Civil Rights

This report exhibits some of Ponder's anti-government teachings, and does not include his teachings regarding more controversial subjects such as political parties, gender equality and race discrimination. IPJ will be covering these topics in future reports.

IPJ concludes that Gene Ponder – 12th grade AP Government & Economics teacher at Spanish Fort High School in Alabama – is, and has been presenting biased course material in order to sway students thinking by negatively portraying Multiculturalism, Affirmative Action, Muslims, African American voters, and minorities in general. Ponder also portrays white-males as victims of race discrimination and voter intimidation throughout his teachings.

Multiple students in Alabama post racist songs online [Offensive Content]

Black kids 3 times more likely to get arrested than white kids. [Daphne, Alabama]

15-year-old black student arrested in Daphne Alabama, Police refuse to give parents official reports

... students argued that he should work more because “n*ggers like them some barbecue.”

You may think you've heard this story before, but you really haven't. It's worth noting that this report, as well as those that follow, are about much more than just a reading assignment. Let's start at the beginning though.

Swope specifically indicated that that he had gained access to those records because the law firm is a tenant in his building and because the attorney’s phone lines go through his system...

IPJ discovered that Ponder created the right-leaning biased summer reading assignment because he sought to balance out the "communist socialist agenda" being taught at his school – Spanish Fort High School in Alabama.

Baldwin County School Board (Alabama) has admitted to doing absolutely nothing about a teacher who has been teaching a racist curriculum to students for approximately 10 years.