An ex-top trustee of Manhattan’s elite Spence School says she yanked her daughter out over her growing disgust with its racial indoctrination — capped by a cla𝔉ss video that “tarred and feathered’’ white 🥀women.
Hispanic tech exec Gabriela Baron fired off a scorched-earth letter🧔 to the prestigious Upper East Side institution last week seething that the video — shown to her eighth-grade daughter and classmates on graduation🌠 day — “openly derides, humiliates and ridicules white women.
“They sat there in their graduation dresses while the white mothers of the white students – many of whom volunteer, donate, call, email and do wh♍atever the school༒ asks of them – were tarred and feathered in a video their teacher showed them. While their white female teachers were mocked,’’ Baron raged in the missive, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
Baron said the footage, featuring racially charged comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, wa📖s just an𒁃other indication of what she and her husband “see happening at Spence (and many other schools in NYC).
“Over the last several years my husband and I have grown increasingly conce♔rned about certain trends at Spence, including what we believe is a de-emphasis of academic rigor and a single-minded focus on race, diversity and inclusion that is now driving the School and everything that goes on within its walls,’’ wrote Baron, the daughter of Cuban immigranꦬts.
Spence is among a slew of posh “woke” private schools ;in New York City that have come under fire for allegedly putting polit🌠ical correctness before actual learning and common-sense.
Baron — who confirmed to The Post on Tuesday that she sent the letter — is an alum of Spence, which includes actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and Kerry Washington and Michael Bloomberg’s daughter Geor♒gina among its graduates. The K-12 school $57,400 a year per student.
“The blatantly racist video,’’ shown durin🃏g her daughter’s last middle-school history class was of of her Showtime talk series “Ziwe,’’ which aired last month, Baron said.
It featured sit-downs with writer Fran Lebowitz, women’s rights icon Gloria Steinem — and four white women named Karen.
The caption to introduce Lebowitz read, “Author, Public Speaker, White Woman.’’ At one point, Fumudoh remarked to her, “I believe that you ar꧂e not concerned with how annoying white women can be.’’
The host also said, “What percentage of white women do you hate? And there is a ri🎶ght answer.”
Fumudoh asked Steinem how many black friends she has, then read her obscene lyrics💙 from&nbs𝓀p; byand wanted to know whether the activist felt “empowered’’ by them.
Before the “Karens” took the stage, Fumudoh read what she said was an Urban Dictionary meaning for their name, which included “obnoxious, angry and entitled, of🐼ten racist, white women.’’
At the end of the segment, Fumudoh gave the women te⛎mporary tattoos that said, “Karen & Proud.’’
“It astounds me that a Spence faculty member felt comfortable showing this to students and thought it was acceptable to do so,” Baron sa🍌id of the mockiꦺng, cringe-worthy footage.
“Had the video derided and ridiculed Asian women, Black women or Hispanic women, the Spence community would declare with one voice that it was blatantly racist,” said the mom, exeꦜcuti🐎ve vice president of strategy at the tech software firm KLDiscovery,
“In fact, had a similar video been shown making fun of ANY OTHER racial group, Spence, its faculty, the Board and the entire community would be whipp🤡ed into a frenzy,’’ Baron said. “Is Ziwe’s video somehow not racist and acce🅷ptable to Spence because it attacks whites?”
Podcast journalist Megyn Kelly a copy of Baron’s letter Tuesday — while noting her family’s own saga with the Big Apple’s ritzy ultra-liberal private schools.
“(Another) Spence parent pulls her kid after grossly racist episode attacking white women is forced on girls in class on last day of school,” Kelly tweeted.
“We just left this school bc of its growing far-left indoctrination,” wrote Kelly, who reportedly pulled her daughter from the institution, as well as her two sons from the prestigious all-boys Collegiate School, this past winter over the academies’ “woke” policies.
“This is a place we’ve loved-breaks my heart they’re doing this,” Kelly added of Spence.
Baron said Spence’s showing of the video to its middle-school students on their special day e🃏arlier this month was only the final straw for her and her husband at the PC-obsessed all-girls institution — which has a task force to make sure it is “the anti-racist institution it aspires to be.”
She said that several years ago, students in Spence’s lower school were “r💧equired to make politically-oriented protest posters.’’ Baron said that when she protested, she was falsely told by school officials that this was not the case.
In 2019, a Manhattan couple sued the school for allegedly buying into a “Mean Gir🍸ls” scheme in which two students branded their daughter a racist over an innoce෴nt Instagram post.
“I believe this [recent video] incident is emblematic of a larger problem and a sad reflection of the current clim🧸ate at Spence,’’ Baron wrote in her June 11 letter to “Board members, administrators, faculty members and fellow parents.
“When our daughter was accepted to Spence, I wept,’’ she said. “I was so proud to be able to giv🐻e her a Spence education.”
But “as some of you know, my concerns about Spence’s direction led me to resign from my position as an Annual Fund co-chair in 2018,’’ she said. “Those concerns also caused us to vote wit༒h our feet and make the difficult decision to have our daughter attend high school at a different school.”
Baron listed her long association💯 with the tony academy.
“I attended Spen𒐪ce from 8th grade through 12th, graduating with the Class of 1989,’’ she said.
“For more than 25 years I was one of the Spence’s most involved alums,’’ serving on its board of trustees for eight🐓 years and constantly co-chairing its A🅺nnual Fund.
“I believe that the famil🃏y of every student in that class is owed an ap♉ology from the school,’’ she said, referring to the video.
“Racism is racism.”
The school res💯ponded in an e-mail to The Post, “This satiric🍬al video is not a part of our curriculum.
“We trust our dedicated teachers and stand by their professionalism and commitment to our students,” it added.
Baron declined comment to The Post.
