SCOOP: The government of King County, WA has a segregation problem.
According to new documents, King County Public Health held a series of racially-segregated diversity training sessions, teaching employees that they have "internalized racial oppressions [and] superiority."
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Last year, the King County government gathered their homeless healthcare workers into racially-segregated sessions—called "race affinity caucuses"—to root out "White Supremacy Culture" and "decolonize their minds."
The trainers told white employees that they needed to deconstruct their "internalized racial superiority," "work through guilt, shame, & other barriers that hold white people back." Then they "remind[ed] white people that work needs to be done to dismantle racism every day."
The session for people of color instructed minorities to "[decolonize] your mind," "create an alternative power base," and then "encourage [their] White colleagues within the Network to work on their own internalized superiority."
In the past week, I have uncovered segregation in the King County Library System, King County Prosecutor's Office, and now King County Public Health. This practice—"separate but equal" training sessions—is doubtlessly widespread throughout county government.
The employees at King County Public Health are supposed to help provide healthcare to the homeless. Instead, leaders have sent them to racially-segregated political indoctrination sessions. This, needless to say, doesn't do anything for the homeless.
Unfortunately, the local media has been silent on these racially-segregated public institutions.
King County Councilmembers @reagandunn, @KathyLambert, and others must launch an investigation into this practice, which violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Enough is enough.
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When I first made the decision to engage politically, I had old funders refuse to return my calls and old friends refuse to work on the project.
The documentary world is hyper-ideological—and I realized that I had to get out.
Two years ago, as I was finishing "America Lost," I wrote my first essay for @CityJournal, which led to an incredible line of opportunities with conservative think tanks and publications.
The documentary world closed its doors; the political world swung them wide open.
Dear @TheJusticeDept: the King County Library (@KCLS) is now admitting to instituting a policy of racial segregation.
They use the euphemism "caucused listening sessions," but they explicitly separated people by race—and are in violation of the Civil Rights Act.
Shut it down.
Regarding their point in the final paragraph: as I wrote in my New York Post exposé, I reached out to the race training firm that conducted the segregated sessions and they refused to comment on the story.
Segregation is wrong—and woke segregation is no better.
SCOOP: Three Seattle-area government agencies are now holding racially-segregated diversity training programs.
I've obtained exclusive whistleblower documents that expose this shocking new policy, which could be described as "segregation for social justice."
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The King County Prosecutor recently implemented a new policy requiring employees to sign an "equity and social justice" pledge and assigning “continued training for white employees,” who must “accept responsibility for their own racism” and “question the White power structure.”
The King County Library System hired a private firm to conduct racially-segregated "listening sessions" to root out “institutional privileges and systemic inequities embedded in the current socio-political conditions.” They claimed to have found widespread "institutional racism."
Amazon is moving thousands of jobs out of the city and nearby Microsoft is going permanent work-from-home—and yet, Seattle's political class insists on punishing businesses with new taxes.
Prediction: tech employees with families are going to move out of the prestige cities (SF, SEA, NYC) and engage in "lifestyle arbitrage": maintaining top-wage employment, while significantly reducing cost of living by moving to cheaper cities and states.
For years, woke mayors and city councils have assumed that tech companies would provide an endless stream of cash for their social justice projects.
Now they're scrambling to figure out how to build utopia in an era of declining municipal budgets.
VICTORY: The President has just signed a full Executive Order abolishing critical race theory from the federal government, the military, and all federal contractors.
The president has effectively declared war on CRT—and extended the battlefield to all of our institutions.
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To begin, the president explains that our nation was founded on the ideal that "all mean are created equal" and denounces critical race theory's "pernicious and false belief that America is an irredeemably racist and sexist country."
The President writes that the "malign ideology" of critical race theory "is now migrating from the fringes of American society and threatens to infect core institutions of country." He cites my original reporting on the Treasury Department, Argonne National Labs, and Sandia Labs.
Last weekend, I took my oldest son on a 48-hour train journey from Seattle to Chicago. I wanted him to see the vast beauty of the American interior—and to toughen him up with some hard travel.
Here are some snapshots. 🧵
We started going through the forests and mountains of Washington State, Idaho, and Western Montana.
Then we descended into the endless plains of Eastern Montana and North Dakota. We saw cattle ranches, oil fields, and 250-person towns. It's amazing that this harsh landscape can even human sustain life.