You know the America I grew up in, truth was part of education. It was not the fantasy world MAGATS live in.
“You guys have a serious problem with activist teachers pushing politics in the classroom, and there’s no place for it, especially for our fifth graders,” Karen England, the group’s executive director, told trustees Tuesday.
On the other side of the entrance, students, parents and teachers wore green T-shirts and carried signs with slogans including “Amplify Student Voices” to signify support for “(Washoe) County School District Students for Change,” a group that has pushed for curriculum additions.
“Body cameras for cops not so much. Body cameras for teachers to prevent them from educating on the white patriarchy’s misdeeds, yes, please.”
Another disturbing trend is that all across the country preachers have gotten behind the bans of Critical Race Theory.
It seems they have invented the 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Seek Accountability Against Bigots.
This is becoming a Christian cause celebre which is getting at the heart of the matter rather quickly.
For example, surveys conducted by PRRI in 2018 found that white Christians — including evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics — are nearly twice as likely as religiously unaffiliated whites to say the killings of Black men by police are isolated incidents rather than part of a pattern of how police treat African Americans.
And white Christians are about 30 percentage points more likely to say monuments to Confederate soldiers are symbols of Southern pride rather than symbols of racism. White Christians are also about 20 percentage points more likely to disagree with this statement: "Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for Blacks to work their way out of the lower class." And these trends generally persist even in the wake of the recent protests for racial justice.
Some of the most devout Christians in the United States are black. So the idea that Christianity itself is a white man’s lane is erroneous. The problem is many whites-many use Christianity as a socio-cudgel tool to separate the so called good from the bad, which in their minds, is usually people of color. But they are not racist. Of course not.
And the media, the local news robots who call everything a debate, or “hot button topic” instead of just saying, “These a-----— just need to shut the f-— up” is not helping either. They want to give credence to every viewpoint no matter how depraved. Because that is how they straddle the line and keep getting ratings and clicks, they are not lilely to change. In Peoria, AZ the movement led to quotes like this:
“I’m a parent, and I want our kids to have an education again, where its based on academics and not values and socio-emotional learning.”
-Heather Rooks
I am not sure why values and social development are not part of an education. Perhaps because those would impart truth and elicit a movement towards accountability rather burying one’s head in the sand. But these parents are advocating for a world where our racist past is ignored, not taken into consideration, and deleted from the minds of children who truly need to know how their parents went off the rails, and how not-
to derail their own train.
-ROC
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