These are not harmless games being played. Unfortunately, the early evidence suggests the snipers got exactly the results they wanted.

 

Across America, school boards and concerned citizens angrily and divisively debate “critical race theory” – along with the newest race- bait buzz-initials that have gotten sucked into the CRT vortex, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) – often with meetings erupting into shouting matches and even physical violence.

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NBC News reported a story about an incident in Southlake, Texas, a predominately white suburb of Dallas, Texas that has stellar schools and, at the time, an average household income of $230,000 and an average home price of $650,000. Two-thirds of the Southlake votes in the 2020 election were cast for Donald Trump.

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In 2018, a video of “several white high school students laughing as they filmed themselves shouting the N-word at a party” went viral because one of those in attendance posted it on Snapchat. 

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Sadly, this behavior came as no surprise to a nurse and mother of five named Robin Cornish, who is black. After all, “this was the city where, on the day after Rosa Parks died in 2005, elementary school children told her four oldest kids ‘now you have to sit in the back of the bus.’ It’s where a sixth-grade boy once joked with her son: ‘How do you get a black out of a tree?  You cut the rope.’ It’s where, weeks after her husband (former offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, Frank) died suddenly in 2008, a white boy on the football team told her son, ‘Your mom is only voting for Obama because your dad is dead and she's going to need welfare.’”

 

What happened next was entirely predictable. When the video was first discovered, the school district facilitated listening sessions and – after two more instances, one being another racially charged video and the other involving spray-paint and racists slurs – established a “diversity council” to create a plan for greater inclusivity.

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The diversity council’s Cultural Competence Action Plan – a plan one member of the council described as “just a basic plan of human decency, empathy, kindness, inclusion and understanding about other cultures” – was released almost two years after the original video went viral. The plan required “diversity and inclusion training for all students as part of the K-12 curriculum, while amending the student code of conduct to specifically prohibit acts of discrimination, referred to in the document as ‘microaggressions.’”

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Well, needless to say, triggered white parents went nuts, with some “denouncing the diversity plan as ‘Marxist’ and ‘leftist indoctrination’ designed to ‘fix a problem that doesn’t exist.’ The opponents said they, too, wanted all students to feel safe, but they argued that the district’s plan would instead create ‘diversity police’ and amounted to ‘reverse racism’ against white children.” One father, who is white, said he was all for exposing kids to different cultures but believed this plan would “teach students ‘how to be a victim’ and force them to adopt ‘a liberal ideology.’”

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Naturally, “several parents said the plan would infringe on their Christian values by teaching children about issues affecting gay and transgender classmates.” Others “warned that the board had awoken Southlake’s ‘silent majority’” – which is always hilarious to hear from certain Trump Republicans because there is nothing silent about them.​ Remember when Christopher Rufo came right out and told us that he and his buddies were going to “steadily drive up negative perceptions” and “annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans” until they “eventually turn it toxic?”

 

Episodes like the one that happened at Southlake are heartbreaking. Let’s please, please, please not let them do this to us! We are better than this.