Orange County Virginia Schools Celebrate Black History With Victimhood and Anti-Police Lies

Imagine you are a police officer – for most of you that will not be hard.  Your eight year old daughter who is in third grade tells you that she is going to sing in a black history performance that is being put on by the high school in your local school district.  Tolerant and respectful of other cultures, you share in your child’s excitement of her chance to perform for a good cause.

She is a member of her elementary school choir and their contribution to the performance is to sing a Motown Medley of three songs.  Who doesn’t like Motown?  It sounds like a good idea and you gladly sign the permission slip that lays out the practices and rehearsals that she is required to attend and the avenues of her transportation.

After a few weeks and some rehearsing, the big day has arrived.  Although you are unable to attend, your wife will be there at the performance to support your daughter and enjoy the show.  But as your wife walks in the door, this is what she sees:

Her excitement to watch her child perform the Motown Medley begins to fade away as she is greeted with angry looks and anti-police protest shirts.

Your wife pays her $3 fee to get in and is given this program.

Knowing that this was a black history event, one would expect a culturally themed brochure – maybe an image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglas, George Washington Carver, etc., but perhaps those icons are old news and not effective enough anymore.  Instead, this show’s brochure is much more provocative with a radical theme that showcases the event’s title which is boldly printed in red, “Black Lives Matter.”

Powerful words like “empower, equality, fairness, rights, and liberation” make up the radical 60s themed image with embracing black and red hands.  Three dollars poorer, your wife may be wondering if the black history show that her white daughter is performing for is more of a black power show.

As she heads toward the auditorium, more unhappy faces greet her while donning their anti-police attire.

She finds her seat and opens the program up.

Scanning over the program, images and other radical anti-police content can be seen throughout.  Take note of performances like:

• “Voices: The Exhausting Task of Being Black in America”
• “Don’t Shoot”
• “Not an Elegy for Mike Brown”
• “I Can’t Breathe”
• “Does My Black Life Matter”
• “They Don’t Really Care About Us” 

As the lights turn down and the event begins, the audience is introduced to “last words” dramatically spoken by students which include variations of:

• “I’m from Ferguson, Missouri.  I was told to put my hands up.  I did, and I was shot seven times.  My name is Michael Brown.”
• “I was sitting on a couch and the police came in my house and shot me in the head.  I am seven years old.”
• “I was sitting in my car with friends listening to music.  A man pulls up beside me and tells me to turn it down. I don’t. I get shot in my lungs and aorta.”
• “I was falsely harassed for selling loosie cigarettes then I was put into a chokehold that officially brought me to my death.  I can’t breathe.  I am Eric Garner.”

In disbelief, your wife pulls out her camera and is able to record the last two students who recited those dramatic “last words.”

Disgusted and conflicted, your wife has to decide if she should prevent her daughter from performing in her upcoming number.  In the end, she lets her perform, but then removes her prior to intermission after some resistance from school staff.

True story

This is exactly what happened to a central Virginia Sheriff’s Deputy and his family.  This “black history” event took place Thursday March 12, 2015 at the Orange County High School in Virginia.

Later that night, after an escape from the anti-police propaganda, the deputy’s family had to have an unfortunate conversation with their daughter, explaining how the performance that was produced by her own school district was based on a lie and that law enforcement officers like her father don’t set out to kill black people.

According to the deputy, he spoke with the Lightfoot Elementary School principal and teachers who were not present for the event.  They said that they were invited by the high school to help out with the performance, and that the only task that the elementary school staff had was to select the Motown songs and help the children practice singing them.

The elementary school staff made it clear that they were not aware of the apparent anti-police theme of the event and that if they had been present, they would have pulled the elementary students out of the event themselves.  It appeared that they shared in the deputy’s disgust.

A history of victimhood?

When did celebration become victimization? Where once black history celebrated achievement, it now wallows in victimhood – even lies about it to children.  Is black history’s greatest achievement victimhood? Orange County Virginia’s School District apparently believes so.

I don’t know if it takes arrogance or weakness to celebrate your history with victimhood. Either way, it gives you a lot of attention, but not much real advancement.  But for a school to draw others into your ploy, behind the back of parents, is unacceptable.

What we know and what we need to find out

We know that Lightfoot Elementary School provided elementary students to sing Motown songs for a show that was put on by the Orange County High School – however they were not aware of the overall radical anti-police theme.

But who specifically from the high school wrote and directed the show?  Was it a student? A teacher?  Both?  Was it someone from outside the school?  The program mentions that OCHS alumni provided original artwork – could the alumni have been more instrumental? Who approved of the content? Who felt it would be good to honor Black History Month with an emotive, divisive lie that discredits law enforcement and empowers false victimhood like the “Hand’s Up, Don’t Shoot” myth?

It seems the Orange County High School and Orange County School Board members have some questions to answer. Do they watch the news or read the newspaper? Did they see the United States Department of Justice report that concluded that Mike Brown did not surrender before being shot and that he actually attacked a police officer?  Somebody in the Orange County School district needs to keep up on current events and owes those who are aware of the truth, a sincere apology – especially those in law enforcement.

If it were up to me, I would have those same high school students issue the apology.  They seem like good kids – I’m sure they would be enraged by the injustice of being lied to by teachers who limited their access to the truth about people like Mike Brown.

Maybe those poor students can apologize with one of those angry rap/poems that are so popular in afrocentric spoken word.  They can speak about how their teachers failed them and chained them up with lies, restricting them from moving on in what is actually an extraordinarily tolerant world.  Either way, it will probably be the best lesson they’ll ever learn in a school district like that, but I won’t hold my breath.

How you can contact the Orange County Virginia School Officials

A link to the Orange County School Board with email addresses and phone numbers can be found, here.

A link to Orange County High School’s page can be found, here.

Orange County High School Principal Douglas A. Duncan:

• Email: dduncan@ocss-va.org
• Phone Number: 540-661-1107

Office of the Superintendent’s page can be found, here.

Orange County, Virginia Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brenda M. Tanner

• Email: btanner@ocss-va.org
• Phone Number: 540-661-4550

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