Teach Black history and do it accurately and in its proper context | Opinion
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
Wanda Blanchett, dean at Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Graduate School of Education, says education can only be effective if we have educators who are well prepared to teach this critical information accurately and in ways that dismantle racism and white privilege and do not reinforce some of these untruths, misconceptions, biases and harmful beliefs.
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By Wanda J. Blanchett
It’s a no-brainer that we should teach Black history in schools, especially in these troubling times, but it’s equally important for us to teach it accurately and in its proper context.
That op-ed was about white male privilege | Opinion
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
By Wanda J. Blanchett
Growing up in the South, one of my most distinct memories of white male privilege involved my mother’s work for an influential white man. He would drive up to our home, get out of his truck and throw a bag of work at my mother’s feet. For years, his unapologetic disrespect angered me because all women deserve to be treated with dignity.
I recalled this disrespect when I read Mr. Joseph Epstein’s recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about Dr. Jill Biden’s Ed.D. title. Much has been said in response to this op-ed and even Dr. Biden has broken her silence, but what strikes me most about it is that the unapologetic white male privilege that Mr. Epstein exercised has largely been ignored.