The book Not My Idea is promoted in some fashion in more than two dozen schools and school districts across the country. It features a page in which a shadowy devil figure offers the reader a harmful 'whiteness contract'
More than two dozen public schools teach a 'toxic' children's book, according to critics, that features a shadowy devil figure that offers the reader a 'whiteness contract.'
Anti-critical race theory activist Chris Rufo published a list on Thursday of schools and districts across more than a dozen states, including one Native American tribal school, that promotes the book Not My Idea by Anastasia Higginbotham.
Rufo says the book, 'traffics in the noxious principles of race essentialism, collective guilt and anti-whiteness.'
It is not clear how many private schools have used the book, Corlears School in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, which charges $55,000 a year tuition for pre-K to fifth grade students, has recommended the book for children over 8 years old, Fox News reported.
Not My Idea features a figure inspired by the devil, with a red tail and all, offering the reader a 'contract binding you to whiteness,' which if signed will net them 'stolen land, stolen riches and special favors,' but will cause one's 'soul' to 'mess endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones and all fellow humans of COLOR.'
Anti-critical race theory activist Chris Rufo (left) identified the districts and schools that use the book, which was authored by Anastasia Higginbotham (right) in some form or another
The contract ends with the caveat, 'Land, riches, and favors may be revoked at any time, for any reason.'
The book posits: 'Whiteness is a
