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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 2, 2021, 10:14 pm
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Well spotted!
HTML https://www.classicfm.com/composers/handel/royal-academy-of-music-decolonise-collection-slave-trade/
[quote]Royal Academy of Music to ‘decolonise' collection as
composer linked to slave trade
...
The review could give wider context to the Academy’s displayed
portraits and sculptures of Baroque composer George Frideric
Handel, who we now know repeatedly invested in the transatlantic
slave trade.
Other items ripe for reevaluation in the on-site museum include
rare 18th-century pianos and violins, whose keys and
fingerboards were made with colonial ivory and ebony.[/quote]
All of them must be destroyed!
[quote]In 2015 Dr David Hunter, lecturer at the Butler School of
Music in Texas, found Handel repeatedly invested in the Royal
African Company. “It was quite by chance that I came across
Handel’s name in the investors of the Royal Africa Company – the
main slave traders in the 1710s,” he said.
Hunter said many members of the 18th-century wealthy elite would
have profited from slavery, and what’s crucial now is to provide
contextual focus of such historical figures and objects.[/quote]
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 3, 2021, 1:47 pm
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This teacher gets it:
HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/twitter-outraged-over-teacher-telling-educators-to-embrace-anti-racist-thinking-or-be-fired/ar-AAKuGXa
[quote]Eighth grade humanities teacher Katherine Watkins made
her comments during the district's virtual equity summit
published to YouTube by Parents Defending Education (PDE) in
late April and clips of her comments were shared to social media
Thursday, garnering many reactions.
"If you're being resistant, I understand that, but you're going
to have to eventually come to the light because if you're going
to keep up those old views of colonialism, it's going to lead to
being fired because you're going to be doing damage to our
children...trauma," Watkins said during the Zoom call.
"So as we fire the teachers who sexually abuse our children, we
will be firing the teachers who do racist things to our children
and traumatize them," she added before saying "you either evolve
or dissolve."[/quote]
Inflicting trauma is precisely what the colonial system was
deliberately designed to do in order to promote Eurocentrism. It
was immensely successful.
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 4, 2021, 11:56 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tom-hanks-tulsa-racism-174252824.html
[quote]Self-described armchair historian Tom Hanks sounded off
on what gets taught about race in American schools in a New York
Times opinion piece that argues every child should have to learn
about the 1921 destruction of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
With his essay, published Friday, the actor parachuted into a
culture war currently being waged by conservatives over critical
race theory, an academic term referring to the ways racism has
influenced history that has become a right-wing boogeyman. Just
this week, former Vice President Mike Pence said it was a
“left-wing myth” that systemic racism exists in America.
“How different would perspectives be had we all been taught
about Tulsa in 1921, even as early as the fifth grade? Today, I
find the omission tragic, an opportunity missed, a teachable
moment squandered,” Hanks wrote.
Schools, Hanks said, “should also stop the battle to whitewash
curriculums to avoid discomfort for students.”
“America’s history is messy but knowing that makes us a wiser
and stronger people,” he wrote.
The Tulsa riot just passed its 100th anniversary. Over the
course of two days in late May and early June, 1921, white
Americans stormed Greenwood, an economically booming Black
neighborhood of the prairie city, and burned it to the ground,
killing an unknown number of Black Americans in the process.
Estimates range from dozens of Black victims to 300 dead, while
thousands were left homeless. In congressional testimony last
month, survivors of the attack said that some of the dead were
simply dumped into a river; 107-year-old Viola Fletcher said she
still can see “Black bodies lying in the street.” Excavators are
currently unearthing a mass grave in Tulsa believed to be the
resting place of some of the victims.
Recent television shows ― HBO’s “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft
Country” ― that touched on the Tulsa attack have
highlighted how few Americans recall learning about it in
school.
In his essay, Hanks marveled at the fact that he only learned
about it by way of a New York Times article last year, writing
that failing to teach about Tulsa and patterns of extreme
violence against Black Americans had the effect of “placing
white feelings over Black experience — literally Black lives in
this case.”
“The truth about Tulsa, and the repeated violence by some white
Americans against Black Americans, was systematically ignored,
perhaps because it was regarded as too honest, too painful a
lesson for our young white ears,” Hanks wrote. “So, our
predominantly white schools didn’t teach it, our mass appeal
works of historical fiction didn’t enlighten us, and my chosen
industry didn’t take on the subject in films and shows until
recently.”
“Today, I think historically based fiction entertainment must
portray the burden of racism in our nation for the sake of the
art form’s claims to verisimilitude and authenticity,” he
said.[/quote]
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 14, 2021, 12:32 am
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Resistance to Red pressure at last:
HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/teachers-across-u-protest-laws-050523891.html
[quote]Thousands of teachers and other educators held protests
across the U.S. Saturday against the actions of "at least 15
Republican-led states" that aim to restrict teaching about
racism in class, the Washington Post reports.
...
Organizers of the Zinn Education Project initiative say they
want to send a message that they won't lie to students about
past and present racism in the U.S.
Thousands of teachers have also signed a pledge declaring
that the educators "refuse to lie to young people about U.S.
history and current events — regardless of the law."[/quote]
HTML https://twitter.com/BeckyPringle/status/1403721759816359946
[quote]Educators deserve support, and our students deserve to be
taught the truth. Some politicians would have us lie in the
classroom to whitewash our history—not on my watch. Today, I
join with @BLMAtSchool, @ZinnEdProject, and educators across the
nation in pledging to #TeachTruth.[/quote]
It is not "CRT"; it is simply teaching truthful Western history.
If truthful Western history is disgusting to learn about, it is
because Western civilization is disgusting.
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 15, 2021, 10:28 pm
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Essentially what I have been saying:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/critical-race-theory-debate-whitewashing-120000936.html
[quote]The Republicans’ current crusade against teaching race
and racism in schools is part of the same tradition of erasing
truth and amplifying fiction. Perhaps more importantly, it
mirrors the type of dangerous, disturbing behavior of those
history-makers that the modern GOP fears discussing. If today we
talk about the racists and white supremacists of yesterday, then
years from now, we’ll be talking about the racists and white
supremacists of today, many of whom are the very same leaders
trying to rewrite history.
This year alone, 21 states have either banned critical race
theory (CRT) or introduced legislation that moves in that
direction. CRT is described as being a framework that considers
race to be a social, institutional construct that’s intended to
keep Black and brown people in the lower rungs of society —
i.e., an accurate description of the past few centuries of
slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and myriad other forms of
discrimination.
...
the problem is the fact that, to many Republicans, discussing
slavery and systemic racism seems to be more “highly contentious
and highly controversial” than the acts themselves.
...
The proof is there, and in many cases, it’s in black and white.
There’s the explicitly racist language in the Federal Housing
Authority’s Underwriting Manual that laid the groundwork for
redlining; the government-funded Kerner Commission’s documented
findings on the racial uprisings from 1965 to 1968; and the
reality that Black Americans were considered to be three-fifths
of a person. There’s also the obvious impacts that the genocide
of Native Americans and the enslavement of African Americans has
had on their descendants.
The fear of teaching American students how to think critically
about race is alarming. If merely thinking about the construct
of race is so dangerous, the practice of enforcing political and
systemic divisions based on that same construct is even more
dangerous. Consider what these whitewashed, often false,
historical narratives have done to the psyches of nonwhite
students. Some textbooks refer to enslaved people as
“immigrants” or “workers,” many of whom were not “unhappy” with
their place within the “peculiar institution” of slavery. Others
teach students that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America,
totally disregarding the millions of Indigenous people who
inhabited this land before him (a concept that truly baffled me
as an elementary school student). Where’s the outrage about the
ways those false teachings hurt nonwhite kids?[/quote]
I was baffled in the same way! But now I understand: it is
because "non-whites" do not count. What should be taught to
history students today is how previous generations of history
students (such as the author and myself) used to be taught.
[quote]The U.S. that we live in today, with all its flaws and
beauty, wouldn’t be what it is without race. James Baldwin,
writer and activist, once said, “I love America more than any
other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I
insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”[/quote]
This proves what rightists love is not America, but Western
civilization.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5OczxHYofk
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 20, 2021, 10:46 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0vAPFbLsc
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 27, 2021, 1:06 am
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Finally!
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9727255/The-word-caucasian-banned-say-Cambridge-UCL-scientists.html
[quote]The word 'caucasian' should be banned because it is
'associated with a racist classification of humans', according
to five Cambridge and UCL scientists.
Researchers said scientists should only use the term when
absolutely unavoidable but refrain from 'usage where possible'.
Authors of the article titled 'The language of race, ethnicity,
and ancestry in human genetic research' said the term Caucasian
was an 'old term associated with racist and pseudo-scientific
classifications of humans'.
...
The paper said scientists should add quotation marks around the
word when used in research, the Telegraph reported.
[/quote]
We are always ahead of mainstream academia.
[quote]Authors Dr Ewan Birney, Michael Inouye, Dr Jennifer Raff,
Dr Adam Rutherford, and Aylwyn Scally said their is intended 'to
stimulate a much-needed discussion about the language of
genetics'.
Adding they hoped it would help 'begin a process to clarify
existing terminology, and in some cases adopt a new lexicon that
both serves scientific insight, and cuts us loose from various
aspects of a pernicious past.'[/quote]
Indeed!
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/
[quote]Dr Ewan Birney, deputy director of the European Molecular
Biology Laboratory at the Wellcome Genome Campus in
Cambridgeshire, has added terms such as 'Native American',
'Hispanic', 'White Irish', and 'European', should also be
avoided. [/quote]
Yes! (Except Hispanic, which refers to Spanish language and thus
does not require "". )
Unfortunately, mainstream academia is extremely slow-witted:
[quote]Instead, he says, researchers should use more scientific
language derived from a two-step genetic analysis.
'European', for example, would instead be 'the
European-associated PCA [principal component analysis] cluster,
which aims to minimise variation in non-genetic factors and
genetic factors'. [/quote]
That is not an improvement FFS. Use common selective pressure,
not common geographical habitat! Those (Joetnar) who lived
through the Ice Age have little in common with those (Aesir
etc.) who arrived after the Ice Age was over. What about this is
so hard to understand?
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2021, 10:36 pm
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The same as what I was saying earlier:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg7038/#msg7038
about rejecting the term "CRT":
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsfX-Mjio0E
What our enemies call "CRT" is simply honest teaching of
history.
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Re: Academic decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2021, 4:01 am
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First we say it over and over. Then Hartmann says it over and
over. And now Psaki is saying it:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/pressed-teachers-unions-stance-critical-181300825.html
[quote]Pressed on teachers union's stance on critical race
theory, Psaki says Biden believes children 'should learn our
history'
...
She added, "So as the spouse of an educator and as somebody who
continues to believe that children should learn not just the
good but also the challenging in our history, and that's part of
what we're talking about here, even as it's become politically
charged."[/quote]
There is no such thing as "CRT". This is simply about honest
teaching of history vs dishonest teaching of history.
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Let's talk about Boebert and Republicans suggesting CRT is true.
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By: guest55 Date: July 10, 2021, 9:48 pm
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Let's talk about Boebert and Republicans suggesting CRT is
true....
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RrZ56O1Pg
Would add that anti-racists are superior ethically and morally
compared to racists. This is an elitist stance, which happens to
be true and easily proven as such. If holding a civilization
together requires unity and racists are divisive simply because
of their racism, we can easily argue that racists do not have
what it takes to hold a civilization together, only anti-racists
do. Therefore racists are inferior to anti-racists. This fact
should not require a massive amount of intellect to
understand....
Don't believe me? Then take it from the people who held together
one of the largest and longest lasting empires the world has
ever known for over a thousand years:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/what-did-the-romans-think-about-race/
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
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