Docs: CA School District Spent More Than $500K On ‘Anti-Racist’ Propaganda Program
'Parents deserve to know why basic education is being sacrificed for ideological indoctrination.''Parents deserve to know why basic education is being sacrificed for ideological indoctrination.'‘Nakedly racist’ new film: Ryan Coogler's ‘Sinners’ inspires Karmelo Anthony defenders
The debate surrounding Karmelo Anthony has predictably erupted into one of race, with Anthony’s supporters painting the victim, Austin Metcalf, as the perpetrator because of the color of his skin.
“We don’t actually know what Karmelo Anthony was thinking, but the narrative that they’re presenting is that, ‘Well, Austin Metcalf is a representative of whiteness, and if he’s a representative of whiteness, then all of the sins of whiteness, all of this slavery, systemic oppression, cultural hegemony, and all of these things are a part of Austin Metcalf’s fault,’” Jack Posobiec tells Jason Whitlock on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”
“This is, as you always say, this is the idea of collective justice and collective guilt, which is not biblical. It is not Christian. This is a very primitive version of thinking. This is the way the world was — it was tribal — right before Christ came along,” he continues.
And that’s exactly what a new film by Ryan Coogler called ‘Sinners’ does — sends us back to a tribal world where black people and white people only saw each other for the color of their skin.
“What does that do? That divides people,” Posobiec tells Whitlock. “I guess that’s good for donations, right, in the same way that in ‘Sinners,’ it’s good for the box office.”
“But you know what? It’s bad for the country, and unfortunately it’s going to create more Austin Metcalfs,” he warns.
“I’m interested in what Hollywood is targeting at young black people,” Whitlock chimes in, adding, “I found this movie ‘Sinners’ to be the most nakedly racist movie that I’ve ever seen. That’s my takeaway, and it’s akin to ‘Birth of a Nation.’”
“We’ve listened to black people and black historians talk about the evilness of ‘Birth of a Nation’ and what it did,” he continues. “And I don’t disagree with them. It was programming and propaganda.”
“But this is the most nakedly racist. This movie ‘Sinners’ says white people are the devils. It’s as if Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam wrote this movie in 1930,” he adds.
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Michelle Obama claims black women need permission to 'articulate pain'
Michelle Obama has taken the uncommon path of a former first lady and started a podcast where she talks about the important issues like how black women think they need permission to express pain.
And it’s every bit as insufferable as one might expect.
“We grew up with women who weren’t voicing the pain and the burden,” Obama told her brother, Craig Robinson, and Taraji P. Henson. “They made it look easy. And when you make stuff look easy, people assume that you must like this, it’s okay with you.”
“We don’t articulate as black women — our pain — because it’s almost like nobody ever gave us permission to do that,” she continued, before Henson interrupted, asking, “And does anyone care?”
“If we knew, I think we would care,” Robinson answered, before Obama continued waxing poetic.
“We have to ask ourselves, the men in our lives, is ‘Why wait to be asked?’ It seems like what we go through is pretty obvious. I mean, maybe we’re not complaining, but we’re actually living life out loud.”
Obama went on to lament that black women are “so easily labeled as angry and bitter” while white women are viewed as “lightness” and have “an ability to be in this world and see what’s going on.”
“Are black women struggling to talk about their pain? Are they not free to do that in America?” Jason Whitlock of “Jason Whitlock Harmony” asks co-host Shemeka Michelle.
“Initially I thought, ‘This is so stupid,’ because that’s all we hear and see is the pain of black women. That’s all they talk about. And I found it ironic that she was sitting there talking to Taraji P. Henson, who has complained over and over again. She pretty much tanked ‘The Color Purple’ because all she was doing was complaining,” Michelle says.
“Maybe black women aren’t articulating ‘their pain’ in the correct way, because everytime I turn around I’m seeing some type of video where they’re tearing up the McDonald's, or trying to run over their baby daddy, or fighting in a Walmart in their pajama pants and their bonnets,” Michelle continues.
“So maybe she has a point that they don’t ‘articulate’ their pain, because they’re busy showing out and acting like untamed gorillas,” she adds.
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The racist DEI caste system is coming to an end
While the left continues to brand everything white as “racist,” at some point in our recent history, white people have actually become the unprotected class in America.
However, President Donald Trump’s recent election has the power to change that.
“I do think that this gives the possibility of folding an anti-white discrimination agenda into, like, an actual thing that is not just about white people but about a kind of multiethnic group of people who don’t want to discriminate on the basis of race,” former Stanford research fellow Jeremy Carl tells James Poulos on “Zero Hour.”
“As people on the left try to comprehend what happened with Trump, you’re going to hear a lot more about ‘multi-racial whiteness,’” Carl continues. “What that basically just means functionally is people who are not white who want to be part of the American project and be perceived as normatively American.”
“Which is, of course, a wonderful thing, and we should encourage this, but this drives the left to rage like almost nothing else,” he adds.
Of course, this is because the left would love for all minorities in America to claim their victim card and look to their white, so-called “anti-racist” leaders for guidance.
But over the past four years under Biden, their opposition has begun to fill up with characters who don’t fit the caricature the left has drawn of the racists supposedly running rampant throughout the country.
“This is now becoming a running joke on the internet,” Poulos says. “Most of those guys are themselves Latinos.”
“I’m almost hesitant to say the word 'Nick Fuentes' because I feel like somebody will come out and attack me," Carl chimes in, adding, "I’m summoning the demon, but it’s sort of funny that the kind of most notorious of these so-called white supremacists today is this guy who is at least partially of Latino descent."
“You have some overcompensation going on, right, and I wouldn’t call it so harmless as to be a joke, but it’s a reaction and frustration to the straight jacket that they’re being put in,” he continues, noting that the way these pro-white characters operate isn’t the best path forward in dismantling the racist DEI caste system.
“This can’t just be a project of white people whining about how they’re oppressed and trying to play a victim class and seeing if they can get something against other people,” Carl explains, adding, “It has to be ultimately, a consensus reality that people of a wide variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds agree that we’ve got this problem and are trying to address it.”
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Matt Walsh goes undercover; finds anti-racist cult members ‘truly believe’ they must ‘atone for their white sins’
If you’re white, then apparently, you’re a racist — at least according to the anti-racism social justice movement that’s taken knitting circles by storm.
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh set out to discover why that is for his new film, “Am I Racist?” where he goes undercover as a “certified DEI expert” and gets incredible insight from the leaders in the anti-racism industry.
He was a little surprised with what he found — but not when it came to the leaders.
“I wasn’t really surprised by the grifter types and the things that they said was kind of what I expected them to say,” Walsh tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.” “Although, still quite disturbing to sit in the room and hear it.”
“The people that are getting sucked into this scam, into this cult, I was a little surprised by the fact that many of them to me seemed more genuine than I thought,” he explains, adding, “They’re true believers.”
When he originally started out, he was under the impression that most of what these followers are doing is simply virtue signaling.
“I think it’s more like 10% virtue signaling and 90% they believe it,” he explains. “They really think that they need to do this somehow to atone for their white sins. And I guess I was surprised by that.”
“Do you think that the 90%, that they are trying to punish themselves or do you think they’re truly hopeful that somehow they’re going to be able to break out of this supposedly white supremacist system and do good for marginalized communities?” Stuckey asks.
“I think it’s a little bit of both, but I do think there’s a kind of spiritual component to it,” he responds. “You can only go so far psychoanalyzing these people, but I do think that they walk around with guilt.”
They carry a guilt that would otherwise be washed clean through belief in Jesus Christ, but instead it follows them everywhere they go, as they are often not religious.
So they’re following a new religion.
“If you don’t have that religion, if you’re a secular person, then I think you still have the guilt,” Walsh explains. “But you have no way of understanding it. You have no framework for understanding it. So I think that these kind of anti-racist grifters come along and they say, ‘OK, well, you’re feeling this way, and I’ll tell you why you’re feeling it.’”
“‘It’s because you’re white, and here’s all the things you can do with this burden of guilt that you carry to be relieved of it,'" he continues. "Then of course, after they do it, they’re given the bad news that ‘OK, well good job for doing that, but you’re still just as racist as you were before.’”
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Incendiary Olympian equates being paid as a professional athlete to slavery on ESPN series hosted by 'anti-racist' Ibram X. Kendi
A former Olympian delivered an eye-opening remark comparing professional sports contracts to slavery during an appearance on ESPN's new series hosted by "anti-racist" Ibram X. Kendi.
ESPN gave Kendi his own series titled "Skin in the Game," which "delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports, while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies."
The five-episode series features episodes sub-titled: "How Do Athletes Play a Role in Social Change?," "Are Black Women Athletes Carrying the Weight of the World?," "What is the Cost of Race Norming?," and "What is the Impact of Racist Ideas in Sports Media?"
The first episode aired on Sept. 20, in which Kendi "takes a look at black athletes who use public platforms to protest injustice and what it costs to speak up."
The episode featured former Olympian Gwendolyn Berry and journalist Howard Bryant.
Berry sparked outrage at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in June 2021, when she turned her back to the American flag during the podium ceremony.
"While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and fidgeted. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words 'Activist Athlete' emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head," ESPN reported.
Berry – a hammer thrower – said at the time, "The anthem doesn't speak for me. It never has."
During her recent appearance on "Skin in the Game," Gwen Berry claimed that professional sports contracts are like "slave chains."
"It's almost like the contracts are the new slave chains," Berry said as Bryant nodded in agreement.
"You're binded to this. And then if you break that, that’s your livelihood, that’s your life. So we the new slaves – athletes are literally the new slaves. Because we need this. Our families, our friends depend on this contract to eat," asserted Berry – who was wearing a shirt that read: "Activist Athlete."
Kendi – who is wearing a shirt that reads: "The 1619 Project," and sitting in the room decorated with a black fist, and signs that read: "No Justice, No Peace" and "Black Lives Matter" – responded to Berry's slavery remark by saying, "Phew! Yep."
According to Campus Reform, Kendi ended the episode by saying, "Black athletes are supposed to compete for their countries, cities, and towns, but ignore the people suffering in them? Really Ignore the justice, violence, and inequity, and just keep on playing, as if they don’t feel, as if they don’t have skin in the game?"
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ESPN is owned by Disney. In July, The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger declared, "It's not our goal to be involved in a culture war."
On the same day that "Skin in the Game" premiered, Iger told investors that Disney would "quiet the noise" in a culture war following a months-long dispute with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In 2021, Netflix aired "Colin in Black and White" – a six-part docudrama series where Colin Kaepernick recounts "his formative years navigating race, class, and culture while aspiring for greatness."
In one of the episodes, Kaepernick equates being an NFL player to slavery.
The laughable comparison was widely mocked by many, including Joe Rogan.
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The Anti-Thanksgiving Activism Dividing America Is Rooted In Ungratefulness
Only in America are anti-American activists given such liberty to express their disdain for everything our nation represents.CEO announces 11% cut to staff, promises 'anti-racist' layoffs
On Wednesday, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson issued a company-wide email announcing the reduction of staff by 11%. Lawson assured employees that the company would make firing decisions through an "Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens."
Founded in 2008, Twilio is a customer engagement software company. As of 2021, the company reportedly employed 7,867 staffers, according to CNBC. An 11% reduction in staff would mean job losses for over 800 Twilio employees, also referred to as "Twilions."
Co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson's email announced the company's need to restructure and scale back staff to increase profitability. Lawson said that he takes responsibility for scaling up the business too quickly.
He called the decision to lay off staff "extremely difficult" but necessary to realign with Twilio's four priorities, including "investing in our platform reliability and trust, increasing the profitability of messaging, accelerating Segment adoption, and scaling the Flex customer base."
"Twilio has grown at an astonishing rate over the past couple years. It was too fast, and without enough focus on our most important company priorities. I take responsibility for those decisions, as well as the difficult decision to do this layoff," Lawson's email read.
The CEO addressed how Twilio has determined which staff to let go and stated the company implemented "a rigorous selection process to examine which roles were most tightly aligned to our four priorities."
"As you all know, we are committed to becoming an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression company. Layoffs like this can have a more pronounced impact on marginalized communities, so we were particularly focused on ensuring our layoffs – while a business necessity today – were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens," the email read.
Twilio employees who lost their positions in this round of layoffs will receive minimally 12 weeks of pay and a week of pay for every year they have been with the company. In addition, they will also receive the full value of the company's next stock vesting.
Lawson concluded, "I am confident that we'll look back at this as a difficult time – but one that set up Twilio well for the future."
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