A father in Colorado Springs who is the descendant of slaves slammed critical race theory during a public school district’s board meeting, saying racism in America would “by and large be dead” if not for institutions such as the education system “keeping it on life support.”
“I am a direct descendant of the North American slave trade. Both my parents are black. All four of my grandparents are black, all eight of my great great grandparents, and all 16 of my great greats. On my mother’s side, my ancestors were enslaved in Alabama. On my father’s side, we were enslaved in Texas,” father Derrick Wilburn said during a board meeting last week.
“I am not oppressed. I’m not oppressed and I’m not a victim.”
– Read more at Fox News
This Colorado Springs father denounces critical race theory and says that "racism in America would be dead today if not for certain people and institutions keeping it on life support"—including public education.
Following his testimony, the school board voted 3-2 to ban CRT. pic.twitter.com/sK1TLS69MQ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 19, 2021
District 49 thought to be first district in Colorado to ban critical race theory
District 49’s Board of Education on Thursday, August 12, 2021, voted to approve a measure with potential to change the way history and current events are taught in its classrooms.
In a 3-2 vote during its monthly meeting, the board passed a resolution prohibiting the teaching of “critical race theory” in D-49 schools. The 25,000-student district is thought to be the first in Colorado to approve such a ban.
Derrick Wilburn said teaching critical race theory actually does race relations more harm than good, pitting students against each other on the basis of skin color.
“I can think of nothing more damaging to a society than to tell a baby born today that she has grievances against another baby born today, simply because of what their ancestors may have done two centuries ago,” said Wilburn, who is Black.
– Read more at the Gazette.
Derrick Wilburn is the founder and Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives and the driving force behind the POC Capitol Interns.
The liberals are thinking, “ah poor man, he’s so depressed that he knows not of what he speaks, we will save him”
Yes, I can hear it now: “Whitey really did a number on that dude! He’s so victimized he doesn’t even feel it any more.””
HE’s a victim of white brainwashing. WE need to reverse brainwash him..
These Dishonorable liberal Democrat phony anti-racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the sensitivities of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. The democrat party’s cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political racist Con.
He’s so oppressed, he can’t speak the truth.. WE need to liberate him!
These are the people who need to speak up at the school board meetings, black citizens who know they aren’t oppressed and willing to tell it. The brain washed academics running the education systems all over the country are out of touch with the real world, real people and therfore tout the fantasies of CRT and the 1619 Project, products of very imaginitive minds. They are no longer in touch with THEIR OWN feelings about the subject having been convinced they are wrong or thehy have lost the ability to think logically, collect the information and then come to an infored decision.
I just wonder, EVEN Though the board voted, THIS TIME 3 to 2, to make it illegal, WILL THEY SECRETLY hold another vote, to reinstate it on the downlo?
Critical Race Theory is POISON, and should NEVER be taught in ANY American School ! This Black father is 100% correct in his facts. Black people today are NOT oppressed, and in fact, they are some of the wealthiest people in the world. I just read an article today about Rihanna being a BILLIONAIRE ! How does a Black singer become a Billionaire, if she is “Oppressed” The reason is that they are NOT oppressed, and are free to be successful in whatever field they want to be a part of !
I like this guy. I also agree with him whole heartedly. Where I live or at least where my head is not stuck in the ground I do see this in the greater portion of the population. The small few who want CRT and racism are just that small.
I am shocked the leftists didn’t demand ancestry tree proof, to show his claim of being descendant from slaves… BEFORE He was allowed to speak…
God bless this father.. I totally agree with him… More people like him need to stand up and fight back against this poison… this garbage does NOTHING but spread hate and division and must be stopped…
“A father in Colorado Springs who is the descendant of slaves slammed critical race theory during a public school district’s board meeting, saying racism in America would “by and large be dead” if not for institutions such as the education system “keeping it on life support.”
Thank you, Mr Wilburn—for your peaceful and thoughtful activism—for your desire to better your community and give inspiration to communities nationwide—for your willingness to confront a poisonous curriculum that Leftists want to impose upon our school children—for your shining example as a Black father—for your patriotism to America.
God Bless—we need more like you.
This Sitution that We’re now Facing with The Taliban Under Clueless democrat Joe Biden,and and The democrats plans To Handle The Crisis that is of His and his Parties Making, reminds one of What W. C . Fields once Said , ” If You Can’t Dazzle Them With Brilliance, Baffle Them With Bull Shix. “All the While Leaving America Running with Its Tail Between Its Legs, Shameful!
What makes me Scratch my head, is on the ONE HAND there’s reports out there, that the airforce was ALL READY TO blow a lot of that gear, the taliban wounded up getting from us, INTO oblivion, but SOMEONE IN the WH, told them “CANCEL THE AIR STRIKE”..
YET ON THE OTHER HAND we have the left, looking to make NEW ANTI GUN LAWS
Has any parent at 1 of these school board meetings spoken in favor of CRT?
Just a hunch but I’ll bet the KKK supports it.
I’ve yet to see a single article, mention ANY PARENT coming out in support of CRT… BUT then i don’t troll MSNBC, CBS, ABC etc, to see if they have any…
In 1923, Herbert Marcuse, George Lukacz and other self-styled “intellectuals” gathered at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt to ponder the question “Why has the proletarian revolution not swept the world?”
Their conclusion: Marx’s economic class division isn’t enough.
So they invented Critical Theory and intersectionality to increase division.
Marcuse was a communist so when Hitler took power he escaped to Columbia University, where he invented Critical Race Theory to add to divisiveness.
Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory were invented precisely to create division, to benefit communists.
The elder brother in the Black family I lived next to as a kid was so oppressed that he graduated valedictorian from high school the earned his PhD from Harvard. He was a business professor in a prestigious private university.
Just think what he might have accomplished had he not been beat down by evil White people…like me.
BTW, several of his siblings have advanced degrees and have proven themselves to be exemplary Christian leaders in their communities.
WITH how Crummy Harvard’s become, i wouldn’t be so swift to praise someone graduating from it…
The Marxist democrat party of America most Likely didn ‘t plan It That Way but The Marxist democrat Party Of America Own Communist Party Members Have Proven by Their own Leftist Policies that Their idealogies aren’t Beneficial to Working Class Americans . The democrat party Never Planned To Help them and their way of Life No, Their Only Idea was to destroy the Morals of Society and to turn Citizens Into just Another Cog in the Leftist machine ,No Freedom of Living your Private Life , less than an individual Just Another Cog , A piece of The ” Big Governmet Controlled Machine.
AMEN BROTHER!!!!!
The decision by the 3 board members was a breath of fresh air. Now its time to vote on the two who voted against what the majority of the voters and parents wanted for their children. Take back your children now.