On Saturday, June 12 FAIR chapters gathered around the country for a live broadcast to celebrate the anniversary of the 1967 United States Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia—which struck down as unconstitutional all “anti-miscegenation” laws in sixteen U.S. states banning marriage between people based on differences in skin color or ancestry. The virtual event previewed the FAIR Learning Standards and hosted various inspiring speakers. Watch the full event here. Earlier this year, the federal government enacted the American Rescue Plan, which provides debt relief for American farmers. However, the program grants relief only to non-white farmers; white farmers are expressly excluded. Adam Faust and several other farmers filed suit to challenge this program. Six days ago, the district court issued an order stating the program likely violates the equal protection guarantee of the 14th Amendment and ordering that the program is halted nationwide. Read more under our Profiles in Courage. The esteemed novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published an eye-opening narrative essay on her website, detailing how politics and social media have tainted the minds and aspirations of young people. “There are many social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion, who can fluidly pontificate on Twitter about kindness but are unable to actually show kindness. People whose social media lives are case studies in emotional aridity. People for whom friendship, and its expectations of loyalty and compassion and support, no longer matter.” Read the full article here. Ye Zhang Pogue penned a heartfelt op-ed for Newsweek describing the implications of Loving Day, her interracial marriage, and how contemporary "anti-racism" seeks to categorize her husband as an oppressor. “When we got married, my husband promised ‘to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.’ Is an oppressor capable of fulfilling this promise?” Read the full article here. Two Jewish mental health experts at Stanford have filed workplace discrimination complaints after being forced into a “whiteness” racial affinity group. Gabe Stutman covered the story for The Jewish News of California. “Dr. Ronald Albucher, a psychiatrist and associate professor in the medical school, and Sheila Levin, a therapist specializing in eating disorders, describe being pressed into joining a ‘whiteness’ affinity group by staffers with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program, being told they were ‘privileged,’ and seeing antisemitic incidents downplayed.” Read the full article here. For Commentary Magazine, Noah Rothman wrote an insightful article detailing the pitfalls of Republicans' pushback against neo-racist indoctrination in American institutions. “In a contest of competing illiberalisms, illiberalism wins. Those of us who want CRT discredited also demand that it be discredited in the public square, in front of all who swore fealty to it.” Read the full article here. |