{"id":3373,"date":"2020-06-18T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:54:46","slug":"teachers-your-unions-anti-american-agenda-is-tearing-our-country-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Teachers, Your Unions’ Anti-American Agenda is Tearing Our Country Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Rebecca Friedrichs, the founder of For Kids & Country, author of \u201cStanding Up to Goliath: Battling State and National Teachers\u2019 Unions for the Heart and Soul of our Kids and Country\u201d and a 28-year public school teacher who was lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. CTA.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: this article has been reprinted with the permission of The Washington Times<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0National Education Association<\/a>\u00a0(NEA) is aggressively promoting an anti-American, polarizing agenda that is the root of the current racial divisions and rioting. They do this using clever messaging and\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>\u2019 much-ballyhooed \u201c1619 Project,\u201d which intentionally perverts American history.<\/p>\n

Times writers weave a twisted tale in which the evil of slavery so pervades the American experiment that literally nothing about our history isn\u2019t motivated by some racist need to preserve the intentional subjugation, exploitation, marginalization and persecution of enslaved Africans.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong; America\u2019s history is undeniably stained by the dark evil of slavery.<\/p>\n

But to rewrite American history as if slavery is the defining and motivating factor behind nearly every aspect of our national story is ludicrous. It\u2019s also dangerous and unethical to reframe history this way; especially considering America confronted the immorality of slavery head-on and defeated it.<\/p>\n

The 1619 Project claims slave-owning colonists and hateful bigots hell-bent on institutionalizing racism set the tenor for our nation in 1619. It deceptively obliterates our true inspiration \u2014 Christian pilgrims who escaped religious persecution in 1620, launching the freest, most God-honoring \u201clove your neighbor\u201d nation in world history.<\/p>\n

\u201c1619\u201d is chock-full of revisionist history promoting racial division and white blame, claiming our founding ideals were a lie purposefully told so whites could enslave blacks to get rich from an evil capitalist system. All this slander promoted by activists posing as journalists, educators and scholars is presented 155 years after hundreds of thousands of Americans (most of them white) gave their lives in the Civil War precisely to put an end to slavery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder so many historians called out the\u00a0NYT, but it\u2019s revealing that the\u00a0NEA\u00a0did not.<\/p>\n

Instead, the\u00a0NEA\u00a0coordinated directly with\u00a0The New York Times, the Pulitzer Center, Southern Poverty Law Center and Black Lives Matter to put 1619 into the hands of educators and activists. Their goal? To assert a false but preferred narrative to advance a political agenda.<\/p>\n

To legitimize their tales, the author of 1619 won the Pulitzer Prize, and the\u00a0NEA\u00a0praised 1619, saying it \u201cinforms and challenges us to reframe U.S. history and better understand the hold of institutional racism on our communities.\u201d The\u00a0NEA also launched \u201cBlack Lives Matter Week of Action\u201d in America\u2019s schools to train our K-12 children, college students and educators in their narrative.<\/p>\n

Again, don\u2019t get me wrong. Black lives do matter! Indeed, every human life is sacred. But the organization named Black Lives Matter is not what it claims to be. Like the unions, it\u2019s a Trojan horse of anti-American, anti-family beliefs masquerading as defenders of good.<\/p>\n

Now Americans are terrorized by rioters who believe these anti-American narratives, while the\u00a0NEA\u00a0quietly launches 1619 and its historical distortions into the history curricula of schools nationwide \u2014 virtually unchallenged.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s students are taught that the American Revolution was fought not to secure freedom from a tyrannical British Empire, but singularly to protect the institution of slavery.<\/p>\n

This ignorance of reality and true history is a major weapon in their arsenal, and they\u2019re pushing a raft of new pseudo-realities onto our culture, too.<\/p>\n

No longer is gender defined by science or our Creator; it\u2019s \u201cfluid.\u201d<\/p>\n

No longer are environmental claims based on strict adherence to the scientific method; weak theories and hysterical \u201cconsensus\u201d rule.<\/p>\n

No longer are families seen as the center of a strong society, nor are children expected to obey or respect authority; \u201cwillful defiance\u201d reigns while adults cower under the rule of child tyrants.<\/p>\n

No longer is history determined by fact; instead, it\u2019s reframed to support a constant assault on our Judeo-Christian culture.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why union activists work behind the scenes ensuring this rubbish from\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0passes as approved history curriculum; against the will of good teachers. While The Times stirs up conflict, Black Lives Matter protests attract rioters inciting recurring fear and distraction, and the Pulitzer Center legitimizes 1619, the unions and their coalition stealthily indoctrinate our children and flip our nation\u2019s history on its head.<\/p>\n

How dare they!<\/p>\n

America\u2019s foundation was not built on institutionalizing slavery. The pilgrims sacrificed every earthly possession and their very lives to secure God-ordained liberties for every race, status and creed, guiding our Founders to their \u201cself-evident\u201d truth that \u201call men are created equal.\u201d They inspired a free constitutional republic based on biblical principles that\u2019s a beacon of hope in a very dark world.<\/p>\n

But darkness always seeks to destroy light, so now our kids are forced to learn revisionist tales promoting atheism, racial division and ignorance of truth. And those peddling the lies stir up envy and hatred while bussing in rioters to subvert authority and devastate hard-working communities. Now they insist we defund the police. It\u2019s the perfect recipe to erode our Judeo-Christian virtues, historical record and the rule of law which are vital to sustaining our liberties and free republic.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0NEA,\u00a0The New York Times, their coalition and those they\u2019ve indoctrinated have fallen for the devil\u2019s oldest trick \u2014 pride. Fancying themselves \u201cprogressives\u201d they\u2019re stuck in the dark ages. Their false history actually subverts the progress we\u2019ve made \u2014 creating hatred and divisions where there\u2019s been healing, and ripping open old wounds and ignorance most Americans have overcome. They\u2019re retraumatizing and legitimizing a victimhood mentality, forcing a chip onto the shoulders of black Americans and heaping mountains of undeserved guilt on those of white Americans. It\u2019s dangerous; it\u2019s destructive; and it\u2019s dishonest. It\u2019s also ripping our country apart.<\/p>\n

The original article published in The Washington Times can be read here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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