CHILLING DETAILS: Walz state education appointee calls for the US to be ‘overthrown’, pushes radical program in schools

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From Fox News: An associate college professor who was appointed to the Minnesota State Department of Education by Gov. Tim Walz called for the U.S. to be “overthrown” and “deconstructed” in a video posted over two years ago. Walz is now the vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.

Brian Lozenski, Ph.D., is an associate professor of urban and multicultural education in the Education Studies Department at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, according to his personal blog.

He is also affiliated with several organizations, such as the Education for Liberation Network, or EdLib MN, Network for the Development of Children of African Descent, and the Twin Cities Solidarity Committee.

Lozenski was appointed to the state’s department of education by Walz to help write the framework of ethnic studies standards, as well.

In a video first reported on by the National Review and posted to YouTube on June 19, 2022, by The Solidarity Network, Lozenski spoke about his research with a panel. He even touched on Critical Race Theory, a school of thought that generally focuses on how power structures and institutions affect racial minorities. The video was removed from YouTube late Wednesday evening.

However, the video footage is still circulating on social media.

Lozenski is heard saying, “We don’t use critical race theory in school. The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States, as constructed, is irreversibly racist. So, if the nation state, as constructed, is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with. It must be overthrown.

“We can’t be like, ‘Oh no, critical race theory is just about telling our stories and diversity,’” he continued. “It’s not about that. It’s about overgrowth. It is insurgent.”

“We need to more honest with that… they don’t understand critical race theory, but they actually tell some truths, when they’re like, yeah, it IS anti-state. You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-US. It is an anti-state theory that says the United States needs to be deconstructed, period.”

“It’s an interesting argument there, and that’s why I’m a critical race theorist,” he says.

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It gets worse…. The Wall Street Journal published a report on Aug. 24 titled, “Tim Walz Brings ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies to Minnesota.”

The new K-12 program will indoctrinate all children in Minnesota public schools in radical racial ideology, and one of the top people responsible for the structure of the program is Brian Lozenski.

“Recently, the Education Department assigned Mr. Lozenski as one of the writers of the statewide K-12 Ethnic Studies implementation document that the department is about to release,” the WSJ noted.

Here’s an example of how children will progress through the program:

  • First-graders will “identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power” and “use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.”
  • Fourth-graders must “identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.”
  • High-school students are told to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism” and “anti-Blackness” and are taught to view themselves as members of “racialized hierarchies” based on “dominant European beauty standards.”

The Wall Street Journal lays out Lozenski’s agenda in chilling detail, and explains that he is an associate professor of urban and multicultural education at Macalester College in St. Paul and a leader and a founding organizer of Education for Liberation Minnesota, or EdLib MN, a group that aims to “be a political force” in Minnesota and “contend with the status quo of colonial education that prioritizes Eurocentric curricula.”

What will the statewide Minnesota program look like?  The WSJ gives a hint:

Implementation of liberated ethnic-studies standards is in the early stages in Minnesota schools. But in 2021 the St. Paul public schools made “critical ethnic studies” a graduation requirement, with Mr. Lozenski serving as a consultant. A look at that course’s instructional materials may shed light on what’s ahead for public schools throughout the state.

The St. Paul course makes “resistance” to America’s fundamental institutions a central theme. It instructs 16-year-olds to “build” a race- and ethnicity-based “narrative of transformative resistance” and to “challenge and expose” “systems of inequality.” It tells them to “resist all systems of oppressive power rooted in racism through collective action and change.” Accompanying artwork, labeled “seeds of resistance,” features protest signs that read “No Bans/No Walls” and “Abolish Prison.”

Minnesota’s experience with this radical restructuring of its public education system may give Americans a picture of what the nation as a whole could soon face.

More hints come by looking at what Lozenski’s organization, Education for Liberation Minnesota, or EdLib MN, stands for.  Below is another chilling excerpt from the WSJ report:

Mr. Lozenski’s ideological commitments were on display in a 2022 article about the George Floyd riots titled “The Black Radical Tradition Can Help Us Imagine a More Just World.” The riots, he wrote, were “mass uprisings against racialized state violence,” which portend “the inevitable death” of the American “social order that prioritizes vulgar economics.” Mr. Lozenski urged schools reopening after Covid to “join the social unrest and actively combat the greater public health crisis of systemic racism.”

As part of its campaign to build support for the liberated ethnic-studies mandate, EdLib MN retweeted a graphic calling for “the abolition of policing” and declaring that “defunding the police” means “abolishing the social order and building a new society.”

The standards are laced with ideological jargon like “decolonization,” “dispossession” and “settler colonialism,” consistent with Mr. Lozenski’s animus toward Israel. “Ethnic Studies explores the colonial roots of the dispossession of Palestinian land and the creation of Zionism,” he co-wrote in a 2022 article titled “Fight for Ethnic Studies Moves to K-12 Classrooms.” Given “the devastating impact of Israeli colonialism,” the article continued, “studying Israeli settler colonialism in comparison to US settler colonialism” is “at the heart of the discipline of Ethnic Studies.”

As with police abolition, EdLib MN moved aggressively to encourage student activism against Israel. On Oct. 17, less than two weeks after Hamas’s massacre in Israel, Mr. Lozenski’s organization retweeted a public call for a “Student Walkout for Gaza.” The Arab Resource and Organizing Center offered resources for the event, including media talking points and templates for protest signs and chants. One sign read “Decolonize Palestine!” and depicted a masked woman hurling a rock, with a police car in flames behind it.

Lozenski’s company is not hiding their agenda.

“If you’ve ever wondered how to take an Ethnic Studies approach to teaching in elementary schools, this is a great episode for you!” reads one social media post this week.

In April, EdLibMN re-tweeted a post promoting a webinar about “Rethinking Schools, Teach Palestine.”

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