Commentary
If you go to the website of the school system of my city, here’s the first statement you see: “[school system] places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division.”
It’s not an unusual banner. Such Woke professions appear all the time at the head of educational organizations, and many non-educational organizations, too. But the declaration is commonly misconstrued, taken too much at face value and not sufficiently understood. Liberals applaud the goal as necessary and good and timely. Conservatives deplore it as an ideological pressure that has no place in education (or in business, hiring, etc.). There’s another value to the statement, however, apart from its ideological thrust. It has more to do with the speakers of it than with its actual substance. Let me explain, taking this racial equity promise as an example….