Albemarle School District started to promote an “anti-racism” program last Spring, which caused Riley’s thirteen-year-old son (who had never felt different from his white peers before learning about racism) to wake up to the unpleasant reality, Riley’s teenage son came to realize that America perceives him differently from his white peers because of the color of his skin.
Melissa Riley, a mother from the Charlottesville area, told Fox News that she noticed a significant change in her son’s perspectives after the Albemarle School District rolled out anti-racist curricula.
“We didn’t have issues before. He is in eighth grade,” Riley said, “He sees himself just as a Black man. He’s seeing things that don’t go his way as racism. And he is finding safety in numbers now.”
Riley went on to allege that her son is now attempting to invoke racism in order to get out of his chores. When she requested him to do his household tasks, he allegedly referred to her as a racist, playing the racism card a bit too hard.
“I asked him to clean the house, [he said] ‘racism,’“ she told Watters.
In which Watters responded, ‘You are kidding, right? Or are you serious?”
“No. I’m serious,” Riley insisted. “They have totally changed his perspective. They have put him in a box.”
The school administration, according to Riley, suggested that her kid should act as a “Black spokesman for the Black community.”
Riley, who identified herself as “white and Native American” said she didn’t think the suggestion was acceptable for her son. She remarked about her son, “He looks Hawaiian. He’s beautiful.”
“When I told them I didn’t think that that would be appropriate,” she added, “they told me that if he was uncomfortable with the conversations, he and other children of color could go to a safe place during these conversations.”
Riley has joined a lawsuit brought by the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which claims that the state constitution’s equal protection and free speech articles are violated by the school district’s anti-racist program. That lawsuit, filed in December, was just dismissed by a court that reports concluded that the district’s curricula contained “nothing fundamentally evil or unlawful.”
Attorney Ryan Bangert said, “They simply think it’s fine, They think it’s okay. But it’s not okay. It’s never okay. It’s never right for a school to teach kids that they are determined by their race. It’s never okay for a school to tell kids that bigotry should be fought with bigotry, and racism should be fought by doubling down on racism. Those things are not okay,’ Banger continued. ‘They’re a violation of students’ civil rights.”
ADF is also backing another lawsuit, filed by a former assistant principal, who alleged that the school board harassed her after she expressed concerns about the school’s anti-racist teachings.
Sources: Awm, Binnews, Foxnews