Parents in Loudoun County, VA push back against government sponsored racism in America’s schools, inspiring a nation of parents to fight back ahead of mid term elections.

Elicia Brand
5 min readSep 6, 2022

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Loudoun County, VA- September 13, 2022: As whistler-blower teachers nationwide expose current training materials chock full of the tenets of Critical Race and Gender Theories, Education remains on the forefront of issues concerning American parents and they are pushing back.

On Tuesday, Sept 13, in Loudoun County, Virginia — where parents showed the country they are a force to be reckoned with when they used their might to propel Glenn Youngkin to his current seat as Governor, flipping the Commonwealth from blue to red — parent advocacy groups and community leaders will again jump start the national wave of parents demanding an end to the racist and divisive ideologies being infused into the government schools at the ERACED RALLY to be held from 4:00pm to 6:30pm, immediately before the Loudoun County School Board meeting, at 21000 Education Court in Ashburn, Virginia. ERACED is a movement that loves life of every race and color, and sees all mankind as one blood and equally valuable.

Parent advocacy groups Army of Parents, Fight for Schools, and Moms for Liberty will present a dynamic line up of speakers including nationally recognized Pastor John Amanchukwu, a college football player turned pastor, public speaker, and author and Erin Roselle Poe, president of the Loudoun County Republic Women’s Club (LCRWC) and Vice President and Co-founder of Army of Parents, who has collected more than 1500 books through the ‘This, Not That-Return to Literacy’ book drive to be donated to the Loudoun County Public School (LCPS) classroom libraries.

Clint Thomas, Loudoun County dad and one of the rally organizers said, “Parents have had enough. Enough of the division caused by LCPS policies on race, gender, and equity which have dumbed down and lied to our kids and led to increased mental health issues. We rally on Sept 13th under One Blood to ERACE the division caused by the tenets of CRT and the equity agenda forced on our kids by LCPS.”

There are many who speak out in opposition to Critical Race Theory but few from the black perspective. John Amanchukwu, Sr. is a rising voice dispelling the myths surrounding CRT and uncovering the plot to destroy the black community. “Something is terribly wrong in our world. But I don’t need to tell you that,” writes Amanchukwu in his new booked, ‘Eraced’, being released October 4 by Salem Books. “Every time you turn on the television or scroll through social media, you can see it for yourself. You’ve probably seen it at work and in your local schools as well. In fact, you’ve likely experienced it firsthand. I’m talking about racism.”

Elicia Brand, Co-founder and President of Army of Parents and rally organizer said, “We want the good, bad, and ugly of American history to be taught in our schools. We want slavery and racism to be discussed. We want it taught within a framework of compassion and understanding, designed to unify not divide, educate not blame and shame. We stand firmly against any policy, action, or teaching that infers one group of people is inferior or superior to another, discriminates based on skin color, supports the bigotry of low expectations and that is anti-American, so when we heard that a voice like John Amanchukwu wanted to share his perspectives with parents across the country, we jumped at the chance to have him speak to Loudoun parents. We are also excited to support the Loudoun County Republican Women’s Club book drive that will make a positive difference for kids and teachers in the classroom. Army of Parents will help other groups nationwide to hold rallies and book drives in their areas in order to stop the indoctrination of our nation’s kids and to ensure that the American Dream is achievable by all kids.”

“We’re calling the book drive the ‘This, Not That, Return to Literacy’,” said Erin Roselle-Poe, president of the LCRWC. “Our goal is to do something positive instead of the negative that has surrounded our schools. Supporting teachers and classroom libraries with all types of literary genres is a great way to make a difference.”

Roselle-Poe says the community is overwhelmingly excited to help with donations, with book donors believing that stocking classroom libraries with age-appropriate children’s literature is a way to “positively push back” against the controversial, sometimes explicit books that are cropping up in schools. She and her team have collected over 1,500 books.

Julie Strauss Levin will donate and present Roselle-Poe with books written by her husband, Mark Levin, radio host of the Mark Levin Show and the television show, Life, Liberty and Levin on the Fox News Channel, as well as books written by his late father Jack Levin.

“Rather than reinforce our nation’s founding principles, family values, and faith, and stick to teaching our children basic learning tools so they can mature into well-educated, self-productive, and patriotic citizens, our public schools have become ideological assembly lines for Marxist and radical agendas,” Mark Levin shared. “Critical race theory teaches crass racism, bigotry, and hatred, and gender ideology. And, our public schools have become shocking cesspools of pornography and child sexualization. Our children are treated as if they are wards of the teachers’ union and educational bureaucrats, where loving and caring parents are seen as the enemies of the state. Levin urges, “this must come to an end, and now! PARENTS OF AMERICA, UNITE!”

The ERACED RALLY speaker line up also includes 10th District GOP Congressional Candidate- Hung Cao, Executive Director of Fight for Schools — Ian Prior, The Joe Mobley Show host- Joe Mobley, President of Moms for Liberty Loudoun- Cheryl Onderchain, Notable Loudoun moms- Xi Van Fleet and Shawntel Cooper, Chairman of the GOP 10th District- Geary Higgins, President of the NOVA High School Republican Club- Michael Gregory, LCPS School Board candidates Tiffany Polifko and Michael Rivera, and performer Liza Rickard.

For more information go to ArmyOfParents.org.

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