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After the atrocious Minneapolis shooting, one celebrity made a fool of herself when she was quick to place blame where it didn’t belong: Rosie O'Donnell.
This isn’t the first time O’Donnell has made it clear in a public rant that she is vehemently anti-MAGA, after famously fleeing the United States for Dublin, Ireland, to escape President Trump when he took office for the second time.
“I saw about the Minnesota shooting, and it brought me right back to Columbine in 1999, where I just could not get it through my head that students in America were shooting each other in schools. And this was a church inside a Catholic school,” O’Donnell in a rant posted to her social media.
“And what do you know, was a white guy, Republican, a MAGA person. What do you know? A white supremacist,” she added.
However, O’Donnell shortly had to walk back her comments and issue an apology — as she was completely wrong.
“My apologies to maga for saying the school shooter was one of u — that is incorrect — i made a mistake,” the caption of another selfie video read.
“I know a lot of you were very upset about the video I made before I went away for a few days. I didn’t go online and haven’t seen them till today. But you are right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that. I said things about the shooter that were incorrect,” O’Donnell said in the video.
Despite apparently learning her lesson, O’Donnell went on to say that most shooters fit the description she originally believed to match the Minneapolis shooter.
“I assumed like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and standard, you know, feelings of, you know, NRA-loving kind of gun people. Anyway, the truth is I messed up. And when you mess up, you fess up. I’m sorry. This is my apology video, and I hope it’s enough,” she said.
“It’s not,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments, disgusted.
“Not only does she not mention the fact that the guy wasn’t Republican, he was trans and part of her community. As 11 others have been over the last few years. So why don’t you talk about what really is going on in America right now?” he says.
“People with real problems are manifesting them in this way. And that’s whether they’re white straight people or whether they’re transgender people,” he continues, adding, “They’re mentally ill.”
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As DEI collapses, billionaires fund radical woke math
Jim Simons’ mathematical skills helped transform him from a prize-winning academic at Harvard and MIT into a legendary financier whose algorithmic models made Renaissance Technologies one of the most successful hedge funds in history. After his death last year, one of his consequential bequests went to his daughter, Liz, who oversees the Heising-Simons Foundation and its nearly billion-dollar endowment.
What Liz Simons has chosen to do with that inheritance might have surprised her father. Jim Simons devoted much of his charitable giving to basic research in mathematics and science, but his daughter’s foundation is moving in a very different direction. The Heising-Simons Foundation and similar organizations are supercharging a movement to remake K-12 mathematics education according to social justice principles.
Students are placed at a disadvantage when mathematical instruction is embedded in critical theory.
The revamp is profound. They reject well-established practices of math instruction while infusing lessons with racial and gender themes. The goal is to motivate disadvantaged students while dispensing with the traditional features of math — like numerical computation, which they struggle with on standardized tests — considered an oppressive feature of white supremacist culture.
Philanthropy-funded ‘anti-racist’ math
In many quarters, including corporations and universities, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are in retreat due to pressure from the Trump administration and the courts. Not so in public education, with curricula that are locally controlled and largely insulated from the dictates of Washington.
That allows progressive foundations and like-minded charitable trusts to continue to pour millions of dollars into reshaping math education for black and Latino kids — including an $800,000 grant this year from the Heising-Simons Foundation — even though no credible research exists showing that the social justice approach improves their performance.
“Politicians and legislatures, even school boards,” are often too “hamstrung” to get things done, Bob Hughes, the director of K-12 education at the Gates Foundation, said at an online symposium on the need for racial equity policies in America's classrooms. Philanthropy, he added, faces fewer barriers in making rapid changes.
The Gates Foundation has been a leader in the promotion of anti-racist math instruction. It supported a project called “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction.” The project discards basic tenets of learning, like asking students to “show their work” and find the “right” answer as vestiges of “white supremacy culture.” The pathway is promoted by EdTrust West, which also receives support from the Spencer Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and other major donors.
The Gates and Heising-Simons foundations have both supported TODOS Mathematics for All, an Arizona-based organization that calls for elevating diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and anti-racist activism into all math instruction, with over $553,750 in grants in recent years. “We can no longer believe that a focus on curriculum, instruction, and assessment alone will be enough to prepare our children for survival in the world. We need anti-racist conversations for ourselves and for our children,” TODOS President Linda Fulmore announced in 2020.
Last year, the group hosted an hour-long webinar on “2SLGBTQIA+ identity in mathematics education.” During the event, a speaker expounded at length on various queer and indigenous identity groups while spending virtually no time on math-related curriculum or instruction.
At one point, the presenter erroneously claimed that there are “15.3 billion students in U.S. high schools” — a figure that would require the entire global population to be enrolled in American secondary education twice over. The speaker likely meant to say million.
‘Race-centered’ math
The foundations similarly fund practical lessons that put race at the center of math instruction. In Alexandria, Virginia, for example, the Heising-Simons Foundation supported a public-school program that encouraged kindergartners through second-graders to count the characters in picture books by race. At the end of each session, teachers guided students in creating racial scorecards for each book, then voting to select those with the fewest white characters. The exercise was presented as mathematics education.
Jo Boaler, a controversial professor of education at Stanford University who championed the push to remove eighth-grade algebra from San Francisco’s public schools in the name of equity, traces her support to this network of foundations. The Gates Foundation and Valhalla Foundation, which was founded by Scott Cook, the co-founder of tech firm Intuit, have long funded her math education project called YouCubed.
These deep-pocket donors also fund Danny Bernard Martin, a professor of math education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a leading voice of what critics call “woke math.”
Over the past six years, the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Project, which Martin co-leads at the Erikson Institute in Chicago, has received nearly $2.5 million from the Heising-Simons Foundation. This year, the foundation announced an additional $800,000 grant to help the project develop tool kits for wider implementation among teachers, administrators, and researchers.
Martin’s views extend far beyond typical calls for educational equity. He regards mathematics instruction as fundamentally a “white supremacist construct” that inflicts “epistemological violence” on black students. In his estimation, even DEI programs are too conservative — mere accommodations “rooted in the fictions of white imaginaries” and designed to appease “white logics and sensibilities.”
The solution Martin proposes is radical: Black students should seek instruction exclusively from black teachers at “independent black institutions.” They should resist the temptation of “advanced coursework and mathematics-related employment” and instead engage in “walkouts and boycotts” to protest against mathematics education as it currently exists.
The very structure of math instruction, Martin contends, has dehumanized black students through low test scores and failing grades.
The ideas of the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Project and its leaders have reverberated through America’s classrooms. California’s new mathematics curriculum framework, which guides K-12 education statewide, repeatedly cites Martin.
Educators have sharply criticized the framework for leaning heavily on politicized concepts of math. The document suggests, for instance, that teachers “take a justice-oriented perspective” when providing instruction and discourages the use of “tracking” — or the practice of separating students into different classrooms based on their abilities.
Educators push back
Williamson Evers, a former assistant secretary of education and a fellow at the conservative-leaning Independent Institute, has been monitoring what he calls the “woke math” movement for years. “It’s very important to have math skills,” he told RealClearInvestigations.
Evers rejects the identity-based claims made by Martin and others who have called for minority students to abandon math education over alleged racism. “There are mathematicians and scientists on every continent from every background, and this idea of boycotting education would harm black schoolchildren.”
Elizabeth Statmore, a math teacher at the elite Lowell High School in San Francisco and a critic of social justice math, says the way to improve the performance of black and Latino students lies in the nitty-gritty, such as better teaching, holding students accountable, and providing them with more academic and emotional support.
Critics say the emphasis on prose over calculation will exacerbate the very disparities that social justice advocates claim to address.
“But it’s not sexy; they’re not on the keynote circuit like Danny Bernard Martin and Jo Boaler,” Statmore said. “They’re building a brand, not doing the kind of math education research that is helping to improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.”
Representatives of the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Erikson Institute, and Martin did not respond to requests for comment.
The Heising-Simons Foundation’s focus on racializing math education reflects its broader ideological commitments. Like many progressive foundations, it uses its significant funds to advance a range of left-wing policies that might have a hard time establishing themselves without billionaire support.
The foundation has also donated to PolicyLink, the organization behind DefundPolice.org, and to the Anti-Police Terror Project, which advocates for abolishing police departments in high-crime cities like Oakland, California. Liz Simons was also among a small clique of California megadonors behind the push to elect progressive prosecutors such as George Gascón in Los Angeles and Chesa Boudin in San Francisco. They declined to pursue felony charges against a range of violent offenders over concerns about racial equity.
The attempt to reimagine mathematics through the lens of critical race theory isn’t new — scholars have been working along these lines since the 1980s. They argue that historical racial oppression continues to influence everything from geometry curricula to standardized testing. Traditional emphases on objectivity, rigorous standards, and subject-matter mastery should be replaced, the scholars argue, with ideological exercises designed to promote racial and social consciousness.
What is new is the scale and speed of adoption. As America has grappled with questions of racial justice in recent years, billionaire foundations have provided the resources to implement these ideas widely in both public and private schools.
The donors appear motivated by a deep sense of ideological commitment to righting past wrongs related to racial injustice.
At the 2020 education donor symposium, Liz Simons recalled her experience working briefly as a Spanish bilingual teacher in an impoverished community in Oakland. “The much larger systemic problems,” she witnessed, Simons said, guided her to the goal of shaping early childhood education.
Na’ilah Suad Nasir, president of the Spencer Foundation, noted that she previously worked as the vice chancellor of “equity and inclusion” at the University of California, Berkeley. Expanding racial equity in education, she said, has been her “life’s work.”
Widening disparities
When it comes to math instruction, social justice means stripping it of basic features like numbers. In workshops hosted by the Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Project in 2023, the group promoted “numberless word problems” — mathematical exercises stripped of numerical computation. The method, instructors explain, is designed to counter “European ways of knowing and doing.”
Sisa Pon Renie, one presenter, spoke of wanting to challenge the “persistent myth that math is just abstract and without any cultural relevance.” The project champions this numberless approach as essential for “helping children understand how mathematics might be an important tool to understand social issues and promote justice.”
But critics say the emphasis on prose over calculation will exacerbate the very disparities that social justice advocates claim to address.
“Imagine you’re a Cambodian refugee, and you get some math problem that’s loaded with prose,” Evers, of the Independent Institute, said. “Maybe you’re very good at the figures part, the calculating part, the mathematical part.”
Such students, he argued, are placed at a disadvantage when mathematical instruction is embedded in critical-theory frameworks and dense with English text. “They unnecessarily load these things down, make it harder, and it’s not even math. It’s an inadequate mode of teaching.”
The real-world consequences of these approaches have played out most dramatically in San Francisco. A decade ago, officials removed Algebra 1 from middle schools, arguing that the change would give black and Latino students, who were underrepresented in the math class, more time to prepare while avoiding placing them in lower-level tracks.
David Margulies, a parent involved with the San Francisco community, observed that families wanting their children to take Algebra 1 in eighth grade shifted away from public to private schools, online learning, and homeschooling. Students who don’t take the math class in middle school find it more difficult to take calculus in high school.
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“Families figured out how important this is, and they are looking elsewhere,” he noted.
A 2023 Stanford study found that San Francisco’s Algebra 1 experiment did little to close racial achievement gaps. Black enrollment in Advanced Placement math classes remained unchanged, while Latino participation increased by 1%.
Meanwhile, education systems that have increased rather than decreased academic rigor have seen notable improvements in black student performance. In 2019, Dallas public schools began automatically enrolling students who performed well on state exams in middle-school algebra. The program increased black participation in advanced mathematics from 17% in 2018 to 43% in 2023.
Walking it back
Last year, during a Racial Justice in Early Mathematics Project webinar titled “Who Is Labeled Smart?” Martin addressed the backlash against San Francisco’s push for educational equity. He toned down his scathing critique of merit-based advanced education programs that he believes harm black and Latino students and made a surprising statement about his own son’s schooling.
“I’m guilty, I’m guilty,” Martin said, almost sheepishly. “My son is, quote unquote, in one of those tracks.”
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire.
Joy Reid said the quiet part out loud — and it’s ugly
Joy Reid has done the parents of America an unexpected kindness.
If you’ve ever wondered what really lies behind the diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy and the “decolonizing” curriculum so prominent in our universities, Reid has made it plain by saying the quiet part out loud.
Appearing with Wajahat Ali on “The Left Hook,” she claimed that “mediocre white men” are simply coasting along on stolen achievements from others. As amusing as it can be to watch Reid melt down and flail in any medium, there is, alas, a serious side to her remarks.
In the space of a few breaths, Reid not only insulted the intelligence of all white people, but also cast herself, unwittingly, as the schoolyard bully.
As one of the few — and I mean very few — conservative professors at Arizona State University, I can testify firsthand that faculty meetings and mandatory “trainings” often turn into open-mic nights for contemptuous remarks about white men. And if you raise the issue, cue the gaslighting chorus: “We can’t be racist. Only white men can be racist.”
So yes, laugh at the absurdity if you like. But parents should know that Joy Reid’s public bile is not an isolated eccentricity. It’s the distilled essence of a worldview taught in classrooms across the country.
Riding on privilege
Consider her credentials: a degree in film studies from Harvard and a lucrative perch in television. Yes, you read that right — film studies. Yet her rant against “whiteness” was no theatrical performance. It was a window into the sort of ignorance and hatred our universities have been happily exporting into the culture for decades.
Her interlocutor, Ali, was even more candid.
These people [white men] cannot create culture on their own. Without black people, brown people, the DEIs, there’s no culture in America. We make the food better. We make the economy better. We make the music better. Right? MAGA can’t create culture. They got Cracker Barrel and Kid Rock.
If you are still operating under the “classical liberalism and respectful pluralism” lens, you need to wake up. The left abandoned that approach decades ago. That might not be what leftists say at “meet the professor night” to get your money, but it’s what you find in their curriculum — and then said out loud by people like Joy Reid.
For those who are still under the illusion that we are committed to pluralism, you might have expected Reid to have exhibited a modicum of moderation: “Hold on, we can’t make sweeping denunciations of an entire people group. Everyone has contributed.” But no. For the academic left, classical liberalism and its old-fashioned respect for difference and fair treatment went out of fashion around the same time as dial-up internet.
Instead, Reid didn’t hide her disdain for those with lighter skin tones. “They don’t have the intellectual rigor to actually argue or debate with us,” she told Ali. “What they do is tattle and tell. They run and tell teacher that ‘the black lady or the brown man was mean to me.’”
Hiding in plain sight
The spectacle is almost too delicious. In the space of a few breaths, she not only insulted the intelligence of all white people, but also cast herself, unwittingly, as the schoolyard bully whose chief grievance is that the other children tell the teacher when she breaks the rules.
The irony, as Kid Rock might have noted with a raised brow, is as dense as a Cracker Barrel biscuit.
When Reid and Ali deign to speak of “culture,” they only mean food and pop music. They spent time sneering at Elvis, as if dismissing him were the final act of liberation. Meanwhile, Reid — a multimillionaire alumna of one of the finest (supposedly) universities in the world — complains of American awfulness and insists that our entire history must be reduced to the story of slavery, with no mention of those white men who fought and died to abolish it.
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As a professor, I can assure you that this is standard-issue humanities pedagogy in many American universities. Students are not trained to grapple with Mozart, Shakespeare, Adam Smith, or William Lloyd Garrison. They are taught a cartoon version of history in which every problem is “the fault of whiteness” and every solution is a demand for reparations. If those great names of history do appear, they are merely depicted as foils in a morality play about systemic oppression.
Remain vigilant
Parents, take note: Feel free to chuckle at Reid’s self-own, but then remember that people with her views stand in the front of your child’s classroom, smiling benignly during the parent campus tour while privately stewing in the same resentment. Moreover, they expect you to pay them tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of being indoctrinated into their hatred.
It’s time to call this nonsense what it is — racism dressed up in academic jargon — and consign it to the ash heap of falsehood. They are free to hold their opinions, and we are free to ignore them and move on.
Jasmine Crockett’s bad acting is only getting worse
Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat, has been heavily criticized for switching up the way she talks in order to appeal to a certain audience, and her recent outburst at a government hearing isn’t helping her case.
“They love to cherry-pick. They can find any one person that has been killed, and if they’ve been killed by an immigrant, then God darn it, every single immigrant is going out and they are killers, and that is the problem,” Crockett said in a government hearing.
“But they don’t want to talk about white supremacy. I don’t know how many hearings we going to have about the fact that there’s been this one immigrant that killed this one person. And no, I’m not excusing any killings by them or white supremacists. But they haven’t had these hearings,” she continued.
“It’s interesting that they just pick and choose, because it seems like they love to pal around with the white supremacists, and so they don’t want to talk about certain other things,” she added.
“This woman is just on a loop,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “This is all she knows how to talk about — white supremacy.”
“She’s gradually becoming more and more a stereotype,” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden chimes in. “I’m an actor, so I know when people are playing parts, and she is moving further and further.”
“If you see that original interview with her, she’s totally buttoned down. She’s clearly smart,” he continues. “But this is so offensive, I mean, on so many different levels.”
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Basement demons, severed goat heads & child assassination plots: Former FBI agent shares blood-chilling stories from days undercover
Retired undercover FBI agent Scott Payne spent much of his career infiltrating motorcycle gangs and white supremacist groups, including the Klan. There are no words to describe some of the horrors he’s witnessed over the years.
“I'm sitting across the table from a pedophile who's hiring me to kill the kid that he molested,” he recalls from his undercover days. “There's a lot of people out there that just don't know how evil the world can be.”
A rock solid faith in God, he tells Glenn Beck, is what got him through then and what helps him fight the ghosts of the past now.
But he didn’t always have a relationship with God to strengthen him. In fact, there was a time in high school when dabbling in witchcraft led to a terrifying face-to-face encounter with a demon in his friend’s basement that scared him so deeply, he ran to Jesus and never looked back.
But that wasn’t his last encounter with the demonic. From children pledging to shoot their own fathers and pagan rituals, Payne has seen things most of us couldn’t fathom.
On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” he shares some of his wildest stories.
In 2019, Payne infiltrated “the Base” — a neo-Nazi, white supremacist group founded in 2018 that promotes accelerationist ideology, which aims to collapse society through violence and terrorism to create a white ethnostate.
One event he attended, which he calls “Halloween hate camp,” involved “hand-to-hand combat training,” “firearms training,” “burning Bibles, burning American flags,” and a “ceremony of paganism” that included animal sacrifice.
Some members of the group stole a goat from a nearby farm, planning to sacrifice it to Odin – the central figure in Norse mythology who is the god of both war and death. The sacrifice was meant to symbolize the kicking off of the “Wild Hunt” — a midwinter ghostly procession of spirits and supernatural beings led by Odin to destroy enemies and send mortals to the underworld.
The Wild Hunt was seen as symbolic of the Base’s desire to “cleanse the world of anti-fascist non-whites.”
“We're all in a circle on our knees around the goat,” says Payne. “He comes down full-fledged with the blade.”
However, the blade was dull and failed to pierce the animal’s skin, so the executioner used a gun to finish the job.
“You think you're done, and you're not. They go and slice the throat of the goat, fill up a big cup with its blood,” says Payne, who went by the moniker Pale Horse.
The executioner then passed out acid to the group.
“They chase it with the blood as part of the sacrifice,” Payne tells Glenn, noting that he was able to avoid the acid but still had to “[dip his] whole finger” in the cup and “[suck] all the blood off.”
“Then, they cut the head of it off, threw its innards in the creek. Some members tried to cook it ... and then we carried the head around for, like, three more days,” he recalls.
Glenn then asks the question we’re all thinking: How did you reconcile such a job given your faith?
“I’m in work mode, and I know that somebody had to kick Satan out of heaven,” he says.
To hear more of Payne’s wild stories, including Bibles that wouldn’t burn and the time he nearly was found out, watch the episode above.
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Shakespeare's birthplace, collections to be 'decolonized' over fears his genius evidences British 'cultural supremacy'
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is an independent charity that cares for the Shakespeare family houses in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as well as for archival collections relating to his life and works.
Fearful that Shakespeare's globally recognized genius might lead some readers to suspect that not all cultures were created equal, the organization has committed to the process of "decolonizing" its collections and organizational practice to help "create a more inclusive museum experience."
The trust, which came into existence in 1847, acquired early Shakespeare collections from local antiquarians and others from the Stratford-upon-Avon Borough Council and Guild of the Holy Cross. Since appointing its first librarian to catalogue its library and archival materials in 1877, the organization has grown its collection with the help of donations and long-term deposits.
For much of its history, the trust appeared to understand that its function was to preserve Shakespeare's reconstructed birthplace, extol his works, and share England's cultural inheritance with the world. It appears, however, that post-colonialist, post-modern, and other varieties of radical leftist thought have poisoned its mission.
The organization has, for instance, tried to distance itself from the content it is supposed to champion as well as from the hardworking staff who kept the trust going in ages past, noting:
We recognise that the historical materials we hold may represent positions, language, values, and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices of Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. People accessing our collections may encounter language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful. Some descriptions may have been written by staff, others may have originated from the individuals and organisations that created the records.
The trust appears to have also embarked on a mission of iconoclasm partly as a result of its receipt of funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is a leftist grant-making organization committed to "racial justice," "migrant justice," and "gender justice." It is also committed to socially re-engineering Britain's arts scene, specifically by "creating a cultural workforce that is more reflective of UK society, by enabling more people to progress in their career in the arts who identify as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent, are from communities experiencing racial inequity, or who are economically disadvantaged."
'Purge the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's interpretative policies and brand narratives of Anglocentric and colonialist thought.'
According to the page for a recent "Global Shakespeare" project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is working with elements of the South Asian immigrant communities in the West Midlands to "uncover the hidden stories linked to specific objects and re-examine what they can teach us about the impact of colonialism on our perception of history of the world and the role Shakespeare's work has played as part of this."
The Telegraph reported that the iconoclastic initiative comes in the wake of concerns expressed by academic Helen Hopkins that Shakespeare's unparalleled literary genius might be used to push "white supremacy," and that in order to be globalized, Shakespeare must effectively be stripped of his national character.
Hopkins, who collaborated with the trust as an embedded researcher, suggested in 2022 that in the interest of "implementing positive change at the heart of Shakespeare's cultural iconography," namely the trust's museum, it was necessary to "recognise the role Shakespeare has been forced to play in establishing and upholding imperialistic narratives of cultural supremacy; to purge the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's interpretative policies and brand narratives of Anglocentric and colonialist thought; to institute new communicative strategies to address societal inequities that are embedded in imperialism and associated with Shakespeare’s global cultural status."
'They cannot stand that an Englishman is the greatest writer that the world has ever produced.'
Hopkins noted further that it was a tragedy that the trust prioritized Shakespeare over its sub-collection of objects related to the 19th-century Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore but expressed hope that the trust could engage in "decolonial work" and "mark the beginning of a new relationship between itself and the multicultural and global communities it serves." To Hopkins' likely delight, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has made sure to start hyping the foreign poet in the time since.
The trust told the Telegraph in a statement, "As part of our ongoing work, we’ve undertaken a project which explores our collections to ensure they are as accessible as possible."
Critics have rushed to defend Shakespeare following reports of the efforts to downplay the Bard's greatness and identity and the trust's efforts to effectively globalize his town.
"For the last 300 years, Europe and the West have stood head and shoulders above every other civilization," historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo told GB News. "The most profound and sophisticated music, art, and culture has come from the West, and we need to lose the embarrassment and be proud to admit the genius of the West and celebrate that Shakespeare was an Englishman."
"That's what sticks in the craw of the anti-Western ideologues that run our cultural institutions," continued Heydel-Mankoo, "because they cannot stand that an Englishman is the greatest writer that the world has ever produced, and they will do anything to diminish and downplay that achievement."
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