Excerpts:
* Yesterday I attended an in-person program at the Manhattan Institute
with the title “Deconstructing Wokeness in K-12 and Corporate
America.” There were two panels and a speech totaling close to three
hours.
* Presenters included something of a who’s who of the movement opposing
the spreading cancer of Critical Race Theory in schools and
corporations: Christopher Rufo and Jim Copland of the Manhattan
Institute, Vivek Ramaswamy (author of the new book Woke, Inc.), Paul
Rossi (the guy who blew the whistle on CRT at Grace Church School,
who is currently affiliated with the Educational Liberty Alliance),
and Asra Nomani (Vice President of Parents Defending Education).
* Finally, after more than a year and a half in virtual purgatory, we
have resumed in-person events to discuss issues of public policy.
* The huge difference between in-person and virtual events is that at
in-person events you get to meet the people who take important roles
in contesting these issues. In addition to the presenters, several
other notable participants in recent events showed up at yesterday’s
event, for example Andrew Gutmann (the parent who blew the whistle on
CRT at the super-snooty all-girls Brearly School on Manhattan’s Upper
East Side) and Maud Maron (mother of four kids in New York City
public schools, who spoke out against CRT and for her trouble has
been ostracized at her job defending indigent criminal defendants at
the Legal Aid Society).
* But for today I’d like to highlight the work of Rufo.
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