Flush with $1.5 million of COVID cash ostensibly aimed at encouraging vaxxing in the minority community of Anchorage, the Alaska Black Caucus announced a week or two ago they were going to mount a campaign to pressure public schools to adopt Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Apparently, everyone is vaxxed and the remaining money can be spent elsewhere. Congratulation on that success.
Now, these taxpayer funded grifters are going to do their level best to ensure our wonderful children and grandchildren will be taught how to hate one another based on nothing more than the color of their skin.
This brings up a potential exercise in cognitive dissonance, as a political pressure group (Alaska Black Caucus) is going to pressure the Anchorage School District (ASD) to do something that they claim they aren’t doing, but likely are (if the presence of the CRT reading list on the ASD web site until last summer is any indication).
The teachers are likewise torn between telling the truth and lying. On the one hand, we have at least one self-proclaimed substitute teacher claiming CRT does not exist in the ASD curriculum in an e-mail to Representative Tom McKay. On the other hand, we have a large number of Alaska teachers, including several here in Anchorage signing a pledge last summer that no law will stop them from teaching CRT in the public schools. Which one is it? If CRT is not in the classroom, why are the teachers falling all over themselves defending it? Better yet, why is ASD lying about it?
Add to that the position of the national teachers unions since at least 2018 that they will do everything humanly possible to push CRT in the classroom. Alaska teachers are part of those unions and have supported resolutions pushing CRT in the classroom over the years.
CRT is pure racial poison, every bit as bad as the worst you would ever expect from all the old democrats who used to eat, sleep and breathe the race business. And the Alaska Black Caucus, democrats all, just announced they will be doing their level best to bring it into the classroom, manufacturing bigotry where none exists. The apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree with this one, as they return to their awful, reprehensible historic roots.
At least they are out in the open about it. Note that they wouldn’t have the resources to do this unless the Anchorage Assembly hadn’t given them $1.5 million in COVID recovery funds last year. Taxpayer paid and supported bigotry. Institutional racism being pushed by an institution, which was supposed to be a Bad Thing. What can possibly go wrong?
Alex Gimarc lives in Anchorage since retiring from the military in 1997. His interests include science and technology, environment, energy, economics, military affairs, fishing and disabilities policies. His weekly column “Interesting Items” is a summary of news stories with substantive Alaska-themed topics. He was a small business owner and Information Technology professional.
