As a Principal, Jamaal Bowman Objected to Teaching About 'White' Figures Like George Washington, Honoring Cop-Killers Instead

WFB ^ | 8 Apr 2024 | Meghan Blonder

[Rummyfan]

As a middle school principal, New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman advised against teaching about "white" historical figures like George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. Instead, he used his position to elevate a renowned anti-Semite and cop-killers.

While speaking at a 2018 conference hosted by the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), Bowman detailed his pedagogy as the principal of the Bronx middle school he founded, Cornerstone Academy for Social Action (CASA). He encouraged educators to instill "self-empowerment" in their students by pushing back on "white" cultural figures, citing Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus as detriments to his students' success.

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Roughly four years earlier, at CASA, Bowman curated a "Wall of Honor" featuring former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.), Assata Shakur, and Mutulu Shakur—all of whom Bowman said "played a major role in moving our society … toward a world of freedom, justice, and equality." Years before Bowman established the wall, in 2009, McKinney attended a Holocaust denial gathering in London, where she praised anti-Semitic leaders and writers. Assata Shakur was convicted for the first-degree murder of a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, while Mutulu Shakur led a group of armed robbers who killed a guard and two New York police officers in 1981.

[TigerClaws]

Celebrating criminals surely puts these kids on the path to success in life.

Marxists hate America and are here to destroy us. Shouldn’t be allowed to serve in public office.

[Tell It Right]

There is nothing “self-empowerment” about teaching the kids to be cult followers of the left.

[Red Badger]

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[Night Hides Not]

O/T, but I have a niece who's studying for her teacher's certificate. She left her scratch pad in my office. She did pretty good, but I discovered a few mistakes in math. VERY simple stuff.

I told her I'd tutor her if she needed more assistance.

Math is hard today, if you don't have a calculator. Yeah, I use a calculator at work, too.

[bgill]

He is keeping blacks down on the plantation.

[Flaming Conservative]

Diversity hires are seldom qualified.

[Carl Vehse]

New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman = anti-American, leftwing, racist, ignorant scum

[hanamizu]

I told her I’d tutor her if she needed more assistance.

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Good luck on that if she’s studying how math is taught today. Simple addition and subtraction involves lots of tiny boxes. Getting the right answer apparently is not as important as using the correct method.

[Bigg Red]

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