As Americans, we share values founded on freedom. We believe in the innate value of the individual. We believe all humans are created equal. We believe in individual liberty, autonomy, and freedom of belief. We believe in equality under the law. We believe in a colorblind society. We do not judge people based on immutable characteristics. We believe in science and scientific […]
Month: September 2021
Gooden’s Program = Astrology
As Phil Magness, author of The 1619 Project: A Critique, has explained, Critical Race Theory is a terrible framework for studying racism. Critical Race Theory’s defenders currently package it as a necessary tool to examine institutional racism, going so far as to claim that if you doubt CRT, you must also doubt whether institutional racism exists. […]
School Board Imposes Anti-liberal “Anti-racism”
Mark Gooden is the Eanes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant. In the 2020-21 school year, the School Board hired Gooden to survey all Eanes employees. In his survey of District employees, Gooden asked 50 questions. Eight of the questions use the term anti-racist. This is a term of art in the DEI “space.” At first glance, it sounds like […]
Are You Liberal?
Are you from California? The East Coast? Did you leave a small town of small-minded people? Consider yourself a staunch Democrat? What does it mean to be a Democrat? A Liberal? On the Left? I assume you would say that to be liberal means to believe in Enlightenment rationalism. Human rights. Human reason. All humans are created equal. All humans have equal […]
They Hired a Consultant with No Experience
In 2020, the Eanes School Board hired Mark Gooden as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant. Here’s Gooden’s Curriculum Vitae. Take a look at his CV and see if you can find any of the following: the other school districts in which he’s implemented his program of student focus groups, confessional teacher training, and woke […]
Eanes for Hypocrisy
Thank you to all our Eanes community members who have placed Eanes for Equity signs in their yards. It makes it easy to identify the hypocrites. I mean, let’s be honest: before you bought your house in the Eanes ISD, you had a choice: you could have chosen a district with more racial diversity. But you […]
Now presenting…the Eanes ISD School Borg
All in favor of . . . Hiring a DEI consultant with no proven track record? AYE! Teaching kids that whiteness is oppressive? AYE! Approving equity audits! AYE! Endorsing divisive racial essentializing? AYE! Raising a collectivist critical consciousness? AYE! Ditching the colorblind society? AYE! Doing the work, baby? AYE! The AYE AYE AYE AYE AYE […]
Why is Linda Rawlings Senior Advisor for DEI?
Linda Rawlings is, among other things, the Eanes Senior Advisor for the District’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative. Here are five reasons that make you wonder about that District employment decision. 1. Part of the Alleged Problem. Rawlings was principal of Westlake High School for six years (2006-2012). If the climate at the high school is as racist as DEI consultant […]