ICYMI: Goodlander Backed Cash for ‘Defund the Police,’ Pro-Reparation Orgs
Maggie Goodlander has quite the checkered past. From her residency issues to now news surfacing of her “advocating defunding the police and releasing rioters arrested during the protests.” Among the groups Goodlander wanted to fund were the Movement for Black Lives and Color of Change, both of whom have showed support for antisemitic lawmakers and campaigns.
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Amid ’20 Riots, Goodlander Backed Cash for ‘Defund the Police,’ Pro-Reparation Orgs
August 18, 2024
As fiery riots swept across American cities in the summer of 2020, a group of outraged graduates of Groton, an elite, Massachusetts boarding school, demanded the administration donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to activists supporting those protests.
Among the organizations to be funded were groups advocating defunding the police and releasing rioters arrested during the protests.
And among the Groton grads making the demands was future Democratic candidate for Congress, Maggie Goodlander (Groton ’05).
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Angry alums organized a letter in response, accusing the Groton administration of a history of insensitivity to racial and social justice issues and issuing a list of demands in response.
“Groton is in a unique position to use its far-reaching network of immense wealth to materially support its purported ideological commitments both to antiracism and equality more broadly,” they wrote.
Among the demands were changes in the school’s curricula, insisting it “delve into the history of structural racism and must incorporate an understanding of how oppressive narratives continue to shape the way we all think.”
Another demand was more direct: Pay up.
Groton must “encourage and match donations” to “organizations providing frontline support to anti-racist efforts, such as The Movement for Black Lives, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Color of Change, and Equal Justice Initiative,” for sums “up to $200,000 or greater.”
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