An education group promoted by the Biden administration hopes that it can scare educators into their woke form of teaching. The Abolitionist Teaching Network closely follows Critical race Theory without specifically referencing it, often telling people to challenge their “whiteness” and claims that schools are currently working directly against Black, Brown, and Indigenous children.
Co-founder Bettina Love recently said that she hoped the organization would be “feared” throughout school networks as the group aims to reimagine education for children.
Fox News reports:
The network “is dedicated to not creating new schools or reimagining schools, but destroying schools that do nothing but harm Black and brown children,” co-founder Bettina Love said during a welcome webinar.
“If you don’t recognize that White supremacy is in everything we do, then we got a problem,” Love, who also chairs the board of directors, said. “I want us to be feared.”
As first reported by Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo and confirmed by Fox News, Love conducted diversity training for managers and principals in September 2020. During this training, Love said schools didn’t see Black people as humans and were anti-Black. Love also said schools “spirit murder” Black students.
“Spirit murder” is “a slow death, a death of the spirit, a death that is built on racism and intended to reduce, humiliate, and destroy people of color,” Love wrote in a 2019 article.