Posted on 05/27/2014 2:17:51 AM PDT by markomalley
What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that “white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have an advantage in a lot of things and they can get a job more easily”? You would have heard that at the recent 15th annual White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, attended by 2,500 public-school teachers, administrators and students from across the nation (http://tinyurl.com/lkoqj9b).
The average parent has no idea of the devious indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. What follows are some of the lessons of the conference.
In one of the workshops, “Examining White Privilege and Building Foundations for Social Justice Thinking in the Elementary Classroom,” educators Rosemary Colt and Diana Reeves told how teachers can “insert social justice, anti-racist information” into their lessons that “even little kids” can understand.
Kim Radersma, a former high-school English teacher, hosted a session titled “Stories from the front lines of education: Confessions of a white, high school English teacher.” She said that teaching is a purely political act and that neutral people should “get the f—- out of education.” (http://tinyurl.com/q5adt2d). She also explained: “Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being an alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the metaphor. I have to every day wake up and acknowledge that I am so deeply embedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body that I have to choose every day to do anti-racist work and think in an anti-racist way” (http://tinyurl.com/q4z969q).
But the propaganda and lunacy go even deeper. Jacqueline Battalora, professor of sociology and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University, informed conference participants that “white people did not exist before 1681. Again, white people did not exist on planet earth until 1681″ (http://tinyurl.com/lkoqj9b). That’s truly incredible. If Professor Battalora is correct, how are we to identify William Shakespeare (1564), Sir Isaac Newton (1642), John Locke (1632), Leonardo da Vinci (1452) and especially dear Plato (428 B.C.)? Were these men people of color, or did they not exist?
John A. Powell, a University of California, Berkeley law professor, told his audience, “And right now, I’m going to suggest to you that race is driving almost everything that’s happening in the country.” He explained the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans by saying, “They took money away from protecting the levees because the levees were protecting black people.”
Stephanie Baran’s message to conference participants was that capitalism is the cause of racism in the world today. This adjunct professor at Kankakee Community College, who calls herself a vulgar Marxist, added that racism was invented in Colonial America by white capitalists as a tool to divide labor and keep the working class in their place.
Educator Paul Kivel explained what he sees as Christian hegemony, saying, “Very simply, I define it as the everyday pervasive, deep-seated and institutionalized dominance of Christian values, Christian institutions, leaders and Christians as a group, primarily for the benefit of Christian ruling elites.”
Speaker Leonard Zeskind, citing work done by the MacIver Institute, explained that “the longer you are in the tea party the more racist you become.” He added, “Parents put their kids in private schools because they’re racist.”
University of Iowa Professor Adrien Wing gave some of her observations about white privilege, asking, “Does having a black president change that? Has it changed that? Unfortunately, it hasn’t. … (President Obama) ends up being the front man for the system. … He works for the master of the system of white privilege.”
I can’t imagine people being stupid enough to believe all that was said at the White Privilege Conference. There’s something else at work. I think it’s white guilt. That’s why, for almost three decades, there has appeared on my website a certificate of amnesty and pardon that I’ve granted to Americans of European ancestry in the hope that they stop feeling guilty and stop acting like fools (http://tinyurl.com/opd8vgd).
The Civil War, wasn’t.
It was the second war for independence, and it failed.
I wish I could run into this dope just so I could laugh in her face.
I was born in Madison & raised in Middleton.
My brother doesn’t understand why I don’t want to move back there.
The recently formed Republicans Party (Anti-Slavery) won the majority in both houses of Congress and the Presidency in 1860 after huge gains in the 1856 election. All Republicans were from states other than those that became part of the Confederacy. The South chose to secede believing the Radical Republicans would strangle their states rights, economic (e.g., tariffs) and socially (right to hold slaves) leaving the Abolitionists (and a somewhat more conservative Lincoln) in control of the government. Almost immediately Lincoln and the Radical Republicans (majority) embarked upon emancipation legislation and continued it throughout the Civil War and thereafter. The Radical Republicans did not loose control of the Congress and Presidency for decades, except for a short time when Andrew Johnson succeed Lincoln.
During the 1864 presidential election Lincoln received a majority of the military vote, though the aggregate numbers were not great.
You forgot the ‘grill’ in their mouth, and their tattoos.
Well, you could always go to a lecture, and then laugh out loud at her comments.
If the North had fought the Civil War to free slaves it would have been a just war.
...and if the Confederates hadn’t shelled Fort Sumter, providing Lincoln with the very spark he needed to mobilize for war, how different might things have turned out...
...when examining war, look to see who struck the first actual blow...
That was a dumb move.
I used to wonder how entire nations could apparently go collectively insane, always with catastrophic consequences for that nation and others around it.
Today I am watching it happen.
Any teacher who by design attempts to make children resent their skin color is a BIGOT and should be banned from the profession.
Maybe Christianity works so well because... its core assertions are TRUE????
But be prepared to explain what qualifies as an "actual" blow. If you're taking aimed fire, then you might safely suspect that there is some reasoning behind it.
In this case, the lead-up was the actions of Major Anderson in spiking the guns of Fort Moultrie and then moving his command to Fort Sumter, where he could cut off the ship channel into Charleston. When Lincoln moved to resupply rather than withdraw him, that maybe wasn't an "actual" blow, but it was definitely a threat.
Lincoln was a lawyer, and he knew how to gain the upper hand in the eyes of a jury.
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