It has become obvious that the activist trustees at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) are not content simply to force Grade 11 students to take a mandatory Indigenous English course.
Now trustees Alexis Dawson and Debbie King – both of them community organizers and anti-oppression black activists – want all Grade 12 students on the board to study a course called Deconstructing Anti-Black Racism.
A motion to the board’s program and school services committee this week suggests that the course – which was created by the board’s Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement – become accredited and part of the Ontario school curriculum.
In the motion, the two professional agitators use a suspect 2020/21 TDSB Human Rights Office report, which claims that reported race-related incidents tripled over that year, some 61% of them involving anti-black racism.
The two activists pulled out a chart from the HR annual report to substantiate their claims, conveniently ignoring the fact that reporting anti-black racism and hate by students was made mandatory in November 2020, which evidently increased the number of incidents reported.
But the report also indicates that the office has a huge backlog which leads one to speculate whether the numbers are inflated or double-counted.
I say this because it is hard to believe the number of incidents tripled in 2020-21 when students were not in school for 20 of 39 weeks over those two years.
Never let the facts get in the way of attempts by an activist to push his or her agenda.
As the two activists state in their motion, because “anti-black racism has a long/troubling history in Canada” (or so they say), the province’s Anti-Racism Directorate (run by a Kathleen Wynne leftover Patrick Case) gave the TDSB $200,000 to address the “historical and persistent” inequities in the outcomes of black students.
They reason that because the board approved a mandatory Grade 11 course called Understanding Contemporary First Nations, Metis and Inuit Voices in February, this Grade 12 course should be a natural next step.
All it proves is that once one opens the door to race activists, they never quit.
The Centre of Excellence for Black Student Achievement was created with the $200,000 and that Centre stewarded the creation of the Deconstructing Anti-Black Racism course.
The course — offered in a small selection of TDSB high schools (but which is not mandatory) — teaches students the common terms of black activists including white supremacy, microaggressions and of course, privilege.
Students learn Critical Race Theory (CRT), according to its creators, dispelling the myth that CRT is not taught in the TDSB. They are also given guidance in how to protest like good Black Lives Matter members in training.
Dawson and King propose that to “help affirm students’ intersecting identities and better understand racism, hate, intolerance and oppression” the course be available in every high school in the fall of 2023.
They also suggest that the course be accredited in the Ontario curriculum as a university pathway course.
Everything is absolutely preposterous about this motion.
To make a course in anti-black racism mandatory to the exclusion of all other ethnicities and minority groups experiencing hate and intolerance is so typical of black activists like these two trustees and their race-grifter friends.
What about a year-long course teaching how the lessons of the Holocaust are being repeated continuously?
Or a course to increase the understanding of ageism and how the disabled are treated as second-class citizens?
Besides, the last thing a TDSB student needs to get into university is a primer in black activism — unless they plan to major in Protest 101.
They need good strong academics and good marks in those academics.
I’d like to say this idea is completely ridiculous.
But with professional activists pretending to be trustees dominating the TDSB and a black activist as education director, anything can happen.
