Breccan Thies writes for the Federalist about a disturbing revelation involving a prominent left-wing organization.
The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), currently under federal indictment for allegedly funding hate hoaxes, has been able to push its propaganda in schools through millions of dollars in direct payments from government entities at all levels.
According to watchdog OpenTheBooks, SPLC has received at least $3.85 million specifically for teaching materials in American public schools since 2016, with $1,352,655.07 in direct payments from school districts, cities, counties, universities, and states. While the group says most payments lack an explanation, the amounts “suggest payment for materials, speakers or licensing fees.”
“While Frederick Douglass, and my late friend Bob Woodson, challenged us to remember the great principle in the Declaration of Independence that our rights and dignity come from God, not government, geography or ethnicity, some groups claiming to fight racism have decided to desecrate our founding principles with identity politics,” OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart told The Federalist. “Taxpayers deserve full transparency from government agencies and public universities.”
The governments are not just in Democrat-run states, and include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, OpenTheBooks found a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), inside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor to fund pushing the SPLC’s “Learning for Justice” curriculum program into middle schools. The project was called “Youth Empowerment Solutions: Engaging Youth for Anti-Racism and Cultural Equity (YES-ERACE).” …
… “Learning for Justice” was rebranded from “Teaching Tolerance” in order to “reflect evolving work in the struggle for radical change in education and community” which went from “reducing prejudice to more pointedly supporting action to address injustice.”
“We must learn, grow and wield power together,” the SPLC stated of the name change, claiming that it intends to examine “the ways systems and institutions perpetuate racism and white supremacy” and “demand radical change, challenging white supremacy in school and teacher education curricula, school discipline policies, school facilities and classroom climates.”
