LESS THAN ONE YEAR.
WOW, TAYLOR.
LAWRENCE: I LOVE KANYE BUT NOT
PAYING WILL MILLION DOLLARS.
A NEW YORK DAD TOOK HIS DAUGHTER
OUT OF THE GREELEY SCHOOL,
SLAMMING INDOCTRINATION
MOTIVATING HIS DECISION IS GOING
VIRAL.
WILL: ONE HECK OF A LETTER.
IT IS A MILE AWAY FROM THE
HEADMASTER AT THE DALTON SCHOOL
ANNOUNCING HIS DEPARTURE AS THE
PRIVATE SCHOOL PACES PARENTAL
FURY OVER OBSESSIVE FOCUS ON
RACE AND IDENTITY.
AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, WOKE INC.
FIND THIS LETTER FROM THIS
PARENT.
HIS NAME IS ANDREW GUT MAN.
HERE IS A LITTLE PIECE.
IF GREELEY’S ADMINISTRATION WAS
CONCERNED ABOUT SO-CALLED EQUITY
IT WOULD BE DISCUSSING CESSATION
OF ADMISSION PREFACES FOR LEGACY
SIBLINGS AND FAMILIES WITH
ESPECIALLY DEEP POCKETS.
IF THE ADMIN DISOPERATION WAS
GENUINELY SERIOUS ABOUT
DIVERSITY WOULD NOT SINGLE THEM
TO A MIND-SET REMINISCENT OF THE
CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION.
TAKES TO TASK AS THE ANTI-RACISM
AS RACISM.
THE QUESTION, WILL WE SEE MORE
OF THIS?
>> I THINK AND HOPE WE WILL SEE
MORE REACTIONS LIKE THIS, LOOK,
DIVERSITY IS A GOOD THING, WHEN
IT IS ABOUT DIVERSITY OF
THOUGHT.
WHAT WE HAVE SCENE ESPECIALLY IN
THE SCHOOLS, TAKE NOTION OF
DIVERSITY AND SACRIFICED TRUE
DIVERSITY ITSELF.
WE SACRIFICED THE IDEA OF
EXCELLENCE.
IN MY MIND DIVERSITY IS NOT AN
END, IT IS PART OF A MEANS
TOWARDS THE END OF EXCELLENCE
ITSELF.
WHEN WE GET OF EXCELLENCE OUR
TUBES ARE GOING DOWN THE
SCHOOLS.
OUR CULTURE USED TO BE ABOUT
CHALLENGING THE SYSTEM, THAT IS
OKAY 20 YEARS AGO.
IT IS BECOMING THE NEW SYSTEM,
IT IS INFECTING OUR SCHOOLS AN
INFECTING OUR CULTURES WHAT IS
SOME SEEING DOWNRIGHT ILLEGAL.
PARENTS ARE STANDING UP.
IT WILL TAKE MORE TO STAND THEIR
GROUND.
JEDEDIAH: ONE THING I LOVED BY
CHILDREN, CHILDREN DON’T SEE THE
WORLD THROUGH LENS OF RACE, THEY
DON’T SEE RACE AT ALL.
YOU HAVE SCHOOLS COMING IN
TRYING TO FORCE THEM TO LOOK AT
THEIR RACE, SOMEONE ELSE’S RACE,
SEE THE WHOLE WORLD THROUGH THE
LENS OF RACE.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF
THIS FOR THESE KIDS FUTURE?
>> I THINK IT WILL BE REALLY
DAMAGING.
WE’RE MOIST SONNING THE MINDS OF
OUR NEXT GENERATION --
POISONING.
WE’RE NOT LIKE MANY OTHER
COUNTRIES IN HUMAN HISTORY
DEFINED BY A SINGLE EGGS
NECESSARITY OR SINGLE LANGUAGE,
A SINGLE MONARCH.
AMERICA IS PART OF AN IDEA.
PART OF BEING AN IDEA IN OUR
COUNTRY MEANS THIS, THE WAY WE
DESCRIBE AMERICA AFFECTS THE WAY
AMERICA ACTUALLY WORKS.
WE CALL IT THE AMERICAN DREAM.
IT’S A DREAM FOR A REASON.
SOMETHING WE ASPIRE TO.
NOTION OF EPLURIBUS UNU.
A SET OF IDEAS BIND US TOGETHER.
WE’RE OBSESSING OUR DIVERSITY,
OUR DIFFERENCES DECADE,
FORGETTING WAYS WE’RE THE SAME.
IT IS GETTING TRANSMITTED TO THE
NEXT GENERATION.
THE WAY WE DESCRIBE THIS COUNTRY
TO THEM WILL AFFECT THE WAY THE
COUNTRY WORKS IN THE NEXT
GENERATION.
THAT IS SOMETHING TO BE
FRIGHTENED OF.
LAWRENCE: WHY ISN’T THERE AN
EMPHASIS ON HISTORY?
YOU KNOW IT TROUBLES ME THAT
THERE IS SO MUCH FOCUS ON
WOKISM, INSTEAD OF TEACHING ALL
THE STORIES OF AMERICA IN THESE
BOOKS?
WHEN I GO ON AIR, I HEAR PEOPLE
SAY THEY LEARNED ABOUT BLACK
WALL STREET LAST YEAR OR YOU
KNOW, JUNETEENTH, THAT IS A
FAILURE OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.
THAT IS AN AMERICAN STORY.
SO WHY NOT THE EMPHASIS ON THAT
INSTEAD OF WOKISM?
>> I LOVE THAT POINT.
I ACTUALLY THINK THAT WE HAVE
SPENT SO MUCH TIME BASHING OUR
FOUNDING FATHERS AS THOUGH THEY
WERE ONE MONOLITHIC GROUP WHEN
IN FACT THIS WAS A DIVERSE GROUP
OF PEOPLE.
INSTEAD OF TEARING DOWN OUR
MONUMENTS AND STATUES, BUILD ONE
FOR JOHN ADAMS.
THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
HE WAS SOMEBODY WHO ACTUALLY DID
NOT OWN SLAVES ON PRINCIPLE.
HE WAS BE A LOW LEGSIST.
WE HAVE MONUMENT FOR WASHINGTON
AND JEFFERSON.
I’M NOT SAYING WE SHOULD TEAR
THOSE DOWN.
BUILD ONE FOR JOHN ADAMS.
THAT SHOULD BE THE CONTENT OF
AMERICAN HISTORY BOTH THE
WOKISTS AND REST OF US CAN ALL
GET BEHIND IN A UNIFIED WAY.
I LOVE WHAT YOU SAID.
OUR HISTORY HAS THE ANSWERS.
WE HAVE BEEN IMPERFECT.
WE WILL ALWAYS BE IMPERFECT.
WE’RE ABOUT THE PURSUIT OF
AFFECTION.
THAT IS WHAT MIST TEACHES US.
WILL: THIS IS A 54,000-DOLLAR A
YEAR IN NEW YORK CITY.
ANDREW GUTTMAN SENT THE LETTER
TO ALL THE PARENTS WHOSE
CHILDREN ATTEND THE SCHOOL AND
ADMINISTRATION.
HERE IS THE SCHOOL’S RESPONSE.
OUR STUDENTS NOTED AS THIS
LETTER WHICH DENIES THE PRESENCE
OF SYSTEMIC RACISM ACROSS THEIR
DOORWAYS THE EVIDENCE OF ONGOING
RACISM, SYSTEMIC OTHER OTHERWISE
IS DAILY PRESENT IN OUR
HEADLINES.
READ GUTTMAN’S LETTER, HE
ADDRESSES THAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE,
THAT VACUOUS, AMBIGUOUS
RESPONSE, THAT TYPE OF THING IS
EXACTLY WHAT HE IS TIRED OF HIS
CHILDREN BEING TAUGHT.
HE IS NO LONGER WILLING TO PAY
$54,000 A YEAR TO HAVE HIS
CHILDREN BRAINWASHED.
VIVEK, YOU ARE INSURING NO ONE
IS BRAINWASHED THIS MORNING.