Take a walk through the student wing at the Grand Haven High School and you will see a clear political agenda. There are posters with rainbows, liberal politicians, activists, displays singling out black authors and women’s history (identities), advertisements for leftist student groups including Calling All Colors and the Gay Straight Alliance, along with numerous posters putting “stress” at the top of the mind.
It's interesting that the propaganda is in the student wing where guests and parents rarely go; not even allowed the past two years. You don’t see this stuff down the athletic wing. The kids are being bombarded with propaganda everywhere they turn. Hyper focusing on stress, sexuality, identity, etc. It is just adding to the emotions that are normal for teens and likely contributing to making things worse, not better.
Let’s take a closer look at the walls.
Celebrate Black Authors
This display is clearly pushing the idea of identity politics. Why are books being recommended to children based solely on the color of the author’s skin and not on the quality of the book? While this display pushes identity politics, several of the recommended books (Pet by Awaeka Emezi, The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta and The Nickel Boys by Coleson Whitehead) push additional political agendas.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead is recommended by the Zinn Project. The Zinn Project provides curriculum materials to teachers that work to create activists. Teachers are even offered a chance to sign a Pledge to Teach CRT regardless of state or federal laws. Here’s a description of The Nickel Boys book from Amazon, “When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors.” This book teaches that an individual, by virtue of that individual’s race, is either an oppressor or a victim. I read this book. Boys “jack off”, “jack each other off”, are forced to fight (black vs white) and are abused in every way. It is divisive and very heavy reading for minors. The main message from this book is that all white people are bad, and all black people are victims…… and it creates a foundation for teaching Critical Race Theory.
Both Pet by Awaeke Emezi and The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta are on the Krause book list. The book Pet contains anti-straight, anti-parent, anti-adult, anti-police, anti-mayor, anti-teacher, anti-religion, pro-gender unclear, pro-vigil-anti justice, and pro-gun control themes. The main character is a biological boy who declared he was a girl at age 3, began taking puberty blockers around age 10 and had gender reassignment surgery at age 15. It is a heavy book for children that places the weight of the world on their shoulders and clearly pushes the leftist political agenda.
The Black Flamingo features a gay main character and gets a rating of 3 for sexual content from RatedBooks.org. A 3 rating is equivalent to an R rated movie. Here is a quote from p. 130 of The Black Flamingo:
“I’m high on weed, about to lose my virginity in a graveyard. He hands me a small
glass bottle full of liquid. I unscrew the top. “Do I drink it?”
“No, you hold it under your nose, like this and inhale; it helps you to relax.”
I follow his instructions. A chemical explosion in my brain, streamers burst forth
into a tangled rainbow, then all fades to black.”
This book presents age-inappropriate sexual material to minors. Schools such as GHAPS that offer this book to children are grooming them for sexual encounters. Sick!
Women’s History – Breaking Barriers
The poster on Women’s History continues with the theme of identity politics. Oprah Winfrey has done well for herself, but is now an advocate for the left’s political agenda. She stands against voter identification bills and pushes ideas through books such as “Caste” using her book club. According to the Gateway Pundit - “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” examines race in the United States as a social hierarchy, with African Americans confined to the bottom. The book defines racism in the country as an American caste system, comparing it to social hierarchical systems in India and Nazi Germany.
Jennifer Doudna is a biochemist who has done research for CRISPR gene editing, and AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), is a Democratic Socialist politician from NYC. These women have nothing to do with Women’s History as the poster suggests. Rather, they are well-known, politically biased women to look up to and celebrate. This poster clearly promotes the idea of identity politics.
Why are the walls in the student wing at Grand Haven High School lined with propaganda that focus on identity politics and push political agendas? This will only exacerbate division, racism, and discrimination and our kids are the ones who will suffer.