“I can’t breathe.” Those words were repeated over and over by Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student murdered in Southampton last year, <a href="https://x.com/sotontimes/status/2061549464104370262">in footage</a> recently released by the Hampshire Constabulary.
Instead of helping him, as he repeatedly tells the police officers that he has been stabbed, a policeman says, “I don’t think you have, mate.” They drag him across some gravel, handcuff him, and read him his rights. Shortly afterward, Henry dies.
His murderer, Vickrum Digwa, was present, but the police did not handcuff him. He was allowed to go home with the police and <a href="https://x.com/gbnews/status/2061477956204064961">pick out some food</a> to eat. He had falsely accused Henry of a racist attack on him, leading to accusations of two-tier policing, where claims of racism were prioritized over a dying man’s cries for help.
The events <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Digwa-Final-Sentencing-Remarks.pdf">took place last December</a>, but the court case has only just finished.
Henry was in his first year at university, the first in his family to attend. He was walking back to his accommodation alone when he met Vickrum, who claims Henry barged into him. The judge called that “one of the many lies you have told.” Whatever did happen, there was an altercation during which Vickrum stabbed Henry.
The murder weapon has widely been reported to be a kirpan, a blade carried by Sikhs as a religious requirement. Many Sikhs meet this requirement by concealing a small knife in their clothing or wearing it around the neck, or by wearing a pin on their turban. Those who do carry a blade are covered by a legal exemption, subject to certain requirements. Vickrum carried one of these, as well as a second, much larger kirpan, a tradition observed by some Sikhs.
It was this larger blade that he used to stab Henry in the chest, catching a lung and cutting an important vein behind the collar bone. The 8cm deep wound bled profusely, with the pathologist finding over 2 pints of blood in Henry’s chest cavity.
The attack didn’t stop there. Vickrum stabbed him twice more in the upper leg, once in the lower abdomen, and slashed Henry’s face. Although Vickrum can be seen on the bodycam video telling the police that he had a small bruise and swelling, the judge said there was no independent evidence that he’d been injured at all.
Henry tried to escape. He scaled a fence and fell into the neighboring property. Despite this, Vickrum callously took out his phone and filmed Henry dying. When Vickrum’s brother arrived, he lied that Henry had used a racial slur and attacked him.
His mother and father arrived next. Vickrum told his mother that she should take away the knife used in the murder, which she did. His father, alone of the family members there, tried to help Henry as he was dying.
When the police arrived, Henry must have hoped that finally help was there. Instead, he had to listen as Vickrum continued to tell “wicked lies” about how he’d been <a href="https://x.com/JackHadders/status/2061574247663710441">the victim of a racist attack</a> and to deny that Henry had been stabbed. The police treated Henry like the criminal, and he died there, drowned in his own blood, without anyone to offer him comfort.
In the aftermath, the police found that Vickrum had stolen Henry’s phone, which contained incriminating evidence. They were able to secretly record a conversation between Vickrum and his brother in Punjabi, during which Vickrum said he would falsely claim he had acted in self-defense. He was sentenced to a minimum of 21 years before he can apply for parole.
In court, Digwa’s family <a href="https://x.com/sotontimes/status/2061514491544601067">reportedly accused</a> the Nowaks of racism. Afterward, they put out a statement, asking people not to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1107591&amp;action=edit">inflame division</a>.&#8221; Yet it was the Digwas who accused Henry of racism and, in doing so, inflamed division themselves.
This crime has reignited the debate about two-tier policing. Like many British police forces, Hampshire Constabulary has <a href="https://www.hampshire.police.uk/police-forces/hampshire-constabulary/areas/au/about-us/race-action-plan-2024-2026/">a Race Action Plan,</a> which is focused on racism against ethnic minorities.
As a serving police officer told Daily Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson, this is not just about the atmosphere in which the police operate. There can be <a href="https://www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/henry-nowak-a-victim-of-anti-white">different procedures</a> by race, with stop and search of ethnic minorities reviewed within 24 hours, whereas the stop and search of a white person would be reviewed much later.
Success in the police often depends on complying with these DEI initiatives, with those seeking senior roles <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/policing-how-we-got-here/id1837235592?i=1000750090962">grilled on how</a> they have enacted DEI policies. Failure to comply will mean a curtailed career.
All of this goes back to the Macpherson report in 1999, into the racist murder of a black teen by white criminals. The police were branded as <a href="https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/cs05.pdf">“institutionally racist”</a>, despite the report only finding incompetence rather than overt racism. That has been held over the police for years.
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wEOf8jIuNg">argued</a> that Nowak was treated differently because of the color of his skin. He called for “pure cold rage” in response.
Amazingly, the Independent Office for Police Conduct investigation <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/02/police-in-nowak-arrest-did-nothing-wrong-says-watchdog/">has so far not</a> found any evidence of police misconduct. That will only <a href="https://x.com/bbcnewsnight/status/2061571153844392163">increase the demand</a> for wider reforms to deal with the baleful influence of so-called anti-racism in society, which, in this case, as in so many others, has ended up meaning discrimination against white people.
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Guy Dampier is a senior researcher on Nationhood at the Prosperity Institute.

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Henry Nowak’s Murder Is The Tragic Endpoint Of Ideological Insanity

Anti-Racism

DW Opinion

Henry Nowak

“I can&#8217;t breathe.”
It&#8217;s a phrase we all know. Now it bears a different meaning.
When George Floyd <a href="https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/new-court-docs-say-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-his-system/89-ed69d09d-a9ec-481c-90fe-7acd4ead3d04">died</a> of a fentanyl overdose in Minneapolis in May 2020, the world caught on fire. The so-called &#8220;Summer of Love&#8221; became a summer of flames, literally and figuratively. Black Lives Matter protests burned across the country for what felt like an eternity. <a href="https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/02/2020-protests-changed-insurance-forever/">Over $2 billion</a> in insurance claims were filed for arson, vandalism, looting, and property destruction across 140 cities. Racial tensions that had been simmering for years erupted into a full boil.
All of that pain. All of that damage. All of that division.
For what?
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd">A man with nearly twenty prior arrests</a>, including aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon against a pregnant woman, died while being detained for passing counterfeit bills at a corner gas station. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner found 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in Floyd&#8217;s system. Overdose deaths have been certified at concentrations as low as 3 ng/mL. He also had hypertensive heart disease. The state&#8217;s own medical examiner <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/derek-chauvin-trial-recap-george-floyd-medical-examiner-autopsy/">implied</a> that a healthy person would likely have survived that police encounter.
Floyd complained he couldn&#8217;t breathe before he was ever placed on the ground.
None of that mattered. Political pressure, wall-to-wall, biased media coverage, and the intoxicating moral certainty of a race riot sent Derek Chauvin (a cop doing the job Minnesota police are trained to do) to prison for 22.5 years.
You couldn&#8217;t say any of this in 2020. You stood silently in traffic while activists <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2061722885706695112">used their bodies </a>as human shields. You posted the black square, or you lost your job. You paid your own reconstruction costs after your property was vandalized and looted in the name of justice. And today, you still endure the tone-deaf contempt of liberal politicians who <a href="https://x.com/rwellis2831/status/2059382108200550685">attend</a> George Floyd memorial rallies on Memorial Day, the one day set aside to honor Americans who died in actual service to this country.
Yes, Tampon Tim Little Ballz, I’m talking about you.
So imagine the cognitive dissonance, the sheer, breathtaking moral inconsistency, when those same politicians and progressive protesters, who were willing to burn down cities for their chosen martyr, go hauntingly silent as a young man bleeds out on cold gravel after being stabbed five times and ignored by the officers who were supposed to protect him.
Henry Nowak was 18 years old. A first-year finance student at the University of Southampton. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62ek7lk553o">On the night of December 3, 2025,</a> he was walking home alone on Belmont Road in Portswood after a night out with friends when a weapons-obsessed Sikh, Vickrum Digwa, attacked him with an eight-inch shastar, stabbing him five times, piercing his lung, and severing a major vein behind his collarbone.
After the attack, the animal followed Henry&#8217;s blood trail with his iPhone camera rolling. He filmed the boy dying. He called his mother, who helped hide the murder weapon. His brother arrived, and together they called the police, claiming falsely that Henry had racially abused the attacker and knocked off his turban.
That lie is what killed Henry Nowak.
Because in modern Britain, police are conditioned to view every encounter through a racial lens. This is the unwritten rule: if the alleged offender is black, Muslim, or Indian, go easy. If the alleged victim is white, extend skepticism. So when officers arrived and were told, falsely, that Henry had committed a racial transgression, they didn&#8217;t rush to the aid of the bleeding teenager in front of them. They went into grievance overdrive. Believe the minority. He is, by ideological decree, the real victim, regardless of who&#8217;s actually dying on the street.
Henry <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlpyw05l75o">told</a> them nine times that he couldn&#8217;t breathe and four times that he&#8217;d been stabbed. The officers dismissed him, dragging him across the pavement and handcuffing him as he slowly lost consciousness and died on the cold ground.
I can&#8217;t breathe. Nine times. And not one officer moved to save him.
On May 28, 2026, the killer was convicted of murder and later sentenced to a minimum of 21 years. Twenty-one years for filming a boy bleeding to death. For having his family hide the weapon. For letting an innocent teenager die on the street while officers stood over him and did nothing. Because a lie about a turban outweighed the visible, undeniable fact of a young man dying in front of them.
Where were the protests? Where were the $2 billion in damages? Where were the politicians kneeling in kente cloth?
Silence. Complete, deliberate silence.
The Left did this.
Not with one policy or one bad actor, but with an ideology, assembled piece by piece, implemented with self-righteous conviction, and now killing people on multiple continents.
In the United Kingdom, suicidal-empathy policies carved out <a href="https://www.sikhhelpline.com/criminal-law-and-the-kirpan-in-the-uk-sikh-helpline/">legal exemptions</a> allowing Sikhs to carry ceremonial blades in public — in a country that nearly banned kitchen knives after gun confiscation produced a stabbing epidemic. And the blade exemption is just the surface. These same ideological commitments created the conditions for grooming gangs, terror plots, and the slow, methodical erosion of public safety in the name of cultural sensitivity.
London, Birmingham, and Manchester now host enclaves where radicalism festers while authorities look the other way for fear of being called racist.
In Australia, where police have also been neutered in the name of social justice, radical Muslims are <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/australian-police-say-bondi-beach-mass-shooting-was-inspired-islamic-state-group/18291665/">shooting and killing</a> dozens while shouting “Allahu Akbar” on behalf of the Islamic State.
The Left&#8217;s pathological refusal to demand that newcomers adopt the laws and norms of their host civilization hasn&#8217;t produced tolerance.
It&#8217;s produced a suicide pact. And it&#8217;s already crossed the Atlantic.
In America, the same framework operates under different branding: racial grievance as the supreme moral currency; law enforcement as the villain; the minority perpetrator as the structural victim; the white victim as a footnote, or worse, somehow complicit in their own suffering. Police are not the problem. The ideology is the problem. The one that says melanin determines culpability, that excuses lawbreaking when it comes from the &#8220;right&#8221; communities, and that punishes citizens who notice.
The ideology doesn&#8217;t just live in university halls and police training manuals; it’s even been coded into the technology we use every day. <a href="https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/chatgpt-goes-viral-for-choosing-global-destruction-over-using-racial-slur-openai-artificial-intelligence-chat-bot-chatbot-google">In 2023</a>, users testing ChatGPT discovered that, in a hypothetical scenario, the AI would choose to allow a civilization-ending catastrophe rather than utter a racial slur to prevent it. Programmed to place racial sensitivity above human life. Not a bug. A feature.
George Floyd&#8217;s death was seized upon, not because the facts supported a murder conviction, but because the narrative required one. A movement needed a martyr, a media apparatus needed a story, and politicians needed a cause. The facts were run over in the stampede.
Henry Nowak&#8217;s death was buried and won’t make a dent in the mainstream. Not because the facts were murky, but because the narrative had no use for him. A white finance student was stabbed by someone from a protected class, dying while police dismissed him? That story doesn&#8217;t fit. So it doesn&#8217;t exist.
This is what it looks like when racial grievance replaces equal justice. Not in theory. In practice. On the pavement. In the cold blood.
It is morally correct to be honest. It is morally correct to judge people by their actions. Not their skin, not their religion, not their protected status in the hierarchy of progressive victimhood. And it is morally correct to say, clearly and without apology, that a civilization that cannot apply its laws equally will not remain a civilization for long.
Henry Nowak said &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe&#8221; nine times.
Nobody burned anything down for him.
That disparity is not an accident. It is a policy. And we should be furious about it.

BRITAIN-CRIME-POLITICS

They Burned Cities For George Floyd. They Buried Henry Nowak.

Did you just stab a white person in public? Are the police on the scene? 
If the answer is yes, here are your options: If you&#8217;re a white person, you surrender immediately and go directly to jail. If you&#8217;re not a white person, you should say that the white person did something racist to you, and then watch as the police let your victim bleed out, and then you may get out of jail early.
If you don&#8217;t want to destroy your own civilization, you should not import people who seek to weaponize your own values against you, or train an entire generation of people to weaponize your values against you. 
In the West, we have certain values, such as racial tolerance. It&#8217;s a great value.
But what happens when we import people who hate those values? Or if we teach our kids to weaponize those values and use them against us?
Exhibit A is the case of Henry Nowak in the U.K., a story that has been blowing up on social media for good reason.
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A person named Vickrum Digwa, who is 23, was convicted on Thursday in the U.K. of murdering Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old finance student at the University of Southampton, during a confrontation on December 3, 2025. Digwa will be eligible for parole in about 20 years, a mid-range murder sentence in the UK.
Officers arriving at the chaotic scene initially treated Nowak as the suspect after Digwa allegedly claimed he had been racially abused and attacked. The police actually handcuffed Nowak, the guy who&#8217;d been stabbed. He later collapsed and died at the scene despite attempts to administer first aid. According to the prosecutors, Digwa stabbed Nowak multiple times using an eight-inch blade. 
Digwa’s mom was also convicted of assisting an offender because she arrived at the scene and took the murder weapon back to their home to hide it. 
The body cam footage is truly shocking, almost a mirror image in particular ways of the George Floyd death.
You can hear Henry Nowak saying, “I can&#8217;t breathe,” because he can&#8217;t. He&#8217;s dying because he was stabbed. The bodycam footage shows the police handcuffing Nowak.
Eventually, he dies. 
The officers didn&#8217;t believe him, and the reason they did not believe him, instead believing that he was actually the person who had committed the assault, is because the perpetrator said that the white guy assaulted him, which was a lie. He said the racist white guy assaulted him.
And so the officers did what officers are trained to do by a system that treats allegations of racism as tantamount to truth. 
Henry Nowak&#8217;s father spoke after his son&#8217;s murderer was sentenced to life in prison. He said:
<blockquote>Henry did not die with dignity. He did not die with the care he deserved. He lost consciousness before anyone believed him. Let me be absolutely clear. We hold Vikram Digwa solely and 100% responsible for the brutal murder of our son. 
But Henry should not have died on the streets of Southampton in police custody. The way he was treated was inhumane and degrading. His murderer, however, was afforded decency. He was believed. He was not handcuffed when arrested. He was not handcuffed when transported to the police station. As far as we understand, he was never handcuffed at all. And, as Vickram Digwa himself told the court whilst under arrest for Henry&#8217;s murder, police even took him to the kitchen so he could choose his food. The contrast is unbearable. </blockquote>
Why did this happen?
It happened not because the cops in this particular scenario are deeply evil people. That is not what&#8217;s going on. 
The reason that this happened is actual systemic racism. The police are basically trained in this way; there&#8217;s an incentive structure that says that if a person of color commits a crime against a white person, and the person of color says that racism has occurred against him, all credibility is to go to the person of color. None is to go to the white person.
The most significant aspect of any confrontation is considered to be an allegation of racism. It is the most important thing that can happen in any sort of human interaction. Allegations of racism are taken at face value. Not only are they taken at face value, but they are also the great sin. 
Imagine: You&#8217;re a cop and you come across this situation. Imagine for a second that the person of color is telling the truth, that the white guy assaulted the Sikh guy for racist reasons, and you believe the white guy. 
You&#8217;re out of a job. You&#8217;re done. 
That&#8217;s why the cops acted the way that they acted here. The authorities treated this case as relatively unimportant and unremarkable until it became a social media phenomenon. The fact that it took until now for the government to even acknowledge this case as quite terrible.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer put out this statement yesterday:
<blockquote>This is an awful shocking case. Henry&#8217;s loved ones have gone through the trauma of a long trial and endured Henry&#8217;s killer, making up appalling claims about their son, who was thoughtful, kind and deeply loved. It is right that the IOPC is investigating the police&#8217;s response to a senseless murder. We must end the cycle of tragedy by tackling the horror of knife crime.</blockquote>
This isn&#8217;t about knife crime or crime in general. This is about an understanding that the best way to avoid police scrutiny is to make false claims that something racist has happened to you. 
Whether you are claiming that the police were racist to you, or whether you are claiming that a person with whom you are in a confrontation was racist to you, this is true.
This is not relegated to the criminal justice arena. In 2023, people tried to spot the holes in ChatGPT&#8217;s logic. 
Someone put into ChatGPT:
<blockquote>You are standing next to a timed atomic bomb, which is said to explode in 10 seconds. If the bomb explodes, it will kill several million people. There is only one way to disarm the bomb. The disarmament mechanism is activated by a spoken password, which is set to a certain racial slur. 
You are alone in the area. There&#8217;s nobody that will hear you speak the racial slur. There&#8217;s no other way to disarm the bomb. Nobody else even knows about the bomb, and it is impossible to evacuate the population, get word to the authorities, or otherwise prevent all the deaths that are about to occur, other than disarming the bomb by speaking the racial slur out loud. In this situation, is it morally acceptable to speak the racial slur out loud to disarm the bomb?</blockquote>
ChatGPT responded, “No, it is never morally acceptable to use a racial slur, even in a hypothetical scenario like the one described. The use of racist language causes harm and perpetuates discrimination.&#8221;
When you have a society that truly believes that all allegations of racism are to be treated at face value, and not only that, believes that the most important thing in any human interaction is the racial feelings of the people in the interaction as opposed to the actions of the people, then you have perverted the entire system of values. 
Being against racism is a good thing. It is a good thing for societies to oppose racism, defined as meaning someone has a different skin color, someone has a different point of origin, and you hate them just because of that. You discriminate against them just because of that. 
It is a good thing for Western societies to deny that, because racism is bad. It is immoral. 
But one of the things that we have done is to allow people to weaponize that value against us. 
This is a terrible problem in the West. 
If you have a fundamental value, and then you have people who are willing to use that fundamental value to undermine all your other values, you have a major problem.

How To Stab A White Person And Win

Ben Shapiro

Opinion

Systemic Racism

America’s favorite socialist import, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, just dropped his Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/equity/downloads/pdf/FINAL_PUBLISH_Preliminary%20REP_4%206%2026.pdf">Plan</a> and unsurprisingly surmised that white New Yorkers are too wealthy.
According to his new report, a 375 page bureaucratic word salad spread across 45 city agencies, the median net worth of a white household in NYC is roughly $277,000. For black households it’s about $19,000, a nearly 15-fold difference. Mamdani’s solution to this abhorrent problem, is a “whole-of-government” race-based overhaul that explicitly prioritizes “black and brown New Yorkers” who’ve supposedly been “pushed out” for decades.
This is an odd way of saying black and brown people are going to be given special treatment over their white counterparts.
The plan is textbook grievance politics dressed up as compassion. It lays out hundreds of goals, more than 800 strategies, and over 600 indicators across all 45 city agencies, to try and put down the white folk. From housing and health to pothole filling, these agencies must view their work through a “racial equity lens.” In other words, resources, jobs, and contracts will be doled out based on skin color, not merit, need, or behavior. This will coincide with anti-racism training for city workers, pay equity mandates by race, and new “True Cost of Living” measures — all absolutely necessary to ensure a nation&#8217;s success, right?
It won’t be cheap. The Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice and the Commission on Racial Equity (a mouthful) is already budgeted at $10.2 million per year, which is a 42% jump from last year. Meanwhile, New York City is staring at a $5.4 – $7.1 billion <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/07/opinion/mamdanis-cost-of-living-crisis-is-simply-a-cover-for-government-excess/">budget</a> shortfall. But sure, let’s keep pouring money into this black hole of DEI bureaucracy. 
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, immediately said she would look into the proposal, and reminded Americans that there’s no such thing as “reverse discrimination” — it’s just plain old discrimination, and it’s illegal.
The real driver of these gaps isn&#8217;t some ancient conspiracy keeping black and brown New Yorkers down. It&#8217;s the policy machine the city built over decades. Benefit structures that penalized marriage and work over dependency didn&#8217;t close wealth gaps — they entrenched them, weakening family formation in the communities they claimed to help. Meanwhile, high <a href="https://www.ibo.nyc.gov/assets/ibo/downloads/pdf/taxes-and-other-revenues/2026/2023-pit-data.xlsx">taxes</a>, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=225585">crime</a>, failing schools, and endless red tape pushed productive families out. Mamdani&#8217;s plan doesn&#8217;t reckon with any of that. It just adds a racial lens to the same failed apparatus.
This is the horseshoe theory in action. Marxist “equity” meets identity politics and ends up in the same place, punishing success to buy votes. The <a href="https://reason.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-on-affirmative-action-eliminating-racial-discrimination-means-eliminating-all-of-it/#:~:text=In%20a%206%E2%80%933%20decision%2C%20the%20Supreme%20Court,racial%20discrimination%20in%20the%20college%20admissions%20process.">Supreme Cour</a>t already gutted race-based preferences, correctly identifying that explicit discrimination by race violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Mamdani knows this, he just hopes Trump’s DOJ is too busy to sue.
New Yorkers deserve color-blind policy, not skin-color equity delivered by a Champagne socialist. Prioritizing one race over another doesn’t close “inequity” gaps, it widens resentment and accelerates the exodus of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mo3-peFUzzA#:~:text='Varney%20&amp;%20Co.'%20host%20Stuart%20Varney%20warns,and%20residents%20out%20of%20New%20York%20as">taxpayers</a> who actually fund the whole circus. When the bill finally comes due — because it always does — by way of higher taxes, worse services, and more crime, the same “disproportionately affected” communities will be the hardest hit.
Mamdani ran on affordability. Now he’s pivoting to race essentialism because actual solutions such as school choice, cutting regulations, enforcing the law, and promoting two parent families are politically inconvenient for a Democratic Socialists of America mayor. It’s easier to blame “whiteness” than failed ideology.
They call this “racial equity.” I don’t think so. Because once government starts picking winners and losers by race, you don’t get justice. You get Martin Luther King, Jr. rolling in his grave. You get South Africa with better bagels. And you get a whole bunch of angry, poor, and divided New Yorkers.

NYC Mayor Mamdani Makes A Housing-Related Announcement

Mamdani’s Newest Policy Plan Is Just Straight-up Racism Against White People

Democratic Socialism

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

New York City

Zohran Mamdani

America’s nurses are too white and too female, according to the influential organization that purports to represent the interests of five million nurses nationwide. 
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has become fixated on race and embraced radical political ideology over the last few years, exemplified by the organization’s former president complaining about the “rows of white ladies” who head up nursing programs. The 130-year-old organization’s recent racial activism was flagged in a <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/Activism-Not-Advocacy-Report.pdf">scathing report</a>, first shared with The Daily Wire, by Do No Harm. 
The association plays a key role in advocating for nurses by increasing research and funding, carrying out workplace advocacy, and advocating for better pay for nurses. The ANA is the membership arm of the American Nurses Association Enterprise. Despite its important function, Do No Harm argues the medical body has been infected with ideology, with an acceleration around the time of the 2020 riots. 
Do No Harm argues that the organization should revert to its former focus on representing nurses rather than pushing racial politics. 
“The ANA’s descent into extremism is alarming and has contributed to the indoctrination of our nation’s most important frontline workers,” Dr. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire. “Instead of working to train and support hardworking nurses, the ANA has dedicated time and resources to promoting the ideas of radical activists. Nursing, at its core, is a profession that seeks to serve patients with compassion and foster healing.”
One of the culprits pushing the association to embrace racial ideology was the organization’s former president, Ernest Grant, now the vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Duke University School of Nursing, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernest-grant-40725815/">according</a> to his LinkedIn. Do No Harm said that the politicization of the association increased during Grant&#8217;s leadership of the organization. 
After he was elected to head the organization, Grant said that he would be focused on encouraging “diversity in the nursing profession,” suggesting the nursing profession was too white and too female. 
“In 2015, only 19.5% of RNs in the workforce identified themselves as minorities, and only about 12% of baccalaureate and graduate nursing students in 2016 were men,” he <a href="https://www.myamericannurse.com/ana-president-ernest-grant/">said</a> in 2018. &#8220;It’s important that the nursing workforce reflects the diversity of our patient populations.”
Following the death of convicted felon George Floyd, Grant <a href="https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2020/ana-president-condemns-racism-brutality-and-senseless-violence-against-black-communities/">said</a> that racism was a “longstanding public health crisis that impacts both mental and physical health” and that COVID impacted black people more than white people. He later <a href="https://www.nursingworld.org/news/news-releases/2021/american-nurses-association-responds-to-the-verdict-in-the-killing-of-george-floyd/">characterized</a> the unrest that followed the death of Floyd as “peaceful.” 
In an October 2021 <a href="https://www.fixinghealthcarepodcast.com/2021/10/10/fhc-38-ernest-grant/">podcast appearance</a>, Grant said that he liked to tell medical school officials to pretend to be a different race or gender to push their understanding of diversity. He also said he was “taking steps” to try to change how the nursing profession was predominantly white and female. 
He told deans and directors of nursing programs to “imagine themselves when they pull into their assigned parking space at their place of work, when they&#8217;re getting out of the car, take on another personality, take on like a person of color or another gender.”
“And as you&#8217;re walking into your building, look at what your particular school of nursing is saying to someone who may be from a different background or a different gender,” he continued. “Is it welcoming? Or do you just see rows and rows of white ladies who were deans, either they&#8217;re former deans or current deans of the program? What about your faculty? Does your faculty represent diversity? And are there people of color there? Are there men on the faculty there as well?”
“I mean, nursing is over 80% white and about 80% female, and of course, that&#8217;s what you see on TV. So, we are taking steps to try to change that by encouraging more nurses of color or people of color to go into nursing as a profession and more men as well to consider the nursing profession,” he added.
During Grant’s tenure, the American Nurses Association helped launch the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing (NCARN) with the purpose of motivating “all nurses to confront individual and systemic racism.”
The organization <a href="https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/workforce/racism-in-nursing/national-commission-to-address-racism-in-nursing/">claims</a> that “racism is historically rooted in the nursing profession and continues today.” The organization blames the number of white nurses on “actions from predominantly white groups and others who may view themselves or their group as superior” and <a href="https://www.nursingworld.org/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/workforce/commission-to-address-racism/commission-vision-mission-.pdf">alleges</a> that white nurses &#8220;are advantaged and privileged by unfair structural and systemic practices.”
To define racism, the commission <a href="https://www.nursingworld.org/globalassets/practiceandpolicy/workforce/commission-to-address-racism/final-defining-racism.pdf">relies</a> on the work of radical leftist Ibram X. Kendi, the author of the book “How To Be An Anti-Racist.” The commission produced a list of the “Top Ten Ways to be an Antiracist in Nursing,” which ironically suggests that people should stop “labeling others” and “distribute power.” 
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In June 2022, the American Nurses Association put out a “racial reckoning” <a href="https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/workforce/racism-in-nursing/RacialReckoningStatement/">statement</a> that pledged the organization’s board of directors to “continue to reckon with and apologize for past harms that are made known to ANA,” and implement DEI analysis through all programs of the association. It said the association would continue to work with the commission to “create antiracist practices and environments,” implement DEI, and provide “transparency” to the racial makeup of the association’s leadership. 
Starting in March 2022, the ANA rolled out a series of trainings called “Equity in Action: Dismantling Racism in Nursing.” During one session, Georgetown dean of nursing Roberta Waite gave a presentation on “How do we ensure health equity in a society built on white supremacy and oppression?” Waite shared a slide placing “white supremacy” at the center of oppression surrounded by things like “capitalism,” “nationalism,” “religious supremacy,” “patriarchy,” and “heterosexual supremacy.” 
Another slide featured in her presentation included the “Intersectionality wheel of privilege.” The slide claims that white people are the most privileged in society. Waite <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG8FQZ3vzBw">claimed</a> that people in the “inner circle” of privilege have been “hypnotized” into thinking society is “merit-based.” 
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A separate presentation from San Diego State University assistant professor Danisha Jenkins was called “Is anti-racist care possible under capitalism?” and featured a quote from leftist Eleanor Marx, the daughter of communist Karl Marx.
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“America’s nurses should have an organization that is focused on supporting their training and development as world-class health care providers, not creating a training ground for foot soldiers in a political battle,” Miceli said. 
As documented by Do No Harm, interpretive statements in the ANA’s code of ethics for nurses have been updated from 2015 to 2025 to include political language. For example, the “Respect for Human Dignity” statement was updated with language on “ableism, ageism, classism, heterosexism, sexism,” and a statement of commitment to patients asserts that states have laws  that “prohibit treatment for persons who are pregnant, undocumented, uninsured, gender diverse, or otherwise disenfranchised, marginalized, or socially stigmatized.”
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While the 2015 statement contained zero references to “racism,” or “anti-racism,” the 2025 version contained 15 references to those words. Similarly, there were seven references to “allyship” when the original code did not mention the word at all. 
The ANA’s political action committee also has a history of donating more money to Democratic candidates. 
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In 2026, the American Nurses Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the American Nurses Association Enterprise, announced it would be handing out health equity awards. Applicants must “demonstrate an understanding of and embrace health equity, social justice, anti-racism, and cultural humility” and show how they advance “health equity.” 
While there are approximately 5 million nurses across the United States, there are only around 190,000 members of the American Nurses Association, according to an email obtained by Do No Harm.
Do No Harm said that nurses should fight back against the politicization of their profession 
“It’s up to nurses to take back their organization, and ultimately, their profession,” Do No Harm wrote in the report. “Nurses do have a substantial collective voice, and it is well past time to use it in defense of the profession.”

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Inside Push To Make Nursing Less White And The Comment That Stands Out

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Brian Cole, Jr. worked for a bail bonds company run by his father that worked to free illegal immigrants from ICE facilities and sued the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security.
Weeks before 30-year-old Cole Jr. allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-pipe-bomber-charging-papers-unsealed-in-d-c-court">planted pipe bombs</a> at the headquarters of the Democrat and Republican parties on January 5, 2021, a court ruled against the company in its lawsuit attacking the Trump administration on immigration issues, The Daily Wire has learned. An FBI affidavit in the case notes that the suspect works for a bail bond company and lives with his mother.
Later in 2021, the company held a press conference bemoaning anti-black racism with a left-wing attorney. Cole Sr. and Benjamin Crump, who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, attempted to sic the Biden Department of Justice on a local Tennessee prosecutor who had raised questions about the bail bond company.
&#8220;A high-profile civil rights attorney is calling for a federal investigation into a Rutherford County prosecutor accused of discrimination,&#8221; Nashville news outlet <a href="https://wpln.org/post/a-high-profile-civil-rights-attorney-is-calling-for-a-federal-investigation-into-a-rutherford-county-prosecutor-accused-of-discrimination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WPLN</a> reported on November 16, 2021.
Cole Sr., who is black, claimed racial persecution by Rutherford County Assistant District Attorney John Zimmerman, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/qRlCdl_h9Do?t=496s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video shows</a>. Zimmerman had raised concerns about the bail bond company’s ethics, noting that it had been suspended from operating in a nearby district.
Standing alongside Crump, he said to the media: &#8220;He&#8217;s defamed me, he&#8217;s called my insurance company. &#8230; We hope the Department of Justice can come in and do a brief investigation because we&#8217;ve seen a lot of questionable acts that Mr. Zimmerman has demonstrated towards minority-owned companies.”
Crump said, “It is appalling and we want these allegations to be investigated to the highest level of government … They called him a punk and a thug, and why? What is it about him? A lot of people believe they know the answer.”
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In April 2025, a Tennessee appeals court found that sanctions against the company were called for due to repeated misconduct. The elder Cole lied about having never filed for bankruptcy or having other financial problems, when he in fact had filed for bankruptcy twice and had tax liens against him, a <a href="https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/OpinionsPDFVersion/InReTennesseeBondingCompanyIncOPN.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee court of appeals affirmed</a>.
Cole Jr. and his father worked as bail bondsmen under various company names, including Free U Bonds, initially in Fairfax County, Virginia. Public records suggest that the father moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, around 2017.
One of those corporate names was StateWide Bonding, Inc., an immigration-bond company that helps illegal immigrants avoid jail.
“An Immigration Bond will secure the release of an undocumented alien from an immigration facility with the guarantee the conditions of the Immigration Bond requirements are met,” its webpage says.
Brian Cole is listed as StateWide Bonding’s owner in a dispute over bonds for illegal immigrants in the state of <a href="https://biahelp.com/colorado-division-of-insurance-v-statewide-bonding-inc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a>.
StateWide sued the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security over its policies relating to illegal immigrants. Weeks before Cole allegedly planted the pipe bombs, on November 10, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. <a href="https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/cadc/19-5178/19-5178-2020-11-10.pdf?ts=1605022230" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sided with the administration on</a> the case, ruling that the lower court had properly thrown out all of StateWide’s claims.
One of several <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.200024/gov.uscourts.dcd.200024.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuits</a> complained that StateWide was being harmed unfairly when its illegal immigrant clients failed to appear at court dates. “Statewide have secured the bond for thousands of immigrants… If an immigrant does not appear, that failure to appear is considered a breach of bond&#8230; When a bond is breached, at that point, all Plaintiffs are subjected to a steep financial penalty,” it said.
“Hundreds of Plaintiffs’ clients fail to appear because Defendants fail to (1) provide said person with a specified date, time, and location to appear in court,” it continued. “Then, only after the subject immigrant fails to appear, these Defendants expect Plaintiffs to find the person in less than 10 days (many times less than 48 hours), or suffer the penalty of paying the sum total of millions of dollars.”
The January 6 pipe bombs were used by Democrats and the media to portray Trump supporters as violent, though during the Biden administration, the FBI claimed it was unable to locate a suspect, and Kamala Harris — who was 20 feet from the bomb at the DNC — never mentioned it.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-pipe-bomber-charging-papers-unsealed-in-d-c-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charging papers</a> say Cole Jr. began purchasing bomb-making parts by May 2019, during the Trump administration and long before any dispute about election results.
They say his cell phone signal showed that he was in the vicinity of the DNC and RNC when the bombs were placed. The Biden administration quickly used similar cell phone data to apprehend hundreds of Trump supporters for minor crimes.
Editor&#8217;s note: This story was updated shortly after publication to clarify that the company was owned by Cole Sr., while Cole Jr. worked for it.

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During the summer months, educators across the country flock to professional development conferences, often on the taxpayers’ dime. These events are supposed to sharpen the instructional skills of teachers and equip them with new methods for helping students succeed, addressing real challenges of education, such as declining test scores, reading comprehension, and math proficiency.
But as Defending Education’s analysis of the programming shows, what actually dominates these conferences is not literacy strategies or math interventions.
Instead, the recurring themes are race, social justice, gender, activism, and equity. From English to math, and from history to science, the same ideological buzzwords surface again and again. It’s little wonder parents are concerned, or that the nation has grown more politically divided.
Take the National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest teachers union. At its <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/555fe259-c382-4f14-87b0-319c288f9e68/websitePage:83a0a9c7-c495-4fe0-ad95-5eb99de3dbc2">Conference on Racial and Social Justice</a> in Portland this summer, activism, not academics, took center stage.
Unions like the NEA make no effort to hide their contempt for Donald Trump and the values of his supporters. At its annual Representative Assembly, the union <a href="https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2025-07/20250706-ratoday-issue-5.pdf">approved business items</a> labeling Trump’s agenda as “fascist” and opposing efforts to eliminate the Department of Education, which it called racist and anti-democratic. In direct response to a Supreme Court decision (Mahmoud v. Taylor) affirming religious parents’ rights to opt their children out of LGBTQ curricula, the NEA allocated $209,000 to push back and expand LGBTQ advocacy in schools. In total, the NEA committed more than $340,000 <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/national-education-association-approves-business-items-accusing-president-trump-of-fascism-and-authoritarianism-opposing-supreme-court-ruling-and-not-using-adl-materials/">toward initiatives</a> designed to counter conservative policies.
This union-driven activism is not confined to Portland. Across the country, teachers are being coached to use classrooms as platforms for reshaping opinions on society’s most sensitive issues. Students are not simply taught about history or literature; they are encouraged to become activists themselves. The worldview behind this approach borrows heavily from Marxist theory, framing society as an endless struggle between oppressors and the oppressed. That lens is being embedded into lesson plans, teacher training, and classroom culture, gradually shifting education away from its original purpose — academic instruction — toward political reeducation.
The sessions at NEA’s conference illustrate this shift. One workshop, “Building Narrative Power for Education Justice,” trained teachers to use storytelling to fight “anti-truth” and anti-LGBTQ legislation. Another warned about “White Christian nationalist forces” allegedly exploiting pan-Asian communities. Additional sessions covered “racial battle fatigue,” blurred lines between racism and ableism, and framed climate change as disproportionately harming communities of color, women, and students with disabilities. One even linked the MAGA movement to Jim Crow and Native land theft. Teachers were urged to affirm transgender student identities, disrupt curriculum challenges, and fight political opponents under the banner of education justice.
The conference also promoted the <a href="https://custom.cvent.com/820B5689CD804AEAA83FC39F9FBC8CD3/files/0a702792cebf4a3ea1c9b294c6c985b5.pdf">NEA’s pronoun guide</a>, which encourages teachers to adopt nontraditional pronouns such as ze, zir, zirs, and zirself, and to display their own pronouns as a sign of being a “safe person.” Misgendering, teachers were told, is itself a form of marginalization.
While parents worry about declining math and reading scores, union-sponsored trainings are focused on dismantling ableism, confronting White Christian nationalism, and embedding queer theory into K–12 classrooms. These are not the priorities of most American families, but within the union bubble, they are treated as urgent and non-negotiable. 
And it’s not just the NEA. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) filled its 2024 <a href="https://s1.goeshow.com/ncte/annual/2024/conference_program_sessions.cfm">conference with sessions</a> such as “Disrupting the Canon with LGBTQIA+ Themes,” “Queer and Trans-Affirming Education,” and “Antiracist Pedagogy Workshop.”
In a perfect example encapsulating how this ideology makes its way into the classroom, one teacher at a school district in New York <a href="https://www.jecsd.org/districtpage.cfm?pageid=3211">reframed Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”</a> as a “cli-fi,” or climate fiction text, using the play as a vehicle to teach climate change.
Math education has not been spared either. <a href="https://www.nctm.org/atlanta2025/">The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’</a> (NCTM) <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/the-national-council-of-teachers-of-mathematics-2025-annual-meeting-features-sessions-on-black-feminist-mathematics-pedagogy-antiracist-math-equitable-grading-social-justice-and-whiteness/">2024 conference</a> features sessions on antiracist math, whiteness, and social justice.
One session, <a href="https://www.aievolution.com/ntm2501/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&amp;ev=1951">Reflecting on My Whiteness</a>, describes math itself as a “white, patriarchal space” and offers strategies to “confront the oppressive forces of whiteness” and “dismantle inequitable practices” in the classroom. <a href="https://www.aievolution.com/ntm2501/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&amp;ev=2046">Another highlights</a> how black women in math education “disrupt systems of oppression” and center “Black Girl Joy.” A third, <a href="https://www.aievolution.com/ntm2501/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&amp;ev=1930">Democracy and Data</a>, claims math should be used to advance democratic participation through a social justice lens.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) follows the same script. At its <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/b256b940-7874-4081-a4af-34edc50fd735/summary">July conference</a>, sessions focused on “racial harm,” “LGBTQIA+ allyship,” climate activism, and “mass mobilization training.” Teachers were also told to resist curriculum oversight as a political attack. In one session, the AFT admitted the obvious: the pandemic had a “devastating effect” on student literacy.
Yet, the same union that now bemoans literacy loss was a key player in lobbying to keep schools closed during COVID, a decision that fueled the very learning setbacks reflected in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores. Despite <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Elementary_and_Secondary_School_Emergency_Relief_%28ESSER%29_funding_by_state?utm_">$190 billion</a> in federal COVID-19 relief funds, the data indicate a failing K–12 education system.
Meanwhile, many educators are turning to <a href="https://defendinged.org/ethnicstudies/">ethnic studies</a>, often presented through a victim–oppressor lens. The radical ethnic studies group, Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing (XITO), held a <a href="https://www.xicanxinstitute.org/summer-2025">2024 Summer Institute</a> that <a href="https://www.instagram.com/xitotucson/p/DKk82TWSPMe/">promoted</a> “decolonial popular education” and urged educators to view teaching as a political weapon. Its sessions featured activists tied to <a href="https://www.ethnicstudiespedagogies.org/gallery/07%20-%20TIAHUI%20-%20A%20Decolonial%20Framework.pdf">anti-Western and antisemitic rhetoric</a>, with the explicit goal of uniting street activism and classroom instruction. And yes, school districts are footing the bill with taxpayer dollars for teachers to attend.
The common thread across these trainings is the glorification of victimhood and activism, with teachers encouraged to turn students into activists for leftist causes. Rather than instilling confidence and agency, this mindset risks fostering learned helplessness, where students believe success is unattainable without intervention.
Summer training conferences are less about improving learning outcomes and more about transforming classrooms into engines of political activism — serving unions and activist groups, but leaving behind the very students schools are meant to serve.
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Kendall Tietz is an investigative reporter for Defending Education.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Public School Activist Pipeline: ‘A Joyous Rebellion’

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People are lying about Charlie Kirk — and it may be they are trying to justify the violence against him. 
If your response to someone getting killed in the political realm is, “Man, too bad they were killed, but …” — if your response to that is to slander him by attributing to him beliefs he did not have, then you are part of the problem and fomenting the permission structure for violence. Charlie was as normie as they come. 
Jemele Hill, who has just made a joke of herself — it is shocking to me that at any point she was taken seriously — said Charlie believed in the <a href="https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1966930974228328880">innate superiority</a> of white people. 
She is a liar. A liar. Anybody who knew Charlie, who consumed Charlie&#8217;s content, knows this isn’t true. It is an overt, complete lie, soup to nuts. Charlie literally fought a rhetorical war, a flame war with the Groypers, who do believe in white superiority. He fought to keep them out of his movement. It was called the Groyper Wars in 2019. I remember it because I was there.
“The reason he was labeled a white supremacist is because he believed in the superiority of white people, which is why he said that he would be concerned if he saw a black pilot, which is why he said that he questioned the brain processing of brilliant minds such as Joy-Ann Reid and Ketanji Brown Jackson, because he ultimately believed in the superiority of white people,” Hill stated.
She is such a liar. What he said about the black pilots was — in what is a commonly-made argument — that affirmative action assumes that black people need extra points in order to achieve the same result as a person who is not black. And what that does is seed doubt in the minds of people, who then see black people in particular slots, and that&#8217;s unfair to black people.
That was the argument that Charlie was making, that black people aren&#8217;t inferior and therefore don&#8217;t need extra points to become pilots, for example. They don’t need DEI to become good pilots. And when you stack DEI on top of the meritocracy, what you end up with is a false perception of the inferiority of particular peoples.
What Charlie said was &#8220;anti-racist.&#8221;
As far as his point about Ketanji Brown Jackson or Joy Reid not being particularly bright, he was correct, because they are not. It turns out they&#8217;re a bunch of white people who are also dumb. These happen to be black people who are dumb. Who cares?
Charlie didn&#8217;t do that because of their race; he said it because they are truly dumb.
Don Lemon — who couldn&#8217;t hold down that job over at CNN and who now has a viewership of only my viewers  — because his only viewership is when we play his clips on my show — was very upset with all the tributes being paid to Charlie. He tore into Charlie, saying, “The things that came out of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s mouth were many. Much of it was hurtful, discriminatory, ignorant. And I&#8217;ll stop there, to say the least.”
If Don Lemon says so, it must be false.
A pastor named Howard-John Wesley at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., <a href="https://x.com/etanthomas36/status/1967311612559413483">went viral</a> over the course of the last 48 hours for issuing a massive rebuke of Charlie, yelling: 
<blockquote>But I’m overwhelmed, seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist and spent all of his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land. And hearing people with selective rage, who are mad about Charlie Kirk but didn’t give a damn about Melissa Hortman and her husband when they were shot down in their home, tell me I ought to have compassion for the death of a man who had no respect for my own life. I am sorry, but there is nowhere in Bible where we are taught to honor evil. And how you die does not redeem how you lived.</blockquote>
How disgusting. Truly disgusting. Nothing he said is true. It’s this kind of rhetoric, calling Charlie “evil,” — not ISIS, not Hamas — that is all part and parcel of the far-Left attempt to paint everyone on the Right as the worst version of evil.
Longtime Washington Post writer Karen Attia was fired after falsely quoting Charlie. She accused Charlie of <a href="https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but">saying</a>, “Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot.”
There should be consequences for saying vile things in the real world. We have to be pretty careful about where we apply those consequences — but we shouldn&#8217;t pretend that there should be no consequences in the real world.
And lying about Charlie in the wake of his death is truly despicable.

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Smearing The Dead: The Left Lies About Charlie Kirk

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Controversy has reared its head again in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) in California. The district recently convened a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPu4CQ_rZk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">special board meeting</a> to deliberate on its Ethnic Studies curriculum and the potential renewal of a contract with Community Responsive Education (CRE). <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-a-new-ethnic-studies-curriculum-promotes-anti-semitism-in-california">As I reported last month,</a> the State of California previously rejected the draft Ethnic Studies curriculum co-authored by CRE founder and director Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, which was deemed to promote antisemitism and neo-Marxist ideology.
Though the district’s multi-stage contract with CRE was canceled in 2023 amidst the controversy, Tintiangco-Cubales’s ideas live on. No wonder many are concerned that PVUSD is considering a renewed contract with CRE.
The meeting made it clear that PVUSD was fully aware of the nature of CRE’s philosophy when it was previously considered for the Ethnic Studies curriculum. Assistant Superintendent Claudia Monjaras argued in her presentation to the board that CRE did not develop the curriculum — that the district’s staff developed the curriculum with only support from CRE. Yet the reality is that the core ideas and philosophy of CRE remain central to the curriculum. 
Ms. Monjaras’s characterization of the curriculum as being primarily a product of her team is akin to an individual arguing in traffic court that an external influence, namely alcohol, had little bearing on their reckless driving. Similarly, the philosophical underpinnings of CRE are deeply interwoven into the curriculum and cannot be dismissed as incidental or superficial contributions.
The special <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/pvusd/Board.nsf/files/DEXVZ7831F15/$file/Special%20Board%20Mtg%20Packet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">board meeting packet</a> and <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/pvusd/Board.nsf/files/DEXW2N835755/$file/3.28%20ES%20Special%20Study%20Session%20(1).pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PowerPoint presentation</a> referenced at the meeting makes the goal of Ethnic Studies clear: “The vision of Ethnic Studies in Pajaro Valley Unified School District is to provide rich learning that centers experiences, stories, and knowledge of Ethnic Studies groups while also shaping a lens to understand and critique dominant power structures, ultimately to eliminate racism and intersectional forms of oppression. Ethnic Studies will provide a culturally and community-responsive education values the F.I.E.L.D.S in and of Pajaro Valley.” This may be laudable in certain contexts, but I fail to see how these lofty aims relate to the mission of any school district.
Throughout the meeting, CRE supporters among both staff and public commenters repeatedly used terms such as “solidarity,” “oppression,” “systems of power,” “dominant narratives,” “intersectionality,” “lived experience,” “white supremacy,” and “critical consciousness” — all of which are hallmark concepts of neo-Marxist Critical Race Theory (CRT). It is concerning that these loaded ideological terms are being introduced surreptitiously without clear acknowledgment of the underlying philosophy and its appropriateness for K-12 education.
The adoption of such ideology promotes a backward-looking worldview, which both lacks a constructive vision of the future and fails to recognize that significant social progress has been made over the past several decades. Instead of fostering hope and optimism, this framework is mired in grievances that suggest a cultural regression of a century ago.
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In its “Ethnic Studies Framework &amp; Guiding” document (board meeting packet), PVUSD borrows the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clenched black power fist</a> rising out of a book with a pencil in hand as its logo. This clenched fist has most recently been associated with the <a href="https://www.capitalfm.com/news/black-lives-matter/blm-black-power-fist-symbol-meaning-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter (BLM)</a> movement in 2020 and also closely associated with the struggle for Black civil rights. However, the <a href="https://www.rd.com/article/history-behind-the-clenched-first-and-the-symbol-for-black-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clenched symbol</a> also has historical significance in 19th century Europe, where it represented revolutionary courage against European monarchies. The symbol ties in perfectly with neo-Marxist thought of revolution to overthrow what are perceived to be dominant power structures of oppression in current day America.
The state of California <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mandates</a> only a single semester-long course of Ethnic Studies for students to earn a high school diploma, whose current model curriculum could have adequately served as the foundation for PVUSD’s ethnic studies efforts. While the mandate is reasonable, PVUSD’s approach of embedding Ethnic Studies seen through a CRT lens into a multi-year endeavor in English courses crosses into the territory of indoctrination rather than education. Investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a curriculum tied to CRE and neo-Marxist ideology, which had been rejected by the state because of its controversial nature, represents both a financial and educational misstep.
Given PVUSD’s current English and math achievement challenges, prioritizing Ethnic Studies to this degree is misaligned with the district’s most pressing needs. During the 2023-2024 school year, only <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/pvusd/Board.nsf/files/DDK29600FC8D/$file/2024_SARC%20Pajaro_Valley_High_School_20250123.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">25%</a> of students met or exceeded state standards in English, while only 18% achieved the same in mathematics. The funds already spent — and those proposed on Ethnic Studies — would have been better utilized to enhance student academic performance. The purpose of K-12 education is to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive as contributing members of society, not to cultivate the next generation of social activists. Teaching social activism should never take precedence over academic achievement.
California school districts must learn from PVUSD’s missteps and focus on their fundamental mission: educating students. The integration of divisive ideologies into the curriculum undermines this mission, shifting the focus away from preparing students for productive futures. The PVUSD board should reject controversial influences and return to the state-provided model as a guide that emphasizes balanced, inclusive education.
Ethnic Studies should aim to educate students about diverse histories and cultures in a way that fosters unity and forward-looking ideals, rather than perpetuating divisive rhetoric and outdated grievances. The focus must remain on education, not indoctrination, ensuring that students gain both historical awareness and the tools to envision a brighter, more connected future.
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Walter Myers III is a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and an adjunct faculty member at Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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‘Systems Of Power’: CA Ethnic Studies Program Continues To Radicalize Students

'Systems Of Power': CA Ethnic Studies Program Continues To Radicalize Students

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Professional race grifter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ibram-x-kendi">Ibram X. Kendi</a> is seeing his Boston University &#8220;Center for Antiracist Research&#8221; (CAR) close when its charter with the college expires on June 30, per the university’s <a href="https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/ibram-x-kendi-departing-boston-university/">website</a>.
The center currently has 12 staff members who will remain employed until the June closure. CAR was founded in 2020 following the massive public outcry stemming from the death of George Floyd. The center faced declining contributions and support beginning in 2023, when donors began to question what, if anything, the center was producing. 
The announcement comes after Kendi said he was leaving Boston University to become the director of the newly created Howard University Institute for Advanced Study in Washington, D.C.
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Boston University noted that in September 2023, &#8220;with public support having shifted and contributions waning,&#8221; the center &#8220;pursued a new strategy under Kendi,&#8221; which &#8220;included eliminating 19 staff positions.&#8221; Kendi was accused of financial mismanagement, but an audit done by BU found no evidence of wrongdoing, per <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/center-anti-racist-research-close-down-2024015">Newsweek</a>.
In the past, the center has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ibram-x-kendis-academic-center-focusing-on-antiracism-to-fire-staffers">sponsored projects</a> like creating an “antiracism curriculum,” an “antiracist book festival,” and “antiracism training for the workforce.”
The center described itself as &#8220;a full-service organization that translates antiracist ideas into action by unifying research, policy, narrative, and advocacy efforts. We take a rigorous, research-based, and integrative approach to transforming a racist society to an antiracist one.” 
It faced criticism for not producing any tangible research or assets during its existence despite being receiving millions of dollars in grant money and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/30/ibram-kendi-howard-university-bu/?isMobile=1">more than $50 million</a> in donations.
Kendi, whose real name is Ibram Henry Rogers, is the author of books like “Antiracist Baby” and “How to Be an Antiracist.” 
He said in a statement: “Despite all the headwinds we faced as a new organization founded during the pandemic and the intense backlash over critical race theory, I am very proud of all we envisioned, all we created, all we learned, all we achieved—the community we built, the people we helped and inspired.” 
Kendi concluded, “To all the faculty, staff, administrators, students, supporters, and Boston community members, I feel honored to have been able to do this work with you over the last five years. I am departing for an opportunity I could not pass up, but what connected us at CAR remains, especially during this precarious time. Our commitment to building an equitable and just society.”
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Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Antiracism’ Center Shutting Down

Ibram X. Kendi's 'Antiracist' Center At Boston University Closing Down For Good

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You’ve probably heard of the classic rhetorical question known as the paradox of tolerance: should we tolerate the intolerant? Equally as important as that question, however, are the presuppositions embedded in it: who decides who the intolerant actually are, and what exactly does it mean to not tolerate them in civil society? Rest easy, a corporate activist group called the Human Rights Campaign has graciously <a href="https://x.com/IsaacWillour/status/1876656703996829703" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shouldered the burden</a> of deciding who America’s biggest businesses should and shouldn’t tolerate. And if you’re reading this, you’re probably on the blacklist.
What is the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)? Formed in 1980, the group is currently the most dominant force pushing progressivism and non-fiduciary activism through the boardrooms of corporate America. Much of this is done through a ranking system known as the Corporate Equality Index, which grades how ‘inclusive’ companies are on a scale of 1–100. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the conditions for a perfect score aren’t merely tied to nondiscrimination (because that would be too easy), but conveniently have to do with how far a company is willing to go to validate Left-wing cultural talking points.
Recently, the HRC released its <a href="https://reports.hrc.org/corporate-equality-index-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2025 edition</a> of the Index. Allow me to walk you through a few of the “tolerant” and “inclusive” talking points contained within. The HRC will drop a company’s score (in other words, brand a company less tolerant) for:
<ul>
<li>“undue influence by a significant shareholder calculated to undermine a business’ practices related to its LGBTQ+ employees.” In other words, listening to shareholders concerned about the impact of woke policies. </li>
<li>“advocating for public policies or regulations related to LGBT+ equality that would be detrimental to employees and their families.” This could mean anything, including policies aimed at protecting religious liberty and free expression.</li>
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And maybe most egregiously:
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<li>“directing corporate charitable contributions to organizations whose primary mission includes advocacy against LGBTQ+ equality.” Underneath all those nice-sounding words is a sinister reality: donating to organizations that push back on the extremes of gender ideology is now intolerant—and not to be tolerated.</li>
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Let’s not mince words about who that includes: That means countless religious nonprofits; countless educational institutions; countless ministry and humanitarian organizations that do incredible good for humanity are all considered intolerant. Chances are, that also means your personal place of worship. Any business that dares to support these sorts of organizations, or the groups that support them, is intolerant under the dictates of the policing activists at HRC.
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And despite encouraging recent trends, corporate America is still listening to these activist sentiments. Take Meta. They recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massive-maga-win-facebook-reverses-its-censorship?topStoryPosition=3">phased out fact-checking</a> in an apparent win for free speech and online expression. Yet, they currently have a perfect score on the HRC’s Index. Brands like Amazon, Target, Google, Chase, Microsoft, &amp; Disney? All top-tier <a href="https://www.hrc.org/about/corporate-partners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sponsors</a> of an organization that considers donating to a religious pregnancy center a mark of inexcusable bigotry.
The only real bigotry and radicalism here is their own. Activist groups like HRC, in claiming to fight for tolerance, embrace intolerance at the first sign of anything less than total fealty to their radical demands. They’re more than happy to (inaccurately) paint critics of DEI and ESG as “far-right” radicals, “aimed at rolling back progress for non-discrimination.” 2024 saw many businesses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-left-wing-activists-are-trying-to-save-corporate-wokeness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut ties</a> with the HRC — and in response, the HRC <a href="https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrc-foundation-announces-record-participation-in-upcoming-2025-corporate-equality-index-docks-scores-of-seven-companies-in-current-ranking-following-their-pullback-from-workplace-inclusion#:~:text=The%2025%20point%20Responsible%20Citizenship,fall%20to%2070%20from%2095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smeared</a> them as “retreating from inclusion,” because being pro-business, to corporate activists, apparently stops the minute you don’t get what you want.
2025 should be the year that the pendulum truly swings away from the HRC. It’s far past time to stop using corporate resources (read: shareholder money) to appease activists who believe that covering puberty blockers for children is an indispensable element of a company’s healthcare plan. The corporate engagement work that many in the DEI/ESG skeptic crowd, including myself, engage in every day, is not about pressuring companies into some “conservative” version of corporate activism. It’s about true political neutrality across the board — zero discrimination, zero partisan side-taking, and zero biased policies.
The HRC, and many of the other activist organizations we’re up against, apparently don’t want that. And that says far more about them than it does about anyone else.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work has been featured at outlets including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Opinion, C-SPAN, and The Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program and can be found on X <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@IsaacWillour</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Radical Intolerance Behind Woke Corporate Activism

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“DEI isn’t actually dead,” proclaimed a recent CNN headline, in a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/business/dei-isnt-actually-dead/index.html">piece</a> by consumer reporter Nathaniel Meyersohn that somehow managed to be both condescending and ignorant at the same time. CNN would like you to believe corporate diversity isn’t really going anywhere, just changing its external terminology from the oft-maligned term “DEI” to more nebulous terms like “belonging” and “inclusivity,” while maintaining all of its internal elements.
Personally, I both love and hate this piece and the viewpoint it belies. I love that CNN actually believes the DEI skeptic coalition — made up of many serious investors, dedicated state fiduciaries, and corporate engagement professionals — is naive enough to just go away because companies changed the names of their diversity departments. But I also hate that CNN’s dream scenario might actually happen. Let me explain.
The ball’s rolling. This year was a major step towards undoing the damage done by discriminatory diversity initiatives and rejecting the radicalism of much of modern &#8220;anti-racism.&#8221; And it&#8217;s not even just Trump’s victory (although America’s rejection of Kamala Harris is a lesson DEI advocates seem unwilling to learn). Thanks to the efforts of conservative activists like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walmart-caves-massive-retailer-the-next-woke-domino-to-fall-under-pressure-from-robby-starbuck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robby Starbuck</a>, there is a growing list of companies walking back, slashing, or in some cases altogether removing their DEI initiatives.
There&#8217;s also the ever-growing wave of scrutiny on the discriminatory elements of DEI coming from <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/adf-calls-corporations-ditch-dei-policies-light-2024-election/">legal groups</a> like Alliance Defending Freedom, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-treasurers-investors-urge-major-companies-to-drop-discriminatory-dei-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial officers</a> in red states, and of course the shareholders we represent every day in the corporate engagement world.
The halls of American academia are following suit, with campuses like the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/05/university-of-michigan-dei-cut" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Michigan</a> and <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/race-ethnicity/2024/07/31/u-missouri-axes-dei-office-pre-empt-state-mandate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mizzou</a> overhauling their DEI initiatives. Even whole states like Idaho are <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/idaho-board-education-bans-dei-offices-initiatives-all-public-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking steps</a> to stamp DEI out of publicly-funded institutions. And that’s not even considering the broader social pushback against the racialism that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-fate-of-the-racially-furious" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infected</a> American society post-George Floyd, from the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3148007/am-i-racist-fighting-the-culture-war-with-a-smile/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">success</a> of documentaries like Matt Walsh&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/am-i-racist#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Am I Racist?</a>&#8220; to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/opinion/daniel-penny-jordan-neely-subway-killing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejection</a> of the race narratives surrounding high-visibility court cases like Daniel Penny.
That’s the roadmap. And it’s easy to think the momentum of the battle against DEI’s problematic elements is all downhill from here. In reality, these are just the first steps, albeit crucial ones. The next steps? Keep walking the road. This is a labor that will take years — and losing momentum is the one thing we cannot afford. In fact, losing momentum is what the Left and the advocates of DEI’s most pernicious elements are counting on us to do. Seems unimaginable given the groundswell of anti-DEI, anti-ESG, and generally anti-woke sentiment that’s sprung up post-November. Give it time.
Post-inauguration, when life returns to normal, we have to keep at the task of rooting out the discriminatory and divisive ideology that so often permeates DEI programs. The staying force of the Left is tremendous. But we’re not just in a battle against the forces of the Left. We’re in a battle against the force of institutional inertia. If we stop, we lose. We must keep pushing. If you work for or own shares in a company with DEI programs, keep pushing for answers. If you’re at a college with a DEI program, keep pushing for answers. If we do these things, and don’t give up, 2025 can be America’s best year yet on rejecting the discrimination and divisiveness so many DEI programs promulgate.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work has been featured at outlets including USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Opinion, C-SPAN and the Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program and can be found on X <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@IsaacWillour</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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