Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Pomona College and supporter of legislation requiring all students in California’s public university system to pass an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill was put on hold in the face of fierce opposition. Seventy-five percent of the state’s K1-12 students are non-whites, but few students or teachers “have learned this crucial history,” said Ochoa.
Their true crime is their brilliant defense of international law, and Venezuela’s sovereign right to self-determination against Yankee imperialism.
The cops can’t find white terrorists in plain sight, but they have turned technology to the task of criminalizing Black and Left dissent.
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The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
The author believes we are at a crossroads between fascism and/or extinction, and a path of communal care.
