Missouri County Revokes George Floyd Inspired Anti-Racism Resolution
A School board in a conservative Missouri district revokes an “anti-racism” resolution that was passed in response to George Floyd’s death, claiming, “How effective has it really been?’”
The school board in the Francis Howell School District Board of Education (FHSB) in St. Charles County, Missouri, along the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis, voted to rescind several resolutions automatically. However, the resolution that has drawn the most attention is the one passed in 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd.
The resolution in question was supposedly designed to “promote racial healing, especially for our Black and brown students and families.”
Though the “Resolution in Response to Racism and Discrimination” denounces “racism, discrimination, and senseless violence” in all forms, it repeatedly suggests that “Black and brown” people are often the main victims of racism. “We will promote racial healing, especially for our Black and brown students and families. We will no longer be silent,” it says. It also claims that “Black and brown students and families” may face unique “challenges” in the pursuit of “an equitable and anti-racist system that honors and elevates all.”
The official reason given for ending these resolutions is the fact that most current board members never signed or voted to adopt them. Many of the members were elected in April 2022 and 2023 after a strong push from a conservative organization called Francis Howell Families, which aims to recruit school board candidates who support teaching students “our Nation’s founding principles” and who reject “attempts to divide people by race, gender, or other immutable characteristics or to teach that those characteristics determine their destiny.”
In 2021, FHF referred to the resolution as an example of “woke activism.”
Current board members, some of whom received strong support from FHF, expressed misgivings about the supposedly anti-racism resolution. Randy Cook, the vice president of the board, argued that several terms used in the resolution, including “systemic racism,” were never clearly defined.
His colleague Jane Puszkar indicated that the resolution had been ineffective. “What has it really done?” she asked. “How effective has it really been?”
Last week the FHSB members ultimately determined that “resolutions are a reflection on a moment in time” and that resolutions passed in previous years under different leadership will no longer “be used as a rationale for decisions within the District.”
Since passing, the resolution has been on display in district schools. Now that the resolution has been revoked, those displays will be taken down, and the resolution will also no longer appear in any district publications.
Only three years and “MISSION ACCOMPLISED.”
Great job Missouri schools.
The resolution stated: ” “pledges to our learning community that we will speak firmly against any racism, discrimination, and senseless violence against people regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, immigration status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ability. We will promote racial healing, especially for our Black and brown students and families. We will no longer be silent.”
Can’t have none of that shit. Now, tear down those signs proclaiming that resolution to let the Blacks know it’s all better now.
Maybe go for world hunger next, you’re on a roll.
Or hopefully the hoodies have learned something
Yeah, they learned tgat the school board wears sheets with hoods 🙂
New news: Missouri has solved world hunger by telling kids they ain’t hungry. Mission Accomplished.
Frank Stetston?
Seen the name before – very one-sided: WOKE!
He does not -does not want to- see the difference in racist/hate strength between BLM/Antifa marches
[2 dozen violent deaths (many black killed by blacks), town quarters burnt down, small shops (many black families) destroyed]
and the simple mathematics of social imbalance
[which could, by now, have been better undone – but got stopped by “democrat” policies like Jim Crow, KKK, PP, and Al Sharpton]
THAT LATTER IS THE SIDE WHERE RACISM GROWS – WANTING IT AS A POLITICAL FRONT TO GO BACKWARDS!
All, without exception, the honest people of America must finally rise to the defense of the unjustly convicted police officer Derek Shover. Stop indulging the fascist organizations BLM and ANTIFA. Stop being afraid of these bandits. Free Derek Shover!
This is a resolution that was put in place after the Summer of Floyd and on it’s own merit has absolutely nothing to do with BLM, Antifa (not that they have anything in common either), of Summer of Floyd protest, a small number that turned violent, where a number of people were investigated, arrested, tried, and convicted of doing damage and violence. Over 300 Federal cases have been brought, numerous folks incarcerated, as it should be.
The resolution that brave Missourians decided they could live without, and you folks too, is noted above. That is what Missouri, and now you, stand against and need to go out of your way to tear it down, tear it down, destroy the thought, can’t have none of that shit. Pretty petty grievance by folks who should have bigger issues to work in this life.
Whatever: Missourians have spoken out, loud and clear, as to what they believe is important and it’s NOT: to speak firmly against any racism, discrimination, and senseless violence against people regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, immigration status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or ability. Those words must be torn down, destroyed, obliterated. No matter what, Missouri will not promote racial healing, especially for our Black and brown students and families. We will continue to be silent because we have told ourselves there is no reason to speak up.
Bravo brave Americans.
FYI: It’s Derek Chauvin not Derek Shover……….can’t even kvetch right :>)