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It has come to the attention of the Wicomico Truth and Reconciliation Initiative that there is a candidate of concern running for an at-large seat on the Wicomico County Board of Education.
Darren Lombardo runs the Delmarva Parent Teacher Coalition (DPTC), a local group that has made a number of social media posts that perpetuate white supremacist ideology and talking points. Most concerning among these are a series of posts which state that the discussion of race and systemic racism and any form of diversity training or inclusion and equity initiatives in public schools is a danger to students and that it is synonymous with “Critical Race Theory”, an academic theory that is not taught in Wicomico County Public Schools.
In addition, Darren Lombardo is hosting Pasadena, MD Pastor David Whitney for a course on “the Maryland Constitution”. Pastor Whitney has been personally identified as an extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and has served as chaplain of the Maryland chapter of the League of the South (LOS), a neo-confederate hate group that espouses white Christian nationalism.
In a school district in which 36.6% of students are Black, in a county which has a history of racialized violence (including three known Racial Terror Lynchings), and a county whose public schools were successfully sued resulting in a federal civil rights investigation for discriminatory treatment of Black students and students with disabilities, to have a candidate with such troubling connections is something that the public should be made aware of.
#TellTheTruthWicomico
It will be interesting to see all of the prospective candidates.
My guess is that it will be the lesser of evils…
With Democrat politicians generally being more evil!
To #tell the truth wicomico. Stick it where the sun don’t shine
If the Southern Poverty Law Center is against them then I am for them! There is no organization more racist than the SPLC.
sounds like the wicomico whatever your organization is? is the one who is trying to make us bough down. I am never agreeing with teaching that because your skin is a certain color your are bad and are responsible for all the evils in the world. you can call it what you want. we know it’s being taught. Screw that committee people. Please read and do the research for your self. I am so tired of this “woke” crap. make up your own minds.
Just had to bring up the “known” regional lynchings, the last of which occurred in 1933. Described as Racial Terror Lynchings, how many people here fear that they’ll be lynched by their neighbors? Learn from history and avoid repeating the bad parts, but don’t use the bad parts to cast aspersions for political gain.
Isaac Kemp June 8, 1894 Somerset
William Andrews June 9, 1897 Somerset
Garfield King May 25, 1898 Wicomico
James Reed July 28, 1907 Somerset
Matthew Williams December 4, 1931 Wicomico
Unknown December 4, 1931 Wicomico
George Armwood October 18, 1933 Somerset
Exactly.
88 years ago was the most recent lynching. It was horrible. And there may indeed be folks alive now who were alive then, but those folks were in diapers when the most recent lynching took place. Hardly complicit.
If the most recent (fill in the blank with tragic event – drunk driving, homicide, heart attack, whatever) was 88 years ago and there hadn’t been any since then, would you be worrying about it today??
The “truth and reconciliation” people?
Forgive me, but it sounds a lot like some government thing from Orwell’s “1984”.
I don’t think they are really all that interested in “truth” OR “reconciliation”.
I think what they REALLY want is another forum to complain.
I’m sorry (truly) that anyone was hung in Salisbury years and years and years ago.
I also firmly believe that I had nothing to do with it and neither did anyone I know.
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE who cannot stop finding reasons to feel bad about themselves or tell everyone else how they should feel about what THEY find so distressing??
Get over yourselves. Please.
What do they want?
Everyone who DOESN’T think like them to bow down in worship, begging forgiveness for something they never did?
Or is it just another grab at someone else’s money?
What will it take to make them get a job?
Now, THERE is a great question, huh?
And, a little “truth” for ya…..
homeschool. The public schools are NOT worth saving.
To answer the question,” Who Are These People”. You have to go no further than the Wicomico County Democrat Central Committee. It is this group that is starting their propaganda machine earlier than usual because citizens have caught onto the way Democrats conduct their campaigns.
These are the same people who are trying to erase and change history. Why would they do this? Just look at the history of the Democratic Party. I mean really look at it. It’s so terrible that people are finally catching on and the WCDCC has to hide or erase what they have done.
Money will soothe his or her pain!
But—I will not be contributing!
why won’t you print my comment calling out yamakawa? you know he wrote it. can you imagine living a life when all you see is fake racism? the jessie jackson of smallsbury.
I smell the foul stench of James Yakawakamaka-whatever his name is. And the fat pig married to Caroline Ohare
Thanks for familiarizing me with Darren Lomabardo. I didn’t know who he was; however, now that I know his views I’ll vote for him.
Yamakawa spewing you’re bs again🙄 you’re a pathetic little man with no life.