Just in place where I feel it sucks to be the parent of black children.
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Anonymous
And your list is ignorant both of facts and rational thinking. "Genocidal racist police?" Get some data and some anxiety meds. |
Anonymous
We would welcome you to find some place that you like better. And learn your history, of both the Enlightenment and of the Revolution. It had little to do with actual taxes and lots to do with Radical Whig Theory. |
Anonymous
People who say things like this have little knowledge of what is being taught in schools. History classes have been quite focused on the failings of America toward minorities, women and other countries for several decades. In fact, so much so that young adults have little knowledge of the efforts of their country to expand rights and freedoms in ways that no other country had. That their very ability to speak and protest is due to the sacrifice of those racist Founders. Real history is definitely taught. People are objecting to the "anti-racist" ideas that white people today are responsible for and benefitting from the suffering of previous generations of Black people. And that somehow current minorities are both more virtuous and unable to be racist due to their skin color. And finally, that these ideas require a massive investment from society in equity reparations. These ideas, in a country whose only remaining cultural bind are the Founding documents that call for equality before the law, is a bridge too far. People know that dividing people by race will not lead to a better place. |
Anonymous
Hmmm... let us know where your community is redlining. I seem to recall that it violates federal law. |
Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
I hope that your PhD allows you to analyze the data that shows that most majority Black, failing, inner city schools are spending lots more than suburban schools per pupil, and that those areas are almost always governed by Democrats. Yes, there are underfunded rural schools with Blacks, but I presume you can also look at the research and find that academic achievement is unrelated to dollars spent. Expectations rather than dollars dictate achievement. And any type of teaching, using whatever semantic term you would like, that teaches kids that they are society's victims and that the achievement level of their cultural group has been dictated by outsiders, is harmful to those expectations. |
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To PP at 01:40, I wish I knew you.
I don’t argue that there are issues but falling into depression and equating a Republican Gov to abuse is over the top. Your children do deserve better and you need to help them strive for it. |
Anonymous
You cannot generalize about what is being taught in American schools. Yes, real history is being taught in some places, but certainly not in places with right-wing school boards, which cover much of the country. And where so-called "real" history is being taught, it's of recent enough vintage that many of today's adults were not privy to those "real" history lessons. Hell, many of them were raised on the Lost Cause narrative of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which was the mainstream take in this country well into the late 20th century. There is most certainly a project to make it more difficult for schools to teach the darker chapters, as exemplified by the moves to ban titles about civil rights heroes, etc. When the standard (as inscribed in legislation being pushed around the country) is we can't teach anything that makes any group feel bad, the real goal is a scrubbing of American history of anything but the heroic (even though the heroic and tragic are often inextricably linked). No. This is part of a long-term project to establish Patriotic Education such as that seen in the PRC. The parents that got riled up by so-called CRT were useful pawns in that enterprise, as were the wokie dokes of the day (i.e., Kendi and co.) who played the role of convenient foils that even most black folks could care less about. Classic strategy of misdirection that the GOP used (and will continue to use) to scare up votes, win elections, and then continue their effort to make it more difficult for black folks to vote (and/or easier to toss their votes out). That is the real material, practical outcome of all this. |
Anonymous
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PP here.
And by not antagonizing white folks (and Asian folks), I mean don't do dumb things like get rid of gifted programs, test-in magnet schools, or impose affirmative action-like schemes for such programs. |
Anonymous
Oh jeez. Lost Cause? No kid is taught that in school. No adult learned that in school. That's what you think you're fighting? Really? |
Anonymous
Uhh...yes, many living-breathing adults today were, in fact, raised on the Lost Cause narrative. Period. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/slavery-history-virginia-textbook/2020/07/31/d8571eda-d1f0-11ea-8c55-61e7fa5e82ab_story.html |
Anonymous
Keep on tilting at windmills. OP is showing you what the results of that look like. |
Anonymous
Nice deflection there. OP needs to handle her business for her kids’ sake, but that doesn’t justify baldly false statements like “No adult” was ever indoctrinated with the Lost Cause narrative. It’s not just false by patently, it’s utterly ahistorical because the Lost Cause narrative was the predominant narrative taught in American schools north and south for nearly 100 years, and well into the late 20th century. |
Anonymous
That writer was in 4th grade in 67. He's a Boomer. Do we really need to fight about what Boomers learned in grade school? We didn't learn that in 4th grade. Can we look at what our 4th graders are learning now? |
Anonymous
^^^ Adding, this is what progress looks like. You can look back and see how things were and look how things are currently and see the progress. You don't need to continue fighting the old fight because it is done. It is time to move on to different fights. Fighting about Boomers learning about the Lost Cause is not progress, it's denying progress. |