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Teachers of color are fundamental to our nation’s success
NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ^ | September 28, 2017 | NEA President Lily Eskelsen García

Posted on 09/28/2017 8:02:58 PM PDT by mdittmar

Being a teacher means instilling a lifelong love of learning in students and providing them with the tools and support they need, and it also means advocating for students, public education, and our profession. The NEA’s recent “Black Student Leader Day” was all about exposing aspiring educators to lobbying as well as grassroots organizing for racial and social justice.

This kind of outreach to aspiring African American teachers is essential at a time when the number of black teachers is declining.

(Excerpt) Read more at lilysblackboard.org ...


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To: mdittmar

That’s Racist!


21 posted on 09/28/2017 9:12:11 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: mdittmar

Evidence suggests otherwise.


22 posted on 09/28/2017 9:20:40 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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Who gives a damn what ‘ color ‘ they are - can they do the job
well?!

That’s all that matters!

So damned tired of this BS.


23 posted on 09/28/2017 9:27:22 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Probably thinks about gender too


24 posted on 09/28/2017 9:35:52 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mdittmar

I am so sick of this race obsessed garbage.


25 posted on 09/28/2017 9:38:20 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Cubs Fan

“....they have completely turned MLKjrs dream around backwards.”

And the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, mainly but not just alone by the left, I a distant memory.


26 posted on 09/28/2017 9:46:54 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: mdittmar
Here we go with MORE DUMBING DOWN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'S FUTURE LEADERS !
The Communists are winning the war on our culture !
27 posted on 09/28/2017 9:59:34 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: mdittmar
Teachers must teach nothing but the truth. Otherwise they are nothing propagandist be they white, black, yellow, brown or red.

Truth is paramount! All of the above colors have committed great sins of slavery.

In Nigeria I worked out of the oil center of Escravos. That is the Portuguese name for slave. The Portuguese slavers and English slavers and Dutch slavers did not go to Escravos and hunt down slaves. The slaves were there ready to be sold by black slavers of Nigeria. Albeit there was no Nigerian Nation at the time but only local tribes that captured other tribes and enslaved them for sale to the white slavers. The tradition of slavery was in Africa long before the white man every set foot on West Africa.

When I worked out of Escravos one of the things that were sold in the market were very old gin bottles from England. These bottles were trade goods full of gin. They were used in the slave trade. I did buy some ivory probably illegal ivory but I did not buy the gin bottles. That would be wrong. Slavery is evil in the extreme. The real history of slavery must be told so it never happens again. Most unfortunately it still exists in Africa and the Middle East. I have been there worked there and lived there. It is real.

Oddly for slavery to exist is the necessity of a society to accept that this is normal and that includes those that are enslaved. Otherwise the slaves would kill their masters.

28 posted on 09/28/2017 10:12:48 PM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud-man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, CONSTITUTION WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: mdittmar
Teachers of color are fundamental to our nation’s success

Teachers of the color white are also fundamental to our nation’s success

29 posted on 09/28/2017 10:22:25 PM PDT by ytrebil
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To: mdittmar
One of my toughest instructors was a teacher of color — theory.

It was an intense college course on a nearly scientific level about; chromatic greys, neutral grey, hue, saturation, lightness, complementary colors, contrast, tint, tone, shade, discords, value, primary, secondary and tertiary color, limited palettes, symbolic association, color relationship, human interpretation, temperature, intensity, and mixing ratios.

She worked us like a drill instructor and what I learned in her class has been surprisingly useful throughout my life, even outside of my art and photographic experience.

Even though the entire course was about color, not once did she ever bring up race.

30 posted on 09/28/2017 10:27:38 PM PDT by xander (TRUMPing nonsense with common sense)
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To: mdittmar
"Teachers of color are fundamental to our nation’s success"

"Teachers of color are fundamental to our nation’s failure" is much more credible and fact based.
31 posted on 09/28/2017 10:33:14 PM PDT by miniTAX
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To: xander

Thoughts From The Short Bus
There are colors that we humans don’t even know about that only animals can see, insects, butterflies specifically.
This helps them discriminate among different plants they want to tap. So bugs are bigger racists than we are.
Really makes you think huh? I saw a beautiful pure white butterfly fluttering about this morning. Figured it must be either enjoying the beautiful day or maybe looking for something to eat.
Well, it was the latter. It landed on a big pile of dog turds and started climbing all over them, really chowing down.
I’ll never feel the same way after today about butterflies.


32 posted on 09/28/2017 11:31:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: mdittmar

Principals of color, hired with affirmative action policy, set back education in the ‘hood centuries.


33 posted on 09/29/2017 12:28:57 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: tumblindice
Absolutely. Even the plants use it to their advantage, like laying out the (infra)red carpet that only a bee can see.

Had a similar change of en’deer’ment after seeing a doe using her tongue as toilet paper on each of her two fawns. Didn't know THAT was in the job description.

34 posted on 09/29/2017 1:10:27 AM PDT by xander (TRUMPing nonsense with common sense)
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To: aynrandfreak

Yep. Unfortunately the push for more black (and Hispanic) teachers in areas with significant black (and Hispanic) populations has led to an even lower standards and quality of teaching.


35 posted on 09/29/2017 2:18:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: mdittmar

No - teachers with values, their own education, and the desire to teach instead of indoctrinate are the ones that are fundamental to our nation’s success - doesn’t matter what color/race/sex they are (as long as it’s one of the 2 sexes God created).


36 posted on 09/29/2017 3:47:28 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: mdittmar

Was there a previous standard of excellence that wasn’t lowered to accommodate them?


37 posted on 09/29/2017 4:23:32 AM PDT by exPBRrat (.)
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To: xander

I wonder if Joe Clark is one of those “Teachers of Color” they are thinking about?


38 posted on 09/29/2017 4:24:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mdittmar

I want smart and educated teachers, not 65 IQ uneducated racist bigots.


39 posted on 09/29/2017 4:36:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (Victorious warriors WIN first, then go to war! Go TRUMP!!!)
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To: mdittmar

Competent teachers? No.

Teachers that can effectively communicate information related to the subject? Never!


40 posted on 09/29/2017 4:40:42 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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