'Here’s hoping the Missouri teachers win their First Amendment lawsuit. Legal victory or not, however, they deserve credit for highlighting how pernicious, poisonous, and flat-out racist today’s misnamed 'anti-racism' trainings are.' -QuinHillyer
Let’s focus not on First Amendment law but on the underlying dispute about teacher training. Because the required training material, in this case, is genuinely appalling.that was part of the “Fall District-Wide Equity Training.” It begins with this gratuitous “land acknowledgment,” to wit: “As we begin our training, we want to acknowledge and honor the Native and Indigenous Peoples whose land we currently gather on. ...
A later slide laments the “dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’….” A Another slide says that “covert white supremacy” includes “colorblindness,” “English-only initiatives,” “white silence,” “cultural appropriation,” “white savior complex,” and “calling the police on black people.”
Administrators sent emails to teachers before the training saying, “It will never be possible for us to be colorblind, and we shouldn’t ever want to be,” and says staff should begin the work of “reparation.”
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