It's essential to have a deep, public examination of what chattel slavery, Jim Crow, lynching, redlining, housing/school segregation, mass incarceration, etc have done to the black community. It allows for a more honest conversation about what's necessary to make amends for that.
#angeladavis pointed out the parallelism between prisons and schools. #foucault and #ervingoffman pointed out the similarities between asylums and prisons. these places have significantly more to do with control (obedience, punishment) than healing, learning, or rehabilitation
As an #educator, it saddens me to see our discipline system in #publicschools mirror that of a detention center. We have to come up with a better way of keeping our future off the streets and out of jail. Perhaps we need to start with better #educationandtraining.
THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Flint residents still don't have CLEAN WATER. Families have to wait for hours to get clean water & not everybody waiting is even guaranteed of that. They are turned away once the supply runs out.
Clean water is a HUMAN RIGHT!
RETWEET FOR FLINT 💔
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Imagine coming out of our world and entering theirs? People say "If you can't do the time...don't do the crime." Not a single teen thinks like… https://t.co/9EJz5DUXKS