Activist dismayed ‘affluent black kids are demanding lowered standards,’ not equal treatment

Civil rights activist Carol Swain, who was just named to President Trump’s “1776 Commission” to teach American heritage, told Just the News this week she is dismayed that “affluent black kids are demanding lowered standards” instead of equal treatment under the law.

Swain, a prominent African-American social and political commentator, said she’s also horrified that left-leaning activists today are dismissing time-tested social virtues and institutions like punctuality, proper grammar, the nuclear family, diligence and perseverance as examples of “whiteness” or “white-dominant culture.”

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture this summer “had an exhibit that talked about hard work and getting to places on time and standard English, and all of those things that helped make for our success, that those things were part of the white oppression,” Swain noted on her Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain podcast last week. “I mean, it’s the most ridiculous thing that I’ve ever heard of.”

“Eventually, I left the university environment because of what it had become,” Swain recalled. “What I had experienced was not particular to Vanderbilt. Universities have been taken over in a way that’s detrimental to the whole process of education. They’re no longer marketplaces for ideas. And what is taking place on college and university campuses, including some Christian ones, is totally the opposite of what you would expect. And it’s because of critical theory, which is related to cultural Marxism and the decline of our society.”

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