Black Lives Matter (BLM) sets out national demands for education in a new racial justice curriculum using the 1619 Project in their “guiding principles.” The National Education Association has endorsed including the principles. However, President Trump is attempting to stop the 1619 Project by denying funds to schools teaching it. The revisionist history plan was created by Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, Nicole Hannah Jones. It was promoted by the NY Times Magazine drawing the attention of activist educators, even though it isn’t history. The project claims America was founded in 1619 when the first slaves arrived in Virginia, and the colonies were established to preserve slavery.

In 2019 Oregon Legislature passed HB 2023 requiring curricula for history, geography, economics, and civics include contributions from every minority group by 2024. Did they foresee the social agenda and violence we see today?

Four bullet points head the BLM Week of Action National Demands flyer that should concern us all:



Each year since the initiation in Seattle in 2016, they have added more schools, more states, thousands of educators, and lesson plans about structural racism, black history, and anti-racist movements for a national organization. Now they are adding:

• Transgender Affirming by encouraging leadership and recognizing trans-antagonistic violence.
• Queer Affirming a network where heteronormative thinking no longer exists.
• Collective Value that continues a long legacy of social movements fighting for the advancement of the rights of black folks through electoral strategy.
• Zero Tolerance that implements restorative justice, empathy and loving engagement according to the BLM curriculum.
• Funding counselors and not cops shifting enforcement from the prison system to school counselors.

“The over-policing, out of control suspensions, and expulsions must be brought to an immediate end. To rebuild our structures, we will focus our resources on restorative justice-the organic appointment of

community leaders; mediation and processing; and equitable perspectives on rehabilitation. Ending zero tolerance and focusing our schools around restorative justice will honor an autonomous voice and vision for students, staff and faculty.”

Encouraging people to condemn racism is not what is being taught. By bringing BLM into the classroom, educators are actively allowing the most radically divisive movement in modern American history to warp the minds of students.

The plan of the 1619 Project is to first teach this false history. Then they incite young people to destroy history. Through the COVID-19 shutdown, young people were encouraged to participate in taking down statutes and remove them from history so history can be rewritten. If they can do that enough across the country, they can infiltrate from within and introduce a new constitution.

If we look at what is happening in Portland and around the state, it doesn’t say much for BLM’s ability to control themselves and a lot about their agenda. We are getting a glimpse into the kind of students that schools will release on society with no sense of consequences or accountability.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2020-09-08 09:42:00