I'm quoted in this piece on ancient cancel culture – fascinating discussion of ritual mutilation of Olmec heads! https://t.co/ERtXoNsVPe — Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof) August 22, 2020 I’m quoted in this piece on ancient cancel culture – fascinating discussion of ritual mutilation of Olmec heads! https://t.co/ERtXoNsVPe — Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof) August 22, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js… Read More Moving Statues
This reporting deserves a Pulitzer. Now that’s out of the way, Chana Joffe-Walt and the Serial podcast is a must-listen. While I sit in my rage, my fear of personal hypocrisy, and memories of my own education and the parallel worlds of Black and brown children alongside mine and my sons’ I cannot help but… Read More not so nice
I read a Tweet yesterday about “canceling Lincoln.” No one is ‘canceling Lincoln.’ But I am asking teachers to do a much better job and overhaul the curriculum and framing of the Civil War. Here are some links from the school year 2018-2019 (8th grade Humanities) and Zinn Education Resources: https://blog0rama.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/backyard-civil-war/ https://blog0rama.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/backyard-civil-war-text-pairing/ https://blog0rama.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/backyard-civil-war-cinematic-blues/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/rethinkin-lincoln-on-the-150th-birthday-of-the-emancipation-proclamation/ Cornell… Read More Series: White People Homework (20) Who?
Happy Emancipation Day! Just a few facts:The US was 3rd to last in the Americas to abolish slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation came abt partially because enslaved people were self-liberating by the thousands. Don’t let them tell you we just waited to be free.#JuneteenthDay — Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) June 19, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Just a correction-… Read More Series: WPH: Juneteenth (19)
Take down the statues.… Read More Series: White People Homework: Statues (13)
A quick look at school behavior programs.… Read More Series: White People Homework (12) Bad Behaviors
What I tried to say in this post, But Justin Schleider (@SchleiderJustin) said it so much better: I am specifically talking to White people because we are the ones who created the problem and we are the ones who need to work towards rectifying what we have done. Plus I can only speak to the… Read More Series: White People Homework: (11)
What are the direct economic costs of racism?… Read More Series: White People Homework: The Cost (9)
I will try to write this as simply as I can. But it is long. Push back as needed. My first job, and one where I stayed for twelve years, was a middle school located in South King County, Washington. Being at a school for that long is an honor: I became part of the… Read More Series: White People Homework: White Teachers (7)
Whereby I confront my fears and try to work through them.… Read More Series: WPH: Fear (6)
Mrs. Kelly Love 
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