What's not uttered: the approaching nightmare of 2050!
I've spend sleepless nights concerned about the generations of black American children subjected to expressions of white supremacy. How many black Americans have been forced fed the benefits of Western civilization, with little insertion about the former colonized, the conquered, the enslaved. Without a mention about how the former colonized and conquered and enslaved came to be citizens of Western nations?
How uncomfortable were my ancestors at the bottom of those ships? Laboring as someone's property, their "pet," as Anderson points out, little black children serving as "pets." Where these children not uncomfortable, too?
I try not to fall asleep with the image of Senator Tom Cotton and his campaign to secure those freedoms against the unsafe and unpatriotic history that black people insist on promoting as American history. language in our classrooms. For Cotton, Americans must save America by supporting his Saving American History Act. How can America go wrong with school curriculum that ignore how the struggles of people of color against tyranny of the fearful represent the best of America?
In twenty states, the hateful talk of race is in the process of being prohibited. In Idaho, Rhode Island and Texas, according to CBS News, "any discussion of privilege and white supremacy" is banned. EdWeek reports that in Arkansas, Iowa, and Mississippi, Republican legislators are also working to ban the teaching of the 1619 Project wrongly linked, as I said earlier, to the teaching of a graduate level Critical Race Theory in law schools.
Journalist Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes that these bills are intended to "establish a protection halo around white students, so that they do not hear that their success might have something to do with their race, or that the structures of racial power and privilege in the past also apply to the present."
Safety. Democracy for the white males. Ultimately, the wealthy. Just like in the old days...
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If he hadn't mentioned that license gun. That's the question. Would the encounter between Minnesota Police Office Jeronimo Yanez have resulted in the death of Philando Castile ? In The Second: Race and Guns in A Fatally Unequal America, African American Studies professor Carol Anderson argues that Castile, a black American, made the fatal mistake of announcing to the officer that he had a gun. Seconds later, Castile is dead.
It's not the gun alone, Anderson argues. Castile is a black American with a gun!
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