When Did Black History Month Celebrations Start Focusing on Black Victimhood Instead Of Accomplishment?
Last week, we did a story on the Howard County Public Schools adopting the Black Lives Matters curriculum for the first week of Black History Month. Here is a link to that story:
What Are Howard County Public Schools Teaching During Black History Month? – The Easton Gazette
As we said in that article, just when you thought the school system would be teaching about famous Blacks like Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., etc., a look inside the curriculum provided to teachers shows something completely different.
An anonymous source sent us the entire packet created by and sent to Howard County Public School Teachers for use during BLM week. It’s posted on their “online” pages. What we found was a shocking combination of racism, promotion of transgender ideology, and glorification of criminals while law enforcement was vilified. In all fairness, it’s not as radical as the curriculum created by BLM cited in our previous article, but it still is a set of lessons that can create division among students.
Here’s an excerpt about famous Blacks as victims. A few of these were violent criminals.
You can download and read the packet for yourself, but we found some interesting sections.
Here is a section which describes the “theme” for the BLM week. It’s about “intergenerational” resistance. In other words, let’s keep the hatred going.
It even includes a “glossary” so you understand what “intergenerational resistance” is:
Do you love the use of the words “ageism and adultism” in this explanation? Of course, they must cite the continuing “systemic racism.” And let’s not forget collective trauma:
You Can Heal Intergenerational Trauma | Dr. Thema Bryant | TEDxDelthorneWomen
If a student didn’t think they were a victim of trauma, they will after watching this.
Again, if you thought Black History Month would be about celebrating Black History, you have been misled according to this BLM curriculum. For example, here are some research projects students can do:
They even give students a link about racist climate change.
Why climate change is inherently racist
Are you getting the picture that everything is racist? You’re learning.
Here are more possible research projects:
There’s that intersectionality concept where we put Blacks, gay people, trans people, etc. all under the same umbrella. Interesting that the “International anti-LGBTQ laws” were in Uganda.
And here is the final set of research topics:
It’s interesting that NONE of the research topics in any of these lists focus on how different races often work together for a cause, how the United States eliminated slavery and ultimately racism, or even how famous Black leaders overcame racism in their times. It’s all about victimization.
Intentional? You judge for yourself. Inclusive? You judge that based on the following lesson:
Here is the introduction to a lesson regarding why the slogan “All Lives Matter” is racist and oppressive:
The lesson goes on to a discussion of the slogan by students sitting in a circle and describing what it means to them. Ultimately, that’s done to prove that students who believe in that slogan are wrong and by their belief, racist.
And then this activity after the students view a series of TWEETS regarding the slogan “All Lives Matter.” We would show you these tweets but we are blocked from viewing them or a lot of the other resources by the Howard County Public Schools Website:
I looked at this activity as a former high school classroom teacher. How would students react to this activity about highly charged slogans; one which had already been set up as “racist?” At the very least they are divisive.
High school students are already very self-conscious and worried about how they are perceived by others. Imagine being that student who believes “all lives matter” who wants to say so but is afraid of the reaction from other students and even his teacher.
Then, after that activity, this video and this discussion:
If you were the student who said “all lives matter” you are in trouble. You have been shamed for your opinion in front of your peers. Not. Very. Inclusive.
The rest of the packet promotes gay issues in Black History. Here is the introduction to the section on LGBTQ+:
“Safe space?” For whom? Certainly not for the students whose religious or moral beliefs are at odds with the theme of this lesson.
Here’s the setup for this lesson:
If you are a heterogenous student, how accepted do you feel? Honestly, does it matter if any of the Black Civil Rights leaders were gay?
And the culminating activity:
Are you kidding? Based on a previous lesson, a student who says to be kind and supportive to everyone regardless of race or sexual preference will probably be ridiculed and ostracized.
The bottom line is that the Howard County Public Schools are not trying to build unity, acceptance, and celebration of commonalities among students. These lessons, probably created by guilty while Progressives, regurgitate the same themes of racism, hatred, etc. to achieve a political purpose, and that is to keep all of us fighting with each other.
Even during Black History Month, a month in which we should be celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans in our country, lessons like these foment distrust. Our young people deserve better than that. Shame on the Howard County Public Schools.
Jan Greenhawk, Author
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