“They Insisted He Had to Take It to Graduate”: Mom of San Diego Islamic Center Shooter Blames School’s White Guilt Class for Contributing to His Radicalization (Video)
The mother of Cain Clark, one of the teen shooters in the San Diego Islamic Center attack, is speaking out — and her account is devastating.
In an interview last year, she told independent journalist Amy Forsandiego that her son was forced to take an Ethnic Studies class in order to graduate from San Diego schools. According to her, the first two weeks of the class were heavily focused on “whiteness” and “white privilege.”
Cain was mixed race, with Indonesian heritage on his father’s side. His mother said he felt extremely uncomfortable in the class and believed it was teaching him to view himself and his white family members in a negative light.
They even asked the school if he could be excused from the course, but administrators insisted he had to complete it to graduate.
Here’s the explanation of what happened:
This is the kind of radical indoctrination that’s being pushed in schools across the country under the guise of “equity” and “inclusion.” Instead of teaching kids how to think critically or build unity, these classes often focus on guilt, division, and painting one race as inherently oppressive.
Cain Clark went on to participate in a horrific attack on the Islamic Center, where anti-Islamic writings were reportedly found in the car with the shooters. While we still don’t have the full picture of his radicalization, his mother is pointing to this mandatory class as one contributing factor that made her son feel alienated and resentful.
This is not an isolated story. Across America, parents are fighting back against curricula that seem designed to make children ashamed of their skin color or heritage. President Trump has been one of the loudest voices against this toxic ideology in schools. He’s called out Critical Race Theory and the divisive “woke” agenda that tells kids America is fundamentally racist and that they should feel guilty for things that happened long before they were born.
The left loves to scream that any opposition to this kind of teaching is “book banning” or “hate.” But when a class makes a mixed-race teenager feel like his own family is the problem, that’s not education — it’s indoctrination.
The fact that a public school would force a student into this kind of course just to earn a diploma shows how far some districts have gone. Cain’s mother tried to get him out. The school wouldn’t budge.
Now the country is left asking hard questions about what kind of ideas these classes are really planting in young minds — and whether they’re contributing to the kind of rage and extremism we saw play out in San Diego.
We need real education reform, not more guilt sessions disguised as history. Parents deserve to know exactly what their kids are being taught, and students should never be forced into classes that make them hate themselves or their country.
This mother’s testimony is a warning. When schools push division instead of unity, the consequences can be tragic.
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