Kentucky Democrat state Rep. Sarah Stalker stunned viewers this week when she told a legislative education committee, “I don’t feel good about being white every day,” while defending Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in public schools. Her remarks came during a meeting of the Kentucky General Assembly’s Interim Joint Committee on Education and were captured on video, instantly fueling outrage across social media.
This wasn’t a private confession; it was theater. Stalker doubled down by calling her whiteness a “point of privilege” and even suggested that White children ought to pause and reflect on how their skin color lets them “move through the world,” a dangerous pitch of collective guilt dressed up as pedagogy. Conservatives are right to see this as the same woke playbook: turn patriotism and pride into shame and weaponize schoolrooms as laboratories for identity politics.
Republican lawmakers on the committee are pushing back, with State Sen. Lindsey Tichenor presenting draft legislation aimed at ending DEI programs in K–12 schools — legislation that clearly rattled Stalker and her allies. The debate makes plain what this fight is really about: who will decide what our children learn about history, character, and civic identity — parents and teachers who believe in personal responsibility, or ideologues who teach children to hate their heritage.
The clip blew up online and ignited a predictable wave of backlash, with critics across the political spectrum calling out the moral vanity of lecturing children into guilt. Conservatives should not be surprised — this is the logical next step from a culture that elevates performative contrition over individual dignity, and it explains why Americans from every background are fed up with woke indoctrination in schools.
Every parent who values faith, family, and country needs to see this for what it is: a coordinated effort to reframe our children as inheritors of sin rather than as citizens of a free republic. Lawmakers who still believe in common-sense education must act decisively to protect classrooms from this corrosive ideology, and grassroots conservatives should flood school boards and statehouses with common-sense voices before another generation is taught to apologize for being American.
