The Woke Generation - Fighting Back

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I find it hard to believe white kids would feel "damaged" learning American history?

What I see is a campaign to convince nonracists that they are racists. If you are not racist and keep on reading by "experts" how you really are a racist but can't realize it. That pretty much everything you do, even the most innocuous things you do is an example of perpetuating systematic racism, unless you have a strong constitution and understanding of yourself you are going to believe the accusation.

Oh are we just talking about white kids? What race are the kids parents feel will be damaged? But also, I read that parents are feeling that teaching will cause devide among the students. So are they worried about the students being damaged more so, or are they worried about a devide more so?

None of my schools taught CRT in school and the closest we ever learned about racism was segregation in high school. There was no subject about the Civil war or slavery. My choir teacher did teach some of it in class by telling us about what a song is about we are singing.

My mom knew more than I did because she was the one that told me this stuff and she loves to read so she either taught herself or her school taught it in Wisconsin. She also did live through Jim Crow times and when segregation became outlawed and she was alive when Martin Luther King did his speech and when he was assisinated. She was also pretty woke as a teen because she told me she used to correct her mother on her words like "colored people" because it was the language her mom had grown up with so to her this language was normal.

And I had no idea how bad slavery really was until my thirties until I started watching youtube videos by black people about it than hearing about it from whites. I also saw Huck Finn as an adult and it totally did not sugar coat slavery. I now understood why that book had been banned in schools. Parents didn't want their kids to know what slavery was actually like?

I am angry I was not taught about these historical events and that the founding fathers owned slaves. I am glad I was taught that color blindness is a goal to strive for and am sorry it is seen as just an excuse to enable racism today and those of us who believe in the goal are sheepie.

Let's be real, there already is already a division in schools along racial lines.

Oh ok. Why is that? Does teaching crt make it worse?

I don’t believe little kids should be conditioned to feel like they’re either oppressors or oppressed.

San Francisco residents recalled three members of the city’s school board Tuesday for what critics called misplaced priorities and putting progressive politics over the needs of children during the pandemic.

Voters overwhelmingly approved the recall in a special election, according to tallies by the San Francisco Department of Elections.

“The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well.”

Breed will now appoint board replacements to serve until another election in November.

The school board has seven members, all Democrats, but only three were eligible to be recalled:

Parents in the politically liberal city launched the recall effort in January 2021 out of frustration over the slow reopening of district schools, while the board pursued the renaming of 44 school sites and the elimination of competitive admissions at the elite Lowell High School.

In San Francisco, one of the nation’s most liberal cities, the recall effort split Democrats. Breed, a Democrat, had criticized the school board for being distracted by “political agendas.”

Collins, Lopez and Moliga had defended their records, saying they prioritized racial equity because that was what they were elected to do.

One of the first issues to grab national attention was the board’s January 2021 decision to rename 44 schools they said honored public figures linked to racism, sexism and other injustices. On the list were Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and trailblazing U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

The effort drew swift criticism for historical mistakes. Critics said it made a mockery of the country’s racial reckoning. Angry parents asked why the board would waste time renaming schools when the priority needed to be reopening classrooms.

After an uproar, the school board scrapped the plan.

Collins came under fire again for tweets she wrote in 2016 that were widely criticized as racist. In them Collins, who is Black, said Asian Americans used “white supremacist” thinking to get ahead and were racist toward Black students.

Collins said the tweets were taken out of context and posted before she held her school board position. She refused to take them down or apologize for the wording and ignored calls to resign from parents, Breed and other public officials.

Collins turned around and sued the district and her colleagues for $87 million, fueling yet another pandemic sideshow. The suit was later dismissed.

Many Asian parents were already angered by the board’s efforts to end merit-based admissions at the elite Lowell High School, where Asian students are the majority.

Ann Hsu, a mother of two who helped found the task force, said many Chinese voters saw the effort to change the Lowell admissions system as a direct attack.

“It is so blatantly discriminatory against Asians,” she said. In the city’s Chinese community, Lowell is viewed as a path children can take to success.