,\u201d the pledge said.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The pledge concludes: \u201cIf I do not have children under 18 then I will commit to encouraging my white privileged friends, neighbors, and family members with children to sign the pledge and holding them accountable until they do so.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The racial activism group Dallas Justice Now is asking white parents to sign a pledge not to send their children to Ivy League schools to \u201chelp correct historic wrongs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Justice Now (DJN)\u2019s open letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasjustice.org\/college-pledge\">is written<\/a> to the \u201cwealthy white liberals\u201d in Texas\u2019 Highland Park Independent School District (HPISD). The group calls for them to \u201copen up spaces for Black and LatinX communities by refusing to send your kids to Ivy League and US News &amp; World Report Top 50 schools and encourage friends, neighbors, and family members to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cImagine if those hundreds of thousands of spots at these institutions were occupied only by marginalized communities,\u201d DJN said in the press release posted on its website. \u201cImagine the opportunities. We can achieve true equity within our lifetimes but only if white folks are willing to sacrifice their privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pledge calls on the white liberals of HPISD to keep their <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/21\/tulsi-gabbard-lori-lightfoot-blatant-anti-white-racism\/\">children<\/a> out of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/04\/22\/harvard-princeton-brown-cornell-coronavirus-aid-decline-cares-act-daca\/\">Ivy Leagues<\/a> and to encourage their \u201cwhite privileged friends\u201d to sign the pledge if they don\u2019t have children of their own. HPISD did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/nbc-critical-race-theory-loudoun-county\/\">(RELATED: A Parent-Led Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Is Storming School Boards Across The Country)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"5.3181818181818\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yes, this is real. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ToTA6qlhEs\">https:\/\/t.co\/ToTA6qlhEs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1419376323269701638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs a white person with privilege both from my whiteness and my neighborhood I recognize the need to make sacrifices for the purpose of correcting hundreds of years of murder, slavery, discrimination, and lack of educational and economic opportunities perpetrated upon people of color,\u201d the pledge said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that access to top schools is a key component in economic and social advancement. Therefore, I commit that my children will not apply to or attend any Ivy League School or US News &amp; World Report Top 50 School so that position at that school is available for people of color to help correct historical wrongs,\u201d the pledge continued. \u201cIf I do not have children under 18 then I will commit to encouraging my white privileged friends, neighbors, and family members with children to sign the pledge and holding them accountable until they do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DJN promised to publicly announce the names of those who sign or do not sign the pledge. The group did not respond to requests for comment from the DCNF. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/19\/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-interviewing-journalists-of-color-white-black-twitter\/\">(RELATED: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Giving Interviews Only To Journalists Of Color)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t be a racist hypocrite,\u201d the group said in the press release. \u201cSign the pledge today!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racial activism group Dallas Justice Now is asking white parents to sign a pledge not to send their children to Ivy League schools to \u201chelp correct historic wrongs.\u201d \u201cAs &#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-602941","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\/602941","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=602941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602941\/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=602941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}