Rather than endure more mandatory anti-White, anti-police, anti-male indoctrination, first-year law school student David Blackman withdrew from Penn State University after just one semester – and audio from one of its required “Race” classes shows why a complaint has been filed with the U.S. Department of Education.
In Penn State’s "Race and the Equal Protection of the Laws," a required course for all first-year law students, Blackman was subjected to a transgender faculty member’s activism explaining why the class “is not optional.”
According audio from the class obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Penn State’s Emily Spottswood claimed victim status:
“I am a trans-woman, right. And this year there is a lot happening against people from our community and having a focus from the outset on combating oppression and injustice is meaningful to me in a way I cannot describe.”
In an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Blackman reported that the course vilified white people and law enforcement and that professors assigned texts by critical race theorists without presenting an alternative perspective:
“Over the course of three 150-minute lectures, speakers described all white people as ‘privileged,’ called to ‘eradicate patriarchy,’ and asserted that the justice system is ‘about keeping black people in their place.’
“One assignment said students should ‘consider’ framing their essays around ‘the reality of systemic racism,’ implying that doing otherwise could affect a student's grade.”
Audio from the session obtained by Free Beacon reveals the extent to which speakers sought to coercively conscript young law students into their divisive, far-left ideology.
Associate Dean Jeffrey Dodge went so far as to declare that all the students in the class had become members of a “coalition”:
“Today that you all officially become part of this broader coalition and effort towards building against a more anti-racist, equal-under-the-law approach to our law and legal systems.
“This is the part of the coalition that I’m really excited about is we are taking action to disrupt and dismantle systems that racialize, subordinate and oppress.”
“Racism, subordination and oppression exists and it has existed,” Dodge said, adding that “We start with that as the foundation for this course.”
“I think that our criminal legal system is not about keeping families and communities safe. – it’s about keeping Black people in their place,” Georgetown Law Professor Paul Butler told the first-year law students:
“What the problem is, according to the movement, is white supremacy. The problem is patriarchy.”
“And, unless we abolish white supremacy, unless we eradicate patriarchy, we’re still going to have problems. I’m most persuaded by the theory articulated by the movement for Black Lives,” Butler preached.
On April 1, the American First Policy Institute (AFPI) notified Penn State Dickinson Law Dean Danielle Conway that it had submitting a formal complaint referring the university to the U.S. Department of Education, requesting an investigation into the American Bar Association’s accreditation standards and their potential role in fostering a racially hostile educational environment in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Penn State’s “Course materials repeatedly emphasize race-based frameworks that categorize individuals according to identity and systemic positioning, including themes portraying individuals as ‘oppressors’ or ‘oppressed’ based on skin color, and presenting American legal institutions as fundamentally structured by racial hierarchy,” the letter notes.
