Michigan State University’s College of Education is under scrutiny for its radical training materials for teachers as part of its program, “Social Foundations of Justice and Equity in Education.” The material includes radical race theories and a video of Communist and Black Panther Angela Davis explaining that “racism is integrally linked to capitalism.”
The Federalist reported on the material, which includes a warning to educators that those “who cling to their Whiteness cannot participate in abolitionist teaching because they are a distraction, are unproductive, and will undermine freedom at every step, sometimes in the name of social justice.”
Imagine if material told black or other minority teachers that they had to drop identities to their race if they want to teach. “Clinging to your Whiteness” is often a complaint leveled against those who do not repeat race-based mantras or statements in these sessions. Such public demonstrations have long been a part of the academic orthodoxy. Years ago, I noted with concern how academics were expected to engage in public confessions like the one at Northwestern University School of Law when Northwestern Law Dean declared publicly, “I am James Speta and I am a racist.” He was followed by Emily Mullin, executive director of major gifts, who said, “I am a racist and a gatekeeper of white supremacy. I will work to be better.”
MSU requires teachers to listen to Davis make the absurd claim that capitalism is inherently racist. Another video claims that “America can never be a meritocracy” without fundamental changes to create an “equal starting point and equal resources.”
Telling teachers that they cannot succeed unless they give up their racial identity can be an environment of extreme intolerance and orthodoxy. It is one thing to address racism (in all forms) and singling out white teachers as having to address their race. Some students may assume that public demonstrations or affirmations are required to counter assumptions about their bias or inherent racism.
As for the use of Davis to claim that capitalism is the driver of racism, it ignores how capitalism fuels the advancement and empowerment of citizens. There is nothing inherently racist about a system emphasizing individual productivity and success. My Sicilian grandparents faced prejudices and extreme poverty in arriving in our country. They soon found that hard work allowed them to secure a better life for themselves and their children.
While she later left the party over internal disputes, Davis previously declared:
“I am a Communist because … If we are going to rise out of our oppression, our poverty, if we are going to cease being the targets of the racist-minded mentality of racist policemen, we will have to destroy the American capitalist system. We will have to obliterate a system in which a few wealthy capitalists are guaranteed the privilege of becoming richer and richer, whereas the people who are forced to work for the rich, and especially Black people, never take any significant step forward.”
I actually think that Davis’s views on capitalism and racism would be valuable in a course on those subjects to explore different views on such subjects. The question is why MSU would select Davis to be part of the mandatory material for new teachers as part of an education training and whether there is true balance offered in the material from figures like Milton Friedman or others on the benefits of capitalism. That does not appear to be the case at MSU.
MSU should address these concerns and show how, if such material is included in required reading, there is also material that offers real balance and counterpoints to these radical views.
George X says: You’re no differen than the rest. You miss the point.
We may have a clue to George X’s psychotic behavior. Imagine going through your teenage George X years telling every other guy around you that “I’m smart and you’re not, so I’m right and you’re wrong”.
How many times a week did teenage George X get his pastey face punched into the back of his head by other teenage boys with no patience for his argumentative BullSchiff? The cumulative brain damage must be enormous!
And now that he’s a brain damaged adult George X, all he has left is the same old “I’m smart and you’re not, so I’m right and you’re wrong” BullSchiff.
These people are forever broken.
as are you. this guy spends hours a day on this blog.
Do I though?
LOL… try a mirror. You are here too.
“Why, you’re nothing but a deck of cards.”
Can you imagine Trump doing this ???
Greeting a bunch of suckers and losers.
Greeting sucker and loser ANON!!
Honor Flights took place for 20 years before President Obama used one as a photo op. Whoo-pie!
Funny thing about “suckers and losers.” Not even John Bolton, the man in the room when it happened, and certainly no friend of Trump, remembers hearing it. COS Kelly somehow managed to be the only person to hear Trump’s private disparagement of veterans/war dead/active military. Once Kelly was fired, Trump somehow ceased talking smack about GIs, living and dead, even at the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
How come Trump, whose entire life is one of “photo ops”, publicity and self-aggrandizement has never done this ???
ANON IS DEAF DUMB AND BLIND!!
What exactly is this comment supposed to mean.
The ravings of a demented lunatic trapped in a cult.
BARACK HUSSEINS wife hates him!! Barack wants attention- just like you ANON. The military loves Trump. Enrollment up under him- unlike OBUMMER and BIDEN hiring men in dresses to run the military!! HA HA HA ANON! SUCKER!
So why wasn’t Trump out there greeting veterans on Veterans Day.
Hurling insults doesn’t change the fact that Trump has no interest in honoring veterans.
I guess you missed this ANON: Veterans Day: Trump honors veterans at Arlington National Cemetery I am right- you are DEAF DUM AND BLIND!!
Barack did what for American?? Only cult are for people like you that think OBAMA and BIDEN were great Presidents. Obama wanted fundamental transformation of america to RUIN!! Why don’t you greet the shoppers at Walmart DF
QUIT WATCHING THE CARTOON CHANNEL AND CNN FOR YOUR NEWS ANON!!! Trump greets VETERANS DAILY!!!
He’s saying you are weak and ignorant. You hide behind anonymous. Obama is a loser and a liar
BARACK WANTED TO RUIN AMERICA!! BOZO ANON!! YOUR CULT LEADER!!
Obama’s been retired for 9 years. He probably needed an excuse to get out of the house. Or didn’t you realize he did that today?
He was getting away from his wife.
Or didn’t you realize he did that today?
“He was getting away from his wife.”
As much as detest Obama, who could possibly fault him for that?
How come Trump, whose entire life is one of “photo ops”, publicity and self-aggrandizement has never done this ???
How come Bolshevik Barack, in eight years in the White House, never inconveniencing himself to go to Afghanistan on a surprise visit to serve our combat troops their Thanksgiving dinner as Trump did. Never mind sit among them afterwards on bench seats to eat his Thanksgiving dinner among them?
https://youtu.be/UabmGANNQp0?si=bt8dNst0V9Fj_t-s&t=21
Bolshevik Barack would never miss a Thanksgiving dinner at home at the White House with Moochelle, Harvey Weinstein and the girls.
You are a typical hating American.
The left hates everything good.
However, President Obama and his administration have indisputably failed to properly manage the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) – and America’s veterans have paid the price
https://cv4a.org/news-media/cva-memo-president-obamas-record-failure-va/
Not an intelligent comment.
Can you imagine Trump doing this ??? Greeting a bunch of suckers and losers.
Thankfully I can’t imagine myself continuing to believe the lie that Trump said veterans are suckers and losers when it was the Secret Service that nixed the trip to that cemetery. And everyone present said it was a lie told by a bitter loser to a propaganda “journalist” who regularly got tripped up by his lies
But I also can’t imagine Bolshevik Barack ever inconveniencing himself to go to Afghanistan on a surprise visit to serve our combat troops their Thanksgiving dinner as Trump did. Never mind sit beside them afterwards on bench seats to eat his Thanksgiving dinner among them.
https://youtu.be/UabmGANNQp0?si=bt8dNst0V9Fj_t-s&t=21
Bolshevik Barack would never miss a Thanksgiving dinner at home at the White House with Moochelle, Harvey Weinstein and the girls.
“There is nothing inherently racist about a system emphasizing individual productivity and success. ”
Firstly, capitalism rewards the concentration of wealth, meaning that the minority population is generally instantly disadvantaged if there is any racism at all. Second it doesn’t emphasize individual productivity or success, it emphasizes cooperative productivity. Perhaps Adam Smiths’s “The Wealth of Nations” is no longer required reading for legal professors. In current terms individuals aren’t producing much at all as capitalism allows bypassing individuals and replace them with machines. To borrow from Adam Smith, it doesn’t matter how good an individual is at producing pins if they have the capital to buy a pin making machine to make pins for them.
Money flowing to the majority will make the majority more effective as they use economies of scale to produce more at a lower unit cost. They will automate factories, eliminating high skilled, high paying jobs faster than similar jobs can be generated, leading to exactly the malaise the US has seen since Reagan made investing in workers no longer a useful tax write-off.
Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose a wealthy family decided to put all that aside and moved to a minority neighborhood and took the sort of job that people in the neighborhood can get. They work two jobs, neither with enough hours to get medical benefits or vacation or anything else that full time employment would have. They can only depend on the people they meet in the minority neighborhood, no generational connections. They aren’t allowed to show the children anything that they cannot learn in the neighborhood.
How many generations will it be before their children and children’s children and so on to get back to the original level of wealth with that individual productivity?
I think that most will never make it. That the lack of initial access to capital will be crippling.
Now let’s extend the thought experiment. They undergo a genetic therapy that changes their appearance to be indistinguishable from the minority, an appearance that will be passed on to their children’s children.
What are the odds now?
The typical argument is that some minority members do escape. Of course some do. They either luck out in that someone in the majority helps them; or they are willing to make sacrifices that the majority members rarely do for the same level of success; or they are far smarter than those of similar success in the majority. All things that most of those in the minority have no access to.
tl;dr Unregulated capitalism amplifies any racism in a society.
Anonymous, the economy is not a status situation. The candle makers went out of business when the electric lightbulb was invented. Many jobs were created by the discover of the power of electricity.
A fixed mindset believes that things will remain the same. An open mindset believes that more opportunities will be created due to future innovation. The lizard brain has always been afraid of change and is what controls the fixed mindset. Take it as you will.
The only carriage manufacturer that successfully transitioned to automobiles was Studebaker. But they survived into the 1960s.
With poorly made cars.
They created their own nightmare.
Capitalism undermines racism. It does so because there is profit in utilizing the talents of minorities rather than hiring comparatively talentless members of the majority.
As far as generational wealth, time mostly takes care of that. Where are the Vanderbilts today? It takes huge effort and luck to preserve wealth across generations.
Again you show your liberal garbage
You are assuming that rich liberals successfully use alleged “climate change” to deny poor people autos and other forms of transportation out of poor neighborhoods.
Firstly, capitalism rewards the concentration of wealth, meaning that the minority population is generally instantly disadvantaged if there is any racism at all. Second it doesn’t emphasize individual productivity or success, it emphasizes cooperative productivity.
First, Democrat neo-communists never start out pointing out the list of successful Marxist countries that have individual wealth and prosperity anywhere near that of the USA. Which is the only rational thing they do: there is no Marxist/communist country on such a list.
Second, typically, the Kluxxer Confederate Democrats who now attempt to succeed as neo-communists claim that what they want to replace is somehow or other a continuation of their Kluxxer Confederate racism. And in the words of Bribery Biden: “If you Darkies don’t vote Democrat, then you ain’t black”.
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows that mentally ill person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing it instead as as the thoughts and actions of another person who they despise and hate.
There is a solution to all this discontent, constant entreaty, and caterwauling.
President Trump will pay $1000 and airfare for illegal aliens past and present to self-deport.
Incidentally, the Israelite slaves were out of Egypt before the ink was dry on their release papers, but then, they had the capacity and acumen sufficient to the task.
There were no Israelite slaves in Egypt.
Will Trump pay Hawking Phlegmfries, Allhysteria O’crazio Corkheads, Illegalalian Omar, Jazzie Crooked, and Rancida Talibanib a $1,000 exit bonus and cost-free travel to self-deport?
$10,000 & up for them. Anything to get rid of them!
I’ll give to that fund.
Over ten years ago, I observed that anti-racism is the new racism. Look what the Biden crime family forced onto the public, as its shield from corrupt practices and war-making pillage. The black lesbian Haitian woman, who has no trouble at all with capitalism, or lying through her teeth. Look at Black Lives Matter, riven with fraud charges. Look at Corey Booker, bag man for Israel. Look at Fanny Willis, who made taxpayers pay for her own personal gigolo. Look at Michele Obama, the obscenely wealthy health insurance executive. The list never ends. Faux “social justice” is a grandly successful confidence scheme.
Moochhell and Buttrack’s Obongocare is completely and irrefutably unconstitutional.
Article 1, Section 8: Congress has no enumerated power to tax for, fund, or regulate healthcare or any aspect or degree thereof.
Congress has no power to tax for, fund, or regulate a charity or any charitable enterprise or industry.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The healthcare industry is to be conducted as free enterprise in the free markets of the private sector, including industry self-regulation.
We all know that, but do you for one second, think the libs/dems care.
Heck NO!
Just look at the shut-down.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The overwhelming singular failure of the American republic rights and freedoms experiment has been voters allowing the continued existence of the vile and violent, seditious DNC and their equally vile members like GeorgeX. The Democrats who loved Chief Justice Taney telling them their Darkies were just a different breed of farm animal, now attempt to blame the chaos they’ve created on the Supreme Court, not themselves. That would be the Supreme Court that has given them what they couldn’t get at the ballot box.
The Confederate DNC who have now embraced Marx/Alinsky’s communist strategies since losing the Kluxxer Civil War and now put their fellow communists like Justices Jackson and Sotomayor on SCOTUS, polluting that court in hopes of continuing to get from SCOTUS what voters consistently reject at the ballot box.
And while GeorgeX and other communist Democrats want to blame SCOTUS – at the same time they howl in delight at the actions of Jackson and Sotomayor that they worked so hard to put on SCOTUS.
100 years is enough.
Terminate FemiNaziism.
Abolish the 19th Amendment with extreme prejudice.
One note: We stopped being capitalist with the creation of the central bank, the Federal reserve, a private bank issuing our currency as a DEBT. We’ve been under ‘financialism” ever since. Actual capital can’t be printed. Capital is the output of farms, mines and factories which support human life. Communism/socialism are forms of central planning. Central bank is a form of central planning. Under monarchy another form of central planning. Funny thing, all forms of central planning work out real well for the planners, others not well at all.
“Capitalism” was used by Marx as a pejorative.
Americans enjoy freedom, including freedom of enterprise and freedom of deployment of capital assets (i.e. capitalism).
Indeed, the entire Federal Reserve Act is irrefutably unconstitutional per Article 1, Section 8; Congress has no enumerated power to regulate banking or the larger financial industry.
The entire financial industry and all industries are to be conducted as free enterprise in the free markets of the private sector, including industry self-regulation.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
America persists in the communism of the dictatorship of the omnipotent partial Juristocracy.
Flesh that thought out.
Communists are the direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis of freedom and self-reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 59 years after the adoption of the Constitution because none of the principles of the Communist Manifesto were in the Constitution. Had the principles of the Communist Manifesto been in the Constitution, Karl Marx would have had no reason to write the Communist Manifesto. The principles of the Communist Manifesto were not in the Constitution then, and the principles of the Communist Manifesto are not in the Constitution now.
Well, I guess Herman Melville would not have written Moby Dick if that was in the constitution. See how this doesn’t make any sense
“We the People of the United States…secure the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY….”
– Preamble of the Founders
The American Founders gave America its country, its law, and its population.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
In more J6 news There is a tentative identification of the J6 Pipe Bomber – a female Capital police officer.
Further video and analysis from J6 is showing that the CP fired “non-lethal” projectiles onto the peaceful crowd prior to any violence starting.
The officer giving the order to fire claims to have warned the crowd, but no such warning is evident in the video.
Further the kinetic weapons used were fired from 50ft or closer and from Above the victims, and at their heads and torso.
These weapons are only considered non-lethal if fired from distance greater than 50 feet, and only at the lower body – legs and things and only when fired indirectly – i.e. ricochetting off the ground. Uses closer than 50ft as well as head or torso shots are considered the use of lethal force.
The Female CP officer who placed the pipe bomb was among those who INITIATED the use of LETHAL FORCE against J6ers.
This started BEFORE the crowd became unruly and it is AFTER this hail of kinetic projectiles started that the crowd became enraged and started throwing things at CP officers.
That’s a lot of speculation without concrete evidence.
In other J6 News. A Trump pardonee is back in jail for child sex crimes.
Apparently, J6 criminals were indeed criminals.
The Proud Boys have been shown to be inciting the crowds in Jan 6. They planned it to help Trump achieve his goal.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna148841
What’s the evidence on the alleged crimes?
Proud Boys?
The only group Sullivan was affiliated with, per your article, was Black Lives Matter.
A J6 pardonee had a Chris Hansen moment back in 2016, when he solicited on a dating website supposedly limited to adults, a law enforcement officer pretending to be a 15 yo girl.
As far as I can tell, no Trump pardonee has gone on to commit new crimes.
Isn’t that wild John.
The FBI was able to find little olds ladies at the Jan 6th protest, but not the bomber?
“The FBI was able to find little olds ladies at the Jan 6th protest, but not the bomber?”
Not surprising, since everything credible that I have seen or read points to large numbers of FBI (if not all) present and the Capitol Police on the scene being partners in crime.
Those in the Capitol building were filmed for significant periods of time from multiple angles under good lighting conditions with decent cameras. Gosh, what would the difference come from?