Speaker defines "pervert" for NC school board
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Speaker defines "pervert" for NC school board
Rev. John Amanchukwu's remarks followed several speakers reading from sexually graphic books found in Wake County Public Schools libraries
At least half a dozen citizens giving public comments at a school board meeting in North Carolina read excerpts from sexually graphic books available in the district’s libraries and classrooms. The excerpts included lengthy descriptions of sexual intercourse, a handjob, and masturbation scenes.
The monthly meeting of the Wake County Schools Board of Education, held on April 11, featured another speaker who has criticized the board over the district’s “woke” activities and the board’s prioritization of “equity” over academics.
Reverend John Amanchukwu gave the board members a lesson on the word “pervert.”
Wearing a “God > Gov” sweatshirt, Amanchukwu began his remarks by saying, "Tonight I am filled with righteous indignation."
He proceeded to define the word "pervert" for the board as something that “means to alter something from its course or original state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended."
"It means to lead someone away from what's considered right, natural, or acceptable."
"This book has been permitted in six schools in the Wake County Public School System,” he said, holding up a book. “This book explicitly details anal sex, blow job tips, a response to a letter about gay sex, and BDSM. I'll read you just a little bit of this perversion that we have allowed in the school system.”
“So he bends me over the bed and dribbles some lube on my ass. I made him wear a condom of course and he starts pushing it in.”
"And then we get to the blowjob tips - it says, "use your lungs to suck, not your lips to pull. You are not trying to yank the dick off with your mouth, you're trying to make it feel good. Use your tongue."
"Doesn't that make you cringe as I read that to you?" Awanchuku asked the board in an almost yell.
"I witnessed as each person came up and read different things from the books that were in the public school system here, you all cringe,” he said to the board members. “ You don't like it. You won't want to hear it aloud. You don't want anyone to read it. It makes you crawl in your skin. It's a dastardly deed."
Now yelling, Awanchukwu said, "The question today is who is the pervert that is allowing this to be purchased and delivered to our libraries? Come out, come out from where ever you are."
Following that statement, the audience applauded.
"Who is the pervert that signs off on this filth?! Who are you You know... what do you stand for to accept this?” asked Amanchukwu. “Can you be in your right mind and be decent as a human to allow this to be at the access and fingertips of children?”
Amanchukwu wasn’t finished, going on to say "Who is the pervert that thinks that this is OK? Who is the pervert that sits smug in the school board meeting while this is allowed to take place? Who is it?"
“You don't have to answer that question, we know who the perverts are,” stated Amanchukwu. “There is one political party in this country that supports this junk. It's the Democrat party. It's a party that castrates children, mutilates children, perverts children, grooms children, murders children and indoctrinates children.”
He reiterated that “We know who the perverts are” before accusing the N.C. Association of Educators (an NEA affiliate) of having “signed off on this” and that the book “needs to be removed from every school in Wake County.
At the close of his remarks, the entire audience was cheering and applauding.
The full set of remarks can be viewed on the district’s YouTube channel. There were 26 speakers, given 3 mins each for comments.
The Public Comments portion of the meeting begins around the 1:03:45 mark. Amanchuckwu’s comments are near the end of the comments, at the 2:17:20 mark.
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Wake County Moms for Liberty president Julie Page followed Amanchukwu.
"Oh I don't want to follow that," Page said as she approached the podium.
Page addressed the policy on the agenda that says board members must remain nonpartisan and reminded the board they are obligated to address the primary concern - the education welfare of the students.
Citing the still-ongoing Leandro education funding case, Page said the board is responsible for making sure students can read, write, speak, and do math and that students have knowledge of physical science, geography, history, basic economics, and more.
"Reading, writing, science, math, economics - not equity, not social emotional learning, not gender ideology," said Page. She went on to call out "equity" as forcing certain outcomes for select groups.
Page also called out Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) as being "disguised as mental health" and said that SEL actually focuses on shifting the attitudes, beliefs, and world views of children.
"It [SEL] manipulates children to accept a progressive ideology that supports gender fluidity, sexual preference, and systemic oppression. It leads to seeing the world through an "equity lens." I will remind you here that SEL, as described here, is a partisan doctrine and not complaint with your ethical duties."
An earlier speaker, named by the board in the lineup as April Henry, told the board her eyes were “opened wide” in the last two years as to what her kids learning.
"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is toxic,” Henry told the board. “DEI attacks the integrity of academic goals. DEI is failing our students."
She cited pornographic books in the schools that she found while working as a substitute teacher. She said a female student objected to reading one of the books and was "laughed at by her teacher and peers."
Becky Lew Hobbs, a former Wake County School Board candidate, talked about a series of books in dozens of middle and high schools.
The series mentioned by Hobbs is "Assassination Classroom."
She held up an example of a picture in the series, which depicts a murder in a school classroom. Some of the books in the series have themes like "assassinate your teacher,” and "I've been wanting to kill a teacher."
Hobbs quoted the author, who said "Kill is a fascinating word. It's often used but rarely put into action. So, I dedicated and decided to create a story centered around this unique word. If you enjoy it, you can kill me now and I will die happy,"
"What is the literary value of these books?” Hobbs asked the board. "What possibly can they teach that is positive and life-affirming? These books are talking about killing! Killing teachers! Murder! Assassination!”
"How can you in good conscience allow these in our schools?!” Hobbs asked.
Hobbs then called out the board members for prattling on about acts of violence but then allow books like these to be in the hands of students.
She also called for a rating system of books in the WCPSS system libraries so parents and students alike can be aware of the content and the level of age-appropriateness.
Some of the speakers who made comments about inappropriate and graphic books, including Amanschukwu, posed for a photo after the meeting. The image was later tweeted out by the Western Wake Republican Club and noted in a series of tweets by the News and Observer’s education reporter.
Some parents replied with criticisms to the reporter’s tweets,
“You should report each and every book quote and picture that has been mentioned in the many board meetings to give full context of the concern,” tweeted one individual.
Another tweeted a reply that said, “This is really odd. Plenty of speakers are “regulars” and you don’t RT their orgs’ posts.”
The April 11 Wake County School Board meeting also included a discussion on the district’s over $2 billion proposed budget.
As with the over dozen past budgets over the last decade, the district is yet again asking for more money - and raising taxes in order to accomplish it.
The district asking for more money despite enrollment having dropped following the pandemic school closure was noted by the John Locke Foundation’s Kelly Mann:
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