Posted on 07/03/2020 12:26:29 PM PDT by rickmichaels
On Wednesday the charter school organization The Knowledge is Power Program, commonly know as KIPP, announced that it will be retiring the slogan "Work hard. Be Nice." as school officials believe the phrase is counterproductive to abolishing systemic racism. Richard Barth, KIPP Foundation CEO, said in a press release that after a letter from KIPP Co-Founder Dave Levin about the ways in which the organization can change its culture, he decided to axe the slogan as it "diminishes the significant effort required to dismantle systemic racism."
"Over the last few weeks, we have all been working hard to turn words into action, recognizing that there is still much more work to be done to eliminate any practice at KIPP that furthers systemic racism, anti-Blackness, and inequities experienced by our students, alumni, families, teachers, and staff," said Barth.
Levin's letter was full of white guilt, expressing how he takes blame for not doing enough on behalf of KIPP to stop racial injustice. The practice of disciplining students of color instead of making them feel "affirmed, uplifted, and celebrated" was wrong, he said.
"In recent years, I have come face to face with the understanding that white supremacy doesnt just mean the public and hateful displays of racism; it applies to all aspects of the world that are set up for the benefit of and perpetuation of power for white people at the expense of Black, Latinx, and other People of Color," said Levin.
"Work Hard. Be Nice." certainly has the outward appearance of promoting values that would make life better for every person who chose to espouse them. But to Barth, the idea of being nice and working hard offered too narrow of a future for children who might want to be lazy and mean in order to get what they want.
"[The slogan] places value on being compliant and submissive, supports the illusion of meritocracy, and does not align with our vision of students being free to create the future they want," his statement read.
In addition to the removal of the slogan, KIPP also plans to distribute grant money to communities most affected by the novel coronavirus and from racial trauma, eliminating discipline practices in schools that officials determine to be inequitable, providing a senior equity officer, along with countless other actions spurred by the killing of George Floyd.
If I wear my pants down around my knees...
Thats a liability when yer out for a night of looting. Cant carry those 82 UHDs with your pants in the way.
In case anyone still suffers from the delusion accommodation can be reached with the Left...
Just you wait and see. We're apparently in the midst of a contest among woke white people to be the most asinine in all the land. While you have charter schools changing their slogan, the makers of Dungeons & Dragons are recasting species in the game that have been characterized as monstrous and evil because they claim those descriptions evoke feelings of how minorities have been denigrated.
Rest assured, next week there will be a new name atop the asinine leaderboard that will make these two look reasonable in comparison.
Careful how loud you say that...
This can’t be real.
Blacks are not the problem. White liberals are the problem.
“[The slogan] places value on being compliant...”
When it comes to the police, this is a BIG problem for many blacks...especially if the LEO is white.
When a school system starts denouncing “the illusion of meritocracy,” it’s time to head for the exits.
he had to go a long, long way to come to whatever conclusion he came to, its hard to say except I know it has something to do with blacks aren’t nice nor work hard so you can’t remind them of that apparently...
to be replaced by: Don’t work at all. Be mean.
Work Hard
Be Nice
Seems like a worthy motto.
Be Prepared
They won’t stop until they are stopped......
Is the new slogan “Work hard to kill the white man” ?
Millions of Illegals Immigrants depend on their hard work.
This PC Speak makes me sick.
“Work hard. Be Nice.”
“Over the last few weeks, we have all been working hard to turn words into action, ...”
Do these people even read and understand what they say and write?
So don’t work hard, and just be nasty. Like they are. Just be nastier and show them you mean business. Tough love.
And it takes more than a few weeks to turn words into actions. Should have been doing that for years and years.
This is idiocy on full display.
Why does The Left think Blacks are incapable of behaving like intelligent, decent human beings?
Why does The Left think Blacks are incapable of achievement without twisting every standard to accommodate a lesser degree of achievement?
The problem isn’t the Standards. The problem is that too many Blacks who strive for achievement are labeled as “acting White” by other Blacks. And too many White Leftists are only to happy to keep Blacks in perpetual need of their help.
The Left has made a money-mill of the Victimization of Blacks. It’s outrageous, it’s counter-productive, and frankly it’s Racist in every sense of the word.
Many whites have become ridiculous caricatures.
These people have outdone the McCarthy era when everybody saw a communist behind every tree!
What this country needs more than anything else is a mass production of tranquilliser darts and straightjackets!
This society doesn’t deserve to survive. 70% of our population are either stark-raving mad, homosexuals, perverts, narcissists, or racist snowflakes who couldn’t handle the truth if it was served to them as a frozen treat in hell.
This next year ain’t going to be fun for the normal folks.
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