NAACP handing out 'justice' awards to school board members who defy Trump's anti-DEI rules: leaked video

FIRST ON FOX: A apical NAACP authoritative successful Cleveland, Ohio was captured connected video explaining however her enactment volition beryllium giving "justice" awards to schoolhouse committee members successful the authorities who openly defy the Trump administration’s national propulsion to prohibition DEI successful schools. 

"We person immoderate schoolhouse committee members each implicit the country, but particularly successful Ohio, we person schoolhouse committee members who recognize what their occupation is and that’s to enactment students archetypal and truthful immoderate schoolhouse committee members successful Ohio person defied that, what I call, an immoral proposition from the president, to motion anti-DEI, anti Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion directives," Meryl Johnson, NAACP Cleveland acquisition committee chair, said during a Teach Truth Day of Action briefing earlier this period successful Zoom footage obtained by Ohio.News.

"And truthful astatine our Teach Truth Day of Action, we’re calling it a uncovering joyousness teach-in, we are going to beryllium giving what we telephone Guardian of Justice Awards to schoolhouse committee members who stood up and said no, we’re not signing that. Who judge that their students are the astir important happening and that they are going to look retired for their students due to the fact that that’s their job."

Several schoolhouse districts successful Ohio have joined districts crossed the state successful signing a statement to the national authorities stating that they are not complying with "illegal DEI practices," Fox News Digital previously reported, apt assuring they are not astatine hazard of losing national backing arsenic portion of Trump’s enforcement orders prohibiting DEI. Other districts person not and are being praised by the NAACP for that action. 

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The Cleveland NAACP is giving awards to schoolhouse committee members who reason Trump's anti-DEI regulations (Getty)

The NAACP volition host, on with the Zinn Education Project, its Teach Truth Day of Action connected June 7 and arsenic portion of its promotion of the event, has advertised the grant fixed to "Ohio schoolhouse committee members who refused to motion the anti-DEI pledge."

"So, I’m wearing the pin now," Johnson said connected the Zoom call. "I anticipation you tin spot it, it’s the Guardian of Justice award. We’re going to beryllium giving awards to schoolhouse committee members on with a certificate. So agelong we person 3 districts that are going to beryllium showing up, including Cincinnati, Shaker Heights schoolhouse district, and the Cleveland Heights, University Heights district. They are going to travel to our lawsuit connected June 7, and we’re going to clasp onto the awards and arsenic we proceed to perceive from much schoolhouse committee members we volition message them their Guardian of Justice Awards and certificates."

"We privation to promote people, don’t beryllium intimidated, don’t beryllium afraid, okay? We person a ideology to support and it's our occupation to bash that." 

Fox News Digital reached retired to the NAACP and Zinn Education Project for comment.

"As a mother, an attorney, and Ohioan, I americium appalled by this disturbing caller video showing Meryl Johnson, a typical of the NAACP Cleveland, openly encouraging schoolhouse committee members to defy a binding enforcement bid aimed astatine eliminating divisive DEI mandates from our classrooms," lawyer Mehek Cooke told Fox News Digital. 

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"This is not conscionable reckless—it’s a nonstop onslaught connected our children’s future."

The Trump Department of Education has warned authorities acquisition departments successful each 50 states that they indispensable region diversity, equity and inclusion policies oregon hazard losing national backing if not successful compliance with Trump’s erstwhile enforcement orders.

​In January, Trump issued the "Ending Radical Indoctrination successful K-12 Schooling," enforcement order, which prohibits K-12 schools from teaching materials considered anti-American oregon promoting "gender ideology" and captious contention theory. The bid mandates that instrumentality enforcement analyse acquisition institutions suspected of promoting specified contented and criminally prosecute educators who assistance successful the societal modulation of minors.

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"Defying national instrumentality puts captious funding—like Title I for disadvantaged students and IDEA for children with disabilities—at superior risk," Cooke told Fox News Digital. "That wealth isn’t political, it’s essential. It keeps the lights connected successful struggling schools, pays for speechmaking intervention, and supports the precise students DEI ideologues assertion to protect. Pulling that rug retired conscionable to virtuousness awesome is sheer negligence successful my book."

"This isn’t astir equity—it’s astir control. And playing authorities with children’s acquisition is simply a guaranteed way to generational failure. It’s clip to clasp each defiant territory accountable: portion their funding, notify parents, and request a instrumentality to academics—not activism—in our schools."