Chris Lange, FISM News
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A North Carolina youth pastor delivered a stunning rebuke to members of a Raleigh school board for “wasting taxpayer dollars” on diversity programs that disproportionately harm black students.
During the public comment portion of the Wake County school board meeting last week, Pastor John Amanchukwu, who is black, said the school has failed students of color by focusing on LGBTQ studies and Critical Race Theory instead of reading, writing, and math.
In a speech that has since gone viral and was reviewed by FISM, Amanchukwu admonished board members for the harm they have inflicted on children in the community, quoting Luke 17:2 as a stark warning that they will have to answer to God for their actions.
“God is going to judge every last one of you for decisions that are made on behalf of children,” Amanchukwu said, pointing to each board member individually while looking them straight in the eye.
“As we are teaching cultural Marxism and grooming children to be the next pervert, we are damaging our kids in this public school system, and it needs to stop,” he said.
Amanchukwu went on to point out that a staggering 78% of black students in third through eighth grade in the district have fallen below proficiency standards in math while 66% are not proficient in reading, citing state-wide proficiency testing results from 2020-2021.
He noted the irony that the district spends $1 million annually on an Office of Equity affairs that has done nothing to help minority students.
“And how did that [office] benefit black children?” he demanded, “How did it benefit children, in general?”
“We’re wasting money on a diversity, equity, and inclusion office while we are failing black students ‘in the name of diversity,’” Amanchukwu continued. “In the Jim Crow era, black students were locked out of the public school system, but today they are trapped in.”
Wake County, which is North Carolina’s largest school district, established an Office of Equity Affairs in 2013 to approach education through a so-called “equity lens” that “benefits all children,” according to a ChurchLeaders.com report. A search for the Office of Equity Affairs on the Wake County School District’s website by FISM yielded a message that “the page is currently unavailable.”
The latest Nation’s Report Card, released in August 2022, showed the largest math declines ever recorded in the U.S. for children in the fourth through eighth grades while reading scores plummeted to their lowest level in three decades.
Amanchukwu, who serves as youth pastor at Raleigh’s Upper Room Church of God in Christ, is a school-choice and pro-life advocate. He recently published a book titled, “Eraced: Uncovering the Lies of Critical Race Theory and Abortion.”
Watch his full speech at the school board meeting below: