{"id":5077,"date":"2021-01-19T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2021-01-19T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T19:43:38","slug":"biden-chooses-san-diego-unified-superintendent-critical-race-theory-sympathizer-as-deputy-secretary-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"Biden chooses San Diego Unified Superintendent, Critical Race Theory sympathizer, as Deputy Secretary of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Michael Palomba<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Joe Biden has chosen San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten to be his Deputy Secretary of Education. Ms. Marten is described as a &#8220;sympathizer of critical race theory (CRT)&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-picks-a-second-sympathizer-of-critical-race-theory-for-ed-dept\">The Daily Wire<\/a>\u00a0and has a history of controversial statements. For example, it has been reported that Cindy Marten praised a speaker who spread the idea that schools &#8220;spirit murder&#8221; black children and that white teachers should undergo &#8220;antiracist therapy.&#8221; Biden&#8217;s pick for Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, is also a CRT supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative reporter Christopher Rufo wrote, \u201cAccording to whistleblower documents, Martens personally introduced the speaker, Bettina Love, and praised her presentation about \u2018spirit murder,\u2019 \u2018antiracist therapy,\u2019 and \u2018abolitionist teaching.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Joe Biden announces San Diego school superintendent Cindy Martens as his Deputy Secretary of Education.<\/p>\n<p>Martens promoted the concept that schools &quot;spirit murder&quot; black children and that white teachers should undergo &quot;antiracist therapy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read more\ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKrk7A6zVF\">https:\/\/t.co\/WKrk7A6zVF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1351206666818248704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rufo noted that a whistleblower \u201ctook detailed notes of the speech and captured screenshots of the presentation\u201d despite the district\u2019s ban on attendees from recording the session. He continued, \u201cAccording to these notes, Love began her presentation by claiming that \u2018racism runs deep\u2019 in the United States and that blacks alone \u2018know who America really is.\u2019 She argued that public schools in particular \u2018don\u2019t see [blacks] as human,\u2019 are guilty of systemic \u2018anti-Blackness,\u2019 and \u2018spirit murder babies\u2019 in the education system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of her presentation, Love told the teachers that whites are directly responsible for the plight of \u2018dark children,\u2019\u201d Rufo reported, adding that a slide labeled \u201cTeacher Education Gap\u201d stated, \u201cWhiteness reproduces poverty, failing schools, high unemployment, school closings, and trauma for people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, under Ms. Marten&#8217;s leadership, San Diego Unified began offering &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/2020\/12\/san-diego-unified-school-district-implements-racist-white-privilege-training\/\">white privilege training<\/a>&#8216; to its staff. The training included slides about &#8220;white fragility,&#8221; and &#8220;land acknowledgment,&#8221; as well as \u201cYou are Racist\u201d, \u201cYou are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies\u201d, and \u201cWhat can you commit to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year President Trump issued an executive order combating critical race theory, which he described as &#8220;un-American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ended it because it\u2019s racist. I ended it because a lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things that were absolutely insane, that it was a radical revolution that was taking place in our military, in our schools, all over the place,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe were paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach very bad ideas and frankly, very sick ideas. And really, they were teaching people to hate our country, and I\u2019m not going to allow that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What critical race theory essentially does is look at everything through a lens of past racism, despite the fact that many of those who committed the racist acts are long gone. It declares most of our systems and customs as &#8216;racist&#8217; because of the past and holds a new generation responsible for the sins of prior generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what\u2019s in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it,\u201d said Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, one of the founding scholars of CRT, said to <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5891138\/critical-race-theory-explained\/\">TIME<\/a> in an email.<\/p>\n<p>So, while Biden has said he will work to unify the country during his Presidency, he has already started to inflame racial tensions by choosing 2 people who believe in a racist ideology to head the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Michael Palomba President-elect Joe Biden has chosen San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten to be his Deputy Secretary of Education. Ms. Marten is described as a &#8220;sympathizer of critical race theory (CRT)&#8221; by The Daily Wire\u00a0and has a history of controversial statements. 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