by Frankie Stockes at The National File
A group of 44 black intellectuals, led by civil rights leader Bob Woodson, has published an open letter to Smith College, blasting the school’s use of anti-white critical race training where employees were forced to publicly “cleanse” themselves after a hate hoax. When the hoax was exposed, administrators at the elite all-female school doubled down and refused to apologize to the humiliated employees.
The signatories, many of whom were active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, penned the open letter to Smith College President Kathleen McCartney under the group name of 1776 Unites. It came after reports surfaced that service-sector employees of the school were forced to go through several rounds of critical race theory-inspired “anti-bias” training following a now-debunked accusation of racial profiling from a student.
“Before investigating the facts, Smith College assumed that every one of the people who prepare its food and clean its facilities was guilty of the vile sin of racism and forced them to publicly ‘cleanse’ themselves through a series of humiliating exercises in order to keep their jobs,” the group’s open letter to Smith College continues, reminding school leadership that even after the profiling incident was exposed as a hoax, employees received no apology.