The headline caught my attention, as headlines are designed to.
Wow, I thought, they're "gaining fans in US cities!" That sounds like quite the groundswell!
Since it was founded in 1912, the Girl Scouts of the USA has been the best-known option for preteen girls interested in joining a youth organization with a nationwide presence. It took 102 years, but an alternative is gaining steam.
Not only is this potential Girl Scout slayer gaining fans, it's gaining steam, too!
That's a lot of gaining.
So, just who is this young upstart poised to topple a giant capable of swarming every grocery store entrance in America with platoons of young girls peddling Thin Mints and Samoas like they were crack cocaine?
First established in 2014 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Radical Monarchs is a troop for Black and Brown girls — as well as children who identify as nonbinary — from 8 to 11 years old.
Whites and Asians need not apply.
But boys can, I guess?
Interesting approach.
Okay, fine, but how extensive is this nationwide stampede of black and brown girls and also non-girls flocking to join the Radical Monarchs?
In just nine short years, it's grown to 104 members!
There are 104 kids enrolled in cities across the US, including Denver, Minneapolis and Washington.
That's not in thousands by the way, it's just 104. Total. That's "across the US."
In contrast, the Girls Scouts have 1.7 million members, which may sound like a lot but ... okay, that's a lot.
No matter, they want so badly for this story to work they'll do whatever it takes.
Besides, math is racist.
Wow! For the first time in 100 years the Girl Scouts have competition!!!
Well, aside from all the other competition that has been around for decades.
Yeah, but other than all those, the Radical Monarchs are totally the first ones.
Here's another marketing piece, er, I mean, journalistic research article, from February.
It's Saturday morning and while other scouting troops are at shopping centers selling cookies, members of the Radical Monarchs are excited to start their field trip to the Black Panther Museum in West Oakland.
While other scouting troops are having fun ,while at the same time learning practical life skills in the areas of sales, marketing, inventory control and how to present yourself in a respectful and professional manner, the Radical Monarchs are being indoctrinated in the machinations of a Marxist-Leninist black power political organization.
Eh, tomato, tomahto.
You will not be surprised to learn that our cultural betters have been trying to crow-bar the Radical Monarchs into the national conversation for years.
A documentary was released about them in 2019 that received all the awards such productions are required to by law.
Here's the trailer:
I remember my daughter, she said, Mom, most of the people in the world are brown, how come most of the people on TV are white?
Well, that certainly is a brain teaser, but let me take a shot at this.
Because your TV is in America, which is mostly white?
Of course, this is only a problem if you've been raised to see people first as members of racial groups, rather than as individuals (like the woke racists). Otherwise, you barely notice.
And as long as we're adopting progressives' collectivist, group-based identity politics view of the world, I can't help noticing that most of the people behind this documentary are white women.
Back to the Bloomberg article.
Just as in Girl Scouts, Radical Monarch troop members earn badges to show they've mastered specific skills. But these aren't your typical certifications for first aid or painting ...
Exploring your artistic talent and learning how to save lives?
Sure, I guess you can do that.
Or better, you can teach ten-year-olds "consent," how to fight, and, I guess, be nice or something, but I'm pretty sure that's a part of all these programs.
Other badges teach consent, self-defense and respect for those who are plus-size or disabled.
The Radial Monarchs had a humble beginning, and now that I think about it, a pretty humble middle, too, but let's not think about that, there's social justice-ing to do!
The idea for Radical Monarchs first came up when Martinez's daughter, Lupita, expressed interest in joining a local Girl Scouts troop. She was 9 years old at the time and attending fourth grade in San Francisco. Some of her friends and classmates were joining.
Oh, my! Her daughter had made friends with people who were not exactly like her and wanted to engage in enriching group activities with them.
Well, we can't have that, can we?
Martinez hesitated. This wasn't a part of her own upbringing, and after seeing the troop's makeup, she didn't want her daughter to be one of the only girls of color.
"One of." Not "only," one of.
Not racially pure enough for Martinez!
You know, there once was a time when the Girl Scouts separated white and black girls.
Martinez must long for that time ...
This is the part where Bloomberg steps in to helpfully note that the Girl Scouts are still kind of racist.
The Girls Scouts have made efforts to become more inclusive, but overall membership remains majority White and non-Hispanic, according to the organization's 2022 stewardship report.
This would be a good place to pause.
Bloomberg just pointed out that while the Girl Scouts have tried, they clearly haven't quite gotten to the promised land of ensuring white people make up a minority of the Girl Scouts in a white-majority country.
For years, we have been lectured by our betters that every cultural, commercial, and public institution must "look like America."
The Girls Scouts "look like America."
The Radical Monarchs?
They look like the fevered dreams of a neo-Marxist, beret-wearing Che Guevara, Black separatist wannabe.
They really don't want racial harmony, do they? They want racial penance.
Martinez considered her daughter's desire to have fun with friends, and learn useful skills in the process, to be an ideal opportunity to instead turn her into a social justice warrior.
"I wished there was something that existed that centered young girls of color and their experiences, where they could earn badges based on social justice issues, not just making a fire, sewing or selling cookies," Martinez says. "When I had that idea, I was like, ‘Hey, Lupita, what if I were to do this for you and your friends?' "
And thus, the Radical Monarchs were born.
In case you were wondering, yes, the two founders, Marilyn Hollinquest and Anayvette Martinez were both ethnic studies majors, and yes, "both identify as queer women of color" because of course.
As for the Girl Scouts, they have been bending the knee so much they could probably join a circus as contortionists.
Of course, anti-racism is just old-fashioned racism dressed up as equity.
And yet, you can never bend the knee hard enough. Not that they aren't going to try! This is from a few weeks ago.
And there's this.
The Girl Scouts told its membership that taking a color-blind approach to life "perpetuates racism," and parents must have conversations about race and racism "regularly" with their daughters to counterbalance this narrative.
Not that you'd know this from the mainstream media, but the Girl Scouts were an early champion of desegregation at great risk to the organization, and was lauded by Martin Luther King as "a force for desegregation."
Of course, that was when "equality" of the races was the goal, not the subjugation of just one.
What's old is new again.
Remember, in woke world there is no forgiveness and no salvation - only bitter retribution.
It was noted in the Bloomberg article that whenever the Radical Monarchs get publicity, death threats follow. Even if, as is likely, most of those are false-flag operations, that is still evil, and none of that, including criticism, should be directed at the members. They're just children.
The true villains in all of this are those who want to perpetuate racism under the guise of equity and their media enablers who push ridiculous narratives without shame.
In the meantime, hundreds of thousands of "black and brown" Girl Scouts are happily earning first aid badges, painting, and yes, selling cookies.
That this should bother some people tells you all you need to know.
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