To the editor:
Over the past few years there has been much advocacy for the false narrative of white privilege. Facebook pages, such as “Lynnfield4Love” promote this through their adult book list.
Based on the titles, 65 percent of the books were promoting the white privilege narrative, which is divisive racism. In a newspaper article, our town administrator, Rob Dolan, was quoted as saying that the town would “reconvene talks with the Lynnfield4Love group.”
I then learned of the “equity audit” that our School Committee was pursuing. This suggested that our School Committee was implementing a curriculum of critical race theory and the 1619 Project.
The School Committee publicly denied this, and they were technically correct because these programs are not currently part of the curriculum.
The committee contracted with The Equity Process, a company which was formed for the expressed purpose of conducting this equity audit. They claim they are pursuing a policy of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Diversity by itself is not a bad thing, but merit should be the deciding factor. Diversity should not be an objective. Likewise, equity — equality of outcome — should not be a goal. The true metric is equality of opportunity. Equity at best leads to mediocrity. Equality of opportunity will ultimately lead to inclusion.
So, what will the outcome of this audit be? I am certain that they will find racism under every rock. What will be their remedy? Likely it will be the false “history” of The 1619 Project and the divisiveness of critical race theory, which fractures the community into two classes — oppressors and oppressed based entirely on race. This is the definition of racism.
What about the “nose of the camel” fable? You may remember the fable tells the story of an Arab and his camel on a cold desert night. Out of pity, the Arab permits his camel to poke his nose into the tent for warmth.
As the night wears on, the camel keeps worming his way further into the tent, and by morning he is in the tent and the Arab is out in the cold. Beware, this equity audit is the nose of the camel.
Cecil C. Ogren
Lynnfield United
