Backstabbing Mee-Gyn Kelly pulls sons from "woke" UWS school over anti-white letter

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Megyn Kelly pulls sons from ‘woke’ UWS school over anti-white letter
By Lia Eustachewich
November 18, 2020 | 3:33pm | Updated

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Megyn Kelly said she yanked her two young sons out of their “woke” Upper West Side private school — where a letter allegedly circulated accusing white people of “reveling in state-sanctioned depravity” and comparing white children to “killer cops.”

The offending letter made its rounds among the school’s “diversity group,” which included Kelly and other white parents, following the police-involved death of Saint George Floyd in May, the former Fox news and NBC News host claimed.

“After years of resisting it, we’re going to leave the city,” Kelly said on Monday’s episode of her new podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

Kelly went on to read directly from the letter written by Nahliah Webber, executive director of the nonprofit Orleans Public Education Network, and posted on a blog titled “If You Really Want to Make a Difference in Black Lives, Change How You Teach White Kids.”

“There is a killer cop sitting in every school where white children learn,” the June 29 post says. “They gleefully soak in their whitewashed history that downplays the holocaust of indigenous native peoples and Africans in the Americas. They happily believe their all-white spaces exist as a matter of personal effort and willingly use violence against black bodies to keep those spaces white.”

Webber continues, “I am tired of white people reveling in their state-sanctioned depravity, snuffing out black life with no consequences. Where’s the urgency for school reform for white kids being indoctrinated in black death and protected from the consequences? Where are the government-sponsored reports looking into how white mothers are raising culturally deprived children who think black death is okay?”
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Kelly didn’t identify her sons’ school on the podcast. But she recently spoke about the COVID-19 death of her son’s music teacher, Don Yates — who taught at the Collegiate School, a $55,900-a-year, K-12, all-boys school just off Riverside Boulevard between West 61st and 62nd streets.

Kelly, who has three kids — sons Thatcher and Edward and daughter Yardley — claimed the school wanted the letter circulated “to all the faculty” as well. It’s unclear if that happened.

She acknowledged that while the school’s “far-left” ideology doesn’t jibe with her own “center-left” views , she “didn’t really care.”

But with the letter, she said, “They’ve gone around the bend. They have gone off the deep end.”

Kelly, who said she’s also pulling her daughter out of her school, slammed Webber’s opinions.

“Which boy in my kid’s school is the future killer cop? Is it my boy? Which boy is it?” the journalist asked. “Because I don’t happen to believe that they’re in there.”

The Collegiate School didn’t immediately return messages.

 

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Kelly went on to read directly from the letter written by Nahliah Webber, executive director of the nonprofit Orleans Public Education Network, and posted on a blog titled “If You Really Want to Make a Difference in Black Lives, Change How You Teach White Kids.”

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If You Really Want to Make a Difference in Black Lives, Change How You Teach White Kids​

BY Nahliah Webber June 29, 2020


The latest episodes of police murdering Black people have my chest burning like a building set ablaze. My heart is hot, my stomach churns. My head filled with black smoke. I am exhausted.

My body is weak from seeing, hearing, reading and crying over people who look like my father and brothers getting choked out on video … again. My body hurts not seeing anything happen when people who look like my mother or me are killed by violent White men. The silence when Black trans- men and women are killed by police violently bangs in my eardrum. I’m sore from the hashtags marking yet another Black death gone viral. Physically, emotionally, mentally, I’m hurt. Professionally I’m tired.

I work in education advocacy and I focus on the protection, advancement and dignity of Black children and Black life. Black death is a threat to everything I work and live for, so when it happens I can’t help but relate what I see, experience and feel to my work. When anything goes down with Black people I think about education and schools and whether I am a part of something that is preserving Black life or failing it.

As I saw the system choke the life out of George Floyd I became enraged because I knew the focus would be on the systems that produced this end result and not the ones that groomed both George Floyd and the cop who killed him for that moment. That the conversations would be about prosecution and police training, but not changing the places that socialize Americans for White violence and Black death.

The system that killed George Floyd and the system that raised and educated the cop who killed him are the same. And in the same way that folks are tired of the viral Black death—protest—fake trial—acquittal—rinse and repeat cycle, I am tired of folks acting like there’s no direct connection between the schools where White children sit and the street corners where they choke out Black life.

There’s a George Floyd in every school where Black children learn. Black children are screamed at, berated, surveilled and searched in schools. Black children are slammed and dragged, kicked and prodded in classrooms. Black children are denied an education and disrespected because of their culture. Black children are groomed for containment. We've got children walking on tape with hands over their mouths like prisoners in training.

Black children are suspended, detained, “demerited” and isolated in schools for trivial things every day. And there’s a killer cop sitting in every school where White children learn. They hear the litany of bad statistics and stereotypes about “scary” Black people in their classes and on the news. They gleefully soak in their White-washed history that downplays the holocaust of Indigenous, Native peoples and Africans in the Americas. They happily believe their all-White spaces exist as a matter of personal effort and willingly use violence against Black bodies to keep those spaces white.

Yet whenever we talk about what’s wrong with the systems that train and socialize young minds to become violent and depraved adults who, say choose to choke people out as part of their jobs, all we ever hear is that Black children, Black families, Black communities, Black-NESS are “behind” and stuck in gaps. Conservatives, liberals and progressives alike grow their careers and feed their families off of myths about Black deficiency.

If you let them tell it, Black kids are in terrible shape while White children are doing gloriously. But how can White kids be doing okay when they’re growing up to be police officers, district attorneys, mayors, judges, media, mothers, fathers and presidents who take away Black life and call it justified? As Black bodies drop like flies around us from physical, medical, economic, and material deprivation and violence at White hands, how can we in any of our minds or metrics conclude that the Whites are alright? What kind of warped standards are these?

Because let me tell you something …

• A child who grows up to put their knee on someone’s neck and kill them in front of a crowd is “culturally deprived.”

• A child who jumps in a car with their parent and chases down and executes a stranger is a “super predator.”

• A child who grows up to shoot people while they are worshipping is “at-risk.”

• A child who can grow up and never be confronted with how they benefit from racist violence is “levels behind”.

And any school or culture that produces children to grow up like this is failing.

White children are left unchecked and unbothered in their schools, homes and communities to join, advance and protect systems that take away Black life. We never talk about this moral and human failing in White culture as something that needs to get fixed now. Instead, we pour millions of dollars into discussions, conferences, professional development, curriculum and consultancies that talk about fixing Black people. And I’m tired.

I’m tired of White people reveling in their state-sanctioned depravity, snuffing out Black life with no consequences and then having the nerve to tell Black children that they are “behind” and need to work harder.

I’m tired of White people telling Black kids that they need to be held “accountable,” yet killer cops go free when they take Black life and White teachers go free when they miseducate Black kids.

I’m tired of White people taking their violent culture, standards and metrics into Black spaces and telling Black children that they don’t measure up. Because who is really failing here?

• Where’s the urgency for school reform for White kids being indoctrinated in Black death and protected from the consequences?
• Where are the government-sponsored reports looking into how White mothers are raising culturally deprived children who think Black death is okay?
• Where are the national conferences, white papers and policy positions on the pathology of Whiteness in schools and how it leaves White children behind as adults?
• Why isn’t Bill Gates throwing billions into school programs teaching White kids how not to grow up racist and choke out Black life?

The federal government needs to commission studies on White neighborhoods that produce and insulate anti-Black physical, economic and political violence. City councils and state legislatures should redline those places and determine them to be “high risk” and unfit for life. School reformers need to lobby, plot and plan on how to disrupt school systems that produce, protect and reward White violence.

Go get Walmart and the Koch brothers to fund tens of thousands of recent White college graduates trained in anti-racism and dispatch them to the disadvantaged all-White school districts across the country full of future killer cops. Take your six weeks of training and be an anti-racist teacher in classrooms full of families that hoard resources, separate their school districts and fund the police to keep their knees on Black necks.

Simply, this time after you take off your Black Lives Matter t-shirt and recycle your protest signs, don’t go back into Black spaces with your usual bullshit. This time if you really want to make a difference in Black lives—and not have to protest this shit again—go reform white kids.

Because that’s where the problem is—with White children being raised from infancy to violate Black bodies with no remorse or accountability. That cop didn’t just learn how to snuff out George Floyd’s life in a police training or on the job. He spent a lifetime preparing for that moment with his parents and family, teachers, coaches, neighborhoods and churches.

Eventually, the fires will burn out and the aftermath of the latest uprisings will clear. The heat in my chest may subside a little, but the grief will still be there for the next time. And unfortunately, there will be a next time because I’ve seen this episode before. We all have. Today we scream for justice but on Monday we’ll call for better police training and a guilty verdict that will only leave the system—all the systems—intact. And we’ll feel better about ourselves as we return to business as usual, preparing children for White violence and Black death, again.

I’m tired.

A version of this post originally appeared on Medium.

Photo by Sean Simmers.

 

[Arheel's Uncle]

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November 2, 2021 Greetings, First, I would like to extend heartfelt prayers of strength and healing to everyone rebuilding after Hurricane Ida. Though I know that New Orleanians will persevere, like many others I am disheartened that the resiliency and resolve of the people continues to be tried and tested. It is with these equal parts of hope and exasperation that we find ourselves reflecting on the real problems at hand and the pathways that will help us solve these issues for good instead of treading water until the next storm.

Considering how political, economic and environmental systems are intimately tied to school systems, OPEN has endeavored to increase the capacity of citizens to advocate for equitable and quality public systems that could hold them up with dignity, particularly in times of disaster. In my time with OPEN, we have convened our community, collected and reported data, trained parent leaders and policy advocates, spoken on education policy and practices and have stood in solidarity with others of like mission and vision. As we continue to see these same systems fail Black, Brown, queer, disabled, working class and poor communities, the call is coming from inside the house about where we are and where we go from here. For me, this call is both professional and personal. In more ways than I can express here, New Orleans and OPEN have grown me and pushed me towards a politics that would pursue freedom over progress. As a new mother I have been moved to get even more clear about what it requires to raise a free and liberated child. On November 5, 2021 I will step down as the Executive Director of the Orleans Public Education Network to focus on this new chapter for my family. I look forward to connecting with parents and education spaces in New Orleans that center freedom, joy and liberation for children. Last year OPEN welcomed a new board of directors. This dynamic group of advocates, parents, researchers and allies are committed to serving the New Orleans community. Over the next few months, they will plan the next steps for OPEN and how the organization can be of service and in solidarity with the community’s struggles and dreams. Please be on the lookout for updates and what is next for OPEN. After November 5th, any correspondence can be directed to Peter Davis, OPEN’s board chair, at Peter@opennola.org. It has been an honor to serve and I sincerely thank everyone who has supported OPEN’s work during my time with the organization. With much respect, Nahliah Webber Executive Director Orleans Public Education Network