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July 21, 2020
This paradox is what it means for your culture to be invisible and visible at the same time.
Looking back now, I see my first year as a teacher was riddled with insecurities.
Ooof.
The field of education is anchored in White rage, especially public education.
Puerto Rico in 1898 and took over the country in what former president Ulysses S. Grant called “the most unjust war ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation,”
Need for class.
America to teach Puerto Rican children. Education is one of the primary tools used to maintain White supremacy and anti-immigrant hate.
You cannot discuss White supremacy without considering White rage.
“The trigger of White rage, inevitably, is Black advancement. It is not the mere presence of Black people that is the problem; rather it is Blackness with ambition, with drive, with purpose, with aspirations, and with demands for full and equal citizenship.”
According to reports, until at least 1959, a sign hung at the town’s line that read “Dogs and Negroes Not Welcomed.”15 Ocoee
Mose Norman and Julius “July” Perry, publicly encouraged Black folx to vote. Perry “encouraged young blacks to be educated and stand up for themselves as first-class citizens.”
As Black folx arrived at the polls on Election Day, they were met by a growing White mob. When the dust settled, sixty Black citizens had been killed and their property destroyed for having ambition, drive, and purpose: for mattering.
Perry was lynched for daring...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
Bring up for discussion post.
In 2008, Carolyn Bryant, speaking to Timothy B. Tyson for his book on Emmett’s death, admitted that Emmett never “grabbed her around the waist and uttered obscenities,” which she had asserted under oath on the witness stand.
“Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.”
superpredator.
Shade at Clinton
Backward-mapping Florida’s history of White rage, in conversation
Backwards-mapping
George Zimmerman was free to shoot and kill unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012. That
My formative years were riddled with injustice. I wonder if my students know about these earlier murders?
Less than a year after Trayvon’s murder, seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot and killed at a gas station in Florida for playing loud rap music and not obeying a White man’s command to turn his music down.
If we are honest, most dark suffering goes unnoticed by too many Americans, but
America’s educational history is overrun with dark suffering.
My role in the system. Bring light to dark.
This reality makes it difficult to digest the dark suffering that goes on in our schools because we want to believe that our schools can repair the sins of our nation.
First, the racist educational survival complex snatched Native American children away from their parents for religious and cultural conversion—nothing
short
of cultural and linguisti...
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W. E. B. Du Bois made a similar argument in 1935; he proclaimed, “Negro children needed neither segregated schools nor mixed schools. What they need is education.”
Educating Black children was viewed as the collective responsibility of the community.
White men and women make up more than 80 percent of the teaching force.
Many White teachers are by-products of White flight and White rage.
Many of these teachers are unaware of how their lily-White communities were established in and have upheld Whiteness.
hypersegregated schools are concentrated in the urban centers of Chicago, New York, Detroit, Boston, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh.
Did brown v board help or harm education?
the charter school movement.
successful charter schools push low-income dark families out of their own neighborhoods.
“no excuses” teaching approach of many charter schools around the country.
Charter school networks such as Success Academy and KIPP popularized aggressive, paternalistic, and racist ideological teaching practices on dark bodies.
The “no excuses” model is just another form of zero tolerance.
The study found that charter schools suspend Black students and students with disabilities at highly disproportionate rates compared with White and nondisabled students.
I was not educating myself yet.
In 2016, a group of education researchers sounded the alarm comparing charter schools to subprime mortgages.
Must read
Similarly, researchers point out that there is a charter school bubble growing too.
The push to open so many charter schools, when only 17 percent of them academically outperform public schools, is tied to profiting from dark suffering.
“education debt.”
Must research.
In October 2015,
I remember vividly.
“Look who’s leaving—all the Black people.” Not
I remember this too.
Her statement is a perfect example of how racist educators believe their actions outside the class in no way impact their classroom or school. She is “devastated” that her personal views could be seen as racist, but history confirms her racism.
Just mentioned this to Krystal.
Racist educators seldom take responsibility for their racist actions and believe the resulting situation is just a misunderstanding or a lack of cultural awareness; again, this denies dark people’s knowledge of how racism works, and we should know.
This atmosphere is no way to live or learn.
racism robs dark people of their humanity and dignity and leaves personal, psychological, and spiritual injuries.
Racism literally murders your spirit.
We must use all the analytic tools available to understand how our children are spirit-murdered and educated in a state of perpetual survival mode for the benefit of the educational survival complex.
What is the educational survival complex? I think this “survive not thrive.”
