To the Editor:

Representative Elise Stefanik is certainly not importing the issue of critical race theory into the North County, as she is accused of doing by North Country Public Radio reporter Zach Hirsch in an article linked to in North Country Now. Critical race theory was introduced into the area by school executives such as Potsdam Central School Superintendent Joann Chambers, who organized a presentation earlier this year for students by critical race theorist Debbie Irving, author of Waking Up White, a book filled with contempt for white people. Irving is so consumed by self-loathing because of her skin color that she finds her own visage repugnant, and describes in her book how she jumps back in righteous horror and disgust at the sight of her own white face in the mirror.

"Political Observers," according to NCPR, are of the opinion that North Country parents couldn't care less about Stefanik's critique of CRT. On the contrary, parents are very much concerned that their children are being taught in the public schools that because of their skin color, they are racially toxic, racially guilty, racially damned.

It makes no difference that critical race theory as it would be presented in college is not being taught in elementary and high schools. Race theorists are writing children's books that are informed by the doctrines of critical race theory. Mein Kampf may not have been taught in German elementary schools, but The Poisonous Mushroom, a children's book based on National Socialist racial theories, was.

If elected to the county legislature, I will introduce a resolution recommending that the teaching of CRT-inspired racial dogmas be banned in all schools in St. Lawrence County. If we have no problem with forbidding the teaching of the racial doctrines of National Socialism in the public schools, then we should certainly have no problem with prohibiting the teaching of racial socialism in the form of critical race theory.

Kevin Beary
Colton