Demonstrators tore down an obelisk in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Monday, which had been raised to commemorate New Mexico&#8217;s Union veterans of the Civil War, as well as those who fought in battles against Native Americans.
The monument, which stood in the Santa Fe Plaza since 1868, had long been a source of controversy, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/13/us/santa-fe-crowds-destroy-obelisk-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to CNN</a>. In addition to Union veterans, the inscription on one of its faces <a href="https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2020/10/12/the-obelisk-comes-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">was dedicated</a> &#8220;to the heroes who have fallen in the various battles with savage Indians in the territory of New Mexico.&#8221; The word &#8220;savage&#8221; had later been chiseled off.
Democratic Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber in June had ordered the obelisk removed, but such plans reportedly fell through because the monument was too heavy. It took approximately 40 people about 20 minutes to rip it down with ropes, chains, and pulleys on Monday.
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“The actions and violence that broke out on the Plaza today that led to the wanton destruction of the Obelisk was completely unacceptable,&#8221; Webber said in a statement. &#8220;That’s not how we do things in Santa Fe. It is not only a violation of the law, it is a violation of the ties between people in our community. So many people have abided by the law, there is no place in Santa Fe for this type of behavior. There is no place for people taking the law into their own hands. There is no place for people destroying historic monuments on their own.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.krqe.com/news/protests/controversial-obelisk-in-santa-fe-plaza-torn-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Local reports</a> noted that police were not present on the scene when the obelisk was toppled, but the Santa Fe Police Department said on Facebook, &#8220;The City of Santa Fe Police Department had six officers on the plaza today for the scheduled peaceful demonstration. The Police Department had no intelligence or information that would have led them to believe the demonstration would become destructive or violent.&#8221;
The two men arrested in connection with the incident were 27-year-old Dylan Wrobel, who was charged with battery on a peace officer and resisting an officer; and 24-year-old Sean Sunderland, who was charged with resisting an officer and criminal trespass.
The destruction in Santa Fe came the same day that protesters ripped down statues of former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in Portland, Oregon.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-riot-lincoln-roosevelt-statues" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>:
<blockquote>Portland police declared a riot after protesters turned violent and broke windows and toppled statues of former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.
Police declared a riot shortly before 1 a.m. early on Monday morning after rioters began vandalizing and destroying property in downtown Portland. The destruction and chaos came out of an event that organizers had dubbed “Indigenous People’s Day Of Rage,” according to <a href="https://twitter.com/BrennaKellyNews/status/1315522832638513154">fliers</a> that were handed out at the gathering.
“Indigenous People’s Day Of Rage” was scheduled on the night before Columbus Day, a federal holiday meant to honor the famed explorer Christopher Columbus. In recent years, activists have questioned Columbus’s place in history over his treatment of Native Americans.
Organizers signaled their intent to turn the protest violent by warning away photographers, reporters, and others who usually attend such protests with taking part, according to <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/10/protesters-topple-portland-statues-of-theodore-roosevelt-abraham-lincoln-in-day-of-rage.html">The Oregonian</a>. Videos surfaced later on Twitter of destruction caused after rioters tore down two statues and shattered the windows of the Oregon Historical Society Museum.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-riot-lincoln-roosevelt-statues" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Portland Rioters Topple Statues Of Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt During ‘Indigenous People’s Day Of Rage’</a>

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‘Completely Unacceptable’: Protesters Rip Down Monument To Union Soldiers In Santa Fe

Cancel Culture

New Mexico

Santa Fe

New Mexico has sued a local county sheriff’s office to force officers to enforce heavy-handed health mandates put in place because of the coronavirus.
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas filed the <a href="https://www.hobbsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020-07-29-Hobbs-Emergency-Verified-Petition-for-Writ-of-Mandamus.pdf">lawsuit</a> in the New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday, targeting the Lea County Sheriff’s Office and Lea County Sheriff Corey Helton. The suit requests a Writ of Mandamus to force Helton and his officers to enforce the state’s health mandates against restaurants that are in violation of a ban on indoor dining.
The state’s court filing says:
<blockquote>Despite the spike in new cases, Respondent Corey Helton, the Sheriff of Lea County, and his deputies have requested that restaurants open their facilities in violation of the State’s public health emergency orders. According to television reports, the Sheriff’s Office patronized local restaurants that have opened despite public health orders, and that are operating without a valid food service permit. These actions of Sheriff Helton and the Lea County Sheriff’s Office (“LCSO”) threaten to further propel the spread of COVID-19 in Lea County and across New Mexico. Not only does this risk the health and lives of New Mexicans, but it also makes it more likely that school and business closures will need to be prolonged undermining the Sheriff’s purported purpose of supporting local businesses. Additionally, the LCSO’s actions misleadingly and unlawfully communicate to the public that they should not follow the State’s directives to maintain social distancing and close certain businesses, including indoor dining.</blockquote>
The state’s action is part of an escalating feud between Santa Fe and Lea County officials, business owners, and others who are flaunting Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s health mandates. Grisham re-imposed strict health orders, including a second ban on indoor dining, in early July after easing initial lockdown orders instituted after the outbreak of the coronavirus in March.
The sheriff’s office responded to the lawsuit in a statement Thursday.
“The Attorney General of the State of New Mexico and the Governor have filed this writ in the New Mexico Supreme Court to compel this office to enforce her mandates that are associated with the public health emergency orders and her executive orders. The writ has not been ruled on by the NMSC; therefore, it is not in effect,” the sheriff’s office said.
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Some businesses in Lea County and across the state have refused to go back into lockdown. The lawsuit says the Helton has dined in, and encouraged others to dine in, restaurants that have had their health licenses revoked by the state for violating health mandates.
The sheriff’s office has posted several instances on Facebook of deputies sitting down and eating at restaurants that have refused to obey Grisham’s latest health order.
&#8220;#heyleacounty ! Do not be alarmed when you see LCSO Deputies enter local restaurants. We’re not there to enforce the Governor’s mandate. We’re there to grab a bite and support our local businesses!&#8221; the sheriff’s office Facebook page posted on July 21.
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One of the Lea County businesses that has been targeted by Grisham, the Pizza Inn of Hobbs, also shared a photo thanking local law enforcement for their support. Michael Moore, the owner of the Hobbs Pizza Inn, said in a July 18 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/foxandfriends/videos/1618047435016786">interview</a> on Fox News that he was forced to violate Grisham’s health mandate or lay off a third of his employees.
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Lea County Sheriff Regional SWAT Team standing with us! 🇺🇸❤️🍕
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Michelle Lujan Grisham

Sheriff Remains Defiant After New Mexico Governor Sues To Enforce Coronavirus Lockdown

COVID

In May 2018, as a shooter rampaged Santa Fe High School in Texas, David Briscoe, a substitute English teacher at the school, took heroic actions to save his students. He barricaded the door to his classroom with desks and anything else he could find. He turned out the lights and told his students to “get down.” As he and his students remained silent, they heard the screams of those who were being gunned down elsewhere.
A compelling and harrowing tale, to be sure. Except, none of it happened.
The man who called himself David Briscoe told his story to CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and the Austin American-Statesman. All posted his comments and claims.
But in April of this year, Briscoe tried to tell his story to <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/07/01/santa-fe-shooting-texas-david-briscoe/">The Texas Tribune</a>. Briscoe talked about the “very, very loud” beginning of the rampage, and how he would never go back to the school because there’s “blood on the walls.” He said he quit teaching after the shooting and moved to Florida.
The Santa Fe Independent School District, however, told the Tribune that no one by the name of David Briscoe had ever been employed there in any capacity.
“We are extremely disappointed that an individual that has never been a part of our school community would represent themselves as a survivor of the mass violence tragedy that our community endured,” said district superintendent Leigh Wall. “This situation illustrates how easily misinformation can be created and circulated, especially when the amount of detailed information available is limited due to the still ongoing investigation.”
Further, Lt. James Roy of the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office told the Tribune that the shooting was on the other side of the school from the English classes.
“The best I can tell, we have no record of [Briscoe],” Roy told the outlet.
In addition, Roy said that Briscoe’s claims of hearing the “very, very loud” shots couldn’t be true because he wouldn’t have “heard anything but the fire alarm” from where he was.
The Tribune also found that Briscoe’s home address was in Florida at the time of the shooting and that no record exists of him ever living in Texas.
We’re often told that no one would ever lie about something so horrible, yet these are the situations that people lie about — because it is so easy. No one wants to question a victim, so many people take advantage.
Perhaps the most famous example — which was also noted by the Tribune — involved Tania Head, a woman who claimed she worked for Merrill Lynch in the World Trade Center’s South Tower during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Head claimed she was on the 78th floor when the second plane hit and that her husband, David, was in the first tower. She claimed her arm was severely injured and hanging by a thread and that she had to crawl over body parts and through fire and smoke to survive. She claimed she was rescued by 9/11 hero Welles Crowther and eventually spoke at his memorial service.
She met former New York City mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, as well as former New York Gov. George Pataki. She led tours where she recounted her ordeal and was quoted and featured in countless media articles about the attack.
In reality, Head was in her native Spain when the attacks occurred and never worked for Merrill Lynch.

He Told A Heroic Story Of Saving Kids During A School Shooting. It Turns Out He Wasn’t There.

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Jenni Monet, a self-styled &#8220;award-winning journalist&#8221; and Native American activist, claimed she was racially profiled both at a liquor store and by responding police officers and was the victim of police brutality. But released surveillance video from the night of her arrest for aggravated DWI in Santa Fe, New Mexico, captures the other side of the story, which includes Monet making obscene gestures at liquor store employees and screaming obscenities at law enforcement.
Court documents <a href="https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/video-journalist-s-profane-name-calling-arrest-after-she-claims-racial-profiling/1919336668">obtained</a> by KRQE News 13 say the journalist was turned away by a liquor store in Santa Fe when she tried to buy two bottles of wine while allegedly appearing to be drunk.
According to surveillance video obtained by the news network, Monet pulls up to the store and goes inside, but is refused service. &#8220;She then went back out to her car before she went back inside, and started screaming and making obscene gestures toward the staff.&#8221;
After the encounter, both Monet and the employees at the liquor store called authorities.
Footage from the Santa Fe County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, which was also obtained by KRQE News 13, captured the activist&#8217;s seemingly belligerent behavior.
After Monet denies that she&#8217;s been drinking to a deputy, he asked the woman, &#8220;How come I can smell a really strong odor of alcohol?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ve not been drinking,&#8221; Monet answered.
The woman said she was racially profiled by staff at the liquor store. &#8220;How were they racially profiling you is what I&#8217;m trying to get at?&#8221; the deputy asked.
&#8220;Because I&#8217;m a brown woman,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;Do you not see that?&#8221;
Things heated up when Monet refused to take a sobriety test.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not walking any f***ing line for you. You hear me?&#8221; she is heard yelling on video. &#8220;I am not walking any f***ing line for you.&#8221;
As the officers cuff Monet, she repeatedly screams, &#8220;Police brutality!&#8221;
Then more insults and accusations come: &#8220;You f***ing fat-fingered f***!&#8221; and &#8220;You f***ing racist motherf***er. You f***ing white supremacist!&#8221;
During the encounter with authorities, Monet reportedly &#8220;told the deputies multiple times that she&#8217;s an award-winning journalist and to &#8216;look [her] up,'&#8221; KRQE News 13 reported.
Still, Monet is sticking to her story, and has even threatened to sue KRQE News 13 for their coverage of the story. The news outlet has disclosed that Monet worked for their organization some 20 years ago, but has not since had any affiliation with KRQE.
&#8220;I am one of a majority of people who are victimized by this kind of racial profiling that exists on a daily basis,&#8221; Monet told KRQE News 13 after speaking at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.
&#8220;Neither was I drinking or driving at the time, and we&#8217;re confident that the evidence that stands in my favor will vindicate me,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;The fact that I&#8217;m an award-winning journalist and that I said that to these officers, and they didn&#8217;t even run an ID check on me or check my name, or even validate the fact that I had called them for help &#8230;&#8221; Monet added.
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WATCH: Journalist Claims She Was Abused, Racially Profiled By Cops. Then The Video Comes Out.

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Race

Last May, there was a horrific school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Joseph Curl <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30810/breaking-least-8-dead-texas-school-shooting-joseph-curl">reported</a> on it, at the time:
<blockquote>At least eight people have been killed in a shooting inside Santa Fe High School in Texas, about 30 miles southeast of Houston, according to news reports.
The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says one suspect is in custody and a second one is detained, ABC13-TV reports. Law enforcement officials say the shooter is a student.
The school district said in a statement: &#8220;This morning an incident occurred at the high school involving an active shooter. The situation is active, but has been contained. There have been confirmed injuries. Details will be released as we receive updated information. Law enforcement will continue to secure the building and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location.&#8221;
The shooting took place in an art class on campus between 7:30 and 7:45 a.m. local time, authorities said.</blockquote>
Final reports indicated that ten people tragically perished — eight students and two teachers.
For months after the Santa Fe shooting, many in both Texas state electoral politics and the Texas political commentariat class debated what might be done in the Lone Star State to deter would-be school shooters. Last month, The Texas Tribune <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/03/05/texas-lawmakers-guns-school-safety-santa-fe/">reported</a> on numerous school safety bills that are wending their way through the state legislature in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44216/weeding-out-misdemeanors-iconic-red-state-texas-josh-hammer">current session</a>. Notably missing from the lawmakers&#8217; legislative agenda was gun control itself:
<blockquote>At Tuesday’s committee hearing — which ran for roughly eight hours — lawmakers laid out a bevy of school safety bills, a top priority for both Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Gov. Greg Abbott. Consideration of the legislation came almost a year after the Santa Fe shootings. Proposals included altering an existing state-sanctioned program to arm teachers and a sweeping measure that would expand emergency training and threat assessment teams in Texas schools.
Gun control wasn’t a topic of consideration at Tuesday’s hearing. Instead, lawmakers spent the bulk of their time discussing what could be done to prevent — or at least mitigate — the next mass tragedy. The proposals that earned the support of lawmakers of all political stripes included ones to strengthen security and mental health initiatives in schools.
&#8220;We have to have the threat assessment and we have to have the mental health, or else we’re going to lose this battle,&#8221; said Michael Matranga, the executive director of security and school safety for Texas City Independent School District.</blockquote>
Now, also according to The Texas Tribune, the Texas Senate has followed through and passed a bill that &#8220;would remove a cap on the number of school personnel that can carry firearms at schools.&#8221; More from <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/04/08/texas-sante-fe-high-shooting-could-prompt-more-armed-marshals-campus/">The Tribune</a>:
<blockquote>In the first legislative session after a deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School that left 10 dead and 13 others wounded, the Texas Senate on Monday advanced a bill that would abolish the limit on how many trained school employees — known as school marshals — can carry guns on campus.
Under the marshal program, school personnel whose identities are kept secret from all but a few local officials, are trained to act as armed peace officers in the absence of law enforcement. Currently, schools that participate in the program can only designate one marshal per 200 student or one marshal per building.
&#8220;School districts need to be able to tailor the school marshal program for their unique needs,&#8221; State Sen. Brandon Creighton, a Conroe Republican who authored Senate Bill 244, said about the legislation last week. &#8220;SB 244 removes those limitations in statute on the school marshal program to accommodate the unique needs of districts across the state &#8230;&#8221;</blockquote>
Per The Tribune, the bill passed by a 20-10 margin — only Democrats opposed the measure. It now heads to the Texas House for debate.
But it seems that, at least for this week, Texas has lived up to its billing as a pro-gun rights bastion.

Good For Texas: Lone Star State Moves Closer To Increasing Armed Personnel In Schools

Gun Control

Gun-Free Zones

Second Amendment

Texas

Last week, the official NBA account tweeted out a photo of Santa Fe high school shooting survivors holding hands during a moment of silence before a basketball game. After Twitter users accused the white students of racism for not holding a black student&#8217;s hand &#8212; one tweet in particular going viral &#8212; the alleged victim&#8217;s mother stepped in to shut down the <a href="https://twitter.com/MlKEHEADLY/status/1001223847939661825">race baiters</a>.
Here&#8217;s the original tweet from the NBA that sparked the racially-charged outrage:
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&#8220;But why is Nobody holding the black girls hand&#8230;.&#8221; wrote one Twitter user, gaining over 100,000 &#8220;likes.&#8221;
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But why is Nobody holding the black girls hand&#8230;. <a href="https://t.co/zfmhvqY3sw">https://t.co/zfmhvqY3sw</a>
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The student is a senior from Santa Fe High School named Nicole Janice. Her classmates weren&#8217;t snubbing her because of her race, explained the girl&#8217;s mother, but didn&#8217;t hold her hand because Nicole would get too emotional before belting out the national anthem.
&#8220;The &#8216;black girl&#8217; is my daughter. It&#8217;s people like you that keep the race crap stirred up,&#8221; wrote the girl&#8217;s mother, Lynda. &#8220;You just look for ways to make things about race. These girls are her friends. You have no idea what you are talking about so you just need to shut up.&#8221;
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The &#8220;black girl&#8221; is my daughter. It&#8217;s people like you that keep the race crap stirred up. You just look for ways to make things about race. These girls are her friends. You have no idea what you are talking about so you just need to shut up.
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1000444470775681026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you want to post something why don&#8217;t you post your condolences to our community and to these families that lost their wives and their children that would be constructive,&#8221; suggested Lynda. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you tell those choir members how sorry you are they lost their classmates.&#8221;
Receiving push-back from Twitter users who doubted Nicole was really her daughter, Lynda posted a photo of her family, adding, &#8220;I have a birth certificate to prove it.&#8221;
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I have a birth certificate to prove it. No reason to lie. Here we are at parent night for band. <a href="https://t.co/KgK8KT4oil">pic.twitter.com/KgK8KT4oil</a>
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1000461427302436864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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She then explained that Nicole &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to cry before she had to sing and holding hands would have caused her to start crying.&#8221;
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So y&#8217;all want the real story my daughter didn&#8217;t want to cry before she had to sing and holding hands would have caused her to start crying that&#8217;s the story nothing about race you bunch of idiots
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1000449033918402563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Lynda explained that she only made her Twitter account because Nicole saw the accusations of racism against her friends and become upset. The girl&#8217;s mother felt it necessary to set the record straight.
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This is a real account. I didn&#8217;t have Twitter until my daughter came in upset about this mess. I only signed on to address that these are truly her friends and nothing about this had to do with race
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1000554154807394309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I explained why her hand wasn&#8217;t being held. People would rather it be about race than about the truth. My daughter is a beautiful young woman. Her and her friends don&#8217;t deserve to be a part of this garbage.
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1000563270560964610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Additionally, Lynda later posted a video of her and Nicole:
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I love this girl to the moon and back. <a href="https://t.co/B6ZsTBosrs">pic.twitter.com/B6ZsTBosrs</a>
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1000828739121446913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The Santa Fe mother&#8217;s pinned tweet thanks those who&#8217;ve supported her daughter and their community. &#8220;This post had shown me one thing. There are some Awesome people out there. I don&#8217;t care what color you are. Welcome to my world. The support you&#8217;ve shown my daughter, our family and community is greatly appreciated,&#8221; she wrote.
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This post had shown me one thing. There are some Awesome people out there. I don&#8217;t care what color you are. Welcome to my world. The support you&#8217;ve shown my daughter, our family and community is greatly appreciated.
&#8212; Lyndarjan (@Lyndarjan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lyndarjan1/status/1001563717920870400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Nicole <a href="https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/local/verify/verify-racist-claims-against-santa-fe-high-school-students-are-false/285-559306271">told</a> KHOU 11 News she was disappointed with a racial issue being stirred up and backed her mother&#8217;s claim that she asked her classmates not to hold her hand.
&#8220;It&#8217;s very disappointing that people are going to take a race issue out of a picture with nine grieving girls in it,&#8221; said the high school senior. &#8220;I grieve in my own different way. I don&#8217;t like to be touched. When we had that moment of silence, I didn&#8217;t want to grab anyone&#8217;s hands because I didn&#8217;t want to break down before we sang [the national anthem].&#8221;
Lynda added, &#8220;When Nicole came out of her room Saturday morning, she was upset that they had turned this into a race thing, because she knew what was real. To make something so simple into a race issue was just absolutely ludicrous.&#8221;
<a href="https://twitter.com/MlKEHEADLY">H/T</a> Mike Headly

Santa Fe Survivors Accused Of Racism Against Black Classmate. Then The Girl’s Mother Steps In.

St. John&#8217;s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, must think white men are terrible racists and sexists, because the college initiated a &#8220;study group&#8221; for &#8220;those who most often exhibit racist and sexist behavior&#8212;white males.&#8221;
As <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8845">Campus Reform</a> reports, a campus-wide email was sent to all students and faculty, urging whites explicitly to attend four sessions on privilege so they can &#8220;begin to be self-critical.&#8221;
The email started by accusing white men of the usual litany of evils, plus ripping the capitalist system: &#8220;We will read about and discuss the privilege of white people (especially white males) patriarchy, sexism and racism in the neoliberal capitalist empire of the United States.&#8221;
The email continued:
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This is a group where those who most often exhibit racist and sexist behavior&#8211;white males&#8211;can begin to be self-critical of the very dangerous, brutal, and depraved hierarchical pathologies of superiority, supremacy, and inferiority handed down to us by white Euro-American institutions.
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White men aren&#8217;t that evil, are they?
According to the email, they certainly are: &#8220;&#8220;The main topic for discussion will be an ongoing one: How do we deal with the depravity of whiteness and the brutality of masculinity? How can we get to the root of this problem?&#8221;
The email issues a warning, too: &#8220;Warning: the discussions will be graphic and contain graphic material.&#8221;
Campus Reform discovered the email was sent to the student and faculty listservs for SJC&#8217;s Santa Fe campus from the email address of one Maggie Reitz-Wells, although it is unclear who actually sent the email. Campus Reform reports that Reitz-Wells may be an employee in the Office of Student Life. Campus Reform attempted to contact her without success, but instead heard from Assistant Dean Jan Arsenault, who asked, &#8220;Who are you and how did you obtain a copy of an email sent in-house?&#8221;
After Campus Reform explained how the site obtained a copy of the email, Arsenault would only say she was &#8220;not interested&#8221; in commenting.
St. John&#8217;s is <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6862">following in the footsteps</a> of Portland State University, where in 2015 professor Rachel Sanders held a &#8220;White Privilege&#8221; course, whose course description stated, &#8220;Whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States,&#8221; adding &#8220;to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.&#8221;
All of these courses seem to be based on critical race theory, which &#8220;combine[s] progressive political struggles for racial justice with critiques of the conventional legal and scholarly norms which are themselves viewed as part of the illegitimate hierarchies that need to be changed,&#8221; according to <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/bridge/CriticalTheory/critical4.htm">Harvard University</a>.
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&#8220;How do we deal with the depravity of whiteness and the brutality of masculinity?&#8221;
Email announcing course at St. John&#8217;s College
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As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="http://westernrevival.org/?p=170">explained</a> years ago:
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CRT was an intellectual development in the late 1970s and early 1980s in which some scholars, perturbed by what they perceived as a loss of momentum in the movement for racial equality, began to doubt that the constitutional and legal system itself had the capacity for change. This criticism mirrored a Marxist attack long voiced in academia: that the Constitution had been a capitalist document incapable of allowing for the redistributionist change necessary to create a more equal world. To create a more equal world, the Constitution and the legal system would have to be endlessly criticized &#8211; hence critical theory &#8211; and torn down from within. 
The Marxist criticism of the system was called critical theory; the racial criticism of the system was therefore called Critical Race Theory. So, what does CRT believe? In their primer, Critical Race Theory, Richard Delgado (one of the movement&#8217;s founders) and Jean Stefancic set out some basic principles:
1. &#8220;Racism is ordinary, not aberrational&#8221;;
2. &#8220;Our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.&#8221;
When taken together, these principles have serious ramifications. First, they suggest that legal rules that stand for equal treatment under law &#8211; i.e. the 14th Amendment &#8211; can remedy &#8220;only the most blatant forms of discrimination.&#8221; The system is too corrupted, too bad on the notion of white supremacy, for equal protection of the laws to every be a reality. The system must be made unequal in order to compensate for the innate racial of the white majority. Second, these principles suggest that even measures taken to alleviate unequal protection under the law &#8211; for example, the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education &#8211; were actually taken for nefarious purposes, to serve white interests. This is exactly what Derrick Bell believed: he said that Brown had only been decided in order to prevent the Soviet Union from using American racial inequality as a public relations baton to wield against the white-majority United States.
There is some internal conflict within CRT, though. For example, some CRT writers seem to take the Martin Luther King, Jr. line that race is arbitrary, a social construct; the majority, however, suggest that minorities have a special status in society, and something unique to bring to the table. As Delgado and Stefancic write, &#8220;Minority status, in other words, brings with a presumed competence to speak about race and racism.&#8221;
So here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re left with, in simple terms. Racism cannot be ended within the current system; the current system is actually both a byproduct of and a continuing excuse for racism. Minority opinions on the system are more relevant than white opinions, since whites have long enjoyed control of the system, and have an interest in maintaining it.
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