For those of you who’ve been following, EduColor has built up quite a bit of steam in the last few months. With hundreds of followers on Twitter, Facebook, and our newsletter, we’re providing a voice that’s been so necessary out there. As founder, I’m fortunate to lead our bi-weekly newsletters with a few words.
Latoya Peterson of Fusion recently said that the silence of our friends is violence, and nowhere is that truer than the field of K-12 education. Educators can’t refuse the tide of the national zeitgeist. In this issue, we’ve chosen to flip the idea that we only talk about standards, content, and iPad apps. With the recent hate crime (terrorist attack) on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC, the suicide of Kalief Browder, First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech honoring Hadiya Pendleton at what was supposed to be her graduation, and the silencing and mocking of Black women through the lie that is Rachel Dolezal, it’s important for educators to create safe spaces for their students to share their opinions, not simply impose ours.
Read the rest here and let me know what you think. Share with all your friends, too. The movement is here.
Jose
Where is the constant drumbeat of righteous indignation? Aren’t there enough of us in this country who can scream with one powerful voice into our cowardly leaders’ faces that we’ve had it with these killings? The kids and teachers at Columbine should have been critical mass. The little children and teachers of Newtown should have produced the pinnacle of critical mass. They cleaned up the result of that atrocity too quickly. (I mean no disrespect to the victims and their families.) We add Gabby Gifford to Newtown plus twelve other mass shootings since 2008. That now includes the nine new victims of utter senselessness to the growing list of mass homicides. That’s beyond any human comprehension. What could possibly top this?
I just wonder who out there will become the next victim or victims through the simple pull of a trigger? Behind that little squeeze of the finger are the insanity and the political blood money of the NRA, the gun manufacturers, the utter corruption and cowardice of our political leadership, and finally the paralysis of ordinary Americans…
It’s an absolute certainty that someone among us will become the next victim of gun violence today or tonight…
I don’t mean to minimize the racist motivation behind the horrific atrocity in Charleston. That adds another thick layer of ugliness and depravity to the already existing one that gun violence produced a long time ago.