Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

According to minutes from the session, the keynote speaker, Bettina Love, opened by saying that America has "oppressed [people of color] for 400 years" and that teachers must "consciously tear down a system that oppresses people" and "build a new world."pic.twitter.com/QxUqBvGUrq

The organization hosting the conference—CAST—has received more than $16 million in taxpayer funding under the Trump Administration and this conference on "abolition" was attended by Department of Education staff.pic.twitter.com/pMmqP4ik04

The speaker argued that the United States has a "racial contract" that "says it's okay for white people to kill blacks with immunity" and that President Trump deliberately allowed the coronavirus to kill people of color.pic.twitter.com/rxfaHUjcsb

Dr. Love claims that "reform is not enough" and that public school teachers must push for "the abolition of prisons," overthrowing the capitalist wage labor system, "radically changing" the school system, and "tearing down structures" that impede "anti-racist education."pic.twitter.com/bZw7vJXFtu

The speaker then demands that "white people need to get out of white emotionality" and must be "willing to give up" their "wealth." She claims that existing civil rights laws are "all racist" and that white teachers must be "co-conspirators" in the revolution.pic.twitter.com/eMOkI4xtCr