Lily Tang Williams: “One Rat Poop Ruins the Whole Pot of Soup”

Via FB. Lily Tang Williams ran as a Libertarian for Colorado House District 44 in 2014 and serves as Colorado state director of Our America Initiative.

Watch and share this video of my testimony to support Parent’s Bill of Rights.

My base script is below:

My name is Lily Tang Williams, I am here to represent Our America Initiative, a non-profit grassroots organization and myself to strongly support SB15-007 Parent’s Bill of Rights.

As a Chinese immigrant mother who grew up in Communist China under Mao’s regime, I can tell you parental rights did not exist. Children were State Properties, they did not belong to their parents. During “Cultural Revolution”, Chairman Mao used the Red Guards to purge his political enemies and schools were shut down. After Mao finished using the Red Guards, he ordered all urban educated youth from middle school age to high school age to “up to the mountains and down to the villages” to be educated by peasants. My grandmother had no choice but to let my three uncles to leave home. If they stayed home, the whole family would be subject to benefits loss, political criticism, or persecution. My favorite uncle was only 17 years old when he was sent to a remote area of Yunnan Province and wasted 10 years of his life there as a manual labor.

My parents had no parental rights when they were raising my two younger brothers and me. We had only public schools with everything mandated by the government, 8 hours per day schooling, and 6 days per week. We had nationalized education standards and curriculum. One of the subjects we must to take was politics which was total Communist indoctrination. All the students were controlled and tracked by individual Student File where the school documented everything about each student. The file followed each student to college and future jobs until death, and it was shared with all the government agencies and employers. We also had mandatory vaccinations in schools. Privacy and school choices were the concepts we never heard of.

Today’s parents in China have a choice to send their kids to a private school or overseas to study, but most of the parents cannot afford it. Their children are still stuck to the centralized education system with nationalized standards and curriculum.

I came to America because it is the “Land of Free, Home of the Brave”. I have a right to raise my children without government interference. But I feel I am losing my parental rights every day. My daughter’s doctor told me that my 15 years old daughter is required to have mandatory depression screening and I must pay for it. Then they mandate doing STD lab test without my consent, and my daughter did not know what was going on. They told me it is the state law. Common Core is going to test my child and collect data without my permission… the list goes on and on.

What happened to America I love as the “shining city on the hill”? I did not come to this country so I could end to be like my grandma and parents without rights and control when it comes about the upbringing, education and healthcare of my children. My children are not state properties unless America is becoming like China. I understand there are some parents who are not responsible and not capable to do their jobs, but it is not justified to use that excuse to take away my parental rights and control. Do not assume I am a guilty bad parent without proof first. Do not tell me that you love and care about my children more than I do.

There is a famous Chinese quote: “One Rat Poop Ruins the Whole Pot of Soup”. Please do not let that happen here. I urge you to support Parent’s Bill of Rights.

Thank you.