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How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke

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Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show a private company’s unprecedented effort to inject DEI into classrooms

(Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon) In January 2020, Walmart approached public school administrators in Bentonville, Arkansas, about hosting diversity training sessions for the district.

“We want people to feel welcomed, comfortable, and safe living here” in Northwest Arkansas, Candice Jones, Walmart’s head of diversity, emailed district leaders, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. To that end, the company was offering to arrange teacher training sessions with a North Carolina-based consultancy known as the Racial Equity Institute, a group “devoted to creating racially equitable organizations and systems.”

“This would be great for teacher development and a great way to connect with the community,” Jones said.

By August, teachers were learning that “perfectionism” is “white supremacy” and that “all our systems, institutions, and outcomes emanate from the racial hierarchy on which the United States was built.”

Bentonville—the site of Walmart’s corporate headquarters—wasn’t…

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