At the in-person forum last Friday, a parent who complained that Black children don’t feel safe in the Rockwood district was booed off the stage.Ĭrystal Domagalski speaks April 30, 2021, at a Rockwood School District forum.Īnother parent, Crystal Domagalski, yowled, “I’m not a racist, damn it” and then complained that because of anti-racism “propaganda,” her daughter was “ashamed to be white.” I’m assuming Crystal doesn’t know that, according to one of the Founders, her daughter isn’t white because she’s of Polish, East European extraction.

Some Rockwood parents have taken it a step further, harassing and threatening Rockwood teachers and administrators over the district’s diversity curriculum, to the point where teachers have asked school administrators for protection against online and physical threats. Andrew Koenig) and a Zoom call from a spokesman for a group founded by the conservative Heritage Foundation in D.C., all complaining that they don’t want lessons about racism, slavery or Jim Crow included in the schools.

Louis County’s Rockwood School District gathered in a banquet room to hear from a pair of ultra-conservative state lawmakers from the County (state Sen. Researchers from Yale and New York University summed it up in 2018, when they examined white grievance and fears of “white genocide” in a rapidly changing America in a study titled “Majority No More?” The money paragraph sums it up: “White Americans considering a future in which the white population has declined … leads to stronger identification as white, the expression of more negative racial attitudes, greater opposition to diversity, and greater endorsement of conservative political ideology, political parties, and candidates.”Īll of that was on full display last Friday when a group of angry white parents in far west St. It’s no surprise that extremists both in and out of the Missouri Legislature have such an interest in re-writing and whitewashing the history your kids learn in school, since American conservatism, after all, is made up of the Three Rs - the Rich, the Religious and the Racist.Īs noted here last week, the spasm by right-wing Missouri lawmakers against teaching about slavery, racism, the New York Times 1619 Project, and the Teaching Tolerance initiative from the Southern Poverty Law Center is based on fear, racism and lies.

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