I think teaching ethnic studies is really special and were looking forward to having you be the mentor of the other ethnic study teachers were going to be bringing on board with hunch humbleness president fewer id like to add my name to the resolution and so proud to be supporting this at no time thank you, everyone for being here tonight. Commissioner murase. Id like to thank the speakers tonight the audience what folks its been so wise i want to thank the quarters who came together around the issue by acknowledge president fewer and commissioner norton who in the past two years have set the stage for conversations around race and some of the meetings we dont here about but the leadership of president fewer and commissioner norton has laid the ground work this is an example of vision 2025 were moving forward towards students curriculum were moving forward to volley ball every student in the skills they need in the year 2025 in terms of any own story im the first jaiment to serve on th
Teachers for helping us your prospective and openness and respect your ability to understand and to see and feel what so many of our students see and feel is incredibly valuable i think teaching ethnic studies is really special and were looking forward to having you be the mentor of the other ethnic study teachers were going to be bringing on board with hunch humbleness president fewer id like to add my name to the resolution and so proud to be supporting this at no time thank you everyone for being here tonight. Commissioner murase. Id like to thank the speakers tonight the audience what folks its been so wise i want to thank the quarters who came together around the issue by acknowledge president fewer and commissioner norton who in the past two years have set the stage for conversations around race and some of the meetings we dont here about but the leadership of president fewer and commissioner norton has laid the ground work this is an example of vision 2025 were moving forward to
On terms of the whole enterprise i dont think that is our problem because we are just as human as anybody else but i think we have a number of hangups if i might be permitted to use that word. On the one hand to as an American Muslim Community in a transition every phase we are stock between a certain sort of allegiance to related say back coal culture of islam and the nafta be an immigrant to have that attachment many are equally attached because we dont know of that alternative what is likely to be accepted or recognized as Islamic Culture. Then we have the other side of the equation to identify a cultural production that is too comfortable in the american space. And if i might be permitted to be frank there is no point to have any discussion with the muslims that seeks to do away with the or ignore the reality of our history. We are where we a are today at this moment in history as opposed colonial moment post slavery and it produces their own dynamics and that is insuring we are th
Have famous german philosopher that you have weeder is i cannot find their. Maybe i just have to paraphrase. It is europes duty to prepare a the way for when the good european comes into possession with that destiny but to supervise that universal culture of the world. To talk about the r d musec but muslims have to understand here in america cultural production has to include the intellectual effort them rearranges aspect of their broader culture of america because only in that way can we get americans to see themselves and us differently to understand all of this is a part of cultural production. I will stop there. [applause] up next we have the of founder of the of college and several mosques truck unit of states as a longtime advocate of backyard organic gardening is a suitable living such as banning the use of plastic bottle water it has written extensively in active with the number of organizations with Islamic Relief of the united kingdom. Our question tonight is you have often
Thank you so much, brother ali. So something that kind of ties in to what weve heard so far from the panelists, its great we have all these ideas of whats going on with culture, where he were to go with it, but there seems to be a huge disconnect between the generation thats coming up not as generation y. , a lot of those folks have it known life before the internet. They socialize and interact online. There are lots of selfmade facebook the imams, and then theres this whole new trend know what its like someone gets so many followers and all of a sudden theyre an expert, and authority in people turn to them. So where is the solution is to i dont know if i would call it a crisis but it just seems that there is a huge disconnect and there needs to be some way to resolve it and not ignore it. Getting things right and really doing the rigorous work of that nature and that may, and that pursuit makes us maybe sometimes afraid of, in essence, what i would call the marketplace of artistic ide