Help Gabrielle & William Clark (Completed!)

William Clark is a senior at Democracy Prep, a public charter school in Las Vegas, Nevada. William is mixed race. He lives with his mother, who is biracial. William's father died when he was young.

By any normal standard, William Clark is not privileged. Quite the opposite.

But  apparently that's not how his school sees it. 

Last year, William took a mandatory, yearlong class for all Democracy Prep seniors called Sociology of Change. In the class, William, along with all the students, was asked to publicly reveal his race, gender, religious, and sexual identities, and then attach derogatory labels to those identities. Students were then asked to “undo and unlearn” their “beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that stem from oppression.”  

William was understandably reluctant to label himself as "privileged" or an "oppressor."  And while William is the only student in the class who appears to be white -- he has light skin and green eyes --  he is in fact, mixed race. 

William declined to participate in the mandatory class exercises and was punished with a failing grade.

William and his mother, Gabrielle Clark, filed suit in the Federal District Court of Nevada against Public Charter School Democracy Prep et al., claiming the school violated William's First Amendment rights by “repeatedly compelling his speech involving intimate matters of race, gender, sexuality and religion." It further argues that the school created a “psychologically abusive" and a “hostile educational environment.”

William and Gabrielle’s case will proceed to an expedited evidentiary hearing and trial, tentatively scheduled for April.  This is a landmark case against Critical Race Theory (CRT) curriculum, which forces students to categorize and label their racial, religious, and sexual identities with derogatory labels and asks students to affirm beliefs contrary to their personal conscience.  

The Clarks need your help.

This fundraiser is organized by the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism. 

The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.