Forsyth County Georgia Board of Education - Jere Krischel - 11/14/2023

On October 7th, Hamas terrorists executed the most barbaric and vicious attack against Jews since the Holocaust. Taking advantage of the Jewish sabbath, they rampaged through border towns, killing, raping, mutilating, and kidnapping innocent civilians, including a 3-year old American child whose parents were murdered in the attack.
This may seem impossibly distant, and completely unrelated to matters of education, but sadly, it's closer than we think. Across our country, at prestigious universities everywhere, we have seen students offer comfort, support, and sympathy, not to the Jews who were savaged by barbarians, but to the barbarians of Hamas who now use human shields in Gaza to protect themselves from the righteous punishment they deserve.
These students, steeped in the most twisted image of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity you can imagine, wave banners like "Queers for a Free Palestine", even though the Hamas agents they're supporting believe their god Allah demands they kill all homosexuals. They have been so thoroughly brainwashed by the ideas of "white fragility", and "black lives matter", and "critical race theory", that they have decided, despite the identical skin color of Jews and Arabs, that one of them is "white", one of them is "black", and therefore, we know who is wrong, and who is right.
This systemic racism against white people in our country is shameful. And a very recent example illustrates this perfectly.
You likely haven't heard of Jonathan Lewis. He was 17 years old, and died this past November 8th in Las Vegas. His death was due to being lynched on November 1st by 15 violent racists. Had his race been different, or the race of his attackers had been different, you might have heard of him. But he was white, and his murderers were black.
There was a time, long ago, in this country's history, when a mob of white men killing a black man was just another day that ends in "y". As the South became more and more Republican, it became less and less racist, and thank God those days are far behind us. But today, that same casual race hatred is becoming more and more prevalent, even though the colors have been swapped.
In our Diversity, Inclusion and Equity programs in Forsyth County, we must remain vigilant against those who would use it to encourage hatred and division. We must actively proclaim that white heterosexual male students are just as diverse as black homosexual non-binary two-spirit transgender students. We must work to include young christian women just as much as we work to include young muslim men. We must be ever wary of the casual hatred generated by victimhood mentality.
We've done a fairly good job in Forsyth County avoiding the toxic Diversity, Inclusion and Equity propaganda that has infected many of our higher education institutions, and I sincerely thank the Board for that. I would humbly ask the Board to continue this good work, so that we do not open our community to the hate and violence we now see that comes from a woke mindset.

And so on that note, thank you very much for your time, and again, I'd love to have lunch with anyone who disagrees with me.