Anti-CRT Parent Advocate Leaving New York City For The ‘Free State of Florida’

Andrew Gutmann

Andrew Gutmann is a New Yorker who went viral in the spring of 2021 for writing a letter to the exclusive Brearley School, where his daughter was a student, protesting Critical Race Theory in the school’s curriculum.

Like many other people in New York City, Gutmann is now moving to Florida.

Gutmann’s letter was a sensation. Here’s an excerpt via the Bari Weiss Substack:

It cannot be stated strongly enough that Brearley’s obsession with race must stop. It should be abundantly clear to any thinking parent that Brearley has completely lost its way. The administration and the Board of Trustees have displayed a cowardly and appalling lack of leadership by appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob, and then allowing the school to be captured by that same mob. What follows are my own personal views on Brearley’s antiracism initiatives, but these are just a handful of the criticisms that I know other parents have expressed.I object to the view that I should be judged by the color of my skin. I cannot tolerate a school that not only judges my daughter by the color of her skin, but encourages and instructs her to prejudge others by theirs. By viewing every element of education, every aspect of history, and every facet of society through the lens of skin color and race, we are desecrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and utterly violating the movement for which such civil rights leaders believed, fought, and died.I object to the charge of systemic racism in this country, and at our school.

Gutmann talked about the whole thing on Tucker Carlson’s show. Watch the segment below:

Professor Jacobson covered the story in an extensive post.

Gutmann co-wrote an opinion piece about the ‘Woke Indoctrination Machine’ for the Wall Street Journal. We covered that too.

Now Gutmann is leaving New York for Florida, and he wrote about his reasons for doing so at his own Substack:

Florida Beckons as New York City Sadly WiltsToday, a mostly personal update.After two years of hemming and hawing, we decided, like many thousands of others, to relocate from the New York City area to what is now formally referred to as the Free State of Florida. I’d like to share with you why.For nearly 25 years, my wife and I (and our daughter – now 13) lived in Manhattan. Prior to 2020, we never thought we’d leave. Ever. We loved the restaurants. We loved the culture. We loved trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and concerts at the New York Philharmonic. We loved walks in Central Park and explorations of the city’s vibrant and diverse neighborhoods. Perhaps more than anything else, we loved that New York City felt alive, endlessly stimulating, with infinite possibilities for us and for our daughter.

He cites two main reasons for the move. Covid shutdowns and crime:

There was absolutely no reason to panic and no reason to shut down our beloved city. But panic and shut down the city we did. Lockdowns, distancing, mask mandates, school closures. None of which had any scientific justification prior to 2020.It should have been obvious to any thinking person that our government’s response to the virus – and not the virus – was going to do irreparable damage to New York City. School closures would cause enormous learning loss and long-term mental health damage from which kids would never recover…Then, in the summer of 2020 came George Floyd and the so-called racial reckoning. Say want you want about the tragedy of George Floyd, but the BLM protests and riots that happened over that summer are a direct result of covid lockdowns. Young people, bored and restless, having been cruelly isolated for months with no school, no playgrounds, no outlets save toxic digital media, were all of a sudden let out of their cages. The virtue of staying home to save Grandma was instantly forgotten. The new virtue was to join the protests and atone for the sins of slavery and Jim Crow. The level of hypocrisy was hard to fathom…By this past summer, the answer I had been avoiding was unavoidable. New York City is not savable. Not for a generation at least. Possibly not forever.

Read the whole thing.

How many more people will leave New York for similar reasons in the coming months and years?

Featured image via YouTube.

Tags: Critical Race Theory, Education, Florida, George Floyd, New York, riots, Wuhan Coronavirus

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