{"id":952955,"date":"2021-11-02T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952955"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:29:40","slug":"more-than-a-dog-whistle-thats-a-dog-megaphone-civil-rights-leader-condemns-mcauliffes-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-a-dog-whistle-thats-a-dog-megaphone-civil-rights-leader-condemns-mcauliffes-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More Than A Dog Whistle \u2014 That\u2019s A Dog Megaphone\u2019: Civil Rights Leader Condemns McAuliffe\u2019s Statements"},"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\">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%2Fmore-than-a-dog-whistle-thats-a-dog-megaphone-civil-rights-leader-condemns-mcauliffes-statements%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=952955&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>A civil rights leader ripped into Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Monday, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/civil-rights-leader-condemns-mcauliffes-race-based-teacher-plan-as-racist-and-insulting\">Fox News<\/a> that McAuliffe\u2019s statements regarding the percentage of teachers in Virginia who are white reflect \u201cexplicitly and implicitly a racist approach to education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bob Woodson, the president of The Woodson Center who served in the U.S. Air Force before becoming the director of the National Urban League, responded to McAuliffe\u2019s comments at a campaign event Sunday in which he stated:<\/p>\n<p><em>We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base. Fifty percent of our students are students of color; 80% of the teachers are white, so what I\u2019m going to do for you \u2014 we\u2019ll be the first state in America. If you go teach in Virginia for five years in a high-demand area \u2014 that could be geographic, it could be course work \u2014 we will pay room, board, tuition, any college, any university or any HBCU [historically Black colleges and universities] here in Virginia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Woodson snapped, \u201cThe assumption is that in order to recruit more black teachers that you\u2019ve got to subsidize candidates in order for them to teach, they\u2019re not offering this to white candidates. \u2026 It\u2019s really insulting, too. Why is he talking about providing special assistance to teachers, candidates, and then talking about HBCUs? That\u2019s more than a [racist] dog whistle \u2014 that\u2019s a dog megaphone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything he says echoes critical race theory,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt automatically operates on the assumption that the most important aspect of our lives is race.\u201d He added that a good education program \u201chas nothing to do with the color of the teacher or the color of the student. It has to do with the presence of excellence,\u201d Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/terry-mcauliffe-claims-crt-has-never-been-in-virginia-schools-his-administration-pushed-it-documents-show\/\">reported<\/a> on Sunday:<\/p>\n<p><em>Multiple documents on the Virginia Department of Education website reference Critical Race Theory (CRT) despite former Governor Terry McAuliffe\u2019s repeated claims that CRT is not taught in Virginia\u2019s public schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>McAuliffe repeated his claim about CRT in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/full-mcauliffe-interview-what-i-get-asked-about-every-day-is-covid-125030469892\">appearance<\/a>&nbsp;on MSNBC on Sunday, telling network host Chuck Todd that Glenn Youngkin, McAuliffe\u2019s GOP opponent to become the next governor of Virginia, is lying about CRT-influenced curriculum in schools. Documents linked on the Virginia Department of Education\u2019s website reveal CRT\u2019s influence on school curriculum and processes, however. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Manhattan Institute\u2019s Chris Rufo&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1454467134067642377\">highlighted<\/a>&nbsp;several&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/mcaullifes-crt-lie\/\">documents<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 one dating back to when McAuliffe ran the state from 2014 to 2018 \u2014 on the Virginia Department of Education\u2019s website featuring CRT. In 2015,<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A civil rights leader ripped into Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Monday, telling Fox News that McAuliffe\u2019s statements regarding the percentage of teachers in Virginia who are white reflect \u201cexplicitly and implicitly a racist approach to education.\u201dBob Woodson, the president of The Woodson Center who served in the U.S. Air Force before becoming the director of the National Urban League, responded to McAuliffe\u2019s comments at a campaign event Sunday in which he stated:We got to work hard to diversify our teacher base. Fifty percent of our students are students of color; 80% of the teachers are white, so what I\u2019m going to do for you \u2014 we\u2019ll be the first state in America. If you go teach in Virginia for five years in a high-demand area \u2014 that could be geographic, it could be course work \u2014 we will pay room, board, tuition, any college, any university or any HBCU [historically Black colleges and universities] here in Virginia.Woodson snapped, \u201cThe assumption is that in order to recruit more black teachers that you\u2019ve got to subsidize candidates in order for them to teach, they\u2019re not offering this to white candidates. \u2026 It\u2019s really insulting, too. Why is he talking about providing special assistance to teachers, candidates, and then talking about HBCUs? That\u2019s more than a [racist] dog whistle \u2014 that\u2019s a dog megaphone.\u201d\u201cEverything he says echoes critical race theory,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt automatically operates on the assumption that the most important aspect of our lives is race.\u201d He added that a good education program \u201chas nothing to do with the color of the teacher or the color of the student. It has to do with the presence of excellence,\u201d Fox News reported.The Daily Wire reported on Sunday:Multiple documents on the Virginia Department of Education website reference Critical Race Theory (CRT) despite former Governor Terry McAuliffe\u2019s repeated claims that CRT is not taught in Virginia\u2019s public schools.McAuliffe repeated his claim about CRT in an\u00a0appearance\u00a0on MSNBC on Sunday, telling network host Chuck Todd that Glenn Youngkin, McAuliffe\u2019s GOP opponent to become the next governor of Virginia, is lying about CRT-influenced curriculum in schools. Documents linked on the Virginia Department of Education\u2019s website reveal CRT\u2019s influence on school curriculum and processes, however. \u2026The Manhattan Institute\u2019s Chris Rufo\u00a0highlighted\u00a0several\u00a0documents\u00a0\u2014 one dating back to when McAuliffe ran the state from 2014 to 2018 \u2014 on the Virginia Department of Education\u2019s website featuring CRT. In 2015, the state Department of Education pushed a slideshow promoting CRT in response to racial disparities in public school discipline.\u201cAfrican American students suspended [more] than double their % age in student population,\u201d says the\u00a0slideshow, prepared by University of South Florida professor Brenda Townsend Walker. To cut down on black student suspensions, Walker encourages school administrators to incorporate a \u201cCritical Race Theory (CRT) lens\u201d into their disciplinary process. She also encourages teachers to \u201c[e]mbrace Critical Race Theory\u201d and \u201c[e]ngage in race-conscious teaching and learning.\u201dThe 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 member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"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-952955","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\/952955","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952955\/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=952955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}