And Who Voted For It
Published by the MARYLAND FREEDOM CAUCUS
If you haven’t heard by now, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was indicted the other week for wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. From the Department of Justice Press Release:
Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including: Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Unite the Right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party), and American Front.
According to the indictment, the objective of the scheme and artifice was to obtain money via donations through materially false representations and omissions about what the donated funds would be used for.
In short, the SPLC - a group dedicated to eliminating racism and extremism - defrauded their donors by promising to root out white supremacy while funding white supremacy. Talk about job security!
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The SPLC - Maryland Connection
The Southern Poverty Law Center is part of a vast network of NGOs that have been working to entrench their critical race theory/DEI practices into every aspect of society - starting with our public schools. That’s where their Learning for Justice curriculum comes into play.
Learning for Justice is the SPLC’s platform for “offering learning for civic and political action to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy”. It also presents the framework under which the Maryland State Department of Education developed its mandatory anti-bias training for educators and school board members.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Maryland Democrats have a lot in common - they both want to make Maryland children more racist in order to fight racism. It brings in the donor dollars and keeps our communities divided.
How do we know? They voted for it - multiple times.
In 2024, the Maryland General Assembly passed a mandate to include anti-bias training for all public school employees with HB 1386. Then in 2025, that mandate expanded to school board members with SB 293. The purpose of the training is to teach white teachers that they are inherently biased, racist, and they need to identify and address all instances of racial bias with their students and colleagues or they risk permanent damage.
The stated goal of anti-bias training is to entrench the concepts into the teachers so that this critical race theory concept is embedded in the classroom environment and the teaching style of the teacher. So, even if it isn’t “in the curriculum” it is certainly being taught.
In the Maryland training, participants have to take a test after the first session to measure their own “implicit biases” using the Implicit Association Test, which has been thoroughly dismantled as junk science. Many critics of “anti-bias trainings” come to the same conclusion: they rarely lead to long term change of behavior, but increase guilt and shame in employees who become so aware of stereotypes they are supposed to ignore that there is then a rebound effect. This is a feature not a bug.
That’s because in the anti-bias training, there is an overt emphasis on WHITE students being the root of the problems with other students. In the MSDE anti-bias training manual six out of nine sample scenarios for discussion identify white students as the perpetrators of “systemic racism”, “microaggressions”, and “religious discrimination” - even as young as 7 years old.:
What are they up to now?
For the past two legislative sessions, 2025 and 2026, the Maryland Democrats have brought forth a bill that looks innocuous, but the Senate has rightly killed both years because of what it is hiding.
Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day (HB4386) passed the House of Delegates again this year with overwhelming bipartisan support.
But the bill is more of this “Southern Poverty Law Center agenda” disguised as history and advocacy for walking. Inside the bill contains this line:
This kind of bill language is the biggest tell that the special interest behind the bill has a curriculum or agenda they are ready to sell to MSDE immediately upon implementation. That’s how the SPLC framework for anti-bias training became the basis for Maryland’s mandatory training so quickly.
It is no secret that Ruby Bridges is central to SPLC’s platform and curriculum:
A search of “Ruby Bridges” inside SPLC’s Learning for Justice platform returns a wealth of resources for pitting young minority children against their white classmates to teach them the classic Marxist “oppressor versus oppressed” complex. Like this gem:
“Coming to terms with the understanding that “you are not racist, but your identity is inextricably linked to privilege and racism in this country” is tricky for white children.” - From the article, “When a First Grader is Called a Racist”
The Maryland Freedom Caucus was a collective - and almost exclusive - NO vote on the Ruby Bridges Bill this year and last year. We will remain a no vote every time it is introduced, because we are sending a message that we do not want the SPLC writing hate into the hearts of our children.
NOTE: In 2023, The Easton Gazette reported on the SPLC infiltration into Maryland's classrooms with instructional materials. Here is the link to that story:
Free Propaganda Lessons Delivered To The Mailbox Of Your Child's Teacher - The Easton Gazette
