don t get caught up. this too shall pass. wokeness is divisive, exclusionary and hateful. are you even woke? culture is garbage. oh my god, so much yelling, so much fighting! against all things woke. this is where woke goes to die. getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. aren t things bad enough? do we have to fight about this word? woke. woke. woke. you are so woke. you woke the sleeping giant. critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as klansmen in white sheets. okay. i m going to wade in and try to explain woke. all right. open my eyes, take a deep breath. oh, no. i m in arizona. all right, this is where we re at in america, everybody. we have a new enemy, and it is woke. not the word, the idea. actually, also the word. maybe mostly the word? putin ain t woke. he is anti-woke. i want florida to be known as the brick wall against all things woke. you heard
historically facilitated racial projects of subordination liken slavement, like genocide, like colonialism. and how it continues to embed itself in our contemporary world. great. well done, professor crenshaw. we ll come back to you a little later. so i felt like i was placed on there not because of my credentials, but we need someone who looks like you to sit here while we re talking about critical race theory and equity. be the black face amongst the white case faissts. what would you say the breakdown among the races is? 60%. how many. five seats. any other minorities? nope. so 20% of the minority. but 60% of the district is minority. right. which is very uncomfortable. i even did a backpack school
black, i can t say anything else. i told them on day one, i m here to advocate for the students who are not getting what they need. and what did you that the students needed that they weren t getting? they weren t getting a voice. all these issues with equity and critical race theory. i hear what students are saying, yet they re not being heard. students need to know the whole history of this country. uh-huh. that s what critical race theory, telling the whole history. it s not exactly about race. yeah, yeah. and they re well, that s not what it is. what do they think critical race theory is? they believe we re going teach students that white people are the oppressor, black people or people of color are the oppressed. we re not doing that in the classroom. okay. so let s quickly clear this up and get an exact definition of crt. this is professor kimberly crenshaw. she and her colleagues invented critical race theory. critical race theory is the study of how law has
let s see farther down. equity, racism, diversity, sounds fine to me. oh, ex-kex-kendi quote. one confronts racial inequities as an anti-racist. there is no in between safe space of not racist. that s it? that s the smoking gun? i think they re just mad his middle name is x. around all this is when tara became a member of the litchfield elementary school board. there is going to be a lot of sighing in this episode. so i got appointed in march. and my first meeting was in april. so april of 2021? yes. so even the first board meeting i went to, have i people asking me what do you believe about critical race theory? what do you think about equity? are you really a doctor? they were still interviewing you? exactly. so the assumption was i m going to come here and say i m pro
so let s talk about this equity statement. so we got an email from one of the board members that was screaming, oh, they re doing this critical race theory, and i d never heard of critical race theory. statistically, none of us had until recently. right. so i saw a social media post and an article about how bad this whole equity statement was. a day or two going to the meeting, the transformational equity work document fell into my hands. the transformation equity work document laid out a multi-year plan deviced to help the litchfield school district work towards equity in five specific areas. those were discipline, achievement, continued learning, diverse curriculum, and diverse staff. this is the document that was built completely by this committee that nobody knew about. so i thought anything that s not being transparent to the parents was concerning for me. there was a piece in there that they were going to reduce black