A parent in Michigan stated in the latest viral video critical of racial theory that the fact that he is black should be seen as having nothing to do with his view that the movement is harming grade, middle and high school students.
Since 47-year-old Ian Rice publicly opposed the CRT at the Caledonian Community School Board meeting on June 21, he said that he had received active support, but he was also unknowingly labeled as opposed to the theory. Symbolic black label.
In a clip featuring Rice, which was released by American writer and cultural critic James Lindsay and received approximately 13,300 likes and nearly 5,000 retweets, Rice calmly and concisely told the school board and audience that the CRT movement is not suitable for lower grades. Students and teachers have no ability to teach it. Instead, he said he has noticed that educators are using it to inculcate young people’s hatred of each other into their agendas.Rice has since appeared in Fox News And has been contacted by other media, including CBS News with The news is the biggest.
But Rice said that since the video went viral, it has been disappointing for some people to emphasize the fact that as a black man, he can have a more conservative view and the way some people use this is unthinkable.
“The media is now trying to turn it into another white and black issue-there were other people at that board meeting who had the same powerful thing to say, but the headline changed from’Father straightened the board’ to the present. The Board of the Black Viscera School’,” Rice told Weekly newspaper. “I don’t want them to talk about’well, this is another black man talking about CRT.’ It should be “a worried parent openly opposes CRT.” This is how it started, but it has been transformed by those who oppose CRT “This is our guy.” All of this is promoting and widening the racial divide.”
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In the two-minute clip, which is actually part of a longer four-minute video, Rice told the board “CRT is teaching white people to be bad people. That’s not true. This will tell my daughter that her mother is evil,” Rice told the board. Say, who married a white woman. He also mentioned an example in which a faculty member took his daughter aside and told her that because she is a minority, she should know better than doing certain things. Les went on to explain that when the incident came to the school’s attention, nothing happened to the staff member, but his daughter was ridiculed.
“So my question is to introduce CRT now, what is your standard for educating educators, who are you to educate my child or any of our children’s life problems?” Rice asked. “That is our job. Your job is to teach them math and science. Our job is to teach them life.”
Unlike the emotional and impassioned parents who screamed in the past, Rice’s calm and composed attitude clearly resonated.
“For me, I just see the clips where people are out of control… If you raise your voice and when you are so active, you can’t have a productive conversation-when they didn’t notice you, Rice explained that he pointed out that although the Caledonian school system has not publicly taught CRT, he and other parents believe that it has been leaked into the curriculum based on some behaviors of some educators.
“I speak because I just think they are off track. School officials are under a lot of pressure from the government. They say,’If you want our funds, you have to teach this.’ They don’t believe they have a choice,” Lai Said. “I want to send a message,’Parents should be blunt, tell the truth about chaos, and you [educators] If you speak up, we will support you. “Rice has her own podcast called School of General Studies He said that he hopes to find a middle ground in the dialogue because, as he said, “problems need to be discussed or they will never be resolved.”
Rice publicly opposed the CRT. Other recent videos that followed have gone viral and happened to feature black males as the protagonist, including Tay Smith, a conservative talk radio host, who was on the school board in Illinois on June 9th. An impassioned speech against the movement was delivered at the meeting.
“When you talk about critical racial theory, it almost teaches kids how to hate each other and how to hate each other. That’s almost why it comes down to it,” said the very active Smith. “If I’m sitting here and oppressed, how can I get two medical degrees?”
Within the prescribed five minutes, he must speak. He also pointed out that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that he hopes his children will grow up in a world where his children are based on their personalities. It is not judged by their skin. “If they let these things go on now, they are definitely doing the exact opposite,” Smith said.
Prior to this, after another black father posted a lighthearted and harsh condemnation of ideology on his TikTok account in May, he received more than 20,000 views on TikTok and more than 1 million on social platforms Views. In the video, Kory Yeshua tells his 7-year-old daughter that she “can be whoever she wants to be in this world” and he publicly opposes ideology.At this moment, his lovely daughter agreed and replied: “Yes, it doesn’t matter if you are black, white or any color.” Jesus has appeared in Fox News, Tell Weekly newspaper How enthusiastic the response is.
“[T]He loves me and people reach out to let me know that I’m doing the right thing and a good dad… It’s really emotional-how they feel about my daughter and people’s enthusiasm for this situation. “
At the same time, as other parents across the country continued to speak up, the two were arrested in late June after a meeting of the local school board in Loudoun County, Virginia. When the heated debate about CRT and transgender student policy got out of control, one person was accused of trespassing and another person was accused of misconduct, and these people were subsequently arrested.
At the same time, the country’s largest teachers’ union recently voted for the promotion of CRT teaching in K-12 schools. Last weekend, the National Education Association approved a “new business project” at its annual general meeting, which established a working group to develop a curriculum that focuses more deeply on race.It also announced its opposition to the ban on CRT and New York Times’ The controversial 1619 project has been implemented in approximately half of the states in the United States.
The CRT teaches American history in a broader context and understands the role of slavery and systemic racism in society. Critics believe that teaching history through a race-based perspective is divisive and unsuitable for children.
“We can promote history in its general package, the good and the bad and the ugly.”
“Every race has atrocities,” Rice said. “If there are black kids playing, the kids won’t care that much-they just want to play with a funny kid. Now they send some confusing messages like’Should I talk to that person? ‘This is not the kind of thought that makes young children think… When you keep imposing it on them as a racial issue, you make the children form these thoughts.”
Politicians opposed to the theory include South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mays, Republican Senator Tim Scott and Republican Representatives. Marjorie Taylor Green And Lauren Bobert.
In a speech to the school board members, Rice also pointed out that he believes that racial tensions and problems across the United States are nowhere near what they were decades ago.
“Are we still a long way to go? Of course… but I believe people here will not see me as a black man — they see me as someone standing in front of you to solve the problem we are all the same The problematic is enthusiastic.”
Although Rice said he has not received any response from the school board members since the June meeting, he pointed out that the Superintendent, Dr. Dedrick Martin, did try to get in touch.
Weekly newspaper The person in charge of Caledonia Community School has been contacted many times, but their telephone system indicated that the call could not be completed. Our email inquiries were not answered.
