Author and pastor John Amanchukwu’s vocal opposition to a proposed California school curriculum at a Temecula Valley Unified School Board meeting he attended Tuesday, July 18 included a “10 Things Black Students Don’t Need in Schools” list.
The board rejected the curriculum that included content about Harvey Milk, an accused pedophile and gay activist, later in the evening. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he plans to send the state-approved elementary social studies textbooks to TVUSD anyways and fine the district $1.5 million.
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Mr. Amanchukwu, who is a contributor to Turning Point USA Faith and considered “a rising voice exposing the racist ideologies of abortion and critical race theory,” told the Washington Times that his list was in response to a liberal ideology that gives “moral equivalency between blacks and gay rights.”
Advocates of the curriculum and the gay agenda are “trying to say that the same struggle is tantamount to what the LGBTQ community is going through today as it relates to discrimination,” Mr. Amanchukwu said. “And so they want to protect the legacy of Harvey Milk. They want to lift him up as a champion for the LGBTQ.”
While Mr. Amanchukwu waited for his turn at the microphone, he began thinking about the list he was going to present.
“As I was listening to some of the rhetoric about the LGBTQ versus minority community, you know, how they were sandwiching that together as a means to push their agenda, I started drafting the 10 things that black students don’t need at school,” he said.
The list, as he read it to the board:
“Number one, we don’t need affirmative action,
Number two, we don’t need equity,
Number three, we don’t need to be pandered to,
Number four, we don’t need you to dumb-down test scores in order for us to thrive,
Number five, we don’t need the school system to be promoting victim mentality,
Number six, we don’t need the soft bigotry of low expectations as we have heard from other people,
Number seven, we don’t need critical race theory or intersectionality,
Number eight, we don’t need reparations or any more welfare state,
Number nine, we don’t need to be propped up as the darlings of the LGBTQ community,
Number ten, we don’t need white liberals telling us that they know what’s best for us.”
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Mr. Amanchukwu, author of “Eraced: Uncovering the Lies of Critical Race Theory and Abortion,” was invited to speak at the board meeting by Pastor Tim Thompson of 412 Church in Temecula Valley. Mr. Thompson told the Washington Times that he hopes that those opposed to the board’s decision to not allow the curriculum heard the message.
“What’s happening right now is a very polarized situation, but local people have voiced their opinion in the ballot box” by voting for a conservative school board, Mr. Thompson said. “What we’ve said very loudly and very clearly is that we want pro-parental rights people elected to our school boards, and that’s exactly what we did in Temecula this last election cycle. We flipped the entire school board and took over the majority.”
He said that on their first day in office, a majority of board members voted to ban critical race theory followed by a firing of the superintendent. Amazingly, the curriculum that was rejected on Tuesday was piloted at that school.
“The reason for their rejection of the curriculum was that parents weren’t given enough notice and opportunity to review the curriculum. That was the reason that they rejected the curriculum,” Mr. Thompson said. “Not because of Harvey Milk, despite what Gavin Newsom has been saying, it’s nothing to do with Harvey Milk and has everything to do with parental involvement and getting parents to speak into what they want for their children on a local level.”
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Alex Murashko is a journalist and the writing team leader for Think Eternity, a site for powerful faith content to help you live the fulfilled life in Jesus.
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