THIS DEI AMERICAN LIFE
**Today’s Substack will not address the shooting at The Covenant School (TN). We are heartbroken by the lives lost. There is much to say, but meaningful analysis does not come from immediate reaction the moment families are grieving.**
The real J6 footage, Biden (Archmere Academy, DE; Wilmington Friends, DE) family crimes, bank bailouts, protests in Europe, China brokering Saudi-Iran peace deals, Hillary Clinton Meme persecution of Douglass Mackey, FDA and Pfizer concealing the dangers of myocarditis, hundreds of billions sent to Ukraine still falling apart, the ass-kissing of Tik Tok’s CEO by congressmen who know where their children’s NAIS School tuition bread is buttered. There has been so much to suppress, it’s no wonder NYC DA Alvin Bragg (Trinity, NY) rehashed the old TDS Stormy Daniels plot. Meanwhile the spotlight on LGBT+ has been suppressing attention on BRIC+ and on an equally dangerous alliance between the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) to embed DEI systems deeper into the government.
Up First, Embedded
A lawsuit filed by black alum Madison Mason and her mother against Ethical Culture Fieldston (NY) on February 20, 2023 in federal court alleges civil rights violations. The Complaint includes very general allegations akin to a hostile work environment racial discrimination case in school. Allegations of actions – most of which were not directed at Mason, include students of color being viewed as receiving financial support (Mason’s Complaint states she did in fact receive financial support), classmates using the n-word, classmates using words like “messy” that defendants subjectively internally deem as “code” for black, faculty daring to discipline Mason, a class prank where students (including black students) placed watermelons in several administrators’ offices – one of whom was black, a smaller percentage of students of color in higher levels of math (we’re assuming her definition of students of color omits Asians), and of course, hair comments. The simple Complaints of Mason and another recent suit filed by black former student Serene Wright alleging civil rights violations are basically carbon copies of a suit filed a couple years ago by black parent Kim Emile on behalf of her children against Fieldston.
These Fieldston suits were not filed in a vacuum. Dennis Prager often remarks how America’s children leave college as leftist activists. This is not the whole story. When quintessential privileged OG Antifa Bill Ayers (Lake Forest Academy, IL; Klingenstein – Columbia Ed School, NY; Chicago Lab parent, IL) put on a tie and joined the very institutions he sought to dismantle, many of us Undercover Mothers and fellow NAIS School alums across America were already marching out of NAIS Schools and into elite colleges already formed leftist activists. If you don’t believe us, just take a look at influential leftist activists and Independent X Alum Trustees.
It’s Been A Minute, Consider This
Independent X Boards must first understand these suits in historical and social context because they present the next stage in the long march of cultural Marxism. Although not well known, the radicalization of Independent X School has roots going back to the civil rights era. NAIS had already been established as a private school collective in 1962 when Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted its Port Huron Statement months later at the United Auto Workers summer retreat sparking a student movement across America. Its early timeline establishes that NAIS internalized the civil rights movement: in 1964 publishing The Independent School Trustee Handbook to begin the transition of power from Independent X School Board of Trustees to NAIS groomed and positioned headmasters; in 1968 publishing The Library in the Independent School to lay the groundwork that would eventually result in Independent X School featuring trans and pornographic “sex ed” books for children; in 1969 establishing the Office of Minority Affairs to identify and separate children, parents, and faculty by race. Early incidents of overt activism also propelled change. Not even 1 year after armed black Cornell students famously took over Willard Straight Hall, Cornell’s Student Union, on Parents’ Weekend in 1969 (allegedly after racial provocations staged by a white student seeking to advance his own career – no doubt an inspiration to Robin DiAngelo), 60 primarily black Fieldston students took over Fieldston’s admin building demanding an increase in black student enrollment and faculty.
As America became exhausted by the events of the late 60s, outright activism waned and NAIS found ways to embed Marxist pedagogy furtively into curriculum and governance. Individual NAIS Principals of Good Practice were rolled out to remake Independent X School as quietly as possible. NAIS held its first annual National Conference for Teachers and Administrators of Color in Independent Schools (pre-cursor to NAIS People of Color Conference – PoCC) in 1986 developed by NAIS Director of Diversity self-avowed Black Panther Randolph Carter, first annual Student Diversity Leadership Conference (SDLC) in 1993, and Principles of Good Practice for Equity and Justice in 1996 – decades before the terms “equity” and “justice” were in the cultural lexicon. New sets of headmasters were groomed with Klingenstein (Columbia Ed School) fellowships and search firm Carney Sandoe disseminated these NAIS-allied headmasters to the most traditional, academic, and influential NAIS Schools like WEF Young Global Leaders.
NAIS Schools were entrenched in DEI decades before we took notice. In 2002, Heather Mac Donald (John Thomas Dye, CA; Harvard-Westlake, CA) of the Manhattan Institute observed: “The diversity industry—the profession paid to harangue Americans about racism and sexism—has burrowed deep into the nation’s elite prep schools. Where private secondary schools once inculcated American citizenship and patriotism, today they employ diversity professionals to show students their complicity in an unjust society. Schools that strove to mold a homogeneous national elite now have enshrined ‘difference’ as their organizing principle. Aping the fractured curriculum of the university, many prep schools offer courses in ‘gay voices,’ the ‘construction of gender,’ and ‘racial identity.’” Mac Donald’s own alma mater Harvard-Westlake (Westlake at the time, CA) instituted the nation’s first high school Women’s Studies class in 1980 where the teacher urged students to be leftist political activists. By 2009, it was commonplace for NAIS Schools like Spence (NY) to hire DEI Consultant Glenn Singleton (Courageous Conversation (TM), Pacific Education Group).
Louder Than A Riot, No Compromise
NAIS’ covert agenda held constant until the “post-racial” Obama years. Recall it wasn’t until the second term of the “transformational” community organizer president that in response to the politicized 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting, anti-Semitic-trans-Marxist “nonprofit” BLM materialized in 2013 and gained further traction after the false narrative of the 2014 Michael Brown shooting. 2014 also saw the filing of Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (coupled with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina in SCOTUS) by asians emboldened by nearly 20 years of post-Prop 209 California to challenge affirmative action in universities. Coincidentally, the early 2012 tragic death of Andrew Breitbart left a gaping hole for a charismatic media savant who could call out cons and shut down exploitative hucksters – particularly exploitative race hucksters, leaving the floodgates of the profiteering racial grievance industry to burst open.
As society was thrust into manufactured public racial reckoning, NAIS Schools became more overt about their critical theory agenda. In 2013, Fieldston hired Mariama Richards from Georgetown Day (DC) as its Director of Progressive and Multicultural Education. (Richards was recently named Crossroads (CA) Headmaster.) After the Eric Garner decision in 2014, Fieldston faculty signed a letter expressing solidarity with #blacklivesmatter. In 2015, Fieldston conducted its first Lower School race survey, using Democrat apparatchik Southern Poverty Law Center’s “anti-bias” curriculum of Teaching Tolerance (now called Learning for Justice), and held mandatory race-segregated affinity groups for children starting with 3rd graders. In 2015, Casper Caldarola, mother and trustee at Dalton (NY) and Communications Director at Allen-Stevenson (NY), founded Pollyanna as a DEI consultancy that holds DEI conferences at NAIS Schools. In 2017, Fieldston’s Klingenstein alum Headmaster Jessica Bagby forced a long time teacher and lower school principal into retirement after the principal alleged Bagby made an anti-Semitic remark. (This controversy even spilled onto the NYT and its journos including Maggie Haberman (Fieldston, NY) when they were charged with pulling strings in a “vendetta” against Fieldston by fellow journo Jon Levine (York Prep, NY) in Dan Abrams’ (Trinity, NY) Mediaite.) In January 2019, a video taken several years prior of 12-year-old Poly Prep (NY) girls with make-up covering their faces and dancing to make their friend laugh was leaked and deemed “blackface.” Immediately after, Poly Prep’s black students wrote an open letter to the admin demanding change. In February 2019, a video taken several years prior of students using “racist” language surfaced at Fieldston. Immediately after, the video and Fieldston’s response inspired a wave of “Open Letters” published in NAIS School newspapers across the country.
In March 2019, Madison Mason founded Students of Color Matter and led them in taking over a Fieldston building submitting a list of 16 demands to which Fieldston’s Headmaster Bagby and the Board of Trustees agreed. (The website of Students of Color Matter is no longer online.) This occupation – nearly 50 years after the original 1970 occupation, signaled a ratcheting up of the agenda. Within months, Fieldston invited an anti-Semitic Open Society Foundations speaker. By the time June 2020 and the Summer of George riots broke out across the country, NAIS Schools and students were seasoned DEI professionals. In June 2020, “Black@” Independent X School Instagram accounts detailing unverified and unverifiable accusations of microaggressions against POC students were launched in seeming coordination. (Some accounts were called BIPOC@ or IndependentXSchoolSpeaksOut@, e.g. https://www.instagram.com/blackatdeerfieldofficial/.) In June 2020, NAIS Schools launched reactions to the Floyd video and Black@ accounts and detailed their plans to deploy an already engaged arsenal of consultants ready to audit curriculum and train boards, “staffulty,” parents, and students on how to be “antiracist.” Through 2020, the wave of “Open Letters” at NAIS Schools continued both in the US and abroad. Dalton’s faculty issued an 8-page Open Letter of demands. Then, just as mysteriously as the Black@ accounts started, they mysteriously stopped.
These scenes are by no means exclusive to Zabar’s post drop-off lattes. 2020 saw rich white leftist moms virtue signal over more level-headed leftist POC parents in forcing Carlthorp’s (CA) Board to toss its white male headmaster, who had taught in inner city schools, in favor of NAIS-groomed former social worker black female headmaster Nola-rae Cronan. Despite the many flashy celebrity names like Bennifer (original and redux), as far as we know, Carlthorp’s turmoil never made it into DailyMail or NYPost headlines. We’re sure Carlthorp (and Harvard-Westlake) Board Member Sarah Murdoch had nothing to do with that. Similar internal struggle sessions from Columbus, Ohio to Marin County, CA to Dallas, TX to Atlanta, GA have been ongoing.
Code Switch, Believed
Without getting into the obvious toxic narcissism of deeming Independent X School liable for any and all actions of every individual child that any one student finds offensive, Mason’s Fieldston suit presents a dangerously deceptive dilemma to Independent X Boards. Fieldston is one of a handful of NAIS Schools, including Andover – MA, Lakeside – WA, Chicago Lab – IL, that provide proof of concept. These NAIS schools incubate plans that are later disseminated across all NAIS Schools. Mason’s 2019 occupation, devised or influenced by NAIS PoCC and SDLC, provided the media blueprint for the Open Letters and Black@ accounts at nearly every NAIS School in 2020. The Black@ accounts, which were likely directed by Klingenstein, gathered data to be used by POC students and faculty. For example, Trinity’s (NY) DEI director allegedly helped students craft demands in collaboration with a group of Trinity faculty – WOC, women of color, to which Headmaster John Allman quickly apologized and capitulated. At the end of the year, one of the leaders of WOC even received the distinguished teaching award. It’s no coincidence that when Nigel Furlonge was Fieldston’s Upper School Principal, Klingenstein’s Director was (and still is) his wife Nicole Brittingham Furlonge. While Nigel Furlonge is named on Mason’s suit, he was handsomely rewarded by NAIS in advance for his role at Fieldston with a much more lucrative and prestigious Montclair Kimberley Academy (NY) Headmaster position.
If Independent X School has gone overboard appeasing DEI terrorists, why was Mason’s suit filed years after she graduated? It could be she wanted to ride the scholarship/financial aid trainthroughgraduationthenhoponanewlitigation train she could leverage into book deals, speaking gigs, and nonprofits - just as the plight of the Vietnamese was never the real issue for 1960’s anti-war protestors as much as amassing political power and wealth. There is no money in peace, but the war on children provides a bottomless pit of cash. McKinsey reports companies spent $7.5B on DEI with a projected doubling to $15.4 billion by 2026. We guarantee McKinsey’s $7.5B DEI and Bloomberg’s $9B trans industry estimates are massively underestimated. Yet the implications are further reaching than personal greed and ambition.
If you recall the case of Chessy Prout (St. Paul’s, NH), which was splashed across the pages of many a Town and Country, it was framed as an open and shut case of a privileged St. Paul’s boy raping a young female victim. However, it seems facts were concealed in favor of the spotlight of a greater national agenda (e.g. the accused boy was attending St. Paul’s on scholarship while accuser Prout’s family was the major donor). Victim’s rights groups and the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights used the case to accelerate the implementation of new and more invasive Title IX regulations across America. The Prout case led to a pervasive MeToo, TimesUp witch-hunt environment where males were stripped of due process and labeled toxic second-class oppressors despite the factual statistics about which Jordan Peterson rightly preaches. What Chessy Prout was to MeToo, Madison Mason is to DEI.
Taking Cover, Here & Now
The looming Harvard/UNC affirmative action SCOTUS ruling, along with suits like that of stalwart UCLA Anderson Prof. Gordon Klein against the UC Regents set for trial mid-April, threaten precedents Bakke and Grutter and rattle DEI industrial complex terrorists to the core. Mason’s suit is a way to preempt the SCOTUS affirmative action decision and make a political play to embed DEI from NAIS Schools deeper into nationally codified systems. NAIS appointed its long-standing General Counsel as the incoming NAIS President for a reason. When Independent X Boards are concerned with litigation and optics, who better than a lawyer and NAIS President to make the case that Independent X School will get sued for discriminatory civil rights violations unless they double down on DEI? After all, if it happened to Fieldston, it could happen to any Independent X School. NAIS will convince Independent X Board to settle at the behest of DEI blackmailers or risk losing 501c3 status. Why else would the American Federation of Teachers – the nation’s most powerful public school teachers union be so interested in the nonprofit tax-exempt status of private schools for racial discrimination?
Mason’s suit will also be used to claim children are not safe in schools and need greater codified protection on the federal level. Just as Chessy Prout’s St. Paul’s case was used with the 2011 Dear Colleague Letter to expand federal Title IX regulations in unconstitutionally violative ways in the MeToo era, Mason’s Fieldston case will be used with last week’s Dear Colleague Letter to demagogue “safety,” “mental health,” and “wellbeing” to expand federal civil rights/DEI regulations in unconstitutionally violative ways in a post affirmative action era. This also applies to “trans rights.” At this point, they should be renamed Dear Comrade Letters. Mason’s suit and the data from the Black@ campaigns will buttress false premises while the use of definitions constantly changing according to the whims of the DEI/SEL Consultants will move the goalposts of DEI/SEL. The Department of Education will expand from focusing on blacks and latinos to merge with the newly created DEIA Office and transform into a Department of Anti-Racism. There will be more federal funding for programs like My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative “aimed at finding ways the federal government, community leaders, the private sector and philanthropies can create more opportunities for young men of color.” It’s no surprise the 0.1% were only made to break one bead of sweat before being bailed out of SVB’s memEBITDA culture of entitled DEI/ESG-laden incompetence. The cover is always the endless stream of government money.
Again, lest you think we’ve jumped the shark, never forget the reach of NAIS School tentacles over Big Government and its minions – Big Journalism, Big Hollywood, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ed. When Fieldston conducted an investigation in 2017, it was spearheaded by Fieldston board member Orin Snyder of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Determining where someone like Snyder begins and big tech, media, and Dem entities like Meta, the Clinton Foundation, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Center for Reproductive Rights, PayPal, NBCUniversal, TimeWarner, PepsiCo, Goldman Sachs, Lebron (Sierra Canyon parent, CA), Zuckerberg (Andover, MA), and Anderson Cooper (Dalton, NY) end is something even SKDK deviants cannot decipher. NAIS Schools are filled with every moneyed insider making donations to rising big government drones during their first statewide elections.
So, stay on top of your Board and hold them accountable. Do not let Independent X Board let the wolves guard the henhouse. For goodness’ sake, DEI Industrial Complex queen Martha Haakmat is on Brearley’s (NY) board! Urge Independent X Trustees to cut ties with NAIS before it’s too late!!
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