a journey of transformation
So I realize I haven’t posted in a good minute. My practicum, the last requirement for my degree, really took over my life; I’m not being hyperbolic. I no longer had time to be creative in the kitchen, I didn’t cook much at all, and I could barely breathe a second long enough to think…
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This mess right here. I knew it would be bad when it started off with the oft heard excuse of wearing the confederate flag as just being a symbol of pride in heritage. I went to high school in the south, and I expected the confederate flag waving, and while it didn’t really get under…
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Today I had to run an errand for my boss and drop off some materials at the New York Academy of Medicine. After leaving I ran into the statue of J. Marion Sims in Central park. This is a doctor who’s heralded as the pioneer of modern surgery, rising to fame only after discovering a…
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Local tea partiers have presented state legislators with a list of “demands,” that would alter school curricula to suppress the teaching of the “minority experience,” elect a “state litigator,” and, of course, reject Obama’s health care reform legislation, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
On the education front, they’re proposing that new textbook-selection criteria basically state that you can teach about minorities in history, just as long as it doesn’t get in the way of teaching students about the majority or about how awesome the founding fathers were.
like black butterflies 