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“model minority,”
mob lynching in 1871 of twenty-two Chinese men.
Compare contrast with Tulsa.
In the world of grit, the ideas of love, kindness, thoughtfulness, courage, honesty, integrity, and justice are rarely discussed,
“altruistic purpose is not an absolute requirement of grit.”
She argues that grit depends largely on hope:
Grit relies on hope.
This statement does not reflect and is out of touch with the real world and what it means to be dark, poor, and surviving.
Response to grit-hope.
Protecting children’s potential is not an easy lift, and it cannot be done
episodically. My protectors were not just people
There is only a village, a community, and a goal: protecting children’s potential. My homeplace.
Mantra. Protect my homeplace.
we need to focus on the little dark girls and boys whom no one protects because they cannot put a ball through a hoop, lay someone out on the football field, or become a successful rapper or singer.
in the social-psychological theory of “system justification,” which explains how humans believe, defend, and rationalize the status quo because they see social,
economic, and political systems as fair and legitimate.
EDUCATION CAN’T SAVE US. WE HAVE TO SAVE EDUCATION.
Abolitionist teaching is teachers taking back their schools, classroom by classroom, student by student, parent by parent, and school community by school community.
Ella Baker once said that the “reduction of injustice is not the same as freedom.”
The ultimate goal of abolitionist teaching is freedom.
Abolitionist teachers fight for children they will never meet or see, because they are visionaries.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, Texas slaveholders forced enslaved Black folx to remain in bondage for two and a half
until June 19, 1865,
Juneteenth.
empowering new systems of justice. History tells them, and us, that if we just change, adjust, or even eradicate one piece of the oppressive hydra, such as the prison-industrial complex or educational survival complex, another piece will grow in its place.
the achievement gap is a fallacy of educational improvement.
It is about the “education debt” that has accumulated over time due to the educational survival complex.
New teachers walk into classrooms believing that inner-city schools cannot have a strong community, caring parents, and brilliant dark children.
A similar fear my family and peers have.
The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry, the first Black soldiers allowed to fight in the Civil War,
they refused their wages in protest because they were paid less than White soldiers.
Lewis Hayden kept two kegs of gunpowder by the entryway of his home because he would rather have blown up his home than let a slave-catcher remove anyone from his property.
However, the movement was polluted with racism. Stanton and Anthony proclaimed that White women deserved the vote before Black women.
The fight for justice has to be intersectional.
Tom Feelings, author of the book The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo,
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