By Alexa Schwerha
Daily Caller News Foundation
University of Central Florida (UCF) students will rally outside of Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting to demand university officials maintain Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs in wake of recent calls to defund them by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
UCF students and allied organizations will rally outside the Live Oak Center between 8:30 a.m and 10:30 a.m to “demand our Board of Trustees to protect and maintain [DEI] programs, minority scholarships, and opportunities,” according to a flyer advertised by Stay Woke FL, a website with information regarding advocacy against “anti-woke movement.” The rally comes after the DeSantis administration announced their intent to defund DEI in higher education and requested a report from all public universities outlining how much taxpayer money was used to fund DEI programs.
The rally will occur during the UCF Board of Trustees meeting and protesters are encouraged to “bring signs of support,” according to the original flyer.
UCF Students are rallying for academic freedom on Feb 24th 8:30-10:30am at the BOT Meeting! Join them and spread the word! pic.twitter.com/WMjN3pFMZs
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) February 17, 2023
“He says we’re indoctrinated by wokeness, but we say he is using us in his narrative to push conservative ideology and destroy our schools to achieve his vision,” a separate flyer advertising the rally reads. Another flyer reads the administration “is proposing to outlaw all [DEI] initiatives at Florida colleges and universities.”
UCF spent more than $4 million, including $2.3 million from state funds, on DEI and Critical Race Theory, according to the report the school sent to the DeSantis administration. The university spent $400,000 on its “Faculty Recruitment Program” to boost hires from underrepresented groups and paid the vice president for DEI and assistants $445,000, at taxpayer expense.
DeSantis appointed six new trustees to the New College of Florida (NCF) earlier this year who took immediate action during the first board meeting on Jan. 31 by introducing a proposal to cut DEI programs and voted to terminate its president. The board voted to appoint former Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran as interim president.
WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews
The flyer also points the finger to the DeSantis administration’s rejection of AP African American Studies because it included tenets of CRT and queer theory, and the administration’s request for data on the number of transgender students that were treated by universities.
Friday’s event will be one of several protests planned by Florida college students to oppose the DeSantis administration’s directive for higher education. Students organized rallies at several universities on Tuesday ahead of a state-wide walkout planned for Thursday.
There will also be a protest at NCF on Feb. 28.
UCF, the Board of Trustees, NCF and the DeSantis administration did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Long the world’s most Christian nation, America today is being taken over by a new “official” national religion, one being imposed on the entire populace by every major societal institution, from government, media and big tech, to academia, entertainment and business.
This new state religion is Wokeism. “Going woke” conjures up visions of someone claiming to be acutely sensitive (“awake”) to “systemic social and political injustice.” And not just alleged bigotry against blacks, but toward every other “minority” as well, from LGBT folk – especially everything transgender and “nonbinary” – to “undocumented immigrants.” All of them, being VICTIMS, intrinsically more virtuous than the shameful oppressor class: primarily heterosexual white males.
This new “woke” consciousness has turned America upside-down – from the nationwide Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, to tearing down of historic monuments, to demanding multi-million-dollar reparation payments for blacks, to appointing transgenders as top government officials, to rampant reverse discrimination in every area of life, to the U.S. military imposing mandatory “diversity training” and transgender pronoun use on all personnel, causing recruitment to disastrously plummet.
Yet there is hope. Being “saved” – which in Wokeism is called being “woke” – is largely a matter of worshipping victimhood by becoming an “ally” and “defender” of all the many victim classes, and a determined enemy of the straight white male oppressor class. Thus, “joining the righteous” as an ally – even if one is cursed to be a straight white male – opens the door mercifully for salvation, even to the most wretched.
That is the power of the religion of Wokeism. And it’s explored as never before in the February 2023 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you’ve ever wondered, for example, exactly how the most radical elements in American society are successfully pressuring the biggest corporations into adopting the most outrageous and immoral policies imaginable, even when doing so permanently damages and devalues the company, the stunning answers are in this issue of Whistleblower, titled “WOKEISM: AMERICA’S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION.”
This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact [email protected].
SUPPORT TRUTHFUL JOURNALISM. MAKE A DONATION TO THE NONPROFIT WND NEWS CENTER. THANK YOU!
