{"id":13265,"date":"2019-09-13T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13265"},"modified":"2019-09-13T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:13:19","slug":"black-lives-matter-comes-to-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/black-lives-matter-comes-to-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Comes to the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Activists bring the movement\u2019s spirit and ideology into a growing number of secondary and even elementary schools. <\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CJ – (from the magazine)<\/strong>, by Peter C. Myers, <\/a>Summer 2019<\/a> , Education<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Lives Matter, though less prominent in the headlines of late, continues to be quite a growth story. What began in 2013 as a hashtag propagated by a few activists and academics rapidly grew into a nationwide protest movement and then into an institutional establishment, with local chapters around the U.S. and even a few abroad. With lavish funding and generally supportive media attention, the BLM network has become the progressive Left\u2019s primary organ of antiracism activism. Now it seeks to sustain and expand upon that success. In its most ambitious venture yet, the group has moved beyond the streets and into the nation\u2019s public schools. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… Among BLM\u2019s 13 principles, for instance, are various commitments to intersectionality\u2014that is, the focus on overlapping categories of racial, gender, or sexual victimization. BLM dedicates itself to dismantling \u201ccisgender privilege,\u201d \u201cfreeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking,\u201d and \u201cdisrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement.\u201d The Starter Kit section on teaching young children declares: \u201cEverybody has the right to choose their own gender by listening to their own heart and mind. Everybody gets to choose if they are a girl or a boy or both or neither or something else, and no one else gets to choose for them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BLM\u2019s teaching about race is no less radical. The first sentence of the introduction to the Teaching for Black Lives textbook reads: \u201cBlack students\u2019 minds and bodies are under attack.\u201d Anecdotes of abusive treatment follow, preparing the central thrust of the BLM-at-school pedagogy: \u201cThe school-to-prison-pipeline is a major contributor to the overall epidemic of police violence and mass incarceration that functions as one of sharpest edges of structural racism in the United States.\u201d The stoking of readers\u2019 anger continues with this distorted characterization of the galvanizing event for BLM\u2019s street protests: \u201cIn August of 2014, Michael Brown was killed in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, his body left in the streets for hours as a reminder to the Black residents in the neighborhood that their lives are meaningless to the American Empire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instances of such incendiary rhetoric recur in the recommended instructional materials. The animating idea throughout is that African-Americans, intersecting with a familiar roster of other aggrieved identity groups, face systemic oppression, as they always have in America\u2014even today, 50 years into the post\u2013civil rights era. For all such groups and their \u201callies,\u201d the proper relation to society must therefore be one of opposition, and a primary function of the education system must be to instruct students in the rationale, means, and ends of resistance\u2014the more radical, the better.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/black-lives-matter-in-the-classroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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