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California school’s America 250 event receives backlash for all the wrong reasons

You know the left half of our nation is in serious trouble when “woke” parents decide to keep their kids home from school because of an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Founding of the United States.

As The California Post reported, Canyon Hills Junior High School in Chino Hills held an event called “History Rocks 250.”

There was nothing partisan or objectionable at all about it. It was simply a display of patriotism and a celebration of American history.

That’s the sort of thing that triggers the left nowadays. According to “progressives” and those steeped in Critical Race Theory, the birth of America was an act of original sin whose stain can never truly be erased.

American history, they believe, is simply a long list of oppressive events, with white supremacy atop a pyramid of misery.

But in Chino Hills, the cause of the backlash was even more specific: the patriotic event was........

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