Textbooks With Racist Agendas
As far as education goes, one of the goals of Black Liberation Theology is to teach its' version of Afro-centric history to all youth.
It's already being initiated on young, eighth grade school children in Oregon.
School Program Looks at Oregon's Racial History
Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:51 PM PDT
by The Associated Press
[...] the district didn't seek a curriculum dealing with racism but found that "Beyond the Oregon Trail" met the goals of seeing history in a different way.
The concept was created by Oregon Uniting, a community group that worked to initiate dialogue about race in Oregon. The group received a grant to create a curriculum to help students better understand Oregon's racial past.
The school district didn't seek out this curriculum, it was presented to them, sight unseen, by Oregon Uniting in partnership with the Understanding Racism Foundation.
Text Fills in History of Oregon's Racist Acts
Education - Portland Public Schools May Add the Book to the New Social Studies Curriculum for Eighth-Graders
Understanding Racism Foundation and Oregon UnitingOne parent expressed concern about the text. "When I read about the adoption, it seemed to be revisionist in nature and nontraditional," John Elsener said. "I would have a hard time with my sons being exposed to that without vetting the material myself."
Other parents spoke out against the district's decision to adopt a new curriculum. They asked the district instead to spend its time and dollars reinvigorating libraries, completing the K-8 reconfiguration and analyzing the effect and efficacy of last year's curriculum adoptions.
Understanding Racism Foundation
The Understanding Racism Foundation was inspired by the response to issues identified by the Oregon State Supreme Court Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Issues in the Judicial System. Since it's formation, the Foundation has developed a unique curriculum and conducted courses for hundreds of participants throughout Western Oregon. The classes are 90 minutes long and meet once a week for six successive weeks. The Understanding Racism Foundation believes that the root cause of racial discrimination in the United States is the conduct of white people. In large part, the discriminatory conduct is unintentional, not overt; subconscious, not conscious.
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The beliefs and behaviors that our culture developed to support economic racial dominance are complex and often unconscious. UUF dialogue participants have found that by examining where we are and how we got here, we become freer to move on.
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Our meetings are based on the premise that true understanding of one's innermost prejudices and biases comes with (a) honest thinking about the problem over a period of time, (b) forthright discussions with others, and (c) an exposure to selected readings, videotapes and other materials that are designed to awaken awareness. We believe that one-shot cultural diversity training sessions--however good they make the participants feel--are not effective in reaching the core area of racial discrimination--the subconscious biases that exist in most of us.
Twelve and thirteen year olds have prejudices and biases ingrained in their innermost beings? That's a stretch to get a statewide agenda of indoctrination up and running.
This "group, " Understanding Racism, assumes everyone, no matter their age, is prejudice and racist if they are white. It's part of the white make-up. These are also the teachings of Black Liberation Theology and the beliefs of Barack Obama.
"In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds - by investing in our schools and our communities; by enforcing our civil rights laws and ensuring fairness in our criminal justice system; by providing this generation with ladders of opportunity that were unavailable for previous generations." - Barack Obama, "A More Perfect Union" Speech, 18Mar08
There's something very wrong with teaching from this illogical and irrational premise. That the government of Oregon (and who knows where else) has accepted this curriculum despite the obvious indoctrination and propaganda methodology is unbelievable.
Twenty-First NBUF Convention and African Centered Education
Over the last fifteen years NBUF has been at the forefront of the African Centered Education Movement.
The attacks by the white supremacist defenders of western civilization, against the African Centered Education Movement, should not deter our determination to seek the truth, and teach the truth, in all subjects regarding the contributions of African people to the world.
The entire platform of the NBUF is based on living in the role of the victim and living in the past as though it were present day - completely ignoring the huge strides and advancements made that have enriched the lives of everyone in the past forty years. Very Jeremiah Wright-ist.
Where is the "watchdog" group ensuring textbooks of racist propaganda do not make it into America's classrooms, especially those classrooms of children whose ages are still in the single digits - indoctrination at its' worst.
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