Fifth Graders Told To Celebrate ‘Black Communism’ Through ‘Black Power’ Rally
Elementary school students in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were forced to participate in a “black communism” celebration. The event was complete with a mock “Black Power” rally to honor radical communist Angela Davis.
Davis is a militant radical often revered by the Left. She is a member of the Communist Party and has won the “International Lenin Peace Prize,” an award from the failed Soviet Union after Vladimir Putin.
The indoctrination scheme was uncovered by Christopher Rufo, a contributing editor at City Journal. He was tipped off by an anonymous whistleblower who works at the inner-city William D. Kelley School. According to the whistleblower, a fifth-grade teacher at the school designed a course curriculum to celebrate “black communist” Angela Davis’ fight against “injustice and inequality.”
Instead of focusing on improving math and reading proficiency, students were taught to memorize and analyze Davis’ early life and write about communism in favorable terms. Rufo noted that the William Kelley School is one of the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania. Only 3% of students are proficient in math by sixth grade and 9% proficient in reading. “By graduation, only 13 percent of Kelley students will have achieved basic literacy,” Rufo reported. The school has effectively become a factory dedicated to producing radical activism.
“Even the school’s newest public artworks illustrate this politicization. Administrators recently commissioned a mural of Davis and Huey P. Newton, who represent the Communist and Black Panther revolutionary movements of the 1960s; both figures stood trial for various crimes, including the murder of a police officer,” Rufo wrote.
William D. Kelley school is the first to teach politically motivated material in the Philadelphia public school system, but it is likely not to be the last. Rufo reported that its superintendent intends to “[dismantle] systems of racial inequity” through its teacher training programs.
