Philadelphia 5th Graders Forced to Celebrate Black Communism”
Despite this abysmal academic performance, teachers and administrators at William Kelley have gradually abandoned traditional pedagogy in favor of political radicalism. Even the school s newest public artworks illustrate this politicization. Administrators recently commissioned a mural of Davis and Huey P. Newton, who represent the Communist and Black Panther revolutionary movements of the 1960s; both figures stood trial for various crimes, including the murder of a police officer.
Unfortunately, the programs at William Kelley are no aberration. In recent years, the entire Philadelphia public school system has embraced the philosophy of antiracism. Last summer, the superintendent released an Antiracism Declaration promising to [dismantle] systems of racial inequity and circulated a memo recommending racially segregated training programs for white and black educators. The local teachers union produced a video denouncing the United States as a settler colony built on white supremacy and capitalism that has created a system that lifts up white people over everyone else. The solution, according to the union, is to overthrow the racist structure of capitalism, provide reparations for Black and Indigenous people, and uproot white supremacy and plant the seeds for a new world.
Sad.