Toronto school principal Richard Bilkszto was bullied by an anti-racism trainer over “his whiteness” — his questioning of her assertion that Canada is a more racist place than the United States. In July, he took his own life. The victim here is easy to spot. It’s the dead man.
“Critical Race Theory” Crackpot Communism
Joel Kotkin: Richard Bilkszto won’t be the last victim of the diversity-industrial complex
The suicide of former Toronto school principle Richard Bilkszto, 60, was one that many of his associates believe was prompted, at least in part, by vicious attacks from an “anti-racism” instructor. After he differed on her assessment of pervasive structural racism, she held up his comments as an example of “white supremacy.” In the progressive-dominated education bureaucracy, this stands as among the worst of sins.
Waterloo School Board Trustee Says He’s a Victim of ‘Radical Left’
Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) trustee Mike Ramsay says he is the victim of a “radical left NDP group of trustees” who don’t like that he was re-elected and speaks his mind.
Mr. Ramsay, a former police officer and military veteran, issued a statement on X, formerly Twitter, on July 31 saying he had just been made aware of another WRDSB Code of Conduct complaint made against him.
Disturbing audio captures racism grifter attacking principal’s ‘white supremacy’ before he killed himself
An anti-racism instructor was recorded mocking and laughing at a beloved Toronto principal who challenged her teachings — holding him up as an example of white supremacy “resistance,” according to a report.
Richard Bilkszto, 60, later committed suicide.
Bilkszto’s July death came after diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, instructor Kike Ojo-Thompson proclaimed Canada was more racist than the United States, a statement the principal pushed back on.
Conrad Black: Richard Bilkszto’s death was the end result of a culture intent on defaming itself
The tragic case of Richard Bilkszto, which shocked Canadians and was publicized internationally, highlights in their most extreme form, the dangers of the militant imposition of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) dogmas. On this occasion, Bilkszto, a well-respected Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal, attended compulsory DEI sessions in which the lecturer, Kike Ojo-Thompson, upbraided him for disputing her statement that Canada was a more racist country than the United States. She apparently responded unpleasantly that, among other things, ”You in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black people.” In a second session, she allegedly held Bilkszto’s comments up as a real-life example of being a white supremacist.
ZWAAGSTRA: Woke ideology destroying diversity of thought in schools
His name was Richard Bilkszto and he had a distinguished 24-year career as a school teacher, teaching in both the United States and Canada. Most recently, he worked as a principal with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) where he consistently received outstanding performance reviews, at least until he ran afoul of the woke ideology being pushed by his employer.
Won’t happen until a new broom sweeps all of the TDSB’s commie trash into the dustbin.
Does KOJO Kontroversy Spell Grift’s End?
Anti-racism, diversity training under threat, say Black community leaders at Queen’s Park rally
Black community leaders rallied at Queen’s Park on Wednesday to fight against what they see as threats to anti-racism, diversity, and equity training in Ontario schools.
Advocates feel that work is under attack after the death by suicide of a former Toronto District School Board principal last month.
WARMINGTON: Plot thickens in principal’s tragic suicide
The plot has thickened in the tragic suicide of a school principal, as documents now show the equity and diversity training — alleged to have led to his downfall — was awarded as a sole-sourced contract.
The West Is Importing China’s Cultural Revolution
Traditional Chinese culture, thousands of years old, is filled with beautiful Confucian philosophies, kinship rituals, artistic symbolism, mythologies, and regular devotion to family ancestors. To observe any of these ancient customs in person, however, it is Taiwan — not China — where a visitor must go. When mainland Chinese communists bulldozed over China’s rich heritage and Mao Zedong’s “Cultural Revolution” purged the “Four Olds” — old customs, culture, habits, and ideas — from Chinese society, Taiwan became the de facto last refuge for one of the world’s oldest great civilizations.
Diversity Programs Miss the Point of a Liberal College Education
Academia is in the midst of a generational turmoil. Blue states such as California and Oregon have recently transformed their public universities with expansive “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs that have profound implications for admissions, speech, hiring and scholarship. Red states such as Florida and Texas have recently passed legislation abolishing them, concluding that the programs that have sprung up to execute D.E.I. promote a stifling orthodoxy that undermines the pursuit of truth.
Church of England Schools Propagating Critical Race Theory
A bombshell report released earlier this month has revealed that anti-white critical race theory (CRT) curriculum is being taught to young students at Church of England schools, whose educators are teaching white kids that they “benefit from the systematic oppression of People of Colour through racist policies and practice.”
The revelation comes nearly three years after Kemi Baden, then the minister of women and equality, told other British MPs during a debate in the House of Commons that teachers who propagate the concept of white privilege as a fact to their students are breaking the law. In 2020, Kemi reminded the UK Parliament that the government is against “the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted fact,” adding that educators should not be teaching their white pupils about “inherited racial guilt.”
Dossier of ‘critical race theory’ being taught in British schools – including ‘Pyramid of White Supremacy’ and books that tell children as young as four that racism started because ‘white people wanted more control over others’
Don’t Divide Us is headed up by respected academic Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthburt and features Dr Tony Sewell, the chair of the Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, on its racially diverse board of advisers.
It was set up to foster what they call on their website ‘colourblind anti-racism’, the notion that individuals are worthy of respect regardless of race, religion or the colour of their skin.
They argue that current ‘anti-racist’ activists see group identity before they see individuals, a problem they say risks ‘reinforcing prejudice by dividing us into a world of victims and oppressors.’
Who’s Afraid of Moms for Liberty?
A growing cadre of angry mothers is taking over school boards and winning influence as GOP kingmakers. Why are they being called a ‘hate group’?
In a breakout session in a windowless conference room at last weekend’s Moms for Liberty “Joyful Warrior Summit” in Philadelphia, Christian Ziegler, the chairman of the Florida Republican Party and father of three school-aged daughters, is stiffening spines. Dozens of attendees, mostly women, are nodding and taking notes as Ziegler explains how to work with local news media.
Penn State professor sues the college after he claimed he was forced to teach that the English language is ‘racist’ and the ’embodiment of white supremacy’
An English professor who worked at Pennsylvania State University is suing the college on claims that they racially discriminated against him and other white staff.
Zack De Piero, 40, served as an assistant professor of English and Composition at Penn State-Abington from 2018 to 2022.
During this time he claims he was forced to grade ‘hispanic and black’ students differently and was subject to exercises centered on critical race theory where white staff were made to feel ‘terrible.’
Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’
Cambridge is teaching students that Anglo-Saxons did not exist as a distinct ethnic group as part of efforts to undermine “myths of nationalism”.
Britain’s early medieval history is taught by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, but the terms within its own title are being addressed as part of efforts to make teaching more “anti-racist”.
Its teaching aims to “dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism” by explaining that the Anglo-Saxons were not a distinct ethnic group, according to information from the department.