October 27, 2022 • 46 mins
Racheal Hand is accused of being a far right extremist. That is far from the truth! She is running for school board in St. Johns County Florida District 1. She is wife and mother of 2. Vote for Racheal Hand!
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And we found it. They areon camera. They are caught. We
caught them. Hello everyone, welcometo another episode of the Keisha King Show
where we discuss faith, culture,and politics, all geared towards the next
generation. Boy oh boy, boyoh boy, do I have a special
guest for you. This conversation isgoing to be very important, particularly if
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you live in the Saint John's FloridaCounty area. You're going to want to
pay attention to this before we getstarted. Don't forget to like comment while
while you watch this video. Letus know your thoughts and please subscribe to
the channel, and don't forget togive us a five star rating if you
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are listening to this on the onyour podcast on the Apple Podcast. Ladies
and gentlemen, let me introduce toyou school board candidate Rachel hand Hi.
Hello, Jel. How are you. I'm good? How are you?
I am doing well? Thank you, Thank you for joining me today.
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Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be on here
with you. Mama Bear. Oh, thank you, fellow Mama Bear.
I am honored to have you.Thank you, thank you. So we
were just chatting before and we cameacross I mean just randomly, you know,
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in doing just some brief research beforehaving you on, I saw an
article of I forget the news.I think it was news for Jack's I
wanted to jealous, and they weresaying that you were just, you know,
out of your mind. Basically nobodyknew what you were talking about when
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you were telling them that there wereteacher trainings that were coming in to the
classroom, that it you know,many of these issues that you found issue
with. We're not in the curriculumper se, sometimes yes, but not
always, but being brought in throughother means. So before we even dive
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into all of that, we'll getto all of that, because it's a
lot to unpack. Yeah, whydon't you tell everyone who you are and
what you are up to? Yes, okay, So I am Rachel Hand.
I am also a mama bear oftwo beautiful boys, ages nine and
six. I am happily married tomy soulmate ten years and we are new
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residents of Florida. I like tointroduce myself as a refugee from New York
City and I come in peace.But I did do my due diligence prior
to and you know, we wereattracted to Saint John's County because it had
the number one school reading and somany people were touting about it. So
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after um um, you know,after several months, we signed our contract
tower Home and it was a process, but started doing research about the location,
the schools, speaking to those inthe community, and it was all
through social media and I was justlistening and paying attention, and I saw
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some red flags and I was like, hold the phone. I did not
just up and relocate my entire familyto only deal with the same nonsense that
I fled. Now, mind you, is it in comparison to up North?
Absolutely not, but it can beright, you know, and that's
what we need to prevent. Andyou know, when I heard and saw
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these these these red flags, Isaid, Okay, what can I do?
What can I do about this?Because I'm a go getter, solution
minded what can and I know Igot a mouth. So so it was
brought to my attention that in thespecific district that I was going to live
in, that there was going tobe an election. And I waited a
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couple months, you know, Iwas hoping that someone else would step up
that was maybe living there for solong that they also felt that they,
you know, had the same concerns, and there are there's a lot.
I mean I'm talking hundreds thousands ofparrots. Yeah, concerned, but couldn't
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bring themselves to run. Yeah,I said, okay, if not me,
then who that's right? And hereI am. Well, we are
so blessed that you decided to jumpin this place because our children desperately need
um fierce fighters, fierce warriors.And so your kids are they are in
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public school currently? Yes, theyare both in elementary school. I did
homeschool for two years prior to becauseI refused to normalize what was going on
up north and I we just feltlike that was no choice. My son
was doing distant learning for several monthsand was losing his hair and gaining developing
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anxiety. And I said, absolutelynot. We are not We are not
hold this in tracks. We arenot doing this. So homeschool did not
come natural to me, but wesurvived. We did it. Yeah,
I'm homeschooling too. Yes, Iknow that struggling. It is a struggle.
It's a struggle, but you knowwhat it's we have to protect our
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kids in their minds and their mentalhealth because you know, if we're trying
to save this country. This isthis is this is where we got to
start. Absolutely that is so true. You know, the next generation,
these are our future leaders, lawmakers, scientists, thinkers, philosophers, writers,
and yeah, we need them tobe mentally tough. We need them
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to be you know, we needthem to have everything that they need for
the next phases of life. Wedon't need them walking around thinking that,
you know, they're oppressed or they'rean oppressor. You know, are all
these negative things just being pushed onthem day in and day out when they
go to school eight hours a day, five days a week, you know,
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and if anyone thinks that, youknow, that's not enough time for
bad things to overwide when you're puttingin your kid, you know, you
might want to rethink that. Soyour kids are in public school, I
always say this, make sure thatyou're having really probing questions for them,
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just you know, how is yourday that's not good enough anymore? No,
No, it is not. AndI actually experienced that myself. I
started, you know, the schoolyear. I started with the questions of
how a school, how a school, and my little guy over time started
shutting down, and I'm like whatis going on? Lord? I think
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I was not okay, And eventuallycame to find out that there was a
troubled student in his class and wasviolent. I don't want to sugarcoat it
either, but he was violent andit was just a very concerning learning environment,
and he would come home exhausted,just shut down, and and it
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just broke my heart. Thankfully,that situation has changed and that's no longer
the issue, but he was gettingto a point where he said, Mom,
I don't think I want to doschool anymore. I was like,
it's only been too much, toomuch, and it's so sad. So
what did it do you think itwas like the restorative justice, because I
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find that a lot of times whenthere when they're repeating bullying or violent situations
going on, the restorative justice wherethe kids who's causing other problems, they're
never really penalized, especially if theyare a minority student, you know,
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yes, ding ding ding. Andjust so that we could put it out
there for your viewers, I amone hundred percent Puerto Rican. I am
a Hispanic woman, so I alsosee the same issues that Keisha does,
and I don't I don't think weneed to be pretending that these things are
not happening. It is very frustrating. So with door knocking and campaigning,
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I have been able to speak toso many people, so many teachers or
staff that just feel like they can'tspeak up about the truth about how things
are being handled. So I don'tknow the specific school or actually I don't
want to say which specific school,but you know, there there was some
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staff that was concerned about and I'mwondering if it's the restorative justice that you're
speaking of. Students are misbehaving inclass, they are then removed from class,
brought to either the some Edmunds office, they play a game, given
a snack, not even a healthyone, and then they're back in class.
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They go right back to class.I'm not a psychologist. I am
not trying to portray one, butcommon sense says we are enabling bad behavior.
Ding ding ding. Yeah. Andit doesn't have a respect of color.
Let's just be honest. I mean, bad kids, bad kids come
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at all colors, they come atall for they come from all backgrounds.
They you know they do. Andif we don't address those things, what
is going to be the incentive todo better? Well, this is This
is another thing that I wanted totalk about. And again it's a conversation
that when I bring it up,people are like, they panic and don't
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know how to continue the conversation.But if we are specifically going to allow
this behavior, especially because a childis a minority, what kind of mindset
are we setting for the other childrenthat are watching? Yes, I'm sorry,
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go ahead, I'm sorry. No, no, no, say it,
because I was just gonna say,what, you know, what kind
of love or care is that towatch a child? Because when I because
I love my children, when Isee them doing something bad, I want
to correct that. I have todiscipline them because I love them and I
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don't want them to continue that thing. So it's it's like fake, it's
not. That's not real love andcare. If you see a child going
the wrong way and you're like,well, they're Hispanic or black or whatever,
so we're not going to deal withthat. I mean, that's that's
not care. No, that isthat the Lord wants us to speak the
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truth and love, and that's exactlywhat we're supposed to do, no matter
what you look like and no matterwhere you come from, no matter what
your story is, and that isjust a complete opposite. And the problem
is is one you know, everyonecan can blame that it's oh policy or
it's okay, Well, then thepolicy sucks and we need to change it,
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right, But how are we goingto change it? If if if,
if, if the higher levels arenot aware that you have this issue,
then how it can it be changed? But then again, if the
teachers don't feel confident in their upperyou know, hierarchy, then how are
we going to change it? Sothere's there's no communication. No one wants
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to have these hard conversations, andthat is a major problem. And these
issues are just going to exacerbate ifwe don't fix it. Absolutely. So
you have these you know, silosthat people end up getting into and then
it becomes an echo chamber. Andthen you have on top of that,
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you have these diversity, equity inclusionofficers that are paid all this money.
They come in and then they're tellingyou, oh, no, no,
everything's fine. It's just it's youwho have a problem. You're not being
culturally sensitive, you're not being you'renot looking at the background, like I
don't need to know the child's backgroundwhen he just hurled a chair across the
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room, Like, I don't needto know your background. You know that
that behavior cannot be allowed in theclassroom. That should not being out in
society, let alone in a classroom. So I am with you on that.
That is just it's not helping kids. It's actually damaging them, and
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it's making them weaker. Um,and they're not going to be ready absolutely
for So what what other things areyou seeing us? You know, they
said that in this article that youwere not um basically you didn't know what
you were talking about. So,you know, for lack of it conveniently
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left out a whole lot. Butum, you know when they asked me
about the gender identity issues and Isaid, well, I have an example
right here. I even emailed itto the reporter, but God forbid,
he mentions that part. And itwas a form that was requested from high
school students at this specific high school, from a specific teacher, and they
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asked, what do you identify as? Do your parents know that you identified
this way? And would you likeus to make like have that conversation with
your parents? What are we doing? Wow? What are we doing?
So don't tell me that those thingsagain are not happening? Is it in
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the actual textbook. Okay, great, you know what, by the grace
of God, we have an amazinggovernor that stopped all of that in the
tracks. Yes, but now wehave supplemental material that And again, this
is not all teachers, This isnot everything. These are the teachers that
are activists and that feel led todo what they do and they're trying to
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put their spin on things, andthat is just unacceptable. You can't tell
me that these things are not happeningwhen again, people are able to feel
comfortable or confident to come to mebecause I know I give them the privacy
of remaining anonymous. And it justmakes me fight harder, you know,
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it makes me fight harder because youknow, if we have an incumbent who
is saying that these things are nothappening, these are not issues here,
that just goes to show to methat you are not out there talking to
the community. You're not talking toparents, you're not talking to teachers,
you're not out there talking to people. So again, it's just the driving
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force for me when I get thoseconfirmations that yes, this is happening and
she's been in office for ten years, is that right? No? No,
no times, two oh, twentyyears. Twenty years, Keisha,
So you guys are the term limitthat the governor just passed again, Oh
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my gosh, grateful, So fortwenty years. You mean to tell me
that this woman has not seen thedecline of academic success, She hasn't seen
the the deterioration of students and schooland public education. She I mean,
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I just want to know where hasshe been. I mean, it's like
everywhere, so I just wonder.It makes me really question. I mean,
I don't know this lady, butfor someone not to see it,
it's either like willful willful ignorance atthis night, or your head is just
so in the clouds and you areso not paying attention to these children that
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you have pledged an oath to careabout. And that is that should be
concerning for all parents who are goingto put their children under her her watch,
you know, as a school boardmember, and you know that doesn't
seem like a good choice to me, right right, Well, so again
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it goes back to that we haveno parental representation. There's no one on
our school board right now that haschildren in the school system, So there's
no invested interest into making sure thatthings are running the proper way or paying
it mentioned to the red flags.You know, we can we can tout
that we're number one statistically, buthave we lowered the standards to remain there?
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Right? Um, exactly? HStudent behavior, I mean that is
the biggest issue as to why we'relosing teachers. You know. Of course,
teacher pay is an issue that peopleare you know, still talking about.
And again, by the grace ofGod and the amazing governor, we
increase the teacher's pay. But teachersare not going to stay no matter what
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kind of money you are giving themif you are not supporting them with children
that are misbehaving. And I'm nottalking about the calling out. I'm talking
about kids are they have We're talkingfelonies people, Okay, yes, thank
you. Assault. I know inDubal County and this was in Saint John's
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County as well. They found reportsthat were hidden, yes, that teachers
were being um, they were beingassaulted and someone students were even last year
or the year before a TikTok challengego punch a teacher in the face.
Wow, And that was There isno amount of money that you can pay
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any one to subject themselves to abusefive days a week, eight hours a
day. No way like that isthis that's you can't pay me enough.
No, they ain't enough. It'snot and it's not worth it. I
mean, I've had teachers that havecome to me literally in tears, and
they love these children so much andthey just feel like they're the last piece
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of protecting these children. And I'mlike, to what to what expense?
Yeah, what expense. It's timefor parents, and I'm going to call
on for parents to come behind theirteachers because the teachers that want to speak
up, they just feel like Idon't have the admin, I don't have
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our district, and I don't havethe parents. So I'm just a sitting
duck waiting to be listen. Whenparents come together, no one messes with
parents. That's right. That isabsolutely truth. No one messages with parents.
So a little note to all theteachers if you're listening out there,
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I suggest you really lock arms withyour parents because they're the ones that are
going to get the pay raises.They're the ones that are gonna get you
the resources that you want and need. They're the ones because we're we can
get loud. Yeah, absolutely,when it comes to our kids. I
mean, we want to partner withteachers. We want them to have the
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money that they need so they don'thave to go into their own pockets to
get supplies for their kids. Thismoney is typically staying at the top and
it doesn't get into the classroom,which the governor, again, our great
governor, has he's changing that hewants to have when they get federal dollars.
He wants to direct it specifically intothe classrooms. And I absolutely,
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one thousand percent love that, becausewhy do we need If we're paying a
superintendent almost three hundred thousand dollars ayear and these di specialists, you know,
six figure salaries, you're not gonnahave enough to get into the classroom.
And it's the teachers and the childrenthat end up suffering the most.
And most of these consultants and superintendencedon't even go into the classroom they have,
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you know, they have no clueof what's really going on, right
unless it's unless it's an election year. You know, yes, unless it's
an election year, because that thatstarted this year out of twenty years.
But okay, right of course,so um, you know it's so funny.
I'm gonna let's let's take a minute, so they will try to say
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there is no critical race theory inSaint John's County. Well, well,
well, ladies and gentlemen, wehave found it, super moms right here,
literally in like less than ten minutesbefore the show. We literally did
this like before the show. Yeah, and we found it. They are
on camera. They are caught.We caught them on camera literally saying the
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very first tenant, maybe even twotenants, but certainly the very first.
The very first tenant, if Ineed to remind you of critical race theory,
is that America is intrinsically racist,that literally America exists to uphold white
supremacy. This came out of apanel at the Saint John's County school Board.
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So all of you who doubted Rachelwhen she was trying to warn you
of what was going on behind thescenes, it's on right here for your
display. So let's take a look. Racism is fueled by the ideology that
racial groups are placed in hierarchy wherewhite's on top and possess positive attributes and
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blacks are at the bottom and possessnegative attributes from beauty to temperament. To
interact Racism is a system that hasbeen a part of the fabric of the
United States since the first boat voteof Africans were captured, enslaved and taken
to Virginia in sixteen nineteen. Thereyou have it, ladies and gentlemen,
you cannot deny now that lady Um, I'm sorry, her name is Uh
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and miss Bryant, we'll just callMiss Bryant. She Um is at Flagler
College. But she is a panelistthat the that the school board that the
Saint John's County School District brought into have this discussion. So if they
are bringing in someone like this,then I can only side deduced that this
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is something that they are in agreementwith. She's not a teacher, She's
not she's not employed by Saint John'sCounty. But this is what Rachel was
talking about, these supplemental things,these trainings and stuff that come in and
then it spreads to the teachers,and the teachers are now pushing it out
to the kids. Yeah, soyou know, how do you do you
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feel redeemed? I mean, yeah, it's it's again. It's sad,
you know, because the confirmation isjust again more it's just more confirmation,
and now again got to roll oursleeves up and see how we're going to
address these things. But we haveto realize that those issues come from the
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top. Yeah, it comes fromthe top, and it trickles its way
down. And again, people,that's the beginning. That's how New York
started, That's how New Jersey started. Like, that's how it starts from
the top. Let's get the trainingsgoing going on. And then when you
want a second guess, either ateacher's behavior or or supplemental curriculum or students
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behavior, you know they've already donethe I guess to say. The right
word to say is the brainwashing thatum, you're wrong for feeling that way
that you shouldn't that you know,because the trainings have already taken place,
right, they have already um confirmed, they've affirmed their their way of thinking.
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So you know, everything is allgood. But when you have these
trainings that are teaching the teachers andthe way our system and many different things
from our our medical field, fromour teacher fields, education feels whatever the
the gout, you know, likein the medical fields like the CDC and
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the FDA, whatever they say ithas is on down and it's like,
okay, well that's the right thingto do. So just like it's just
like that in education where you havethese PhDs, these you know, professors
and these trainers. The teachers arethinking, okay, well this they've done
the study, they have done thework. The experts. Yeah, there
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are the experts. They know,so I guess this is what I need
to do, right, Yeah,yeah, Rachel, tell us more about
what you want to do on theschool board. So again I will reiterate
I want nothing more than more parentalinvolvement. My campaign little slogan that I
made up was all hands on deckbecause I want I love a play with
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words. But two, um,it's gonna take all of us. It's
it's gonna take all of us toreally realize that we need to do whatever
it takes to protect our kids.Right. I'm actually being referred to as
a far right dreamist because I oncemade a post saying that I will do
whatever it takes to protect my children. I will lovely embrace the title.
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I will gladly embrace that title.Imagine that a mother who will go to
the ends on the earth for theirchild. So that's what we're dealing with
out here. But yeah, soI really want to make sure that there's
a lot of community awareness and communityinvolvement. We have a lot of major
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issues that have happened in our county, in our school district, and parents
are not being made aware of it. For example, a hit list that
was created. Don't you think that'ssomething that we should be talking to our
kids about a hit list? Yes, so it was found out that there
was a hit list that was createdby a student in one of our middle
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schools, middle school, and therewas a list of students and teachers.
The district is claiming that they contactedthose that were on the list, but
we know parents of children that wereon the list that we're not contacted.
But I don't think that that's thefurthest that we should go. I don't
think that we should be keeping thingslike that in the back burner. No,
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we need to be encouraging parents tobe speaking to their children. Hey
just got this notice, and youneed to be aware of your surroundings.
But also you need to be talkingif there is anyone showing signs of anything,
because silence is you know, itcould be deadly. Like we need
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to be making sure that everyone ison the same page about it. We
can't pretend that drugs are not aroundour students. Like, I don't care
what county you're in, I don'tcare what level you are on the totem
pole of school districts. Drugs areeverywhere, especially our border problems that we're
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having. But that's another conversation.Yeah, no, I mean that's a
real thing, especially you know,these drugs look like candy, yes,
and so you could innocently, eveneven children can be innocently just like you
know, hanging out with their friendsor whatever, and then get their hands
on this stuff. So it is, it is something that we need to
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pay attention to in the school system, right and if it's found in your
school, which again we just gotconfirmation in one of our elementary schools they
tested one of these candies, keisha, and it came back first it was
fentanel, and then they retested itand it came back as meth I don't
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care. Elementary school, elementary school. Now, this actually made the media,
which I was very shocked about.But again, what are we doing.
Why aren't we having town halls sittingParis down? Hey, this is
an issue we need to be togetherin this to protect our kids. My
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god, I mean I don't understand, like do these people have a conscience,
because could you imagine you hurt youLet's just say, God forbid you,
hear you? You know this,this candy is going on, this
this drug is going around looking likecandy. Right, you don't do everything
that you can do to make parentsaware to you know, alert the community
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of what's going on, and thensomething awful, fatal happens to a child,
like You're going to need severe counselingto be able to get that off
of your conscience. Like that istraumatizing. So you know, we have
to we have to care more,truly care, not this fake stuff.
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No, no, not just tohave this conversation. We need to have
these conversations and realize, you know, this is this is beyond you know,
political sides. This is beyond um, you know, left or right
or independents. It's beyond that.This is the next generation of American kids.
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Right, And if we don't fixthis, now, what are we
going to leave? Right? Whatare they what are they going to have
to look forward to? Right?Exactly? The thing is is that we
can't fix a problem if we're notactually admitting that there is a problem,
and you know, again touting andpretending. You know, you can only
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tout that you're a number one schooldistrict for so long because that marketing is
going to go away real fast whenthese stories start coming out. You know,
we already know that the media isruthless, and um, you know,
if if there's more and more storieslike this, you know, Saint
John's County is not going to beas you know, sought out as as
it is. And well, Ireally truly, with everything in me,
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I want to be that person thatis a voice and representation for parents on
the school board as well as teacherswho don't feel like they're being heard.
I mean, more than fifty percentof our teachers are not are not in
the union, which I think isamazing, and that's able to Um,
you're able to really have great conversationswith those teachers because they're telling you what's
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really going on, you know,and it's again, it's it's getting the
community together, you know. II I just think that's so important.
You know, that's saying it takesa village, right, and a real
village, not like exactly village,like literally like grandma, right exactly,
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You're a neighbor, yeah, exactly, you know, not just this Joe
Schmo. And you know, Imean I'm not a government bureaucrat right exactly,
absolutely not. So you know,and people appreciate it. I've been
you know, uh, door knocking, sign waving, going up and down
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car lines with parents and they reallyreally appreciate being out there, you know,
And yeah, I say, whynot. I haven't seen it in
twenty years. I probably don't evenknow what she looked like. It's so
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funny. I handed someone a palmcard today. She's like, oh,
you know it's this Rachel Hand.I said, yes, I'm Rachel Hand.
And she's like, oh, wenever meet those people. And I
was like, well here I am. Oh that is a blunder. That's
awesome, that's so good. Yes, that is amazing. Um. I
wanted to go back to something yousaid, um about the you know,
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everybody loves everybody knows Saint John's Countyif you're in this area, because a
lot of people actually moved moved fromDuval County to go to Saint John County
because of the better school districts.So I know here. I'm just curious
if you have the same problem.So here are superintendent she um always touts
our graduation rates. Oh we're atoh ninety seven percent, But if you
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dig down into those numbers, likethe kids cannot read, like literally,
they can't do math. They arenot proficient in these areas where like to
graduate. So I'm like, Diane, who you're graduating? Boo? Like
whoo, who's graduating? Because yourtest scores say you shouldn't have that high
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of a graduation rate. So I'mjust curious, are you seeing the same
things with them the test scores,are they profession Are kids getting an education?
So I guess it depends on theschool, right. Um we have
heard teachers complain that they felt forcedto past kids. Again that's a disclosure
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to our campaign, but um it'skids are struggling and they're blaming COVID.
They're blaming COVID for that, whichokay, great, but we just received
millions of dollars of COVID relief money, and um, you know, our
kids are still struggling with reading.They're too occupied, in my opinion,
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focusing on temporary emotions and not theactual academia part. Of school. Yea,
So can I say that confidently?No, But you know, ratings
is the only priority, it seems, and our kids are just our kids
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are not numbers. They're not statistics, and that's what they're cutting. Yeah,
because they're just touting, you know, um, oh we're number one.
Oh we reached this. Oh okay, great? Um can they read
a book? You know? Youknow, let's say another problems. Yeah,
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let's play another clip now that youmentioned, um, temporary feelings and
all those things. So there isthis uh Cynthia Williams is there last name?
Um? I guess she's like theminority. I'm not exactly sure what
her title is, but let's playminority recruitment. Um. Let's look at
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where her goals are focused. Becauseshe talks a lot about what her focus
is, so let's take a quicklook at that. I must admit that
the word racism is a difficult conversationfor even me to hold. Therefore,
I understand how others have reluctance whenthe topic comes up. When we face
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those challenges, we try to behonest and never putting other down, others
down from where they are in theirjourney. Doctor Bryant mentioned definition for racism.
I'm going to have to go andrefer also to a former rattler or
a ratler doctor Ebrahm KNDy, whodefines racism as one who supports a racist
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policy through their actions or their ideas. Candy also defines anti racism as one
who supports an anti racist policy throughtheir actions or ideas. Our panelists have
shared laws, past and present,policies, and experiences along with perceptions,
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so no, I'm not an experton this. I have my own experiences,
and my experiences define my perception orunderstanding of a situation. What I
want you all to acknowledge is thatwe all have biases. We need to
be aware of them. We needto listen, learn understand others in order
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to move forward. That's why inour district we provide training. Our human
resources department has engaged trainings for administrators, district staff, teachers, and monthly
professional development. We read from thebook Studies for doctor Muhammad and doctor Sharookie
Holly, books about the will tolead and the skill to teach and its
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response to teaching and learning. Theyserve as a foundation to engage our district
staff in those fearless conversations to bringcultural awareness in our schools. So her
goals seem to be be very focusedon social issues. I don't even know
if at any point she really mentionededucation. It was all you know,
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not that, but yes, alot of affirming, affirming and you know,
representation and you know and and listen, I get it. I am
a Hispanic woman that was raised inthe verbs of New York City. I
dealt with racism. But I dealtwith racism from everybody. I just think
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it's just ignorance. It's not evenlike it's just you know it. I
was raised to never be a victim. I mean, I was raised with
the last name Rodriguez. Never feltyou know. I mean and again,
like I said, I dealt withracism. I you know, had my
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altercations with the white community, blackcommunity, even a Hispanic community, Like
come on, and it's just I'mjust so tired of the of the victimizing
of our children. Yes, Iam so tired of it. And in
you know, and emotions right likethey're temporary, they're not permanent. They're
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not And girl talk about temporary,like literally you could feel one way in
the morning and literally by noon,you are you could sing a song from
yes you know, yes, youcould be totally in the day. Yeah,
And so that is a good point. They are so temporary and they're
like up and down, and especiallywhen you're a child, like you literally
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have no regularly you don't even knowhow to regulate your emotions. Shoot a
don't struggle with regulating their emotions.Just watch a couple episodes of TikTok and
you'll see that. And it's like, you know, how are we preparing
our kids even emotionally, like howto be emotionally tough, you know,
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to say, Okay, this istemporary to understand and no, they're like,
no, you need to lean intoit. No, feel all the
feelings and just you know, embraceevery single feeling that you may, uh
you know have at at any momentof the day. And it's just a
I'm with you on that, Likeit feels like we're just setting ourselves,
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setting the kids up for failure.We got a lot of stuff going on
over here, but that it isyour house and not mine. I wanted
to ask you, um, sinceyou mentioned that you've experienced racism and yet
you are not a victim, Soif you could tell a young kid.
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Um who let's say they are aminority. Um, you know what,
listen, any kid, because racismcomes in all you can you can be
black. I don't buy into this. Oh if you're black, you can't
be racist or wet nonsense. Thatis absolutely Yeah. If there is a
kid who is experiencing racism, whatwould you tell them? I would just
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simply tell them God made you soperfect and so beautiful, and honestly with
my boys because they haven't. Oneof my sons had to experience some things
that we have to pray for thembecause that's that's that's ignorance that you know,
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was learned from somewhere. Yeah,and again it's not embedded into our
beautiful babies, that's right. SoI would just tell them you are a
victor and you can accomplish and doanything that you set your mind to.
I mean, it sounds so cliche, but that's how we were raised.
That that was the culture that ourgeneration had, Right, you were made
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love yourself for who you are.Ye. But now we're in a world
that we're encouraging kids to change it. Yeah, and it doesn't matter how
far yea. And not only that, like and they're telling kids that changing
yourself is really being you. Right, But I this has got to be
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some of the dumbest PhD people I'veever seen. So let me get this
straight. So I gotta go andliterally like mutilate my whole physical self for
me to be myself and love myselfand love myself. I gotta go change
literally everything about myself for me tolove myself. Okay, yeah, exactly.
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So I mean let's just get backto basics, right, yes,
common sense. Yeah, I mean, it's it's not so common anymore,
I've come to realize, but weit's literally just going back to that,
yeah, you know, loving yourselfthe way that you are. You were
created so beautifully, imperfectly, youknow, and and we need to be
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empowering these kids, not affirming thisvictimhood. That's right. You can't,
you know, Like the reality ismy parents said people are not gonna like
you because of your last name andthis and that, but you're gonna rise
up. And I always did,always did. That's incredible. Yeah.
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That, So Rachel, tell everyoneabout your website where they can donate to
your campaign, where they can getsigns, where they can volunteer, and
any other links that you want fun, the fun part. Okay, So
my website is vote hand for schoolboarddot com. I'm there. You will
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get a little snippet of me andyou will be able to donate. You
can also sign up there to volunteeror to request for a yard side.
We will hand deliver it to you. Most likely it's going to be made
because I like meeting everybody. Ireally do. I love going out there
and meeting everyone. Early voting startstomorrow for Santoun's County, so that's a
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big thing. And um, weare also I should actually put this up
here. We're having an event statetuned. Yes, I'm having an event
on Sunday. We are actually justlike announcing it today at mills Field in
Julington Creek Baseball Fields on Sunday thethirtieth, from two to four pm.
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We're gonna have food trucks. It'sgonna be family fun, community awareness.
I want parents to be able tolike talk to each other from other sides
of the district. Yeah, justhave fun. That is amazing. I
love it. And what district areyou running it? I'm in District one,
District one, Saint John's County Districtone School board. All right,
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Rachel, thank you so much forcoming on. This was like, really
really good. I must say Iwas not expecting uh that info that we
bound. Oh yeah, spect yeah, you've a subscribe. What else you'll
find on that website? Yes,I'm sure we'll continue digging and let you
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guys know what else we find.Rachel, thank you so much. Be
blessed in your race. I praythat God just blesses you and that you
win and that you are able toaccomplish all the things that you want for
these kids. And thank you somuch for coming on this show. Everyone.
I will put all of Rachel's linksin the description box below, and
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And we found it. They areon camera. They are caught. We
caught them. Hello everyone, welcometo another episode of the Keisha King Show
where we discuss faith, culture,and politics, all geared towards the next
generation. Boy oh boy, boyoh boy, do I have a special
guest for you. This conversation isgoing to be very important, particularly if
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you live in the Saint John's FloridaCounty area. You're going to want to
pay attention to this before we getstarted. Don't forget to like comment while
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the channel, and don't forget togive us a five star rating if you
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are listening to this on the onyour podcast on the Apple Podcast. Ladies
and gentlemen, let me introduce toyou school board candidate Rachel hand Hi.
Hello, Jel. How are you. I'm good? How are you?
I am doing well? Thank you, Thank you for joining me today.
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Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be on here
with you. Mama Bear. Oh, thank you, fellow Mama Bear.
I am honored to have you.Thank you, thank you. So we
were just chatting before and we cameacross I mean just randomly, you know,
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in doing just some brief research beforehaving you on, I saw an
article of I forget the news.I think it was news for Jack's I
wanted to jealous, and they weresaying that you were just, you know,
out of your mind. Basically nobodyknew what you were talking about when
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you were telling them that there wereteacher trainings that were coming in to the
classroom, that it you know,many of these issues that you found issue
with. We're not in the curriculumper se, sometimes yes, but not
always, but being brought in throughother means. So before we even dive
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into all of that, we'll getto all of that, because it's a
lot to unpack. Yeah, whydon't you tell everyone who you are and
what you are up to? Yes, okay, So I am Rachel Hand.
I am also a mama bear oftwo beautiful boys, ages nine and
six. I am happily married tomy soulmate ten years and we are new
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residents of Florida. I like tointroduce myself as a refugee from New York
City and I come in peace.But I did do my due diligence prior
to and you know, we wereattracted to Saint John's County because it had
the number one school reading and somany people were touting about it. So
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after um um, you know,after several months, we signed our contract
tower Home and it was a process, but started doing research about the location,
the schools, speaking to those inthe community, and it was all
through social media and I was justlistening and paying attention, and I saw
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some red flags and I was like, hold the phone. I did not
just up and relocate my entire familyto only deal with the same nonsense that
I fled. Now, mind you, is it in comparison to up North?
Absolutely not, but it can beright, you know, and that's
what we need to prevent. Andyou know, when I heard and saw
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these these these red flags, Isaid, Okay, what can I do?
What can I do about this?Because I'm a go getter, solution
minded what can and I know Igot a mouth. So so it was
brought to my attention that in thespecific district that I was going to live
in, that there was going tobe an election. And I waited a
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couple months, you know, Iwas hoping that someone else would step up
that was maybe living there for solong that they also felt that they,
you know, had the same concerns, and there are there's a lot.
I mean I'm talking hundreds thousands ofparrots. Yeah, concerned, but couldn't
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bring themselves to run. Yeah,I said, okay, if not me,
then who that's right? And hereI am. Well, we are
so blessed that you decided to jumpin this place because our children desperately need
um fierce fighters, fierce warriors.And so your kids are they are in
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public school currently? Yes, theyare both in elementary school. I did
homeschool for two years prior to becauseI refused to normalize what was going on
up north and I we just feltlike that was no choice. My son
was doing distant learning for several monthsand was losing his hair and gaining developing
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anxiety. And I said, absolutelynot. We are not We are not
hold this in tracks. We arenot doing this. So homeschool did not
come natural to me, but wesurvived. We did it. Yeah,
I'm homeschooling too. Yes, Iknow that struggling. It is a struggle.
It's a struggle, but you knowwhat it's we have to protect our
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kids in their minds and their mentalhealth because you know, if we're trying
to save this country. This isthis is this is where we got to
start. Absolutely that is so true. You know, the next generation,
these are our future leaders, lawmakers, scientists, thinkers, philosophers, writers,
and yeah, we need them tobe mentally tough. We need them
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to be you know, we needthem to have everything that they need for
the next phases of life. Wedon't need them walking around thinking that,
you know, they're oppressed or they'rean oppressor. You know, are all
these negative things just being pushed onthem day in and day out when they
go to school eight hours a day, five days a week, you know,
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and if anyone thinks that, youknow, that's not enough time for
bad things to overwide when you're puttingin your kid, you know, you
might want to rethink that. Soyour kids are in public school, I
always say this, make sure thatyou're having really probing questions for them,
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just you know, how is yourday that's not good enough anymore? No,
No, it is not. AndI actually experienced that myself. I
started, you know, the schoolyear. I started with the questions of
how a school, how a school, and my little guy over time started
shutting down, and I'm like whatis going on? Lord? I think
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I was not okay, And eventuallycame to find out that there was a
troubled student in his class and wasviolent. I don't want to sugarcoat it
either, but he was violent andit was just a very concerning learning environment,
and he would come home exhausted,just shut down, and and it
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just broke my heart. Thankfully,that situation has changed and that's no longer
the issue, but he was gettingto a point where he said, Mom,
I don't think I want to doschool anymore. I was like,
it's only been too much, toomuch, and it's so sad. So
what did it do you think itwas like the restorative justice, because I
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find that a lot of times whenthere when they're repeating bullying or violent situations
going on, the restorative justice wherethe kids who's causing other problems, they're
never really penalized, especially if theyare a minority student, you know,
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yes, ding ding ding. Andjust so that we could put it out
there for your viewers, I amone hundred percent Puerto Rican. I am
a Hispanic woman, so I alsosee the same issues that Keisha does,
and I don't I don't think weneed to be pretending that these things are
not happening. It is very frustrating. So with door knocking and campaigning,
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I have been able to speak toso many people, so many teachers or
staff that just feel like they can'tspeak up about the truth about how things
are being handled. So I don'tknow the specific school or actually I don't
want to say which specific school,but you know, there there was some
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staff that was concerned about and I'mwondering if it's the restorative justice that you're
speaking of. Students are misbehaving inclass, they are then removed from class,
brought to either the some Edmunds office, they play a game, given
a snack, not even a healthyone, and then they're back in class.
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They go right back to class.I'm not a psychologist. I am
not trying to portray one, butcommon sense says we are enabling bad behavior.
Ding ding ding. Yeah. Andit doesn't have a respect of color.
Let's just be honest. I mean, bad kids, bad kids come
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at all colors, they come atall for they come from all backgrounds.
They you know they do. Andif we don't address those things, what
is going to be the incentive todo better? Well, this is This
is another thing that I wanted totalk about. And again it's a conversation
that when I bring it up,people are like, they panic and don't
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know how to continue the conversation.But if we are specifically going to allow
this behavior, especially because a childis a minority, what kind of mindset
are we setting for the other childrenthat are watching? Yes, I'm sorry,
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go ahead, I'm sorry. No, no, no, say it,
because I was just gonna say,what, you know, what kind
of love or care is that towatch a child? Because when I because
I love my children, when Isee them doing something bad, I want
to correct that. I have todiscipline them because I love them and I
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don't want them to continue that thing. So it's it's like fake, it's
not. That's not real love andcare. If you see a child going
the wrong way and you're like,well, they're Hispanic or black or whatever,
so we're not going to deal withthat. I mean, that's that's
not care. No, that isthat the Lord wants us to speak the
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truth and love, and that's exactlywhat we're supposed to do, no matter
what you look like and no matterwhere you come from, no matter what
your story is, and that isjust a complete opposite. And the problem
is is one you know, everyonecan can blame that it's oh policy or
it's okay, Well, then thepolicy sucks and we need to change it,
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right, But how are we goingto change it? If if if,
if, if the higher levels arenot aware that you have this issue,
then how it can it be changed? But then again, if the
teachers don't feel confident in their upperyou know, hierarchy, then how are
we going to change it? Sothere's there's no communication. No one wants
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to have these hard conversations, andthat is a major problem. And these
issues are just going to exacerbate ifwe don't fix it. Absolutely. So
you have these you know, silosthat people end up getting into and then
it becomes an echo chamber. Andthen you have on top of that,
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you have these diversity, equity inclusionofficers that are paid all this money.
They come in and then they're tellingyou, oh, no, no,
everything's fine. It's just it's youwho have a problem. You're not being
culturally sensitive, you're not being you'renot looking at the background, like I
don't need to know the child's backgroundwhen he just hurled a chair across the
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room, Like, I don't needto know your background. You know that
that behavior cannot be allowed in theclassroom. That should not being out in
society, let alone in a classroom. So I am with you on that.
That is just it's not helping kids. It's actually damaging them, and
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it's making them weaker. Um,and they're not going to be ready absolutely
for So what what other things areyou seeing us? You know, they
said that in this article that youwere not um basically you didn't know what
you were talking about. So,you know, for lack of it conveniently
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left out a whole lot. Butum, you know when they asked me
about the gender identity issues and Isaid, well, I have an example
right here. I even emailed itto the reporter, but God forbid,
he mentions that part. And itwas a form that was requested from high
school students at this specific high school, from a specific teacher, and they
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asked, what do you identify as? Do your parents know that you identified
this way? And would you likeus to make like have that conversation with
your parents? What are we doing? Wow? What are we doing?
So don't tell me that those thingsagain are not happening? Is it in
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the actual textbook. Okay, great, you know what, by the grace
of God, we have an amazinggovernor that stopped all of that in the
tracks. Yes, but now wehave supplemental material that And again, this
is not all teachers, This isnot everything. These are the teachers that
are activists and that feel led todo what they do and they're trying to
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put their spin on things, andthat is just unacceptable. You can't tell
me that these things are not happeningwhen again, people are able to feel
comfortable or confident to come to mebecause I know I give them the privacy
of remaining anonymous. And it justmakes me fight harder, you know,
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it makes me fight harder because youknow, if we have an incumbent who
is saying that these things are nothappening, these are not issues here,
that just goes to show to methat you are not out there talking to
the community. You're not talking toparents, you're not talking to teachers,
you're not out there talking to people. So again, it's just the driving
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force for me when I get thoseconfirmations that yes, this is happening and
she's been in office for ten years, is that right? No? No,
no times, two oh, twentyyears. Twenty years, Keisha,
So you guys are the term limitthat the governor just passed again, Oh
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my gosh, grateful, So fortwenty years. You mean to tell me
that this woman has not seen thedecline of academic success, She hasn't seen
the the deterioration of students and schooland public education. She I mean,
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I just want to know where hasshe been. I mean, it's like
everywhere, so I just wonder.It makes me really question. I mean,
I don't know this lady, butfor someone not to see it,
it's either like willful willful ignorance atthis night, or your head is just
so in the clouds and you areso not paying attention to these children that
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you have pledged an oath to careabout. And that is that should be
concerning for all parents who are goingto put their children under her her watch,
you know, as a school boardmember, and you know that doesn't
seem like a good choice to me, right right, Well, so again
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it goes back to that we haveno parental representation. There's no one on
our school board right now that haschildren in the school system, So there's
no invested interest into making sure thatthings are running the proper way or paying
it mentioned to the red flags.You know, we can we can tout
that we're number one statistically, buthave we lowered the standards to remain there?
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Right? Um, exactly? HStudent behavior, I mean that is
the biggest issue as to why we'relosing teachers. You know. Of course,
teacher pay is an issue that peopleare you know, still talking about.
And again, by the grace ofGod and the amazing governor, we
increase the teacher's pay. But teachersare not going to stay no matter what
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kind of money you are giving themif you are not supporting them with children
that are misbehaving. And I'm nottalking about the calling out. I'm talking
about kids are they have We're talkingfelonies people, Okay, yes, thank
you. Assault. I know inDubal County and this was in Saint John's
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County as well. They found reportsthat were hidden, yes, that teachers
were being um, they were beingassaulted and someone students were even last year
or the year before a TikTok challengego punch a teacher in the face.
Wow, And that was There isno amount of money that you can pay
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any one to subject themselves to abusefive days a week, eight hours a
day. No way like that isthis that's you can't pay me enough.
No, they ain't enough. It'snot and it's not worth it. I
mean, I've had teachers that havecome to me literally in tears, and
they love these children so much andthey just feel like they're the last piece
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of protecting these children. And I'mlike, to what to what expense?
Yeah, what expense. It's timefor parents, and I'm going to call
on for parents to come behind theirteachers because the teachers that want to speak
up, they just feel like Idon't have the admin, I don't have
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our district, and I don't havethe parents. So I'm just a sitting
duck waiting to be listen. Whenparents come together, no one messes with
parents. That's right. That isabsolutely truth. No one messages with parents.
So a little note to all theteachers if you're listening out there,
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I suggest you really lock arms withyour parents because they're the ones that are
going to get the pay raises.They're the ones that are gonna get you
the resources that you want and need. They're the ones because we're we can
get loud. Yeah, absolutely,when it comes to our kids. I
mean, we want to partner withteachers. We want them to have the
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money that they need so they don'thave to go into their own pockets to
get supplies for their kids. Thismoney is typically staying at the top and
it doesn't get into the classroom,which the governor, again, our great
governor, has he's changing that hewants to have when they get federal dollars.
He wants to direct it specifically intothe classrooms. And I absolutely,
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one thousand percent love that, becausewhy do we need If we're paying a
superintendent almost three hundred thousand dollars ayear and these di specialists, you know,
six figure salaries, you're not gonnahave enough to get into the classroom.
And it's the teachers and the childrenthat end up suffering the most.
And most of these consultants and superintendencedon't even go into the classroom they have,
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you know, they have no clueof what's really going on, right
unless it's unless it's an election year. You know, yes, unless it's
an election year, because that thatstarted this year out of twenty years.
But okay, right of course,so um, you know it's so funny.
I'm gonna let's let's take a minute, so they will try to say
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there is no critical race theory inSaint John's County. Well, well,
well, ladies and gentlemen, wehave found it, super moms right here,
literally in like less than ten minutesbefore the show. We literally did
this like before the show. Yeah, and we found it. They are
on camera. They are caught.We caught them on camera literally saying the
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very first tenant, maybe even twotenants, but certainly the very first.
The very first tenant, if Ineed to remind you of critical race theory,
is that America is intrinsically racist,that literally America exists to uphold white
supremacy. This came out of apanel at the Saint John's County school Board.
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So all of you who doubted Rachelwhen she was trying to warn you
of what was going on behind thescenes, it's on right here for your
display. So let's take a look. Racism is fueled by the ideology that
racial groups are placed in hierarchy wherewhite's on top and possess positive attributes and
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blacks are at the bottom and possessnegative attributes from beauty to temperament. To
interact Racism is a system that hasbeen a part of the fabric of the
United States since the first boat voteof Africans were captured, enslaved and taken
to Virginia in sixteen nineteen. Thereyou have it, ladies and gentlemen,
you cannot deny now that lady Um, I'm sorry, her name is Uh
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and miss Bryant, we'll just callMiss Bryant. She Um is at Flagler
College. But she is a panelistthat the that the school board that the
Saint John's County School District brought into have this discussion. So if they
are bringing in someone like this,then I can only side deduced that this
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is something that they are in agreementwith. She's not a teacher, She's
not she's not employed by Saint John'sCounty. But this is what Rachel was
talking about, these supplemental things,these trainings and stuff that come in and
then it spreads to the teachers,and the teachers are now pushing it out
to the kids. Yeah, soyou know, how do you do you
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feel redeemed? I mean, yeah, it's it's again. It's sad,
you know, because the confirmation isjust again more it's just more confirmation,
and now again got to roll oursleeves up and see how we're going to
address these things. But we haveto realize that those issues come from the
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top. Yeah, it comes fromthe top, and it trickles its way
down. And again, people,that's the beginning. That's how New York
started, That's how New Jersey started. Like, that's how it starts from
the top. Let's get the trainingsgoing going on. And then when you
want a second guess, either ateacher's behavior or or supplemental curriculum or students
(24:08):
behavior, you know they've already donethe I guess to say. The right
word to say is the brainwashing thatum, you're wrong for feeling that way
that you shouldn't that you know,because the trainings have already taken place,
right, they have already um confirmed, they've affirmed their their way of thinking.
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So you know, everything is allgood. But when you have these
trainings that are teaching the teachers andthe way our system and many different things
from our our medical field, fromour teacher fields, education feels whatever the
the gout, you know, likein the medical fields like the CDC and
(24:56):
the FDA, whatever they say ithas is on down and it's like,
okay, well that's the right thingto do. So just like it's just
like that in education where you havethese PhDs, these you know, professors
and these trainers. The teachers arethinking, okay, well this they've done
the study, they have done thework. The experts. Yeah, there
(25:19):
are the experts. They know,so I guess this is what I need
to do, right, Yeah,yeah, Rachel, tell us more about
what you want to do on theschool board. So again I will reiterate
I want nothing more than more parentalinvolvement. My campaign little slogan that I
made up was all hands on deckbecause I want I love a play with
(25:45):
words. But two, um,it's gonna take all of us. It's
it's gonna take all of us toreally realize that we need to do whatever
it takes to protect our kids.Right. I'm actually being referred to as
a far right dreamist because I oncemade a post saying that I will do
whatever it takes to protect my children. I will lovely embrace the title.
(26:10):
I will gladly embrace that title.Imagine that a mother who will go to
the ends on the earth for theirchild. So that's what we're dealing with
out here. But yeah, soI really want to make sure that there's
a lot of community awareness and communityinvolvement. We have a lot of major
(26:33):
issues that have happened in our county, in our school district, and parents
are not being made aware of it. For example, a hit list that
was created. Don't you think that'ssomething that we should be talking to our
kids about a hit list? Yes, so it was found out that there
was a hit list that was createdby a student in one of our middle
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schools, middle school, and therewas a list of students and teachers.
The district is claiming that they contactedthose that were on the list, but
we know parents of children that wereon the list that we're not contacted.
But I don't think that that's thefurthest that we should go. I don't
think that we should be keeping thingslike that in the back burner. No,
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we need to be encouraging parents tobe speaking to their children. Hey
just got this notice, and youneed to be aware of your surroundings.
But also you need to be talkingif there is anyone showing signs of anything,
because silence is you know, itcould be deadly. Like we need
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to be making sure that everyone ison the same page about it. We
can't pretend that drugs are not aroundour students. Like, I don't care
what county you're in, I don'tcare what level you are on the totem
pole of school districts. Drugs areeverywhere, especially our border problems that we're
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having. But that's another conversation.Yeah, no, I mean that's a
real thing, especially you know,these drugs look like candy, yes,
and so you could innocently, eveneven children can be innocently just like you
know, hanging out with their friendsor whatever, and then get their hands
on this stuff. So it is, it is something that we need to
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pay attention to in the school system, right and if it's found in your
school, which again we just gotconfirmation in one of our elementary schools they
tested one of these candies, keisha, and it came back first it was
fentanel, and then they retested itand it came back as meth I don't
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care. Elementary school, elementary school. Now, this actually made the media,
which I was very shocked about.But again, what are we doing.
Why aren't we having town halls sittingParis down? Hey, this is
an issue we need to be togetherin this to protect our kids. My
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god, I mean I don't understand, like do these people have a conscience,
because could you imagine you hurt youLet's just say, God forbid you,
hear you? You know this,this candy is going on, this
this drug is going around looking likecandy. Right, you don't do everything
that you can do to make parentsaware to you know, alert the community
(29:30):
of what's going on, and thensomething awful, fatal happens to a child,
like You're going to need severe counselingto be able to get that off
of your conscience. Like that istraumatizing. So you know, we have
to we have to care more,truly care, not this fake stuff.
(29:52):
No, no, not just tohave this conversation. We need to have
these conversations and realize, you know, this is this is beyond you know,
political sides. This is beyond um, you know, left or right
or independents. It's beyond that.This is the next generation of American kids.
(30:15):
Right, And if we don't fixthis, now, what are we
going to leave? Right? Whatare they what are they going to have
to look forward to? Right?Exactly? The thing is is that we
can't fix a problem if we're notactually admitting that there is a problem,
and you know, again touting andpretending. You know, you can only
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tout that you're a number one schooldistrict for so long because that marketing is
going to go away real fast whenthese stories start coming out. You know,
we already know that the media isruthless, and um, you know,
if if there's more and more storieslike this, you know, Saint
John's County is not going to beas you know, sought out as as
it is. And well, Ireally truly, with everything in me,
(31:03):
I want to be that person thatis a voice and representation for parents on
the school board as well as teacherswho don't feel like they're being heard.
I mean, more than fifty percentof our teachers are not are not in
the union, which I think isamazing, and that's able to Um,
you're able to really have great conversationswith those teachers because they're telling you what's
(31:26):
really going on, you know,and it's again, it's it's getting the
community together, you know. II I just think that's so important.
You know, that's saying it takesa village, right, and a real
village, not like exactly village,like literally like grandma, right exactly,
(31:49):
You're a neighbor, yeah, exactly, you know, not just this Joe
Schmo. And you know, Imean I'm not a government bureaucrat right exactly,
absolutely not. So you know,and people appreciate it. I've been
you know, uh, door knocking, sign waving, going up and down
(32:09):
car lines with parents and they reallyreally appreciate being out there, you know,
And yeah, I say, whynot. I haven't seen it in
twenty years. I probably don't evenknow what she looked like. It's so
(32:30):
funny. I handed someone a palmcard today. She's like, oh,
you know it's this Rachel Hand.I said, yes, I'm Rachel Hand.
And she's like, oh, wenever meet those people. And I
was like, well here I am. Oh that is a blunder. That's
awesome, that's so good. Yes, that is amazing. Um. I
wanted to go back to something yousaid, um about the you know,
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everybody loves everybody knows Saint John's Countyif you're in this area, because a
lot of people actually moved moved fromDuval County to go to Saint John County
because of the better school districts.So I know here. I'm just curious
if you have the same problem.So here are superintendent she um always touts
our graduation rates. Oh we're atoh ninety seven percent, But if you
(33:17):
dig down into those numbers, likethe kids cannot read, like literally,
they can't do math. They arenot proficient in these areas where like to
graduate. So I'm like, Diane, who you're graduating? Boo? Like
whoo, who's graduating? Because yourtest scores say you shouldn't have that high
(33:39):
of a graduation rate. So I'mjust curious, are you seeing the same
things with them the test scores,are they profession Are kids getting an education?
So I guess it depends on theschool, right. Um we have
heard teachers complain that they felt forcedto past kids. Again that's a disclosure
(34:04):
to our campaign, but um it'skids are struggling and they're blaming COVID.
They're blaming COVID for that, whichokay, great, but we just received
millions of dollars of COVID relief money, and um, you know, our
kids are still struggling with reading.They're too occupied, in my opinion,
(34:28):
focusing on temporary emotions and not theactual academia part. Of school. Yea,
So can I say that confidently?No, But you know, ratings
is the only priority, it seems, and our kids are just our kids
(34:50):
are not numbers. They're not statistics, and that's what they're cutting. Yeah,
because they're just touting, you know, um, oh we're number one.
Oh we reached this. Oh okay, great? Um can they read
a book? You know? Youknow, let's say another problems. Yeah,
(35:12):
let's play another clip now that youmentioned, um, temporary feelings and
all those things. So there isthis uh Cynthia Williams is there last name?
Um? I guess she's like theminority. I'm not exactly sure what
her title is, but let's playminority recruitment. Um. Let's look at
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where her goals are focused. Becauseshe talks a lot about what her focus
is, so let's take a quicklook at that. I must admit that
the word racism is a difficult conversationfor even me to hold. Therefore,
I understand how others have reluctance whenthe topic comes up. When we face
(35:57):
those challenges, we try to behonest and never putting other down, others
down from where they are in theirjourney. Doctor Bryant mentioned definition for racism.
I'm going to have to go andrefer also to a former rattler or
a ratler doctor Ebrahm KNDy, whodefines racism as one who supports a racist
(36:21):
policy through their actions or their ideas. Candy also defines anti racism as one
who supports an anti racist policy throughtheir actions or ideas. Our panelists have
shared laws, past and present,policies, and experiences along with perceptions,
(36:44):
so no, I'm not an experton this. I have my own experiences,
and my experiences define my perception orunderstanding of a situation. What I
want you all to acknowledge is thatwe all have biases. We need to
be aware of them. We needto listen, learn understand others in order
(37:05):
to move forward. That's why inour district we provide training. Our human
resources department has engaged trainings for administrators, district staff, teachers, and monthly
professional development. We read from thebook Studies for doctor Muhammad and doctor Sharookie
Holly, books about the will tolead and the skill to teach and its
(37:27):
response to teaching and learning. Theyserve as a foundation to engage our district
staff in those fearless conversations to bringcultural awareness in our schools. So her
goals seem to be be very focusedon social issues. I don't even know
if at any point she really mentionededucation. It was all you know,
(37:55):
not that, but yes, alot of affirming, affirming and you know,
representation and you know and and listen, I get it. I am
a Hispanic woman that was raised inthe verbs of New York City. I
dealt with racism. But I dealtwith racism from everybody. I just think
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it's just ignorance. It's not evenlike it's just you know it. I
was raised to never be a victim. I mean, I was raised with
the last name Rodriguez. Never feltyou know. I mean and again,
like I said, I dealt withracism. I you know, had my
(38:38):
altercations with the white community, blackcommunity, even a Hispanic community, Like
come on, and it's just I'mjust so tired of the of the victimizing
of our children. Yes, Iam so tired of it. And in
you know, and emotions right likethey're temporary, they're not permanent. They're
(38:58):
not And girl talk about temporary,like literally you could feel one way in
the morning and literally by noon,you are you could sing a song from
yes you know, yes, youcould be totally in the day. Yeah,
And so that is a good point. They are so temporary and they're
like up and down, and especiallywhen you're a child, like you literally
(39:22):
have no regularly you don't even knowhow to regulate your emotions. Shoot a
don't struggle with regulating their emotions.Just watch a couple episodes of TikTok and
you'll see that. And it's like, you know, how are we preparing
our kids even emotionally, like howto be emotionally tough, you know,
(39:43):
to say, Okay, this istemporary to understand and no, they're like,
no, you need to lean intoit. No, feel all the
feelings and just you know, embraceevery single feeling that you may, uh
you know have at at any momentof the day. And it's just a
I'm with you on that, Likeit feels like we're just setting ourselves,
(40:04):
setting the kids up for failure.We got a lot of stuff going on
over here, but that it isyour house and not mine. I wanted
to ask you, um, sinceyou mentioned that you've experienced racism and yet
you are not a victim, Soif you could tell a young kid.
(40:31):
Um who let's say they are aminority. Um, you know what,
listen, any kid, because racismcomes in all you can you can be
black. I don't buy into this. Oh if you're black, you can't
be racist or wet nonsense. Thatis absolutely Yeah. If there is a
kid who is experiencing racism, whatwould you tell them? I would just
(40:55):
simply tell them God made you soperfect and so beautiful, and honestly with
my boys because they haven't. Oneof my sons had to experience some things
that we have to pray for thembecause that's that's that's ignorance that you know,
(41:20):
was learned from somewhere. Yeah,and again it's not embedded into our
beautiful babies, that's right. SoI would just tell them you are a
victor and you can accomplish and doanything that you set your mind to.
I mean, it sounds so cliche, but that's how we were raised.
That that was the culture that ourgeneration had, Right, you were made
(41:45):
love yourself for who you are.Ye. But now we're in a world
that we're encouraging kids to change it. Yeah, and it doesn't matter how
far yea. And not only that, like and they're telling kids that changing
yourself is really being you. Right, But I this has got to be
(42:10):
some of the dumbest PhD people I'veever seen. So let me get this
straight. So I gotta go andliterally like mutilate my whole physical self for
me to be myself and love myselfand love myself. I gotta go change
literally everything about myself for me tolove myself. Okay, yeah, exactly.
(42:31):
So I mean let's just get backto basics, right, yes,
common sense. Yeah, I mean, it's it's not so common anymore,
I've come to realize, but weit's literally just going back to that,
yeah, you know, loving yourselfthe way that you are. You were
created so beautifully, imperfectly, youknow, and and we need to be
(42:54):
empowering these kids, not affirming thisvictimhood. That's right. You can't,
you know, Like the reality ismy parents said people are not gonna like
you because of your last name andthis and that, but you're gonna rise
up. And I always did,always did. That's incredible. Yeah.
(43:15):
That, So Rachel, tell everyoneabout your website where they can donate to
your campaign, where they can getsigns, where they can volunteer, and
any other links that you want fun, the fun part. Okay, So
my website is vote hand for schoolboarddot com. I'm there. You will
(43:37):
get a little snippet of me andyou will be able to donate. You
can also sign up there to volunteeror to request for a yard side.
We will hand deliver it to you. Most likely it's going to be made
because I like meeting everybody. Ireally do. I love going out there
and meeting everyone. Early voting startstomorrow for Santoun's County, so that's a
(44:00):
big thing. And um, weare also I should actually put this up
here. We're having an event statetuned. Yes, I'm having an event
on Sunday. We are actually justlike announcing it today at mills Field in
Julington Creek Baseball Fields on Sunday thethirtieth, from two to four pm.
(44:22):
We're gonna have food trucks. It'sgonna be family fun, community awareness.
I want parents to be able tolike talk to each other from other sides
of the district. Yeah, justhave fun. That is amazing. I
love it. And what district areyou running it? I'm in District one,
District one, Saint John's County Districtone School board. All right,
(44:45):
Rachel, thank you so much forcoming on. This was like, really
really good. I must say Iwas not expecting uh that info that we
bound. Oh yeah, spect yeah, you've a subscribe. What else you'll
find on that website? Yes,I'm sure we'll continue digging and let you
(45:07):
guys know what else we find.Rachel, thank you so much. Be
blessed in your race. I praythat God just blesses you and that you
win and that you are able toaccomplish all the things that you want for
these kids. And thank you somuch for coming on this show. Everyone.
I will put all of Rachel's linksin the description box below, and
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please don't forget to comment, likeshare this video. Please share this out
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and they think that everything is fine. There are even school board members sitting
right now who do not know what'sgoing on. So share this with them
too so they can know what's goingon before Rachel goes in there and replaces
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