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Boston University and Boston Globe to Create New Critical Race Theory Publication ‘The Emancipator’

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 18, 2021 16 Comments

Boston University's 'Center for Anti-Racist Research' is now partnering with the far-left Massachusetts newspaper the Boston Globe to create a new publication called 'The Emancipator.' BU's center is headed by Ibram X. Kendi, who has become a leading figure in the left's promotion of Critical Race Theory.

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Columbia University Under Fire for Graduation Ceremonies Segregated by Race, Sexual Orientation

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 18, 2021 10 Comments

Several colleges at Columbia University are holding separate graduation ceremonies according to race, sexual orientation, and other identity factors. We covered this in a Quick Take ten days ago, so if you read Legal Insurrection you're ahead of the curve. We decided to revisit the topic based on all the reactions.

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Dr. Seuss Too Radical For Today’s Leftists Intent on Teaching Conformity and Submission to Authority

Posted by Katya Sedgwick on March 14, 2021 15 Comments

It’s a special kind of honor for a madcap kind of writer to get canceled on his own birthday. Over the last two decades school children have been marking March 2, Dr. Seuss’s birthday, with Read Across America Day. 

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Ithaca (NY) – Police Officers Found Out About Plan To Eliminate Dept From Article In GQ Magazine

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 05, 2021 25 Comments

A few weeks ago, we reported that Ithaca, New York Mayor Svante Myrick was contemplating replacing the police with 'community solution workers.' Myrick discussed this with GQ Magazine before he ever even mentioned the idea to the Ithaca Police. The police are not happy. Some of them are already seeking work elsewhere.

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Obama the Healer Strikes Again With Claims of ‘White Resistance’ Preventing Reparations

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 25, 2021 98 Comments

It seems former President Obama didn't get Joe Biden's memo about unity. In his new podcast with noted Trump-hater Bruce Springsteen, he said that white 'resistance and resentment' has prevented reparations. Can we finally dispel this notion that Obama is some healing, unifying figure?

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VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson on Woke Ideology and the Way Forward for Conservatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 21, 2021 31 Comments

Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most important and authoritative conservative voices in America today. In a recent episode of American Thought Leaders from the Epoch Times, Hanson talked at length about a variety of topics. This is so worth your time.

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Middlebury College Hosts Event to ‘Demilitarize White Bodies’ to Make Them ‘Human’

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 12, 2021 16 Comments

“Evidence that whiteness is always weaponized is everywhere"...

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Law Prof Who Mocked Barron Trump at 2020 Impeachment Hearing Joining DOJ Civil Rights Division

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 07, 2021 40 Comments

Stanford Law Professor Pamela Karlan is leaving her position on Facebook's 'oversight committee' to join the civil rights division at the Department of Justice. You may remember Karlan from her testimony at Trump's first impeachment hearing in 2019.

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Late Night Entertainment Moves Radical Left To Salvage Post-Trump Ratings

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 06, 2021 29 Comments

Virtually all of the late night 'entertainment' shows are now voices for the radical left. These shows used to exist for the enjoyment of all Americans, but now they parrot DNC talking points, demean traditional American beliefs, and mock anything to the right of Bernie Sanders. They really enjoyed bashing Trump nightly, but now that he is gone they're making up for it with other topics.

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Progressive Los Angeles DA Supports Parole for Manson Family Murderer

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 02, 2021 54 Comments

Bruce Davis was a member of the Manson Family cult who participated in the torture and murder of Gary Hinman in 1969. Davis has now been recommended for parole, and the move has the support of new Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. Like many progressive DAs across the country who won with the financial backing of left-wing billionaire George Soros, Gascón operates more like a high priced defense attorney than a prosecutor.

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Parents Object to Anti-Racist Curriculum ‘in Every Class’ at Exclusive Dalton School

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 29, 2021 29 Comments

In December, Professor Jacobson wrote about the exclusive Dalton School in New York, which has aggressively embraced the ideology of Critical Race Theory. The post featured a report from the Naked Dollar blog about the faculty at Dalton releasing an eight-page list of race-based demands.

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Legal Network Forming to Stop Critical Race Theory Training Across the Country

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 21, 2021 22 Comments

Chris Rufo of the Discovery Institute has been a leading voice against Critical Race Theory Training. You might recognize him from his numerous appearances on the Tucker Carlson show. He is now forming a network of lawyers to stop CRT training all over the country.

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NYU Prof: Black and Latino Trump Supporters at Capitol are a Product of ‘Multiracial Whiteness’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 19, 2021 48 Comments

Cristina Beltrán teaches at New York University. In a recent column, she focused on black and Latino Trump supporters at the Capitol last week. She suggests this is based on "multiracial whiteness."

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Biden Pick for DOJ Civil Rights Division Wrote Blacks Are Superior Due to Melanin

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 14, 2021 87 Comments

Kristen Clarke is an attorney who Joe Biden wants to run the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. While Clarke was at Harvard, she wrote some things about race that would disturb many Americans. Tucker Carlson has done two reports about Clarke over the last two days.

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Newt Gingrich: Democrats Are Using Schools to Brainwash the Young

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 30, 2020 24 Comments

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said in a recent interview that the Democrats use the education system to brainwash the next generation. When we see classical literature removed from curricula and teachers making crazy race-based demands, it's hard to disagree.

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Massachusetts School Allegedly Bans ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 29, 2020 67 Comments

The left's efforts to tear down the past may have started with the toppling of historical statues, but it is now working its way into other areas such as literature and education. A teacher in Lawrence, Massachusetts, recently claimed on Twitter that Homer's Odyssey had been removed from the curriculum.

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Democrats in Georgia Senate Runoffs Are Hauling in Record Amounts of Cash

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 26, 2020 42 Comments

Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, the two Democrat candidates in the Georgia runoff elections for U.S. Senate, are swimming in cash. If either one of them loses, it certainly won't be for a lack of campaign funds.

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England Drops ‘Unconscious Bias Training’ for Civil Servants – ‘No Evidence’ It Works

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2020 21 Comments

The same social justice nonsense we deal with in the United States has been embraced by many other countries as well. While many American institutions are engaged in a struggle over 'critical race theory' training, England has decided to drop 'unconscious bias training' for civil servants. After trying it, people are realizing that it doesn't really change anything.

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