{"id":21055,"date":"2024-09-12T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=21055"},"modified":"2024-09-12T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T22:30:45","slug":"quick-takes-anti-racism-in-the-schools-whites-only-workshops-blaming-jim-crow-radical-ap-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/09\/12\/quick-takes-anti-racism-in-the-schools-whites-only-workshops-blaming-jim-crow-radical-ap-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Anti-Racism In The Schools: Whites-Only Workshops; Blaming Jim Crow; Radical AP Exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: History is all about blaming the designated oppressor, dontchaknow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ond4Wp9nPhM?si=3mG0cT2c9FrtzUgC\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2827\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil.jpg 361w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Remember, segregation is good when it involves <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/woke-or-kkk-nyu-hosts-whites-only-antiracism-workshop-for-public-school-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-educating icky White people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNew York University hosted a whites-only \u2018anti-racism\u2019 workshop for public school parents in New York City, barring minorities from a five-months-long seminar that legal experts say was a brazen violation of civil rights law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe all-white seminar, \u2018From Integration to Anti-Racism,\u2019 cost $360 to attend and met six times between February and June, according to a description of the program that has since been scrubbed from the university\u2019s website without explanation. Organized by NYU\u2019s Steinhardt School of Education, the workshop was \u2018designed specifically for white public school parents\u2019 committed to \u2018becoming anti-racist\u2019 and building \u2018multiracial parent communities.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut to promote solidarity with all races, participants were told, it was necessary that the seminar include only one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It couldn\u2019t be incompetent woke teachers or woke pedagogy that\u2019s to blame for underperforming minority students! It must be due to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/09\/01\/news20240901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s unsurprising that Evanston is experiencing the same struggles with underperforming schoolchildren \u2014 primarily black and Latino children from low-income households \u2014 besetting most other public schools across the country. (The State of New York recently floated the shameful idea of making its Regents Exams, passage of which is mandatory for a high-school diploma, optional instead.) How to respond? Perhaps a rigorous reform is in order, not only of the curriculum but of the teachers tasked with delivering that curriculum to the kids. Maybe they could try bold solutions like banning all cellphones at school, as the Washington Post editorial board advocated Saturday in a rare fit of good sense. At the very least, perhaps inflicting more \u201cColorism Privilege Walks\u201d on the white public-school students would lower the overall curve through demoralization, even if it doesn\u2019t improve anyone\u2019s scores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd of course, the Evanston School Board, having already once approved the last-named option, has decided instead to raise the stakes: According to the Wall Street Journal, the board members have thought it through carefully and \u2014 in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion \u2014 are going to give segregation a shot again. Don\u2019t worry, though \u2014 this time it\u2019ll be good. These are not your old, nasty, Fifties \u2018Jim Crow\u2019 segregated classes, mind you. No, these are refined, sensitively modern \u2018Affinity Classes,\u2019 an idea first tried in the San Francisco Bay Area\u2019s public schools (the true hallmark of a quality educational idea). They are purely voluntary and \u2018designed to address the achievement gap by making students feel more comfortable in class.\u2019 As one administrator puts it, \u2018A lot of times within our education system, black students are expected to conform to a white standard. . . . In our spaces, you don\u2019t have to shed one ounce of yourself because everything about our space is rooted in blackness.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And what kids are being taught, especially the smarter ones, is distilled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/ap-african-american-studies-is-still-radical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racialized social Marxism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAfter researching the intellectual affiliations of both the recommended authors and the pilot course\u2019s designers, I argued in late 2022 that the perspective guiding the design of the pilot course was largely that of the historian Robin D. G. Kelley, a student and follower of Cedric Robinson, author of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cRobinson identified a black radical political tradition generally ignored or downplayed by conventional historians. He found in that tradition a model for the revolutionary transformation of American society, and the world. In particular, he spun out a theory of \u2018racial capitalism,\u2019 which brought race into the heart of Marx\u2019s economic theory. Robinson\u2019s contention was that the oppression of non-whites would never be lifted without the destruction of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cKelley, especially in his most influential book, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002), picked up where Robinson had left off. That book traced the history of black radicals, Marxists, Maoists, and assorted communist splinter groups through much of the 20th century. In particular, Kelley challenged the traditional view that the Black Power movement of the late 1960s emerged out of frustration with the failures and limitations of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s nonviolent civil-rights movement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cKelley argued instead that a black tradition favoring violent revolution existed before and during the mainstream civil-rights movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. That radical stream, Kelley argued, could only be fully comprehended if attention was paid not simply to events in America but to the anti-colonial movements and communist revolutions of the Third World. Kelley\u2019s perspective, I argue, continues to govern the revised APAAS curriculum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlthough it\u2019s supposed to be a course in African-American studies, the final unit of the pilot and the revised course begins not with the modern American civil-rights movement but with the international anti-colonial movement in its most radical form. In the pilot program, that meant reading selections from Frantz Fanon, who famously celebrated the healing power of anti-colonial violence and rejected the United States as \u2018a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" align=\"center\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Anti-Racism In The Schools: Whites-Only Workshops; Blaming Jim Crow; Radical AP Exams\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: History is all about blaming the designated oppressor, dontchaknow.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/commie_pencil.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: History is all about blaming the designated oppressor, dontchaknow. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/09\/12\/quick-takes-anti-racism-in-the-schools-whites-only-workshops-blaming-jim-crow-radical-ap-exams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[24,42,69,48],"class_list":["post-21055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21057,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21055\/revisions\/21057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}