On a mission: Rutgers teaching CRT to county & town administrators

By Rubashov
 
The Principal at New York City's High School for Law and Public Service has fully embraced Critical Race Theory – and she is doing something about it, she's being “anti-racist”. All of which has led her to being formally accused of attempting to fire “white” staff because of their race.
 
The Daily Mail reports:
 
A Washington Heights principal accused of wanting to oust white staffers reportedly created a learning environment plagued by 'utter disorganization and insanity.'
 
Students attending New York City's High School for Law and Public Service claim their lives have become 'miserable' under the leadership of Principal Paula Lev.
 
They also allege their quality of education has declined after Lev ousted 'fully experienced and qualified' staff as part of her alleged diversity crusade.
 
A student-created petition claims a handful of Lev's new hires 'are super under-qualified' and that their 'lack of knowledge' has affected students' ability to learn.
 
The petition also cited fears of attending class due to a 'dangerous' environment fueled by an 'insane number of fights, constant arguing and improper administrative action.'
 
Lev was hit with a probe last year by the NYC Department of Education (DOE) after she allegedly told a teacher she was 'going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren't doing anything for the kids of our community.'
 
The complaint will now go before the New York State Division of Human Rights.

The probe was launched after faculty members at High School for Law and Public Service accused principal Paula Lev of discriminating against staff and conspiring to get a white colleague fired.
 
Faculty filed a complaint with the Education Department and also voted they had 'no confidence' in Lev's leadership.
 
The complaint alleged Lev 'flagrantly but unsuccessfully attempted to divide our school by race' and told an employee that she 'was going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren't doing anything for the kids of our community.'
 
To continue reading…
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10977709/Principal-accused-trying-fire-white-staff-race-created-school-insanity.html
 
Meanwhile, over in New Jersey, Rutgers is on a mission to turnout more ideological administrators like Paula Lev. Here is a program that specifically targets the county and municipal administrators who run local governments across New Jersey. It’s called the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training/ Certification Program at Rutgers University.
 
Rutgers’ website explains its mission:
 
“The Connection Between Race, Power, and Privilege: A series of four courses designed to provide public managers an opportunity to increase individual aptitude and knowledge in foundational concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Coordinated through the Center for Executive Leadership in Government at Rutgers University. NJ DCA Approved.”
 
This program is the holy grail of “Wokeness” and designed to inculcate the perspective of Marxist Critical Race Theory in the people administrating our counties and municipalities. It is nothing short of an ideological training course on how bureaucrats can corrupt the democratic outcomes of elections and radicalize communities from within.
 
The program begins with a self-assessment course:
 
Building Awareness
Course Description:
This diversity, equity and inclusion course is designed to provide public managers an opportunity to increase individual aptitude and knowledge in foundational concepts of diversity, equity and inclusion. In this interactive session, you will be challenged to explore and unpack your own biases and identify personal development areas of improvement. Through a range of individual and group experiences you will begin to recognize blind spots connected to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Identify and understand where you are on your personal diversity, equity and inclusion journey and how it impacts your actions and beliefs

• Recognize blind spots connected to diversity, equity, and inclusion

• Develop personal goals to increase the intentionality of actions

 
The program follows with three prerequisite courses:
 
Exploring Race & Racism
Course Description:
This diversity, equity and inclusion course for public managers is designed to explore the concept of race and the impact of systemic racism in our daily lives. Through a variety of experiences, you will uncover some of the realities of race and racism for us and the people that we interact with on a regular basis. This course is a continuation of the first DEI course that focuses on building awareness.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss how race is a man-made construct

• Explain systemic racism and its impacts

• Identify how individuals can disrupt systemic racism 

 
The Connection Between Race, Power and Privilege
Course Description:
This diversity, equity and inclusion course for public managers is focused on building awareness that leads to action. The course explores the concepts of race, power, and privilege and through a variety of experiences, you will unpack how intersectionality impacts us all. We will also identify the hidden burden that people of color face at the intersection of race, power, and privilege.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the difference between race, power, and privilege

• Explain the term intersectionality and apply it to their lives

• Identify where individuals can use their power and privilege to disrupt system racism

 
Building a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive organization
Course Description:
This diversity, equity and inclusion course for public managers is focused on building awareness that leads to action in the workplace. It will allow participants to use what they learned in the three prior courses to explore how a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace looks, sounds and feels.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace

• Identify aspects of a workplace culture that is strong in diversity, equity and inclusion

• Identify their role in building a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization

 
And finally, a two-day “team building” course is offered for the administrative management of a municipality or county:
 
Course Description:
This diversity, equity and inclusion course is designed for organizational leaders who are seeking strategies to improve their organizations’ culture and performance. Organizational leaders will begin by grounding in their identities and building foundational knowledge about diversity, equity, and inclusion and will then explore the role that race, power, and privilege play in the workplace. The course will focus on the staff experience as the lever for change. Participants should have the authority to impact organizational practices.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify and understand where they are on their personal diversity, equity, and inclusion journey and how it impacts their actions and beliefs

• Explain the term intersectionality and apply it to their lives and workplace

• Explain the benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace

• Identify strategies in creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization

 
Rutgers scored big in the state’s FY2023 budget with an additional $300 million. This while funding for local districts has been slashed by millions. Maybe the Legislature should push to uncover how much is being spent on programs like the one above? 

Kenny Xu, author of 'An Inconvenient Minority'

He argues that Asian-American success disproves critical race theory.

Steinberg should end “racist” name-calling and instead debate CRT

By Rubashov

Once again, Alan Steinberg proves just how selective and fickle memory can be. He appears to forget just how the gubernatorial election of 1981 was won. A scandal repeated in 1993, after Whitman consultant Ed Rollins bragged about spending $500,000 in “street money” to suppress black voter turnout.

If he needs reminding, perhaps Steinberg should place a call to Ray Lesniak, the Democratic Party’s State Chairman in 1993, the man who called for a U.S. Justice Department investigation into Whitman’s victory. If memory serves, we recall Steinberg playing a role in that victory – one for which he was rewarded with a fat patronage job. For someone intent on discovering racism everywhere he casts his eye, perhaps he should look in the mirror?

Steinberg’s memory is so bad that it appears impervious to basic search engines. He writes:

“The reason for the emergence of this GOP racist message is explained in the landmark book, How Democracies Die, by Harvard political science professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. The passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, enacted through the efforts of a Democratic president, Lyndon Johnson, signaled that the Democrats constituted the party of civil rights change, while the Republican Party was the constituency for voters wishing to maintain the racial status quo. This began the political ideological polarization of America, with African-American and white civil rights supporters flocking to the Democratic Party, while white supporters of the racist status quo, largely Southerners, enlisted in the GOP.”

Wow, what a dickhead.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (S. 1564) was introduced by both party leaders of the U.S. Senate – Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield for the Democrats, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen for the Republicans. On May 26, 1965, the Senate passed the bill by a 77–19 vote (Democrats 47–16, Republicans 30–2). The House of Representatives approved this conference report version of the bill on August 3, by a 328–74 vote (Democrats 217–54, Republicans 111–20), and the Senate passed it on August 4 by a 79–18 vote (Democrats 49–17, Republicans 30–1). On August 6, President Johnson signed the Act into law.

Only a dickhead like Alan Steinberg could read some racist “signal” in such a bi-partisan undertaking.

The great W.E.B. Du Bois understood the difference between racialists (like Steinberg) and racists. The old racialist South – which often boiled over into absolute overt racism – was built on the bitterness and spite that followed the Civil War. Its political institution was the Democratic Party. The hated Republicans – of whatever skin color – were universally referred to as “black Republicans”. Alan doesn’t know. He wasn’t there. (In fact, a contributor to this website was on the receiving end of that epithet and was actually called a “black Republican”.)

As the memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction faded, so too did the Democratic Party’s hold on Southern voters. Southern Democrats started voting for populist “conservative” Republicans long before Richard Nixon. In 1928, for example, Herbert Hoover won Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Florida.

On the other hand, Democrats like George Corley Wallace kept getting elected in Alabama well into the 1980s. When they left the stage, they took the old politics of overt racialism with them. It was Wallace, now a born-again Christian, who said in 1982: “Those days are over, and they ought to be over.” But for race-hustlers like Alan Steinberg they’re never over.

People like Alan Steinberg act as if the population of the South remained constant. In fact, there were huge migrations from the South and to the South. It was these migrations that ended the hegemony of the racialist Democratic Party in the South and allowed a more garden-variety conservative Republicanism (hawkish, pro-business, anti-tax & spend) to establish itself.

Take Huntsville, Alabama. It was just one city dramatically changed in the 1960s by the work-migration to it (in this case, by thousands of engineers and scientists because of NASA and the space program). Huntsville’s population jumped from 16,437 in 1950 to 139,282 in 1970. Steinberg would have us believe they were all institutional racists who migrated to Huntsville to be racist together. Like we said, what a dickhead!

No “Southern Strategy” could be pertinent for more than an election cycle. In fact, the strategy was particular to the 1968 presidential election, in which Nixon faced TWO Democrats – Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Governor George Wallace). Between them, they split the South. Humphrey won Texas. Wallace won Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Nixon took Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Nixon won the election with 43% of the vote.

In 1952, the year Richard Nixon was elected Vice President, Texas had 22 members of Congress. Today, it has 37. Georgia had 10. It now has 14. Florida had 8. It now has 28. South Carolina had 6. It now has 7. Did the pre-existing populations have massive numbers of children (as Steinberg seems to think)… or did people move there from someplace else? Here’s a hint: In 1952, New York had 43 congressmen, Pennsylvania had 30, New Jersey had 14. Today those numbers are 26, 17, and 12.

Steinberg thuggishly attempts to shutdown debate about a subject that voters have democratically demanded a voice in discussing – Critical Race Theory or CRT. Steinberg makes the ludicrous claim that CRT hasn’t made its way down the educational chain and insists that it is something only discussed in law schools. In fact, CRT is no different than any other “popular” theory that starts out in academia and then makes its way into everyday life. From “Manifest Destiny” to Freud this has been the way and CRT is no different. A watered-down version of it is now being force-fed to children in classrooms across America. Parents got wind of it courtesy of pandemic-related school lockdowns and accompanying distance-learning. They are not going to forget it just because some handjob insists that they do.

We have a better suggestion. Perhaps Alan Steinberg would wish to debate his position on CRT in venues around New Jersey? We would help facilitate this. He simply needs to let us know.

Alan Steinberg's hero
and
a MODEL for all Republicans
(so says Steinberg)

Did New Jersey Governor Whitman, who stopped and frisked a 17-year-old for a photo op, ruin his life?