Dr. Umar Johnson -- Education Issues and Ideas, and the Pitch for Homeschooling

[ancianita]

Last edited Mon Apr 26, 2021, 10:35 AM - Edit history (1)

Takeaway: Can home schooling solve public school problems? Yes, if parents reimagine themselves enough to become full time teachers and masters of planning, instruction and outcome measures for at least four subjects. Simple.

Way better:

https://www.facebook.com/shayla.jackson.9212/videos/2054877201210076



The system broken, the school's closed, the prisons open
We ain't got nothing' to lose, ma' fucka', we rolling
Huh? Ma'fucka', we rollin'
With some light-skinned girls and some Kelly Rowlands
In this white man's world, we the ones chosen
So goodnight, cruel world, I see you in the mornin'
Huh? I'll see you in the mornin'
This is way too much, I need a moment ...

Kanye West, "Power"

[Claire Oh Nette]

1. Exhibit 1

Look no further than Madison Cawthorn from NC for what a good homeschooling education gets you.

Straight Ds at community college.
He's ignorant, juvenile, and completely lacking any understanding of his actual job.

Home schooling = I'm keeping my perfect little White Christian child away from all those park dwelling dark people.

The GOP has already underfunded education and forced a narrowing of the curriculum to cover tests that measure affluence level of zip codes.

[ancianita]

2. Totally. If I were black, however, I'd give this some thought, though he undermines its

feasibility by admitting that the folks who need it most are least able, in time and capacity, to really do it -- and of course, that's by design, too.

Mostly I wanted people to see a popular Black figure who appears on The Breakfast Club and speaks at conferences. His framing of the designed oppression of Black people from the 70's through the oughties is excellent. This I picked up today on FB today from one of my former students...

https://www.facebook.com/shayla.jackson.9212/videos/2054877201210076

[Claire Oh Nette]

3. Wow...

The GOP is real quick to blame all of society's ills on the single mother raising children without fathers. Of course, there are plenty of white single mothers raising children without fathers around.

Economic policy systematically strips Black men of earning power and skills, sends them to college but refuses to hire them, then blames Black society because the men can't afford to feed their families.


This is staggering. I knew the 70s began the stagnation of middle and working class wages which accelerated with the destruction of the unions in the 80s, but I had no idea how insidiously racist off shoring and moving to service economy was.

Thanks.

[ancianita]

4. Right?? I take it you saw the FB video.

We didn't exactly know during all that time that the overall goal was to bring down the only people the white supremacists in power couldn't deport, but now that I see those decades from a Black scholar's perspective, and given how the past trumpcult years have shown their "replacement" fear and hate, I buy into Johnson's version of history.

I've taught African American literature and history, which most white people have no clue about, and realize that when a new American history is written, Black History should be its framing. As goes the future of Black Americans, so goes the future of America.

Thank you for your thoughts!

[Claire Oh Nette]

5. Black History is American History. n/t