High-profile commentators are noticing a shocking shift among prominent left-wing champions who are starting to realize that woke idealism does not work in reality.
In a recent New York Times essay, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones recounts her decision to send her daughter to a struggling Brooklyn public school, despite having the means to choose a different school, because she wanted to challenge racial and economic inequality in public education and believed her family should share the experience of other black children in the system.
Years later, however, she says her daughter struggled academically, experienced problems at school, and eventually blamed her for putting the needs of other children ahead of her own. Hannah-Jones now questions whether her decision was fair to her daughter, while acknowledging that she used private tutoring to help address some of the academic problems, something many families at the school could not afford.
The essay presents her experience as a painful reassessment of whether trying to reform an inequitable system required her own child to bear the cost.
Priest and pundit Calvin Robinson (pictured above) told American Family Radio Tuesday that leftist policies routinely demand that individuals put ideology over family.
"Parents are ultimately responsible for their children," he pointed out. "The children don't belong to the parents. They are not owned by the parents. They are owned by God. All children belong to God, but parents are responsible for raising them, nurturing them, and passing on their faith and values to them."
Robinson noted that when progressive figures finally experience the real-world consequences of failed education and social systems, regret often follows, and he submitted that society must return to objective, biblical truths rather than ever-shifting cultural trends.
"Instead of an abstract, arbitrary definition of good, we have an absolute definition of good because we get it from God himself, who is good," he said.
