Social distancing is just part of the problem if we don’t account for anti-Blackness
Social distancing is a privilege that the well-to-do have already been practicing for centuries to keep their resources away from marginalized people.
You can’t condemn Bernie Sanders for his comments on Fidel Castro, without also condemning the U.S. for it’s history of violence
One cannot condemn Cuba as a repressive regime and then say that the United States, as Ronald Reagan claimed, is a city on a hill. The hypocrisy is a glaring reminder that seeks not to learn from history; only impose its will upon it.
No Jay-Z, corporate sponsorships cannot replace protests
The danger in celebrating corporate activism, and elevating Jay-Z as a model of activism, is that it frames resistance and rebellion as something to be done with oppressors,
The anti-Black intellectual hierarchy built by standardized testing needs to come down
What educators should ask is why do we believe that Black students are low achieving and what are we doing that reinforces that belief?
