Princeton African-American professor Carol Swain (Photo credit: Faculty member’s Twitter feed).
Carol Swain, an African-American professor who taught at Vandenberg and Princeton for twenty-eight years and never investigated Marxism but began to study and interpret “cultural Marxism” around the time of the Obama administration, says that Americans were previously too paralyzed by the infiltration of communism and that they were exploiting the suffering of minorities. They were taking advantage of the suffering of minorities, but at least now, many parents are waking up.
Parents are organizing across the country against dangerous left-wing critical race theory (CRT) in classrooms, Swain told “Fox & Friends” on Thursday. Because they create a hostile atmosphere in their children’s living environments.
CRT has spread through academia, entertainment, government, schools and businesses. It redefines American history as a struggle between the “oppressor” (whites) and the “oppressed” (everyone else), similar to the Marxist reduction of human history to a struggle between the “bourgeoisie” and the “proletariat. It calls the institutions that emerge in white-majority societies “systemic” or “structural” racism.
What the left is doing in its critical race theory, Swain says, is pure indoctrination. It’s not teaching young people how to think.
I can tell you that people all over the country are fighting back,” Swain said. Parents are organizing and doing what they need to do. I encourage more whistle blowers to come forward and give the news that you know, because what’s happening is very dangerous.”
She said critical race theory “creates a hostile environment for students, teachers and administrators, and I know from first-hand experience that you can’t be your best self if you’re in a hostile environment.”
Swain praises a parent who challenged an elite school with her daughter. A parent named Andrew Gutmann sent a letter last Tuesday to all 600 parents at The Brearley School, a private school in New York, explaining why he took his daughter out of the school.
Swain pointed out that the school teaches young children to hate themselves and their ancestors because of the color of their skin, all under the guise of educational fairness, which is very harmful to minority children because CRT tells them to victimize themselves and destroy their original relationships. And “race-critical theory creates problems once it enters environments where there are no serious problems in the first place.”
In a past interview with the English-language Epoch Times, Professor Swain spoke of her belief that communist infiltration of the United States and manipulation of the black civil rights movement had been planned and targeted with precision.
Swain believes that Marxism, having failed economically, has made changing culture a new goal for infiltration in the United States.
Those of us who have studied “cultural Marxism,” she says, “we know what’s going on, and we’ve seen its infiltration of churches and other institutions. This socialism that’s being shown now has been underground for a long time.”
Swain said, “There were a few Germans at Columbia who pushed Marxism, who landed at Columbia and taught students, and then spread it throughout the United States. I saw Saul Alinsky pushing the envelope and writing The Code of Radicals. Then there were people like Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Gramsci, who had a major impact on American society.”
She said, “So-called political correctness, trigger warnings, safe spaces, all that kind of stuff is a way to imprison people and keep them from rebelling. Marcuse’s claim is that the erosion is done by using the suffering of minorities.”
And while race-critical theory is said to have made its way into many U.S. teacher training colleges, proponents of communism are changing America’s next generation at the level of education. Athena Chu, head of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) in New York, told the Epoch Times, “Many of our young teachers have been educated like at Columbia Teachers College, and there are many teachers colleges around the country, so we found out about these (race-critical theories) teaching content because these (CRTs) are training our teachers and how they view their students. And it goes back more than a decade.” She says there are several generations of teachers who have been changed.
“Parents are waking up to protest.”
But now, Swain says, it’s not just parents who are waking up; black youth are waking up, too. “They’re really starting to recognize that there’s a great danger.”
They see the doctrine as the culprit in creating a toxic environment that exacerbates the problems it claims to ameliorate. And school officials have been denying it or responding with silence. And because CRT has been dressed up as an “equity,” “anti-racism” or “culturally responsive” initiative, it has entered schools largely unnoticed by parents.
One group that has attracted media attention is Parents Against Critical Theory (PACT) in Loudoun County, Virginia.
One parent was shocked to hear her daughter ask if she was a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Apparently, the child had heard about it in class, but was confused about what the KKK meant. The parent had to explain that joining such an organization is a bad thing. According to the parent, the child did not know that the organization was started by Democrats more than a century ago and hardly exists today.
The parent was also upset by a video posted online showing a teacher urging a student in a virtual classroom to be aware of racial differences and accusing the student of being “intentionally coy” if he refused to do so.
And Wayde Byard, a spokesman for Loudoun County Public Schools, said the video was poorly edited.
A teacher also said in class that students could protest and be excused from school as long as they were 14 and had parental consent, as the mother learned from her children.
The school denied this, she said, but she was not convinced.
Another student was told that when he refused to talk about his “values,” he would be marked absent. He told his mother that he feared bullying and questioning if he revealed his beliefs, she told the Epoch Times. His mother eventually negotiated an arrangement whereby her son would no longer be required to attend that before-school program.
We’ve been banging the drum for nine or 10 months now, and parents are finally coming around to what’s going on here,” Scott Mineo, founder of PACT, told the Epoch Times.
There’s no particular philosophy or theory that’s being used to indoctrinate students or staff that doesn’t use CRT,” Baird said.
And parents say he just gave CRT another name. They are completely lying to the community,” Mineo said.
And a document quotes Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Eric Williams as saying, “LCPS calls on all students, staff, families and other members of our community to engage in the destruction and dismantling of white supremacy, systemic racism, and hateful language and actions based on race, religion, country of origin, gender identity, sexual orientation and/or ability.”
And parents argue that this is leading to exactly the opposite result.
One parent said the result of their forced enforcement only leads to a “toxic environment.
Although this is a regional event, he said, the attention is national, and “there are a lot of messages, prayers, and donations coming in from all over the country.”
A Parents Defending Education website also urged parents to join in to “stop the madness in our schools.” It says, “In recent years, activists have targeted public, private and charter schools across the country in campaigns to impose toxic new curricula and force our children into divisive identity groups based on race, ethnicity, religion and gender.”
And Florida has announced that they will not adopt CRT.
Swain also tweeted today to bring more attention to the issue of CRT and to get to the bottom of this dangerous doctrine and the hostile atmosphere it will create in workplaces and learning environments across America.
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