Sixty-two years ago, former FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen wrote "The Naked Communist" to warn Americans about how communists planned to destroy our system from within, not by means of sudden revolution as envisioned by Karl Marx, but through a version of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's "Cultural Marxism." With a nod to the Chinese Communist Party and its People's Liberation Army, it has been a "Long march through the institutions" that has brought us to the brink of catastrophe-and much of it began in our schools.
As I wrote in "Santa Barbara School District: Where Marxism & Black Lives Matter - But Academics, Not So Much," at Front Page Magazine on 19 June 2020, Zinn's 'solution' was class warfare that pits identity and minority groups against one another, rejects American exceptionalism, abandons free market capitalism, and goads impressionable students to anger, despair, and hopelessness about their own country.
BLM even has a national organization called Black Lives Matter at School, whose signature objective is the mandatory injection of Black History and Ethnic Studies into U.S. school curricula.
In response, a letter signed by some 88 state and national organizations has been sent to the California Department of Education to protest the Save CA Ethnic Studies attempted deception as well as its efforts to "Indoctrinate students into a highly controversial and divisive set of ideological beliefs that we feared would exacerbate ethnic divisions and foment bigotry in California schools." Signatories include the American Truth Project, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, B'nai B'rith International, the Endowment for Middle East Truth, Facts and Logic About the Middle East, the Legal Insurrection Foundation, Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Lawfare Project, the Zionist Organization of America, among many more.
Across the country including in private secondary schools like Phillips Academy Andover, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Sidwell Friends, school systems are pronouncing support for the Marxist BLM agenda as they come under pressure to include materials on "Institutionalized racism" in their curricula.
In public school systems in New York City, Wake County, NC, the Santa Barbara Unified School District, and others, hard leftist school boards are kowtowing to the belligerent demands of Black Student Youth groups and others.
Two weeks later, in a Resolution dated 23 June 2020, the Santa Barbara School District passed a resolution declaring, among other things, that "Racism is a public health emergency," and resolving that "The Santa Barbara Unified School District will develop and purchase culturally relevant resources for educators and families for distribution and posting on the district website that 1) teach about, celebrate, uphold, and affirm the lives of Black people".
As I wrote in "Santa Barbara School District: Where Marxism & Black Lives Matter - But Academics, Not So Much," at Front Page Magazine on 19 June 2020, Zinn's 'solution' was class warfare that pits identity and minority groups against one another, rejects American exceptionalism, abandons free market capitalism, and goads impressionable students to anger, despair, and hopelessness about their own country.
BLM even has a national organization called Black Lives Matter at School, whose signature objective is the mandatory injection of Black History and Ethnic Studies into U.S. school curricula.
In response, a letter signed by some 88 state and national organizations has been sent to the California Department of Education to protest the Save CA Ethnic Studies attempted deception as well as its efforts to "Indoctrinate students into a highly controversial and divisive set of ideological beliefs that we feared would exacerbate ethnic divisions and foment bigotry in California schools." Signatories include the American Truth Project, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, B'nai B'rith International, the Endowment for Middle East Truth, Facts and Logic About the Middle East, the Legal Insurrection Foundation, Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Lawfare Project, the Zionist Organization of America, among many more.
Across the country including in private secondary schools like Phillips Academy Andover, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Sidwell Friends, school systems are pronouncing support for the Marxist BLM agenda as they come under pressure to include materials on "Institutionalized racism" in their curricula.
In public school systems in New York City, Wake County, NC, the Santa Barbara Unified School District, and others, hard leftist school boards are kowtowing to the belligerent demands of Black Student Youth groups and others.
Two weeks later, in a Resolution dated 23 June 2020, the Santa Barbara School District passed a resolution declaring, among other things, that "Racism is a public health emergency," and resolving that "The Santa Barbara Unified School District will develop and purchase culturally relevant resources for educators and families for distribution and posting on the district website that 1) teach about, celebrate, uphold, and affirm the lives of Black people".
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