Candidate for School Board Speaking out Against School District’s “Black Lives Matter” Curriculum
Illinois | April 9, 2021
A candidate for the school board in Evanston, Illinois, is speaking out against the school district’s “Black Lives Matter” curriculum, which she says is negative, divisive, and disempowering for black kids who are taught that they cannot overcome systemic racism in America.
Ndona Muboyayi is running for school board in District 65, located in a Chicago suburb that recently made headlines for becoming the first American city to offer slavery reparations for black residents.
It’s the same school district that made news this week for prioritizing “black and brown” students for in-person learning due to limited capacity as schools reopen after closing during the pandemic….
“Upon my return to Evanston, I learned quickly that the curriculum changed drastically. No longer were they teaching children basically about the history of the world — including the history of African Americans and people of the African diaspora — but they had added something that they called, ‘Black Lives Matter’ curriculum,” Muboyayi told Fox News….
“But it doesn’t speak about when African Americans have fought against white supremacy or fought against oppression,” she continued. “So it was very much speaking about the one side, a very negative side, and nothing really about the things black people have accomplished in this country.”…
(Excerpts from The Blaze)