Minneapolis Schools Call Capitalism a ‘Pillar of White Supremacy’ in Required Courses

Minneapolis Schools Call Capitalism a ‘Pillar of White Supremacy’ in Required Courses

Once again, progressive ideas are so popular that learning about them has to be required.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Minneapolis Schools Declare Capitalism a ‘Pillar of White Supremacy’ in Required Ethnic Studies Classes

One might assume that enrolling in a Hmong studies class would entail learning about the Southeast Asian people’s culture and history. But in Minneapolis, high schoolers are instead taught lessons demonizing capitalism—a system absent in communist China, where many Hmong live—as a pillar of white supremacy alongside slavery and genocide, according to course materials obtained by Defending Education.

The Hmong studies course, which requires social justice activism as part of a final project, is just one of the ethnic studies classes offered in Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) that push an anti-racist agenda. Course materials newly uncovered by Defending Education and provided to the Washington Free Beacon show classes that describe ethnic studies as “an anti-racist tool,” featuring themes like “Decolonizing Education” and readings by anti-racist activist Ibram X. Kendi.

And starting with the class of 2025, students are required to take at least one of those ethnic studies courses, which, according to MPS, aims to “examine the concept of race as an organizing construct in US society.”

Defending Education’s findings should, perhaps, come as no surprise given MPS spent over $2 million in 2022 to incorporate “ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity” into the K-5 math curriculum. Minneapolis’s ethnic studies courses, however, could soon have statewide influence if other school districts use them as a template—legislation signed into law by Gov. Tim Walz (D.) requires every high school in the state to offer at least one ethnic studies course beginning next fall.

Minneapolis offers a variety of classes other districts could lean on, though they vary between schools. Those include American Indian, and Race & Identity studies, both of which list Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Kendi as required reading, as well as an introduction course for middle schoolers.

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