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.
Americans are, indeed, exceptional – the most gullible public in the world, always ready to believe their leaders’ lies.
The Democrats claim to “resist” and oppose Trump, but they are once again planning to give him all the money he wants for war.
The US long war on the Black liberation movement is far from over.
Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.
This week we discuss the internal colony theory, Hollywood’s portrayal of the Central Park Five, and continue the discussion on the future of Black Lives Matter. We share letters about “
