Given the laudable goal of rectifying past racial inequities, one couldn’t help being struck by the irony of replacing “Otey” with “St. Paul,” who, critics have argued, was an apologist for slavery, instructing slaves to obey their masters, and making no explicit call for liberation when declaring that we are one in Christ, whether slave or free.
Not all kids in cages are at the border
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Not all kids in cages are at the border
Not all kids in cages are at the border | Tuesday, March 09, 2021
Put kids in cages? Do that yourself, and you’ll get 25 to life. Do that as Obama, Trump, and Biden, and you get…a bye, condemnation, and a bye, respectively.
If you can’t identify with the cultural experience of an oppressed minority, so it goes, it’s off-limits to use anything reflecting that culture. Should whites, then, be banned from performing jazz, or the blues? What about gay actors playing straight roles; or blacks playing white roles (as in Broadway’s “Hamilton”)?
It’s nuts! Oregon’s Department of Education has developed a teaching resource entitled, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” aimed at removing racism from 6th-8th-grade math. Seems that math + traditional teaching methods = white supremacy!