Disney has gone for woke yet again with a recent episode of the cartoon series &#8220;Proud Family&#8221; — which featured kids singing a song about reparations that America &#8220;owes&#8221; to black Americans and about how &#8220;slaves built this country.&#8221;
The recent episode that aired on Disney+, titled &#8220;Louder and Prouder,&#8221; reviews the history of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-use-juneteenth-federal-holiday-signing-to-imply-america-is-still-systemically-racist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Juneteenth</a> when the kids discover their town&#8217;s founder was a slave-owner. The song opens with the line, &#8220;This country was built on slavery — which means slaves built this country&#8221; — and that line was repeated over and over throughout.
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&#8220;We the descendants of slaves in America have earned reparations for their suffering,&#8221; the song continued. &#8220;And continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in a systemic prejudice, racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.&#8221;
In the cartoon, that last line was punctuated by four black students glaring while the only white student on the stage with them held a sign that read &#8220;still has not atoned for.&#8221;
&#8220;Slaves built this country,&#8221; they shouted again, claiming, &#8220;We made your families rich,&#8221; as they listed plantation owners, northern bankers, New England ship-owners, the Founding Fathers, and current senators among those who had profited on the backs of slaves.
The cartoon even included the debunked &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/dc-art-competition-winner-reinforces-hands-dont-frank-camp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hands up, don&#8217;t shoot</a>&#8221; claim that originated after the Michael Brown shooting in <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/sitting-members-of-congress-and-more-commemorate-ferguson-police-shooting-by-lying-about-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ferguson, Missouri</a>.
&#8220;Imagine paying money to Disney to teach your kids to hate themselves and hate their country,&#8221; Human Events senior editor Jack Posobiec tweeted in response.
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&#8220;This is a scene from a Disney+ kids cartoon called The Proud Family Blatant anti-white propaganda,&#8221; @endwokeness <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1622089920645931009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Co-CEO and [lower case] god-king Jeremy Boreing took a moment to remind audiences that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/its-time-to-build-new-things-we-can-believe-in-daily-wire-to-hold-company-town-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DW Kids</a> was coming soon. &#8220;DW Kids is coming. Not soon enough,&#8221; he lamented.
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DW Kids is coming. Not soon enough. <a href="https://t.co/cyJ40SZjTO">https://t.co/cyJ40SZjTO</a>
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Disney+ Cartoon Demands Reparations And More With ‘Slaves Built This Country’ Song

Disney+ Cartoon Demands Reparations And More With 'Slaves Built This Country' Song

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Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) made it clear that he had no patience left for anyone who attempted to make every issue into a divide along racial lines.
Hunt delivered his remarks during Wednesday&#8217;s hearing on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border security</a>, taking particular issue with President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration for labeling Republicans as &#8220;racists&#8221; because they objected to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/desantis-shreds-biden-over-bidens-border-crisis-this-is-an-intentional-policy-rooted-in-an-open-borders-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open border policies</a>.
&#8220;Last time I checked, I’ve been black for a long time. I’ve been a minority for a long time,&#8221; Hunt tweeted along with a clip of his remarks. &#8220;Am I racist for calling what’s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I’m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything.&#8221;
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Last time I checked, I’ve been black for a long time. I’ve been a minority for a long time. Am I racist for calling what’s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I’m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything. -WPH <a href="https://t.co/HbTkEMw5Ks">pic.twitter.com/HbTkEMw5Ks</a>
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&#8220;This is actually not about race. This is an issue on public safety,&#8221; Hunt said, adding that his concerns about the amount of deadly fentanyl that was crossing the southern border had nothing to do with race.
&#8220;Fentanyl doesn&#8217;t care where you&#8217;re from,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Fentanyl doesn&#8217;t care about race. Fentanyl kills indiscriminately.&#8221;
Hunt then pivoted to address how <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/migrant-tsunami-will-worsen-due-to-title-42-rollback-former-trump-and-biden-border-patrol-chief-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border policies</a> had changed since Biden had taken office — conceding first that there had been problems prior to Biden&#8217;s arrival but then pointing out how much worse the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border had become under his watch.
Part of the problem, he explained, was the Biden administration&#8217;s penchant for using race &#8220;as a scapegoat for everything.&#8221;
&#8220;As somebody that wants to make sure that we do attack racist issues when they do occur, we can&#8217;t be the boy who cried wolf and blame racism all the time,&#8221; Hunt added. &#8220;I am here to hold this administration accountable to understand that there are issues of race that need to be addressed — and sir, this ain&#8217;t one of them.&#8221;
Hunt expounded on the topic further during a Thursday appearance on Fox News.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/megyn-kelly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megyn Kelly</a> blasted Whoopi Goldberg following &#8220;The View&#8221; host wondering if things wouldn&#8217;t change with police brutality until white people get beaten by police.
During Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWGhk8YSH3g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> on Wednesday, the host was speaking with conservative commentators Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson, and slammed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldberg</a> as &#8220;dumb&#8221; for her response to the death of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cops-charged-with-murder-of-tyre-nichols-hired-after-job-requirements-lowered-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tyre Nichols</a> at the hands of five Memphis police officers.
&#8220;The media coverage of this case has gone away awfully quickly,&#8221; Kelly explained. &#8220;There is nothing close to what we saw after George Floyd, even though the beating was even more brutal. … You&#8217;d think there&#8217;d be outrage that would be ongoing, but no, because it doesn&#8217;t have the very sexy race angle that the Left loves to play out and put on loop.&#8221;
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&#8220;But that hasn&#8217;t stopped people like Whoopi Goldberg &#8230; from making a typically inane comment about this case and our country…&#8221; she added, as she played the clip of the &#8220;Sister Act&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-goldberg-wonders-if-anything-will-change-unless-police-beat-white-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">star</a> talking about &#8220;white people&#8221; getting beaten by cops.
&#8220;Clearly, it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a white policeman or a black policeman, it is a problem in the policing itself,” Goldberg shared on the show. &#8220;Seems things don&#8217;t seem to make sense to people unless it&#8217;s somebody they can feel, or they can recognize. Do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything? I&#8217;m not suggesting that, so don&#8217;t write us and tell me what a — you know, what a racist I am.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-cant-even-respect-the-dead-megyn-kelly-slams-democrats-for-politicizing-club-q-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelly</a> replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s not that you [Goldberg] are a racist, it&#8217;s that you&#8217;re dumb. That’s your problem.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re uninformed just like the rest of your colleagues on your set,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Whites have a much higher chance of being killed by cops than blacks do. Those are the facts. … The fact that she doesn&#8217;t know that is a result of the fact that she actually doesn&#8217;t either care to go find the facts, or she just consumes the wrong media.&#8221;
&#8220;Because the media she&#8217;s watching never shows those cases or highlights facts. … So she&#8217;s got her head in the &#8230; I&#8217;ll say the clouds…&#8221; the former Fox News host continued.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-tell-it-to-your-therapist-megyn-kelly-blasts-will-smith-celebrities-blaming-childhood-traumas-when-they-behave-badly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Go Tell It To Your Therapist&#8217;: Megyn Kelly Blasts Will Smith, Celebrities Blaming &#8216;Childhood Traumas When They Behave Badly&#8217;</a>

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Actress Andrea Riseborough’s surprise best actress nomination for her brilliant performance in the little-seen film “To Leslie,” which meant that the category had no black actresses, triggered an investigation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and condemnation from a black film critic.
“To Leslie” earned a paltry $27,000 when it was released in October, but many Hollywood stars who saw the film praised Riseborough’s work, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/business/media/academy-awards-andrea-riseborough.html?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> Cate Blanchett, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnR7ORhuPJC/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gwyneth Paltrow,</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/790243255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Adams,</a> and Kate Winslet, with the latter calling the performance “the greatest female performance onscreen I have ever seen in my life.” But some black critics expressed their fury that performances by black actresses did not receive a best actress nod.
“What does it say that the Black women who did everything the institution asks of them — luxury dinners, private academy screenings, meet-and-greets, splashy television spots and magazine profiles — are ignored when someone who did everything outside of the system is rewarded?” film critic Robert Daniels wrote in the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-01-25/oscars-nominations-2023-academy-awards-season-black-women-commentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a>.
“We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women,&#8221; Nigerian-American director Chinonye Chukwu <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzwEI3Jls-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> after the nominations were announced,
Meanwhile, the Academy launched an investigation into whether a campaign for Riseborough’s nomination broke any of the Academy’s rules. The Academy scrutinized the efforts of actress Mary McCormack, who is married to “To Leslie” director Michael Morris, and her manager, Jason Weinberg, who represents Riseborough, to elicit support from Hollywood friends to push the film.
Additionally, actress Frances Fisher consistently praised the film, suggesting people vote for Riseborough’s nomination since “Viola, Michelle, Danielle &amp; Cate are a lock for their outstanding work.”
Actress Christina Ricci slammed the investigation, <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/01/christina-ricci-questions-the-academys-review-of-andrea-riseborough-nomination-1235243355/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a> in a later-deleted post, “Seems hilarious that the ‘surprise nomination’ (meaning tons of money wasn’t spent to position this actress) of a legitimately brilliant performance is being met with an investigation. So it’s only the films and actors that can afford the campaigns that deserve recognition? Feels elitist and exclusive and frankly very backward to me.”
But on Tuesday, the Academy announced it would not rescind Riseborough’s nomination. “The academy has determined the activity in question does not rise to the level that the film’s nomination should be rescinded,” Chief Executive Officer Bill Kramer declared. “However, we did discover social media and outreach campaigning tactics that caused concern. These tactics are being addressed with the responsible parties directly.”

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Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Democrats</a> strongly objected to the renaming of a subcommittee because the new name contained the term “welfare.”
During a procedural <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfOse-LbCE8&amp;t=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> of the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday, a number of Democratic members asked why the “Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support” would be renamed the “Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.” Republican leaders, noting that the name of the subcommittee has changed five times in the past three decades, said that the shift reflected the urgency of addressing labor shortages by promoting workforce participation. Democrats nevertheless accused them of racially motivated intentions.
“I find it amazing that this committee would deliberately add a pejorative to the names of the subcommittees,” Moore remarked. “It is not true that denying people benefits would enable them to escape poverty &#8211; no. The American Rescue Plan is what kept people who were poor from falling into deep, deep poverty.”
Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) responded that “the focus that we are going to have is to try to uplift people out of poverty” and contended that “the best way to uplift people out of poverty is with work.” When Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) asked whether Smith was trying to “shame people” who accept welfare, Smith responded that he had difficulty with taking the concern seriously given the rhetorical manipulation advanced by Democrats.
“This is clearly about the words and definitions,” he added. “Your party is one that we don’t know if you can say man or woman, birthing person or mother. It’s clearly about work and welfare.”
Democrats have indeed provoked controversy by using the term “birthing people&#8221; in official capacities, including the first budget proposal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-budget-proposal-refers-to-mothers-as-birthing-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> by President Joe Biden. The purpose of the change was to support those who identify as transgender or “nonbinary,” although opponents contend that the phrase is demeaning toward women.
Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL) concurred with Moore that the name change has racial implications. “As an African American and ranking member of this subcommittee, what was ‘Family Support,’ I want to record my strong opposition to the change of the title ‘Work and Welfare.’ It is my hope that this title was not intended to be racially offensive, but in reality it really is,” he commented. “The term ‘welfare’ is a deeply pejorative term in our country that many people use to describe individuals who want to game the system.”
Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) called the conversation “silly” and said that the committee had more urgent matters to address. “It seems to me a bit of a fabricated controversy,” he remarked. “I hope we can get beyond this and get to the work that needs to get done.”
Moore emphatically insisted that the name change was malevolent and accused Smith of prejudice. “Ronald Reagan really used it exclusively to describe the ‘welfare queen’ who had numerous names, Social Security numbers, different husbands, different welfare checks,” she said. “You know doggone well that it has not changed to be the dog whistle that it was there. It’s a foghorn at this point. And you know, Mr. Chairman, that the intent of this change, however many times it is changed, is to cast aspersions on the people who are served.”
Moore added that she should wear her “welfare queen tiara” to future meetings. “We know what the intent of the use of this word is,” she continued. “You’re telling us right now that the whole focus of this subcommittee is going to be demonizing particularly women who have children, and I don’t appreciate it.”
As noted by Smith and other members of the committee, labor shortages have increased the urgency among lawmakers to address welfare reform. Even as there exist roughly 10.5 million job openings and 5.7 million unemployed individuals across the economy, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unemployment-plummets-in-december-as-federal-reserve-vows-more-rate-hikes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, families with neither parent working can receive welfare benefits worth more than six figures per year in multiple states, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/some-families-with-no-one-working-can-receive-up-to-six-figures-of-welfare-in-three-states">study</a> from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

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Democrats Accuse Republicans Of Using 'Welfare' As A 'Pejorative' In Renaming Subcommittee

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<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/whoopi-goldberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> suggested on Monday that nothing would ever truly change with regard to police brutality until officers started beating white people.
Goldberg made the comments during a discussion about the death of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/shelby-county-d-a-says-all-individuals-involved-in-tyre-nichols-confrontation-could-face-charges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tyre Nichols</a> on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; arguing that people only seemed to care about police brutality when they could personally identify with the victims — and suggesting that some people might not ever care unless police officers attacked white people.
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Claiming she&#39;s &quot;not suggesting that,&quot; Whoopi suggests white people need to be beaten by police before reforms will happen. &quot;Do you we need to see white people also get beat before anybody will do anything? &#8230; Don&#39;t write us and tell me what a racist I am.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/dTJ72C6dTv">pic.twitter.com/dTJ72C6dTv</a>
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&#8220;If it is a black policeman or a white policeman, it is a problem in policing itself, you know,&#8221; Goldberg said, adding, &#8220;Seems things don&#8217;t seem to make sense to people unless it&#8217;s somebody they can feel, or they can recognize — but how many times do we have to see — do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not suggesting that, so don&#8217;t write us and tell me what a — you know, what a racist I am,&#8221; Goldberg continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m just asking, is that what people have to see in order to wake up and realize this affects us all?&#8221;
Cohost Sunny Hostin weighed in then, arguing that police departments got far too much funding and claiming that the money could be better spent on fighting homelessness or assisting people with mental health resources.
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Whoopi says police departments need to get a &quot;sense of humanity.&quot; &quot;Is it just because folks have dehumanized us and made us like kind of monsters?&quot; She claims &quot;that other side on television,&quot; says black people &quot;have no humanity&quot; and &quot;murder&quot; is the first thing cops think to do. <a href="https://t.co/wz2bAvcYaq">pic.twitter.com/wz2bAvcYaq</a>
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Goldberg jumped back in, saying that the real problem that police departments lacked &#8220;humanity.&#8221;
&#8220;Is it just because folks have dehumanized us and made us like some kind of monsters?&#8221; Goldberg asked. &#8220;I listen to that other side on television and they talk about us like we have no humanity.&#8221;
She went on to suggest that police officers had murder on their minds when they initiated traffic stops, adding, &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s a traffic stop for a lady who&#8217;s smoking in her car and you don&#8217;t understand why she doesn&#8217;t want you in her face but you kill her and everybody goes, &#8216;Oh, that&#8217;s really sad.'&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of this,&#8221; Goldberg concluded. &#8220;You should be sick of this. Are we? Then make sure that when you have the opportunity to make the changes that need to be made, make them! Don&#8217;t sit around and do — just talk about them — let&#8217;s get something done.&#8221;

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Do you know what we haven&#8217;t had in a while? Race riots. 
Don&#8217;t worry, though, because <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/the-greatest-lie-ever-sold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Floyd, 2.0</a> is potentially coming to Memphis, Tennessee.
At least, that&#8217;s what it seems like after listening to Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis break down the death of Tyre Nichols. 
Nichols was involved in a traffic stop on January 7. He died three days later on January 10. As a result, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-former-memphis-police-officers-charged-in-mans-death-city-braces-for-possible-riots">five Memphis police officers</a> have been fired and charged with second-degree murder. 
Video footage of the incident hasn&#8217;t been released yet, but authorities are letting people know it&#8217;s a real doozy. It will reportedly be published Friday night.
&#8220;I expect you to feel outraged in the disregard of basic human rights as our police officers have taken an oath to do the opposite of what transpired on the video,&#8221; she explained in the video below. &#8220;I expect our citizens to exercise their First Amendment right to protest, to demand action and results. But we need to ensure our community is safe in this process. None of this is a calling card for inciting violence or destruction in our community or against our citizens.&#8221;
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So that&#8217;s the setup. She&#8217;s saying she expects you to feel “outraged” — which could be taken as a message that it’s okay for you to do whatever you want in protest. She did add a minor note at the end about safety and how violence won&#8217;t be tolerated, but that part was really glossed over. 
Worse, she is essentially saying this video is worse than you could ever imagine, conjuring all sorts of images for listeners. 
Of course, the Memphis police chief could have attempted to assuage concerns by giving you facts about the case. 
She didn&#8217;t, so I will.
Per <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/tyre-nichols-video-police-chief-warns-memphis-violently-body-cam-footage-release">Fox News</a>, &#8220;Nichols was pulled over on Jan. 7 around 8:30 p.m. for &#8216;reckless driving’ near Raines Road and Ross Road in Memphis. A &#8216;confrontation occurred&#8217; during the stop, which resulted in police chasing Nichols on foot, police said. He was later apprehended.&#8221;
“While attempting to take the suspect into custody, another confrontation occurred; however, the suspect was ultimately apprehended,” Memphis Police Department said. “Afterward the suspect complained of having shortness of breath, at which point an ambulance was called to the scene.&#8221;
Then, he was taken to a nearby hospital where he passed away three days later.
Now, based on that alone, a reasonable response would be, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know what that footage is going to show, but I think that we can already discern that had he complied with the police officers, and did not start running, thus causing a foot chase, and causing two separate confrontations with police then — perhaps he would be alive.&#8217;
Instead, though, citizens of Memphis and America are left feeling they should be infuriated before even seeing the video.
It should be noted that nowhere in that video did Davis show support for the police. She didn&#8217;t mention how things allegedly escalated because of Nichols&#8217; own actions, according to the report. 
So, in effect, she has now created a potentially very dangerous situation in Memphis. As with George Floyd, it&#8217;s highly possible violence will break out across the country like we saw in 2020 thanks to the BLM rioters.
Worse — we haven&#8217;t even seen the video yet.
What Davis did was irresponsible. It seems she didn&#8217;t want people to have the facts, she wanted people to have heightened emotions.
Ready your engines, people, because it could get very ugly in Memphis starting Friday night.
This article has been edited for clarity.

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Jane Fonda claimed that there&#8217;d be no &#8220;climate crisis&#8221; if not for &#8220;racism&#8221; and Twitter users definitely had some thoughts, with many people blasting the actress for her comment.
During a recent episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfYheo6sHQ">The Kelly Clarkson Show</a>,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jane-fonda">85-year-old</a> actress was joined by her &#8220;80 for Brady&#8221; co-stars as she talked about what had motivated her to get involved in social activism.
&#8220;For me, it was learning about the Vietnam War,&#8221; Fonda shared. &#8220;And when I really understood what that was about, I couldn&#8217;t not do anything except try to join the movement to stop it.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you know, you can take anything — sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, whatever, the war,&#8221; the actress added. &#8220;And if you really get into it, and study it and learn about it and the history of it and everything&#8217;s connected. There&#8217;d be no climate crisis if it wasn&#8217;t for racism.&#8221;
Headlines surfaced on Twitter on Thursday about her comments like, &#8220;&#8216;Everything is Connected&#8217;: Jane Fonda Links Climate Crisis to Racism,&#8221; &#8220;Jane Fonda Tries To Link Climate Crisis To Racism,&#8221; with people blasting &#8220;Hanoi Jane&#8221; as a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; and more.
Fonda acquired the nickname &#8220;Hanoi Jane&#8221; in 1972 when she went to Hanoi, Vietnam, to decry the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/jane-fonda-thered-be-no-climate-crisis-without-racism/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">New York Post</a> noted.
&#8220;This Hanoi Jane freak has no clue. &#8216;Everything is connected&#8217; Jane Fonda links climate crisis to racism,&#8221; Juanita Broaddrick tweeted.
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This Hanoi Jane freak has no clue. 
“Everything is connected” Jane Fonda links climate crisis to racism. <a href="https://t.co/vKvxcKr2Fl">https://t.co/vKvxcKr2Fl</a>
&mdash; Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1618649606287654914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Jane Fonda is insane,&#8221; Brigitte Gabriel wrote.
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Jane Fonda is insane.
&mdash; Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) <a href="https://twitter.com/ACTBrigitte/status/1618667914814705671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host Dagen McDowell said, &#8220;Hanoi Jane is a disgrace to the United States of America! &#8230; We would not be talking about her today if she was not born into an acting family. And I don&#8217;t say that with humor; I say it with complete disdain and complete derision! Go away, Jane Fonda.&#8221;
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Fox host Dagen McDowell: &quot;Hanoi Jane is a disgrace to the United States of America! &#8230; we would not be talking about her today if she was not born into an acting family. And I don’t say that with humor; I say it with complete disdain and complete derision! Go away, Jane Fonda.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/67PdM2Ia30">pic.twitter.com/67PdM2Ia30</a>
&mdash; Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1618671018410921984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hanoi Jane Fonda is whining about the weather from a climate-controlled building,&#8221; another person wrote. &#8220;She got there by flying on a plane, driving in a car, staying in an air-conditioned hotel, drinking plastic bottled water, and going through armed security. She doesn&#8217;t care about the climate.
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Hanoi Jane Fonda is whining about the weather from a climate-controlled building. She got there by flying on a plane, driving in a car, staying in an air-conditioned hotel, drinking plastic bottled water, and going through armed security. She doesn&#39;t care about the climate.
&mdash; Jacob Airey (@realJacobAirey) <a href="https://twitter.com/realJacobAirey/status/1618607871754907655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Fox Business host David Asman tweeted, &#8220;It appears that Jane Fonda&#8217;s calling out John Kerry, Al Gore, and all the other jet-setting climate hypocrites for their &#8216;racism.'&#8221;
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It appears that Jane Fonda’s calling out John Kerry, Al Gore, and all the other jet-setting climate hypocrites for their “racism.” <a href="https://t.co/etkHqxJaAi">pic.twitter.com/etkHqxJaAi</a>
&mdash; David Asman (@DavidAsmanfox) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/1618654977697714176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Jane Fonda links &#8216;Climate Crisis&#8217; to Racism. 50 years later and Hanoi Jane is still embarrassing herself,&#8221; another person tweeted.
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Jane Fonda links &#39;Climate Crisis&#39; to Racism.
50 years later and Hanoi Jane is still embarrassing herself.<a href="https://t.co/IgJPq8QqkE">https://t.co/IgJPq8QqkE</a>
&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1618649762395492353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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wow, thank you outnumbered on fox today they nailed it traitor Jane Fonda she needs to retire all the Vietnam veterans who died her horrible actions disservice to the United States. Go away, Jane. <a href="https://t.co/vOyZpGUAaP">pic.twitter.com/vOyZpGUAaP</a>
&mdash; DjJames (@DjDJRJames1) <a href="https://twitter.com/DjDJRJames1/status/1618669245927428096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/Janefonda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Janefonda</a> seek mental help <a href="https://t.co/iuHaASZTpj">pic.twitter.com/iuHaASZTpj</a>
&mdash; Matthew Rachels (@combatvet9921) <a href="https://twitter.com/combatvet9921/status/1618662468376735745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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I think that Jane Fonda&#39;s excess of botox and fillers, have seriously impaired her brain. 🥴 <a href="https://t.co/s5yWZkmowm">https://t.co/s5yWZkmowm</a>
&mdash; ASHA💫 (@Trublood4life) <a href="https://twitter.com/Trublood4life/status/1615212682185179144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The left have LOST their minds!<a href="https://t.co/Tfk3NQctxA">https://t.co/Tfk3NQctxA</a>
&mdash; Jenna Ellis 🇺🇸 (@JennaEllisEsq) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1618673981816705024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Hanoi Jane Fonda has lost all creditability on the Kelly Clarkson show. OMG she blames climate change on racism! Why do we even listen or give platforms to old crazy people who have lost touch of reality? She is delusional and needs to stay in her lane! She is Attention getting <a href="https://t.co/aQM4PTXWFN">pic.twitter.com/aQM4PTXWFN</a>
&mdash; AlaskaKenny (@AlaskaKennyO) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlaskaKennyO/status/1618671033476841472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney-world">Disney World</a>’s iconic Splash Mountain ride just went on its final run, and some people are not happy about it.
Fans took to social media to share a retrospective of the water ride’s decades-long past, including footage of the doors to the ride closing for the very last time. The hashtag “goodbyesplashmountain” currently has 1.7 million views on TikTok.
“I will miss you forever. Goodbye, Splash Mountain,” one video caption read. Another video noted that the line to board the ride was two hours long on its last operating day. Enterprising <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">park visitors</a> allegedly took water from the log flume and were reselling it on Ebay (sic) for up to fifty dollars per bottle. 
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The entire crowd joins in singing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah as the final guests ride Splash Mountain at the Magic Kingdom <a href="https://t.co/rdOYCG0WeF">pic.twitter.com/rdOYCG0WeF</a>
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The ride opened in 1992 and has been a popular staple of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom ever since, with celebrities like Princess Diana going for a ride. But the company announced in 2020 that it would shut down Splash Mountain, which was accused of having racist themes, in favor of creating a more inclusive Princess Tiana-themed ride in its place.
“Tiana is a modern, courageous, and empowered woman, who pursues her dreams and never loses sight of what’s really important,” a blog post from Disney explained, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-world-announces-closing-date-for-iconic-ride-to-be-replaced-by-more-inclusive-princess-tiana-attraction">reported</a>. 
“And with this longstanding history of updating attractions and adding new magic, the retheming of Splash Mountain is of particular importance today. The new concept is inclusive — one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year.”
Some parkgoers called Splash Mountain “extremely problematic” due to “stereotypical racist tropes.” It’s based on elements from the Disney film “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">Song of the South</a>” (1946), which were included on the ride. Former executive secretary of the NAACP Walter White <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/03/bob-iger-song-of-the-south-disney-disclaimer-1202879464/">said</a> the movie “helps to perpetuate a dangerously glorified picture of slavery.&#8221;
The film is set on a plantation and features an elderly black man, Uncle Remus, telling traditional African American folk tales to white children. The movie was not included on the Disney+ streaming platform as CEO Bob Iger said it was “not appropriate in today’s world.” 
“Song of the South” is set in Reconstruction-era America during a time when slavery had been abolished following the civil war. The character Uncle Remus is not a slave but is sharing stories with a 7-year-old boy named Johnny who is visiting his grandmother’s plantation. 
Pleas to keep Splash Mountain open were ultimately unsuccessful. The change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/everyone-to-save-splash-mountain-and-keep-it-as-it-is-in-magic-kingdom-and-disneyland">petition</a> &#8220;To Save Splash Mountain&#8221; garnered more than 99,000 signatures, but in the end, the ride closed anyway.
&#8220;Splash Mountain has never included depictions of slaves or any racist elements and is based solely on historical African folktales that families of all ethnicities have been enjoying for nearly a century,&#8221; it said. &#8220;It is absurd to pander to a small group of ‘Disney haters’ that don&#8217;t understand the story, and re-theme such a nostalgic ride.&#8221;
Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.

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Fans Bid Farewell To Disney World’s Splash Mountain As It Closed After 30 Years Due To Racism Assertions

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A racially charged controversy at a California college that prompted one trustee to threaten to take conservative faculty &#8220;to the slaughterhouse&#8221; appears to be based on false claims, according to a Daily Wire investigation.
John Corkins, vice president of the Kern Community College District (KCCD) Board of Trustees, leveled the threat at a December 13, 2022 meeting after college activists accused conservative faculty of racism and making them feel unsafe. Audio obtained by The Daily Wire, however, appears to show that the alleged racist comments were never made, and that activists claiming they felt unsafe were actually treated with respect.
The racist remarks allegedly occurred, ironically, during an October 11 diversity committee meeting, and centered around claims made by students who attended the meeting in support of professor Paula Parks, who obtained her doctorate in philosophy at Capella University and runs Bakersfield’s Umoja ASTEP program, described on <a href="https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/student/aai/umoja" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its website</a> as “a program that integrates academics, support services and African-American culture.”
After that meeting, Parks’ students began publicly claiming that their mentor was smeared by Matthew Garrett, who has a doctorate in American history from Arizona State University and teaches history and ethnic studies at Bakersfield. One student, Jordyn Davis, submitted <a href="https://committees.kccd.edu/sites/committees.kccd.edu/files/PublicComments-JordynDavis-19oct22%20.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a written comment</a> to Bakersfield’s academic senate with an alleged direct quote of Garrett saying “Dr. Parks’ way of teaching is not…” and saying this made her feel “a mixture of confusion and concern.”
In <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=ftRes8eeQWs&amp;si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE&amp;t=1458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">additional comments</a> to the KCCD Board of Trustees in December, Davis claimed that Garrett “went on to insult Dr. Parks,” which she insisted “felt very personal and came from a place of hate.” In both instances, Davis began her remarks by saying Garrett “insisted” that a survey purporting to show students of color experienced “racial stress,” “race-based physical aggression” and “microaggressions” was incorrect.
Audio of the October 11 meeting, in which Garrett was alleged to have made the comments, shows that Garrett did ask whether the underlying survey was valid and suggested doing another survey, since the original was conducted during the pandemic when students weren’t on campus. He also suggested at the beginning of his comments that he was “concerned about repeated appeals to popularity as evidence of truth” and indicated toward Andrea Thorson, Bakersfield’s dean of instruction, that she teaches in her class that this is bad logic. But he did not mention Parks during his remarks.
&#8220;Call me old fashioned but I believe in truth and evidence-based reasoning,&#8221; Garrett told The Daily Wire. &#8220;In an age of emotional incontinence we need to remember that while feelings do matter they cannot displace facts.&#8221;
Garrett <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-college-professor-completely-fabricated-claims-racism-may-cost-him-his-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News earlier this week that the “completely fabricated” claims of racism could get him fired. Garrett added that since the meeting from which the allegations arose, he had received a notice from the administration claiming he had caused “real harm” to students and was being removed from the diversity committee.
Two other students also submitted comments to the academic senate. One claimed she felt “very uncomfortable” after walking into the room and seeing “a few of the faculty’s faces.” She also claimed that she “felt” that if she were to take those professors’ classes, she “would fail in the classes because of the color of my skin.”
Another accusation centered around comments made by Ximena Da Silva Tavares, a research assistant who received her doctor of philosophy from Caltech. Parks read an accusation from a student at the December board meeting who claimed Da Silva Tavares said during the October meeting that racism doesn’t exist. Da Silva Tavares brought up her own concerns about how the survey showing students of color were the victims of racism on campus was collected and whether there really was an issue of racism on campus. She ended her remarks by saying she and other professors “question the solutions of the problems,” and “question even the problems that you’re saying that we have.”
Da Silva Tavares did not respond to a Daily Wire request for comment.
Another student who submitted comments focused on a question asked by one of the professors at the meeting, Catherine Jones, who asked Garrett when the students entered the room, “Why the f*** are they here?”
Jones admitted to making the comment in an academic senate meeting in October, saying she was reacting to what was, in her view, Parks’ use of students as pawns.
When asked about the allegations against Garrett and other members of the diversity committee, Parks spoke about the &#8220;trauma&#8221; her students endured at the meeting.
&#8220;When I take students to a campus committee meeting, I want them to be positively educated about how an educational institution works, not traumatized and questioning whether they want to enter the profession,&#8221; Parks said.
Parks was then asked how her students were &#8220;traumatized.&#8221; She didn&#8217;t respond.
The students and Parks left just 40 minutes into the diversity meeting, after a proposal from Parks creating a new diversity task force was approved.
It was these accusations that led KCCD Board of Trustees vice president Corkins to discuss taking the conservative professors “to the slaughterhouse.”
&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a segment&#8221; Corkins said, referring to people at Bakersfield College, adding that it was only &#8220;5 percent that we have to continue to cull.&#8221;
&#8220;Got &#8217;em in my livestock operation, and that&#8217;s why we put a rope on some of &#8217;em and take &#8217;em to the slaughterhouse,&#8221; Corkins added, according to <a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/california-college-trustee-wants-cull-conservative-faculty-take-em" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> from Just The News. &#8220;Just bothers me when the bad actors are paid staff and they&#8217;re faculty,&#8221; who are &#8220;hard to get rid of.&#8221;
Corkins has since apologized for his remarks, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/trustee-apologies-for-saying-faculty-who-challenge-dei-should-be-taken-to-slaughterhouse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix reported</a>, saying his “intent was to emphasize that the individuals who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting have my full support.”
The allegations of racism were just the latest in an attempt by Bakersfield to get rid of conservative professors, who run a think tank “dedicated to the free speech, open inquiry, critical thinking to advance American ideals within the broader Western tradition of meritocracy, individual agency, civic virtue, liberty of conscience and free markets” called the Renegade Institute for Liberty, <a href="https://www.bakersfieldcollege.edu/renegade-institute-for-liberty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to their website</a>. As Just The News reported, KCCD general counsel Christopher Hine accused Garrett and his fellow history professor and Renegade Institute colleague Erin Miller of making defamatory statements about the Social Justice Institute (SJI), a rival think tank at Bakersfield. The allegedly defamatory statements related to SJI’s spending, which Garrett and Miller had criticized as politicized. Hine claimed that Garrett and Miller had alleged that SJI had misused grant money.
In response, Garrett and Miller filed a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against Hine and the KCCD chancellor at the time back in 2021. They filed an amended complaint in the summer of 2022, swapping in the new chancellor and KCCD vice president. Garrett had previously accused the KCCD vice president of sharing confidential files with Garrett’s critics and attempting to block his promotion. A settlement conference in the matter was held on December 5, but a settlement has not been reached, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-college-professor-completely-fabricated-claims-racism-may-cost-him-his-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Things really began escalating during the 2021-2022 academic year, when four conservative- or libertarian-leaning professors joined Bakersfield’s diversity committee. Even before the conservatives joined, the diversity committee had members <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSeMaR0F9bQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously accusing each other of racism</a>. More conservatives joined the committee during the 2022-2023 academic year, now comprising more than half of the faculty seats on the committee, according to a source familiar with the matter who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation.
Parks then <a href="https://youtu.be/Sw2eq6PmFcU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> creating a new task force that omitted conservative members. It was that proposal that was approved the night that Parks and her students alleged racist comments had been made.
Bakersfield College did not respond to a Daily Wire request for comment.

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California College Trustee Wanted To Send Conservative Faculty ‘To The Slaughterhouse’ Based On A Race Hoax

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Octavia Spencer</a> said she experienced &#8220;more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racism">racism</a>&#8220; when she first moved to Los Angeles than she ever had during her childhood in Alabama.
The 52-year-old actress, known for movies like &#8220;The Help&#8221; and &#8220;Hidden Figures,&#8221; talked about experiencing what she called racist behavior upon moving to L.A. during a recent <a href="http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1402-octavia-spencer">interview</a> for the podcast &#8220;WTF with Marc Maron.&#8221;
Spencer also said she had positive recollections of her childhood growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, which Maron found surprising.
&#8220;It’s a beautiful place and beautiful people. You know, I love being from there,&#8221; the actress said.
&#8220;But it’s like, it’s heavy, man. Right?&#8221; Maron replied.
&#8220;I think everywhere is heavy. Everywhere has its history. You know what I mean? It’s &#8230; I think everywhere has problems,” Spencer said. &#8220;You can’t deny that southern history is intense,&#8221; she continued, before saying that her experience in Alabama happened during a less racist time. 
&#8220;Well, what’s beautiful for me is that stuff preceded me. You know, I was a child of the ’70s … You know, as you grow older and the things that you can remember. That wasn’t a part of my history. I learned about it. It’s not everything &#8230; anything that I experienced.&#8221;
&#8220;My mother definitely, you know, taught us about the world and the realities, the harsh realities of the world and history,&#8221; the “Self Made” star continued. &#8220;But growing up in Alabama, I’m going to be honest, I felt more racism when I first moved [to Los Angeles] than I ever, ever had in Alabama.”
Spencer said she expected Los Angeles to be progressive. She recalled thinking, &#8220;Oh, California is gonna be this free and liberal thinking place,&#8221; but claimed she was singled out while shopping in a store. 
&#8220;It is so funny. It’s right out of ‘Pretty Woman,’&#8221; she said of the experience. &#8220;I remember going into a shop and being followed, like, at first, I didn’t even — I was just, like, so excited, like just walking around, and then I realized that I was being followed.&#8221;
She continued, &#8220;It was kind of strange in that way,&#8221; saying the incident was &#8220;glaringly obvious,&#8221; but that she doesn&#8217;t believe she&#8217;s been discriminated against since then.
Spencer made her film debut appearing in the film adaptation of “A Time to Kill” in 1996. She went on to appear in small roles for several years before her breakout role in “The Help,” which earned her several awards including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2012.

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‘The Help’ Actress Octavia Spencer Says She Encountered ‘More Racism’ In L.A. Than Alabama

'The Help' Actress Octavia Spencer Says She Encountered 'More Racism' In L.A. Than Alabama

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Woke culture is actively destroying the dream that civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of in his famous &#8220;I have a dream&#8221; speech, forcing people back into a society where they are not only defined primarily by skin color but assigned value based on it as well.
The values have changed in a culture that now advocates for &#8220;antiracism&#8221; — defined by active steps taken to effectively unmake the racist institutions by implementing a new discrimination that favors those who were previously the victims of discrimination in order to artificially elevate them and even the score.
President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration is already hard at work on those efforts — as he said during his Monday speech honoring Dr. King — particularly with regard to housing.
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Biden began by saying that simply on the basis of who lived in the homes, houses in predominantly white neighborhoods had higher real estate values than houses in predominantly black neighborhoods — and his administration planned to correct that.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to aggressively, aggressively combat racial discrimination in housing including working to restore the rule that says if a community gets a federal housing aid, it&#8217;s not enough just to say it won&#8217;t discriminate. It has to be meaningful, affirmative steps to overcome patterns of segregation,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;And give everybody a fair shot that lives there.&#8221;
So how does woke culture — and Biden&#8217;s agenda — line up with the dream Dr. King outlined so many years ago?
&#8220;So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. King said</a> from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963.
But <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> turns those &#8220;self-evident&#8221; truths on their heads, teaching even young children that being born with a certain skin color conveys a certain level of &#8220;privilege.&#8221; Born into the original sin of racism based on nothing deeper than their skin color, white children are expected to strive to acknowledge their &#8220;privilege&#8221; and atone for it in educational and social situations.
&#8220;I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood,&#8221; King continued.
But college campuses across the United States have embraced the move to adopt &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; for people of color — where white people are not allowed — that look suspiciously like little more than segregation under a new name.
&#8220;People of color need their own spaces. Black people need their own spaces,&#8221; Kelsey Blackwell wrote in a <a href="https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/officeofthemayor/2019/whypeopleofcolorneedspaceswithoutwhitepeople1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 piece</a> published on the official website of Cambridge, Massachusetts. &#8220;We need spaces where we can be our authentic selves without white people’s judgment and insecurity muzzling that expression. We need spaces where we can simply be—where we can get off the treadmill of making white people comfortable and finally realize just how tired we are.&#8221;
King&#8217;s speech continues: &#8220;I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.&#8221;
But anti-racism advocates like Dr. Ibram X. Kendi call for a different nation — one that uses past instances of discrimination to intentionally introduce a &#8220;new discrimination&#8221; in an effort to settle the score.
Kendi writes that it&#8217;s not the discrimination itself that is racist — but rather the intent behind the discrimination that can be problematic. But if the goal is to restore &#8220;equity,&#8221; he argues, then the discrimination is not only &#8220;antiracist&#8221; but a laudable pursuit.
&#8220;If discrimination is creating equity [minority wealth], then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist &#8230; The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.&#8221;
There are some who have pushed back against woke culture, however, like former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rice explained during a 2021 appearance on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; that she believed it was possible to teach young black students that they were valuable and valued – and capable of accomplishing anything they were willing to work for — without teaching them that they must drag other students down in order to do so.
Explaining that she herself had grown up in Birmingham, Alabama, when the south was still segregated — and she spent much of her childhood unable to go out to dinner or a movie with her parents — Rice said that what her parents had taught her had always stuck with her.
&#8220;My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice, but they also told me, ‘That’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.’ And that’s the message that I think we ought to be sending to kids,&#8221; she said.
She went on to add that her main concern with academic exercises like Critical Race Theory was that it attempted to solve the problem of racism by simply finding a place to lay blame for it.
&#8220;One of the worries that I have about the way that we’re talking about race is that it either seems so big that somehow white people now have to feel guilty for everything that happened in the past. I don’t think that’s very productive,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Or black people have to feel disempowered by race. I would like black kids to be completely empowered, to know that they are beautiful in their blackness, but in order to do that, I don’t have to make white kids feel bad for being white.&#8221;
Rice argued that the conversation about race — aided by CRT and other social drivers — had been steered in the &#8220;wrong direction,&#8221; away from the equality that activists like King had dreamed of.
&#8220;Let Freedom ring,&#8221; King concluded his iconic speech. &#8220;And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God&#8217;s children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.&#8221;

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