Cut to the News Weekend - Sunday, May 2, 2021
Published: Sun, 05/02/21
Here are a few good reads and pieces to think about and enjoy:
Biden’s CRT plan for the schools . . . Critical Race Theory (CRT) shows you that America is a racist monstrosity that inculcates white supremacy at every turn. Efforts to enforce the CRT regime just got a major boost. On April 18, the Department of Education posted its ‘Proposed Priorities’ for American history and civic education. The ‘priorities’ will be used to judge competition for federal grants in these areas. At the moment, they would apply to a very small federal program — about $5 million per year. That’s the little red spotted newt. Just around the corner lurks Godzilla, the $1 billion per year Educating for American Democracy bill (EAD) pending in Congress. The ‘Priorities’ and the EAD together would bring CRT into every classroom in the country. Even die-hard opponents of CRT would have a hard time resisting the tide of federal money behind it. Spectator
NO MORE TESTS: WE SHOULD MEASURE BLACK KIDS ON THEIR "DESIRE TO KNOW." (St. Ibram, 2019) . . . The roots of this notion polluting our schools that it's racist to make a black student actually answer the question. The organization 1776Unites, founded by my mentor and model Bob Woodson, has tweeted out a video where various black people decry a now fashionable idea that “whiteness” includes being smart. As in, precise, objective, fond of the written word, oriented towards dispassion, on time. Those things are all manifestations of intelligence, vigilance, discipline. But according to our Elect folk, we black people are best off channeling our Crazy Badass Mothafucka. Because that’s more “authentic.” And, I get the feeling, fun to watch. Because so many think that the battle that I and others are waging against Critical Race Theory’s transmogrification into education for children is an obsession with something that isn’t a real problem, I want to explore a bit. Someone I deeply respect not long ago surmised to me that the idea that black kids should be exempt from real standards is something being promulgated via mere paper “handouts,” and that the real problem is censorship from the right. I just don’t think so. First, watch this, the 1776Unites video. Just a few minutes. By John McWhorter It Bears Mentioning
America Is in a Socialist Revolution—Interview With Trevor Loudon . . . The Biden administration has made reforming the United States, including the U.S. military and law enforcement its main focus. To learn more about what’s behind this push and where it’s heading, we sat down for an interview with a New Zealand author and filmmaker Trevor Loudon. Epoch Times
College Professor Berates Student Who Calls Police ‘Heroes’ . . . A Cypress College professor repeatedly interrupts a student after he called police “heroes” in a presentation. The professor insisted that police do bad things and get away with it. (2:54 min.)
This "professor" must be fired immediately. Notice how calm the student is while the "professor" is de-compensating.
Kahlil Gibran on Silence, Solitude, and the Courage to Know Yourself . . . “In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions — a kind of rerooting in one’s deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one’s most authentic self. Wendell Berry knew this when he observed that “true solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation” — the places where “one’s inner voices become audible.” But that inner voice, I have found, exists in counterpoise to the outer voice — the more we are tasked with speaking, with orienting lip and ear to the world without, the more difficult it becomes to hear the hum of the world within and feel its magmatic churns of self-knowledge. “Who knows doesn’t talk. Who talks doesn’t know,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in in her superb poetic, philosophical, feminist more-than-translation of the Tao te Ching. By Maria Popova Brain Pickings
Stop Giving up | Jordan Peterson Perspective Motivation
This is an 8:10 minute video that contains such a valuable guidance for both young and formerly young people. Once you start watching, you will want to finish it. Love Jordan Peterson. A very special human.
I Want My Dog To Live Longer (The Greatest Wish). Curtis Salgado & Alan Hager 2:47 min. video Alligator Records