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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Btw PP, you are trying to argue that books with White authors should account for 88% of the MCPS curriculum in a school system that is 25% White. Do you not see how you are upholding White supremacy?[/quote]

Yes, I am saying that this country, with its foundations in the Enlightenment and the English language, will by necessity need to teach from that heritage if it expects people to value the things that made it successful.[/quote]

I would like my kids to learn about things that made this country successful, but also about areas where it wasn't so successful.[/quote]

The only people saying this needs to be an either/or decision are the people saying we should excise all white people from the curriculum. No one advocating that kids learn about Thomas Paine and John Locke are saying kids shouldn’t also learn about Frederick Douglass and Ralph Ellison.[/quote]

This was in reference to a PP's agreeing with "White authors should account for 88% of the MCPS curriculum."[/quote]

Wouldn't it be better if they focused less on an author's race and more on a book's content?[/quote]

THIS

Focusing on the race of the author is dumb and useless.  [/quote]

I find this idea of classifying something as white literature as if all white authors are the same kind of racist.[/quote]

Black literature is categorized as such all the time. You just find it offensive when White literature is marked as such, because you think of Whiteness as the standard and everything else as different/other.[/quote]

Not the PP but I find both offensive since they encourage judging people based solely on their race instead of ideas.[/quote]

Color blindness is not antiracist. People know when they are reading a White author's book just like they know they are watching a White writer's movie. They just don't label it as such. Do you really read James Baldwin and think race doesn't matter, that his race doesn't matter? No you pay yourself on the back for reading a Black book. Let's stop pretending we are colorblind when the only color we are "blind" to is White.[/quote]

As long as people are so focused on just race, racism will persist. [/quote]

No, racism persists because the impacts of explicit discrimination from the past (slavery, redlining, etc) affect people,'s wealth today dramatically, and because people today treat Black people worse than White people in almost every sector (health, education, the job market) in ways that are well documented if you bother to educate yourself.[/quote]

Exactly and that stems from people who are focused on just race! [/quote]
There is more hate and distrust happening today than ever. Why? Because culture wars have become such a hot topic that everyone has to tiptoe around everyone to not risk offense. It's ridiculous. we cancel certain books that offend but fight to keep certain books alive that also offend. we all need to take a chill pill and stop blaming the past for eternity. I work in a minority majority office with several POC in senior positions. I know most companies are doing what they can to embrace diversity. is t that enough? We cant fix every issue out there and some aren't even fixable by outside influences. yet we keep spinning our wheels trying as we dig ourselves deeper and deeper into a position where we cant get out.
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