Sharif El-Mekki, an adviser to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, is a black nationalist with family ties to Iran who supports school segregation and runs a nonprofit that has raked in nearly $20 million from the taxpayer and nonprofits, including the Gates Foundation. Francesca Block in the Free Press has more.
El-Mekki, a former middle and high school teacher and principal, founded the Centre for Black Educator Development (CBED) in 2019, which defines its vision as “a world where… all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers,” and where “all teachers demonstrate high levels of expertise in anti-racist mindsets”. CBED argues that employing black teachers to educate black students increases educational outcomes.
Since its founding, CBED has trained thousands of teachers across the U.S. in “education activism”, urging a “commitment to liberation education from the racism inherent in America’s institutions, including our schools”. A CBED information packet titled ‘The Anti-Racist Guide to Teacher Retention’, developed with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, defines education as “a political act” that “can upend white supremacy and a racist history of using education as an oppressive social force”.
“Every lesson plan is a political document, and every classroom interaction a political statement,” the guide reads.
El-Mekki’s nonprofit boasts more than $19.5 million in assets, boosted by funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which donated over $1.4 million between 2020 and 2021, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which gave over $1.1 million in 2022, according to public tax filings. Other backers include NBC Universal, Nike, the Bezos Family Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania School of Education and dozens more. In 2023 alone, CBED trained more than 1,700 educators. In its most recent tax filing from 2023, El-Mekki drew a salary of $233,410 from the organisation.
“He started up this organisation, which on paper sounds like a really wonderful endeavour, getting more black teachers in the classroom,” said Dr. Mika Hackner, a Senior Research Associate at the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, which drafted a report on El-Mekki’s extremist views and activism that she shared with the Free Press. “But if you scratch beneath the surface — not even beneath the surface, it’s on its website — he’s propagating some pretty dangerous and divisive ideas.”
El-Mekki, she added, is “bringing in segregation by a different and more socially and politically acceptable name”.
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El-Mekki wants “a world where… all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers,” and where “all teachers demonstrate high levels of expertise in anti-racist mindsets”.
More proof that “anti-racism” is clear code for anti-whitism.
El-Mekki wants “a world where… all black students are taught by high-quality, same-race teachers,”
But weren’t human races something which doesn’t exist?
According to the madleft races don’t exist if their existence benefits whites, but they do exist if their existence benefits blacks.
“races don’t exist if their existence benefits whites”
I think it’s more that race doesn’t exist if it makes non-whites look bad.
Brown v Board of Education, “separate but equal”.
Lol.
White kids and parents might be quite happy about this.
Keeping the races apart. Isn’t there a word for that?
Erm. Which nation?
OK. Maybe I should read the whole article before commenting, but… which nation is he nationalist about – and why doesn’t he live there?
The virtual nation of oppressed black people. Considering that he’s also associated with the Nation of Islam, he might also be a black separatist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_nationalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_separatism
…and how has that worked out for the pupils? Actual numbers please.
According to theosophy and its ancient antecedents the next 25,000 years will be a time of race mixing and erasure of the distinctions between people. But that is a very different thing from western governments making the lives of white people miserable just because it makes more money. Too late now in England. You became a bargain basement country then a pound shop country and now you are like the lowliest whore in town. No direction home. It was crazy.
It is like giving a string of sausages to a dog and telling him to save half until tomorrow. I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way.
I really just don’t get these people. So the goal is colour blindness through the total, continuous awareness of, er, colour? All hail Morgan Freeman: So how do we get rid of racism! “Stop talking about it!”
Their goal is not “colour blindness”, they actually claim that this is impossible. Their theory is that people will always favour those of their own race – regardless whether it exists or not – and hence, the only way to advance the cause of the black race is to build an all-black universe for it while retaining access to everything the white race created.
If this sounds like crude shit, than, because it is crude shit. These people are the direct descendents of the race activists of the 1960, eg, Black Panther and Nation of Islam, and without race conflicts to exploit, they’re nothing. One can conjecture that the USA is by-and-large suceeding in solving its traditional race relation problems and this must not be allowed to happen as it would – just as with the industry workers before – once again rob the intelligenstia of its masses of repressed people supposed to bring on the revolution.
Hence, these people do their very worst in sowing racial divisions, coming up with theories explaining why they’re natural and cannot ever be remedied, stoking race-based violence etc. That they were forced to turn the habitual criminal George Floyd into an global saint suggest they’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel. OTOH, that they succeeded with this is a testimony to the power they still wield and to the mindless dedication of their legions of brainwashed henchmen to the great cause.
The problem – like global warming – is that there is a whole industry based on racism and they will not go quietly.
More free government tax money to drive controversial non-profit NGOs. The West is actively funding the destruction of itself. You had better get to work to pay those taxes to ensure you destroy your own life. What an abomination.