Posted on 02/06/2018 3:24:21 PM PST by markomalley
Why would a school district choose a social activism group and ask their kids to support it? Instead of just observing black history month for February, Prince George's County schools in Maryland are going all-in and supporting activist group Black Lives Matter this week, reports Fox 5 DC. Students will have opportunities before, during, and after school for activities and discussions and are being encouraged, for example, to wear all black.
Some support the idea and others don't. Joshua Omolola, a Parkdale High School student said "We start this conversation in schools because for many people and for many students, this is community. This is where you learn and where you talk to your peers. Maybe your professors and advisor that are going to advise you later on in life. So school is the most appropriate place to have these conversations.”
An African-American teacher who wished to remain anonymous said:
"I'm uncomfortable because I don't believe in their thirteen principles – and I'm an African American. But I don't believe in their cause. I don't particularly want to try and teach anybody about their thirteen principles because I don't believe in their thirteen principles. I'm also a parent, and my children go to Prince George's County Public School, and I don't want a teacher trying to teach my children about Black Lives Matter.”
The school board said that they will consider weeks of action for other organizations which encourage tolerance, equity (not equality, equity) and social justice. Is that really what BLM stands for, though? The movement came to be in Ferguson, Missouri, after a police officer shot and killed a black man. They have been selling a story of murder, when it was really a question of self-defense, as borne out by all of the evidence, even an independent autopsy. "Hands up, don't shoot" didn't happen. That didn't stop Ferguson from erupting into violent riots that destroyed livelihoods.
Since then, BLM has supported violence or been violent time and time again. The FBI considers them a security threat. This is not an organization that needs to be celebrated in schools on the taxpayers' dime.
Please pray for the tiny minority of white students that still attend PG schools (about 6,000 out of 125,000), particularly high schools. I have a feeling that February will be far more dangerous than most months there.
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I support Black Lives Matter Week at school. I do.
So much so, that I personally will buy the Skittles and Purple Drank for all the hoodrats. Er, I mean chillren.
(Your welcome)
Talk about being the lead story on MSLSD for weeks!
Yep, it’s embarrassing. I am Executive Vice Chairman of the County’s Republican Central Committee. This was a surprise to us.
Racist cop-killer week?
BLM didn’t matter yesterday when a student was shot and killed at Oxon Hill HS, nor today, when a student was stabbed at the HS in Riverdale (although the last one might be illegal alien gangs). PG County schools are off to a rough start this year, especially since it came out that lots of kids, upwards of 90% in a few schools, were graduated after teachers and administrators altered grades and attendance in their favor.
I read that when court ordered busing began in Prince George’s County in 1973, that the student population was about 74% white and about 26% black at that time.
So now only about 5% are white?
Sort of off topic, but do busing and other integration programs accomplish anything, if the result is that almost all white students leave the school system?
As a graduate of PG County public schools this makes me sad. Not surprised, but sad.
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Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed
"It is curious that blacks, the least educated thirteen percent of the population, the least productive,
most criminal, and most dependent on governmental charity, should dominate national politics."
"Yet they do.
Virtually everything revolves around what blacks want, demand, do, or can't do.
Their power seems without limit.
Courses of instruction in the schools, academic rigor, codes of dress, rules regarding unceasing obscenity, all must be set
to suit them, as must be examinations for promotion in fire departments, the military, and police forces.
Blacks must be admitted to universities for which they are not remotely qualified,
where departments of Black Studies must be established to please them.
Corporate work forces, federal departments, and elite high-schools must be judged not on whether they perform their functions
Do laws requiring identification to vote threaten to end multiple voting?
The laws must go.
Do blacks not like Confederate flags?
Adieu, flags.
Does Huckleberry Finn go down the Mississippi with the Nigger Jim, or Conrad write The Nigger of the Narcissus?
These must be banned or expurgated to please blacks who haven’t read them or, usually, heard of them.
Do we want to prevent people coming from regions infested with Ebola from entering the United States?
We cannot. - It would offend blacks.
We must never, ever say or do anything that might upset them, as virtually everything does.
It is positively astonishing.
One expects the rich and smart to have disproportionate power. But America is dominated from the slums."
READ MORE HERE:
https://fredoneverything.org/black-power/
do busing and other integration programs accomplish anything, if the result is that almost all white students leave the school system?
Uh, because Soros is paying them to?
Another move by the Prince George’s County School system toward non-excellence.
Open, blatant racism in public schools but just like affirmative action, if it supports dark skinned humans, it is legal. If it is supports light skinned humans, it is illegal.
This is where we are in our rule of law society, folks. We must fight back.
JoMa
And they were already well on the way to non-excellence.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Given PG is basically Black Co now, this is not shocking.
And I hate Environmental Week (every other month) at Catholic school.
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