On Friday, two local Democrat Party officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, jumped ship after they and two other Palm Beach County School Board members were censured for pushing back specifically on the party’s growing anti-white racism.
Their censure was the brainchild of state Rep. Omari Hardy, a radical left-wing activist and racial essentialist who buys into critical race theory propaganda.
The hubbub began last month when the board posted a statement vowing to eliminate racism and so-called “inequity” by “dismantling structures rooted in white advantage.”
The patently racist statement provoked massive backlash from parents of various races.
“Being a parent of both a Hispanic and a Caucasian student, this equity statement leads me to believe you’re viewing my children’s academics by the color of their skin or their ethnic background,” one parent, Jessica Martinez, said during a board hearing late last month.
In response to the backlash, the board held a vote to remove the racist phrase “white advantage,” and four of the seven board members — Marcia Andrews, Frank Barbieri, Karen Brill and Barbara McQuinn — voted “aye.”
This outraged Hardy, who responded by drafting a resolution claiming the removal of racist language from the board’s statement “runs counter to our Democratic values” and he called for the four to be censured, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Apparently, racism is a “Democratic value” …
“These four board members, all of whom are registered Democrats, have lost the trust and confidence of many activists and leaders of color whose enthusiastic support for the Democratic Party has been – and will continue to be – critical to (the) party’s success in Palm Beach County and in Florida more broadly,” the resolution stated.
In a vote Friday, an overwhelming majority of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party then voted in favor of the resolution, and thus the four were censured, much to Hardy’s pleasure.
“Eighty-one percent of an estimated 200 committee members voted for the resolution at a meeting Thursday evening, while 14% percent opposed it and 5% abstained, said Alex Berrios, the executive committee’s acting chairman,” the Post reported.
“The decision to publicly sanction four elected members of its own party is all but unprecedented in local party politics, Berrios said, but it showed the upsurge of concern about racial justice in the wake of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests.”
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