Posted on 05/09/2023 2:42:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Editor’s Note: Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy, an organizer of the Freedom to Learn movement and co-host of the Some of My Best Friends Are podcast. The views expressed in this essay are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.
Americans are losing the freedom to learn. Several states across the country have imposed bans on books, K-12 educational curricula and diversity programs in recent months. In fact, every state but one has at least attempted to restrict the right to literacy and the free exchange of ideas, according to a recent report by the Critical Race Studies program at the UCLA School of Law. And even where statewide bans are not in place, restrictive measures are being enacted by local school boards.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad Khalil Gibran Muhammad Such measures undermine a healthy and functioning democracy, instilling a climate of fear and self-censorship by teachers, librarians and many university faculty members. The mere mention of structural racism or gender discrimination or sexuality can potentially cost educators and librarians their jobs. Meanwhile, laws against gender-affirming healthcare and anti-trans policies in school bathrooms, locker rooms and playing fields are putting the lives of trans youths at risk.
Until just a few days ago, I did not have reason to believe that a significant number of Americans were willing to push back against these attacks on education. But for the first time, a national movement is beginning to defend the freedom to learn in the United States – and it gives me hope that we can reverse the discrimination and authoritarianism infiltrating our schools.
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Interesting that he’s named after Khalil Gibran.
Give up Bud Light, stop eating Hershey chocolate. Withdraw money from Chase Bank. Move out of New York. Let the inner city get real bad. People dont want change until they experience pain, so let them have a lot of it.
In case anyone here doesn’t understand the meaning of irony, consider this article and the main stream media that produced it.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Now that is one long a$$ name.
/eyeroll.
Bolding for emphasis (mine). Couldn't just let that obvious omission go w/o fixing it.
Oh God so its OK for CNN to campaign against the first amendment for other networks, but removing porn from elementary schools is just too much?
The fact the author says a national movement is forming means something artificial paid for by Soros or the Feds
Is it possible there are some wokester’s who don’t understand how truly evil the woke agenda is?
One would need to be of a very low IQ, a loser in the chance game of DNA, and be mentally unstable in several ways. That’s a lot of things coming together to make a woke true believer.
I guess it happens though. Just look at these thug men who pretend to be women just so they can compete with women in sports. It takes a negative value of moral character to do such a thing.
I dunno, maybe the hardcore Muslims have a point in how they deal with them.
🐂💩
Remember all the talk about astroturfing? There has always been more money on the left than on the right...
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