The Cultural Revolution Comes to Minnesota

Edina, Minnesota is a suburb of Minneapolis, a town of almost 50,000 that has apparently been invaded and conquered by disciples of Mao Tse-tung. Its public schools have been transformed into re-education centers, complete with punishment for dissenters and mobs of mindless ideological robots demanding compliance with Racial Orthodoxy. Katherine Kersten of the Center of the American Experiment reports at the Weekly Standard on the progressive effort to reshape an entire school system in accordance with the most bizarre, totalitarian impulses of academia's social justice warriors:

The shift began in 2013, when Edina school leaders adopted the 'All for All' strategic plan—a sweeping initiative that reordered the district’s mission from academic excellence for all students to 'racial equity.' 

'Equity' in this context does not mean 'equality' or 'fairness.' It means racial identity politics—an ideology that blames minority students’ academic challenges on institutional racial bias, repudiates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s color-blind ideal, and focuses on uprooting 'white privilege.' ... 

At Edina High School, the equity agenda is the leading edge of a full-scale ideological reeducation campaign. A course description of an 11th-grade U.S. Literature and Composition course puts it this way: 'By the end of the year, you will have . . . learned how to apply marxist [sic], feminist, post-colonial [and] psychoanalytical . . .lenses to literature.' 

The primary vehicle in the indoctrination effort is a year-long English course—required of all 10th-graders—that centers, not on reading literature and enhancing writing skills, but on the politicized themes of 'Colonization,' 'Immigration' and 'Social Constructions of Race, Class and Gender.'

Lest you think this lunacy is restricted to high school:

As a result, the school system’s obsession with 'white privilege' now begins in kindergarten. At Edina’s Highlands Elementary School, for example, K-2 students participate in the Melanin Project. The children trace their hands, color them to reflect their skin tone, and place the cut-outs on a poster reading, 'Stop thinking your skin color is better than anyone elses!-[sic] Everyone is special!' 

Highlands Elementary’s new 'racially conscious' elementary school principal runs a blog for the school’s community. On it, she approvingly posted pictures of Black Lives Matter propaganda and rainbow gay-pride flags—along with a picture of protesters holding a banner proclaiming 'Gay Marriage Is Our Right.' On a more age-appropriate post, she recommended an A-B-C book for small children entitled A is for Activist. (Peruse the book and you find all sorts of solid-gold: 'F is for Feminist,' 'C is for…Creative Counter to Corporate Vultures,' and 'T is for Trans.')

Because apparently nothing says 'racial equity' like encouraging gender-based mental illness.

For more on this insanity, and the kind of mechanisms official and vigilante being used to squash dissent, read it all. Behold the future of American public education in those towns, cities, and states unfortunate enough to be dominated by the graduates of 21st century English departments and schools of education.