So if you follow Steve … which you should … you know that the Back Lives Matter chapters in Manchester and Nashua have presented the gubernatorial candidates a list of “demands.”
I am going to reproduce the list here, for your ease of reference:
Both Democrat candidates have agreed to the “demands”:
But just what have Feltes and Volinsky agreed to? It’s worth examining.
Let’s start with #7, “reform[ing] whitewashed curriculum.” While not specifically stated (intentionally, I’m sure) this is the “1619 Project.”
The 1619 Project is a rewrite of the history of America to make slavery its defining purpose. Hence, 1619 … the year English colonists first brought African slaves to what later became Virginia represents the real founding of America … rather than 1776, when the colonies declared their independence. Consequently, according to the 1619 Project, modern America is the fruit of the poisonous tree of slavery. In the words of the 1619 Project:
The 1619 Project claims that the colonies declared their independence in order to protect slavery from Great Britain. Actual historians have wrecked this claim. For example, Gordon Wood:
I strongly urge you to read the entire interview with Wood. Not only does it show how amateurish and wrong the 1619 project is, it is fascinating and informative in its own right.
The obvious consequence and problem with teaching kids this fake-history is that it makes them hate their country and desirous of “transforming” it. From Ben Weingarten in the Federalist:
In other words, the 1619 project is designed to turn kids into “boots on the ground” for anti-Western Marxists of Back Lives Matter and the anarchists of ANTIFA. Yet Dan Feltes and Andru Volinsky are ON THE RECORD as supporting using the 1619 Project to replace the current curriculum in New Hampshire public schools.
Now let’s turn to #5 … “the prohibition of the use of tear gas and rubber bullets on unarmed demonstrators by New Hampshire law enforcement.” This would force police to choose allow the looting and burning we have seen by “unarmed demonstrators” across the United States or use deadly force to stop it. This has nothing to do with protecting Back lives and everything to do with allowing anti-Western Marxists to run roughshod over law-abiding citizens, including looting and burning family-owned businesses that have been passed down through the generations.
And then there’s #2 … “appointing a Civilian Oversight Board to oversee law enforcement.” Which presumably will be made up of anti-Western Marxists who think the role of the police should be not to prevent crime and arrest criminals … but to explain to the victims of what we formally considered crime that it was simply the justifiable redistribution of wealth wrongly acquired via America’s slave-owning past.
Feltes and Volinsky should be ashamed of themselves for signing on to this agenda.
And as for Governor Sununu:
Are you kidding me? Grow a pair, Chris. What’s needed is an unequivocal NO.