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When teaching critical media analysis research and essay writing this year, I constructed a model w students based on how Dr. Martin Luther King is misrepresented to suggest he was all about love rather than justice in attempts to silence current protestors.
We read contemporary writers like Michael Harriot who explain the whitewashing of King’s legacy and contrasted it with resources often aimed at teachers that perpetuate the whitewashing. https://www.theroot.com/from-most-hated-to-american-hero-the-whitewashing-of-m-1824258876
The students I teach at an international school are overwhelmingly white and economically privileged. I know that I need to work hard to make sure that they’re equipped to understand the #BlackLivesMatter 
protests as part of a longer struggle for justice when /
protests as part of a longer struggle for justice when /
... so many of the influencers and algorithms that target them say that ‘intersectionality’ & ‘social justice warriors’ should be mocked.
I make sure to show them Kimberlé Crenshaw so they know that Black women are targets of police violence. https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
I make sure to show them Kimberlé Crenshaw so they know that Black women are targets of police violence. https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality
If you walk through schools w white privilege, it’s time to take account of all your choices.
Who influences you?
I’ve been pretty vocal in criticism of educelebs who try to make their timelines ‘apolitical’, and by extension, our classrooms ‘apolitical’.
Who influences you?
I’ve been pretty vocal in criticism of educelebs who try to make their timelines ‘apolitical’, and by extension, our classrooms ‘apolitical’.
Many educelebs who are silent now about #BlackLivesMatter we’re silent about Covid 19 until they could market their products around it. A pandemic fits comfortably into their techsolutionist view of being future ready in a way that white supremacist police violence doesn’t.
we’re silent about Covid 19 until they could market their products around it. A pandemic fits comfortably into their techsolutionist view of being future ready in a way that white supremacist police violence doesn’t.
If some of these educelebs catch on and start supporting #BlackLivesMatter , make sure to ask about who they credit with helping them learn. Ask about where Black voices were when they were writing all their books that site Thomas Friedman and white tech bros.
, make sure to ask about who they credit with helping them learn. Ask about where Black voices were when they were writing all their books that site Thomas Friedman and white tech bros.
A few tweets shouldn’t fix reputations of educelebs who’ve had more than enough years to learn to do better.
The *least* we can be do as Ts is to name the white supremacy that shapes so much of schools & to recognise & love the Black people who’ve been saying this for so long.
The *least* we can be do as Ts is to name the white supremacy that shapes so much of schools & to recognise & love the Black people who’ve been saying this for so long.
I write this all as a Oneida person who gets coded white and it’s important for me to foreground the anti-Black racism that many Indigenous and other people of color can perpetuate and benefit from.
