{"id":1797,"date":"2021-10-07T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CAIiELMGs_RfAXHPXzdxOTv-KccqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T10:00:54","slug":"gop-operative-says-it-hurts-white-kids-when-kids-of-color-feel-they-belong-the-daily-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"GOP Operative Says It Hurts White Kids When &#8216;Kids of Color Feel They Belong&#8217; &#8211; The Daily Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_2457,w_4368,x_0,y_444\/dpr_2.0\/c_limit,w_740\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1633599808\/GettyImages-1343330935_fpyapk\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>A Republican campaign manager for school board candidates in a Connecticut town has sparked controversy by telling participants of a virtual education forum that \u201chelping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids.\u201d Mary Beeman put forth that bizarre argument during a virtual education forum where the right-wing boogeyman known as \u201ccritical race theory\u201d was discussed, according to local news outlet WFSB. She later sought to clarify her statement, which she admitted was \u201cpoorly worded,\u201d and claimed it had been shown \u201cout of context.\u201d In trying to mop up the mess, Beeman said she\u2019d been referring to \u201cstudents who may have staunch Judeo-Christian values, or simply are conservative thinkers,\u201d and are now being \u201cbullied into submission by their teachers and fellow students with left-leaning ideologies.\u201d Bill Bloss, the Guilford school board chairman, made clear he wasn\u2019t buying Beeman\u2019s excuses for the racist remark, questioning \u201cexactly what context would that comment be positive in.\u201d He has called on Beeman to step down, blasting her remark as \u201cfalse, outrageous, negative (and) destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadItAtLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/news\/guilford-gop-school-board-campaign-manager-says-helping-children-of-color-feel-like-they-belong\/article_61cef1b0-26eb-11ec-aa85-bf2ec0443b85.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Read it at <\/span><span class=\"ReadItAtLink__name\">WFSB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican campaign manager for school board candidates in a Connecticut town has sparked controversy by telling participants of a virtual education forum that \u201chelping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids.\u201d Mary Beeman put forth that bizarre argument during a virtual education forum where the right-wing boogeyman known as \u201ccritical race theory\u201d was discussed, according to local news outlet WFSB. She later sought to clarify her statement, which she admitted was \u201cpoorly worded,\u201d and claimed it had been shown \u201cout of context.\u201d In trying to mop up the mess,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut-cbd-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}