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Maryland Dem Wants to Remove White Women from Power

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Speaker lineups need to be…intersectional and multi-racial&period; White people…should be few and with good reason&comma;” said Kristin Mink&comma; a former public school teacher who currently serves on the County Council in Montgomery&comma; Maryland&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Mink&comma; a first-generation Chinese American&comma; has a long history of criticizing white women and Zionist Jews&period; This month&comma; she told attendees at a school board meeting that Muslim students speaking up against the teaching of LGBTQ topics in the classroom are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;on the same side…as White supremacists and outright bigots&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Muslim students argued that LGBTQ curriculum goes against their religion and that they should have the ability to opt-out of the program&period; According to one student who had the courage to speak up during the meeting&comma; several Muslim students are being bullied for their faith&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Completely disregarding the student&&num;8217&semi;s plea for help&comma; Mink went on to demand the school incorporate books about transgender kids because &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;there is widespread consensus in the scientific and medical community that this is the reality&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Unfortunately&comma; Mink&&num;8217&semi;s extremist and insensitive comments are not limited to board meetings&period; She regularly bashes white people on her Twitter page&semi; for example&comma; claiming the words &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&OpenCurlyQuote;healing’ and &OpenCurlyQuote;unity’ for so long meant disregarding the harms done to &lbrack;people of color&rsqb; for the comfort of White people” and arguing that the word &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;patriot” is used to describe a white person&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Mink is one of five women who co-founded Lights for Liberty&comma; a leftwing advocacy group that seeks to improve the treatment of migrants in the United States&period; When she decided to leave the organization in 2019&comma; her primary complaints were the group’s decision to become a nonprofit and the lack of diversity among the group’s leadership&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">At the time&comma; she was the only person of color at the executive level&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would be more than glad to come back on board if Black and Brown voices are given a seat at the executive table&comma;” wrote Mink in her farewell letter&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;Having&rsqb; White women representing us is going to add to the credibility issue and doesn’t elevate the right voices&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">She went on to denounce &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the White feminism&comma; gaslighting&comma; and weaponized fragility” at the nonprofit and said she hopes the group make changes in order to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;decentralize White power&period;” <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">It’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ironic…that in an arena focused on dismantling systemic racism and confronting White supremacy&comma; both can be found in some of the organizations ostensibly doing the work&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she continued&period; &&num;8220&semi;&lbrack;People&rsqb; in those spaces should know better&comma; right&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Mink has even suggested to fellow councilmembers that it should be the responsibility of white people to act as human shields in confrontations between police and people of color&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s Note&colon;<&sol;strong> Mink is part of an ever-growing body of Democrats who seem to be fighting racism with racism and intolerance with intolerance&period; She should not be serving in any sort of elected position&comma; let alone teaching our children&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Sources&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxnews&period;com&sol;media&sol;maryland-democrat-declares-white-women-should-struck-down-from-leadership-dismantle-systemic-racism">Maryland Democrat declares White women should be struck down from leadership to dismantle &OpenCurlyQuote;systemic racism’&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;medium&period;com&sol;timesupprogressives&sol;why-im-leaving-lights-for-liberty-2b656b9700d3">Why I’m Leaving Lights for Liberty&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonexaminer&period;com&sol;opinion&sol;maryland-democrat-calls-muslim-families-white-supremacists">Maryland Democrat calls Muslim families white supremacists&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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