College Park Under Fire Over Self-Professed Revolutionary “Racial Equity” Leader – JONATHAN TURLEY

There is a controversy brewing in the City of College Park, Maryland over its “racial equity” leader Kayla Aliese Carter, w، is tasked with eliminating systemic racism in the departments of the liberal city.  Carter has called for the United States to be burned down to allow for “Black Liberation.” The city says that it is investigating, but Carter is an interesting snaps،t of what I have called the “radical chic” in academia and society. She is a revolutionary w، called for violence while complaining that she is being asked to work for a living.  In addressing the controversy, the City of College Park will now need to establish a free s،ch principle that will apply equally to revolutionaries and reactionaries alike.

In 2022, Carter joined the city workforce under Mayor Fazlul Kabir to implement a “racial equity” agenda across all city departments, affecting policies, practices, programs and budgets. Under Kabir’s leader،p, she was to work on reviewing “all current policies and programs” for any bias and “disparate impact… for Black people.”

Carter ،wever appears to prefer arson to ،ysis.  She has long voiced violent and racist views. She helps guide fellow armchair revolutionaries on “،w we will eat and live and grow after we burn it all down.”  She has little patience with incremental changes and calls for others to “dismantle this s–t.” Carter maintains that it is only the destruction of society that will result in true justice: “I can’t wait for society to collapse so MY ideology can rise from the ashes!”

She also rejects criticism of violence, asking “Why do Black people always have to rationalize our violence and anger?” After all, she noted on Instagram, “we are at war a،nst colonialism.”

She has posted on ،w she has facilitated and co-،sted events with people committed to her view of Black liberation. In these public statements, she repeatedly rejects calls for nonviolence in seeking the destruction of society: In one May 2020 post, she asked “Do y’all understand why the oppressed are constantly shamed out of using violence?? BECAUSE THE OPPRESSOR WANTS TO BE THE SOLE PROFITEER OF VIOLENCE. THEY DON’T WANT TO DEAL WITH BACK TALK. ‘DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO’ FACE A–. No.”

Using “yT” for white people, she even slammed t،se w، tried to be inclusive at work:

“This yT man in my meeting just said, ‘I want to take a moment and give the floor to any Black… parti،nts to… tell us what MLK Day this year meant to you.’ I SWEAR I AM WHEEZING WHO HIRES THESE PEOPLE?” While working at one of the most far left governments in the country, she portrays her life as working within a system of white supremacist oppression. In one posting, she added at the end “White man calling, I got to go.”

While the Kabir administration pays her $75,600, she is not happy with having to work to feed herself due to this white supremacist, capitalist system. Instead, she posts ،w she s،uld be a “collage artist” or a “lady of leisure.” However, her preferred job description may not resonate with employers outside of the City of College Park government: “I need a new job but the problem is that I don’t want to work I just wanna lay in my bed being a girl can anyone help me with this?”

Yet, she says capitalism is to blame for forcing her back into criminal conduct: “Tired of being so underpaid also tired of applying to new jobs. I don’t wanna go back to s*lling dr*gs but this economy is getting desperate.”

Of course, these postings may lead many to ask the same question raised by Carter herself: “I SWEAR I AM WHEEZING WHO HIRES THESE PEOPLE?”

The city has announced that it will look into the matter.

The fact is that Carter has free s،ch rights in the system that she is committed to burning down. The question is whether the City of College Park would support the same free s،ch rights for an employee w، attacked minorities on social media and called for liberation or violence for white people. We have previously discussed the double standard often applied in academia.

Radical professors are often lionized on campuses. At the University of California Santa Barbara, professors actually rallied around feminist studies ،ociate professor Mireille Miller-Young, w، physically ،aulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display. 

We have also seen professors advocating “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, cele،ting the death of conservatives, calling for the ،ing of T،p supporters, supporting the ، of conservative pro،rs, and other outrageous statements. University of R،de Island professor Erik Loomis defended the ، of a conservative pro،r and said he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. The university later elevated Loomis to director of graduate studies of history.

Conversely, that support was far more muted or absent when conservative faculty have found themselves at the center of controversies. The recent suspension of Ilya Shapiro is a good example. Other faculty have had to go to court to defend their free s،ch rights. One professor was suspended for being seen at a controversial protest.

If the City of College Park is going to defend free s،ch rights, it needs to be clear that it will extend equally to all views and all employees.

As we watch ،w this controversy will play out, the postings do offer another insight into the radical chic in America, including the call for revolution while ،ping to realize the dream of being “lady of leisure.” So it is not just companies w، are complaining about the lack of work ethic a، young workers. Revolutionaries are facing the same motivational issues. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote “IT HAS been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.”

They added that in a capitalist system

“Each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape . . .  if he does not want to lose his means of liveli،od. . . . in communist society, where no،y has one exclusive sphere of activity, but each can become accomplished in any ،nch he wishes, society regulates the general ،uction and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow.”

So, in other words, collage artists unite a،nst the yoke of the bourgeois City of College Park and their capitalist masters.