I’m not sure how I missed this last year, but kudos to The Dispatch for flagging this lunacy as a prime example of how “anti-racism” wokeness is poisoning education. We’ve written about some of the madness, including stifling “woke” cultures at elite private schools, and some activists’ efforts to inject identity politics into math. But this concession to the mob by a group of charter schools is about as cartoonishly illustrative of the problem as it gets. The insane ideologues are winning, and this is what their “victories” look like:
It’s more accurate to say that anti-racist education means something very different from what most observers bargained for. Last summer, the famed KIPP charter schools announced they’d be abandoning their longtime slogan: “Work Hard, Be Nice.” Why? The announcement explained: “The slogan passively supports ongoing efforts to pacify and control Black and Brown bodies in order to better condition them to be compliant and further reproduce current social norms that center whiteness and meritocracy as normal.” Those unfamiliar with anti-racist dogma are frequently surprised to see it invoked in this kind of assault on foundational virtues. They tend to presume that such instances are outliers. Unfortunately, it’s more accurate to say that KIPP’s move was a telling snapshot of contemporary anti-racist education in practice.
This Racist bullshhht does NOT worry me or anyone else Who is White in OUR Country !!! Broken Record
It’s also considered racist to tell someone – “no, you can’t axe me a question – you can ask though!”
Blacks ridicule each other if they act half decent…………they tell them they are trying to act White. Does acting White mean showing a little respect for others and not using foul language for all the little kids to hear and not looting the nearest liquor store every time something doesn’t go their way? You know, stuff like that……….any thing acting black.