It means racial discrimination is not simply the result of personal prejudice or bad people but is built into a social and economic system. In the US, the country was founded on slavery. Slavery has existed long before but slaves were in older societies captured in war, etc. They were not considered inherently, racially, inferior. In order to reconcile African slavery with the supposed teaching of Christianity, a whole racial mythology of inferiority of some (those not white European) to others had to be developed. This had to be codified into law and into social consciousness. I am giving a VERY abbreviated treatment, of course. But the bans on "critical race theory", which again is not taught in primary or high school anywhere, often explicitly state it is forbidden to teach racism as social construct. Only can talk about individual bad people. But not too much because it might upset someone. You know, people ask you questions and you change subject. Again, is racism embedded in US (and other) society, systematically, structurally, and beyond individual bad people? Is the status of Black people in the US systemic and structural? If not, how do you explain it? Because as I said there are two explanations. Either systemic racial discrimination or racial inferiority.
What are some of those definitions? I too have seen more than one definitions none of which makes sense except teaching history, even painful history, the way it actually happened. The other definitions are so obscure that I don't even remember them. I try not to remember nonsense, what would be the sense in trying to remember nonsense? I'm sure fact check would remember a lot of nonsense but I let other very credible sources do the bulk of my fact checking since there's so much of the God damn stuff.
The "nudity" in Maus Tennessee objected to? Author's mother committed suicide in the bathtub. Yeah, real sexy.
Thanks for your responses. To answer your question, sure it is. The better question might be, thought, how do we find our way out? As I've mentioned many times in here, investing at the ground level - financially and physically - seems to me to be the best approach. People can debate all they want about school curriculums, etc., who's responsible for the situations we find ourselves in, etc. I choose to take a different path. We won't change each other's minds in here. Just won't.
Half the fun of being in here is thinking this post of mine is finally the one to get through to the other guy. If you don't get him with this post then surely you'll get him with the next post. Ah, to daydream.
Candace Owens claims the moon landing was faked. Also vaccines are the mark of the beast. So few Black Trumpers, and damn nearly all are nut cases, abusers, or both.
I’d be interested to see what would happen if local white people (Lanny of LO or UCD of Wilsonville) went to our local schools and libraries and told them that anything written by or about Trump (or Republicans in general) makes us uncomfortable (or that we don’t want that crap taught to our children/grandchildren). And then we demand anything that references him/them be removed from our libraries. It’s censorship, plain and simple but it would certainly send a message to the buttcrack states that the game can be played multiple ways……and makes just as much “sense”………
A Texas Karen is trying to get a children's biography of Michele Obama removed from school library because it mentions racism and Ms. Obama said mean things about Trump.
Irate white parent wants Dallas school board to ban biography of Olympic athlete Wilma Rudolph because it discussed racism she faced growing up in the 1940s. You can only show nice white people. And to prove how nice they are, they scream at and threaten teachers and school boards.
A third of public school students are now in districts where it is forbidden to teach anything that makes white people uncomfortable. The students are not so fragile. They want to know. Middle school students are forming book clubs to read books banned by schools. Maus sales are soaring. But while commendable, their initiatives can't make up for school boards acting to keep them ignorant.
The results are in! https://1776unites.com/essays/johns...rriculum/?mc_cid=b13f4d150b&mc_eid=b9ab41824f We’re pleased to announce that our 1776 Unites curriculum has received top scores from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy! The evaluation measures for critical thinking, diversity of perspectives, strength of coverage, and coherency; it also measures the knowledge a curriculum reinforces in students, and maps which topics are covered fully, sparsely, or are excluded. View the full report here. The same evaluation performed on the 1619 Project concluded that “there simply aren’t enough materials to occupy even one grade of instruction” as well as “a concurrent weakness, namely the unit’s lack of dissenting or even affiliate voices.” They described the 1619 Project as “monistic.” That is some contrast with our curriculum!
Results are not in. Some right wing web site connected you to an organization I bet you never heard of before and know nothing about. Read 1619 Project before you slam it. Or would it make you too uncomfortable?
The New York Times has been awarded twice as many Pulitzers as second place Washington Post. They're pretty solid.
