Parents have slammed a "woke" New York school after their kids were shown a "blatantly racist" video mocking white women.
Pupils were shown a video that "openly derides, humiliates and ridicules white women", as per the New York Post.
Gabriela Perez-Marques Baron - an alumna and former trustee of the school - said, according to the outlet:
"They sat there in their graduation dresses while the white mothers of the white students - many of whom volunteer, donate, call, email, and do whatever the school asks of them - were tarred and feathered in a video their teacher showed them. While their white female teachers were mocked."
Parents at Spence School in Manhattan's Upper East Side are now engaging in a letter-writing campaign urging the school to take "a step backward" from its alleged out-of-control political correctness.
The video in question was an episode from racially charged comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, pictured above, that saw her ask a guest: "What percentage of white women do you hate? And there is a right answer."
Baron wrote in her letter: "Over the last several years my husband and I have grown increasingly concerned about certain trends at Spence, including what we believe is a de-emphasis of academic rigor and a single-minded focus on race, diversity, and inclusion that is now driving the School and everything that goes on within its walls."
"Had the video derided and ridiculed Asian women, Black women, or Hispanic women, the Spence community would declare with one voice that it was blatantly racist," the mom added.
While the school has now issued a mea culpa over the video, "it's not an apology that is needed," another longtime school member said, according to the Post.
Now, parents at the school want to know what the school plans to do to tackle "wokeness" in general.
Baron said she made the decision to remove her daughter from the school because of its actions as she was "feeling very disheartened and crestfallen over the curriculum echoing this sort of culture war even before George Floyd."
"We felt it wasn't appropriate, that kind of beating up of the Western canon," the woman said.
"I wish it were just isolated at Spence,’’ she said. "We all know the 'wokeness' is so huge."
