ADL Teaching Schoolchildren Only White People Can Be Racist

Records of the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education meeting on December 17, 2020 show a contract with the Anti-Defamation League to provide three training sessions in early 2021 from its "World of Difference Institute" program, as part of the system's overall cultural diversity training effort.

"We do have a long-standing relationship with the Anti-Defamation League. This is the organization that sponsors our 'No Place for Hate' activities," a system official said when describing the organization to the board. She added that it's "a very important partnership that we want to maintain."

Officials later told me that the system has been using the "No Place For Hate" program free-of-charge for more than a decade, though it "is not a curriculum."

"Schools use it as a way to promote a bullying-free environment in the school," the official explained.

"What we found startling was that white privilege lessons didn't increase liberals' sympathy for poor Black people," writes Erin Cooley, one of the study's authors and an assistant professor of psychology at Colgate University, in an explanatory post for Vice. "Instead, these lessons decreased liberals' sympathy for poor white people, which led them to blame white people more for their own poverty. They seemed to think that if a person is poor despite all the privileges of being white, there must really be something wrong with them."