Education should be the “great equalizer,” but instead Democrats in America have weaponized it to try and make most of the population barely literate and brainwashed ignoramuses, while reserving equally woke but prestigious educations for the children of the elite.
Augustus Tolton, the first black American Catholic priest, who was born a slave and had to struggle his whole life against racism, including in multiple schools he attended, placed a great emphasis on education as the means for spreading equality in America. The priest who was refused entrance to every American seminary because of his skin color saw an issue which, during his time and now, was fueled by the Democrat party -- namely, racism and bias in education.
Tolton observed, “Education is the great equalizer, the transformative force that can bridge gaps and open doors.” He saw it as the path to increased liberty: “Education is the key that unlocks the door of freedom and opportunity.”
Unfortunately, Democrats are even more determined now than they were in the 19th century, if possible, to corrupt education — and since they are as racist as they were before they launched the Civil War, the race-baiting has continued unabated since the days Tolton escaped slavery and tried to find schools willing to accept him. Except now Democrats are racist against every ethnic group for different reasons and in different ways.
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Parent advocacy group Moms for Liberty called out the country’s largest teachers’ union for ignoring the fact that two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders aren’t proficient at reading and have historically low test scores. Instead, the National Education Association is pushing woke programs.
NEA TEACHERS UNION HINDERING PUBLIC EDUCATION As usual, the nation's largest teachers' union used its annual meeting to promote initiatives that seem to diverge from the primary goal of educating students. - They voted to challenge the Supreme Court's ruling that upholds parents' rights to opt out of certain educational content. - They voted to oppose what they referred to as "Trump's support of fascism." - They voted to hold conferences focusing on LGBTQ advocacy. ➡️ As a reminder, two-thirds of American fourth graders are not reading at a proficient level, and American students have recorded the lowest math scores in our history.
— Moms for Liberty (@Moms4Liberty) Jul 7, 2025
Lefty rag Ed Week said of the union, “Delegates rejected proposals for the NEA to promote cursive writing or to advocate against grade inflation. Instead, they directed the NEA to develop guidelines for local unions to support affordable housing policies, single-payer healthcare, and recovery efforts for schools affected by natural disasters.” But even worse, Moms for Liberty reported, the union voted against “Trump's support of fascism,” while deploring the Supreme Court decision in favor of parental rights and voting for LGBTQ advocacy conferences. In other words, the National Education Association is more interested in turning your kids into Marxist activists than in actually educating them.
Becky Pringle. She’s the head of National Education Association (NEA), America’s largest teachers union
— Joseph Twohig (@JosephTwohig) July 8, 2025
Lefties losing it! pic.twitter.com/R3QOk9M7q5
The University of California is under Justice Department investigation for race-based hiring plans even as the University of Louisville “removed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) language from campus documents and restructured DEI initiatives,” as Campus Reform reported. Antisemitism remains a serious problem on countless campi. Yale School of Medicine is facing a civil rights complaint. The examples could go on, but you get the picture.
Booker T. Washington, who like Tolton was a former slave focused on education as the path to increased liberty, developed a marvelous education model, combining classical academics with manual labor. We need honest history, classic literature, hardcore math, objective science, and also skills like carpentry, plumbing, sewing, cooking, and agriculture. If we could restore that model and apply it across the country, then once again we could say with Fr. Tolton that education in America is the great equalizer, as the Founding Fathers hoped it would be.
