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CHRISTIAN WHITE AMERICAN RACISM AT WORK CONSTANTLY...

7/23/2021

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The Tennessean reported last month that parents in Williamson County, Tennessee have been criticizing the "Wit & Wisdom" curriculum for allegedly not being appropriate for young kids and teaching critical race theory concepts. Community members and advocacy groups, the report describes, have objected to the inclusion of books like "Ruby Bridges Goes to School" written by Ruby Bridges, who became the first Black child to integrate a segregated New Orleans school when she was six.
Assistant Superintendent of teaching, learning, and assessment Dave Allen, though, said "our teachers are reporting to us that our students are reading like they've never read before," and "I've received a flood of emails recently that said, 'Don't do anything with the curriculum. My kid's loving it," the Tennessean reports.
The detail about the objections to Bridges' book, as flagged by Chalkbeat's Matt Barnum, sparked criticism, with journalist James Surowiecki arguing, "If you're against teaching kids Ruby Bridges' book — the story of a little girl braving mobs of angry protesters in order to integrate her local elementary school — you're not opposed to 'critical race theory.' You're opposed to America's ideals."
Robin Steenman, who heads Moms for Liberty's Williamson County chapter, reportedly pointed to the Ruby Bridges' book and others at an education committee meeting, claiming its mention of a "large crowd of angry white people who didn't want Black children in a white school" was too harsh and objected to teaching words like "injustice" and "inequality" in grammar lessons.
But she referred to “Ruby Bridges Goes to School,” as particularly problematic because the wording “large crowd of angry white people who didn’t want Black children in a white school” too harshly delineated between Black and white people, and that the book didn’t offer “redemption” at its end.
REDEMPTION AT ITS END?
​The Struggle Continues!
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(July 15, 2011 was one of the most poignant days of the year when Ruby Bridges visited the White House to meet President Obama. President Obama wanted to meet Ruby to coincide with the hanging of Norman Rockwell's famous painting, "The Problem We All Live With," outside of his office in the White House, which depicts Ruby as she is escorted to school on the court-ordered first day of integrated schools in New Orleans in 1960.)


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