A professional education consultant speaking at the 17th annual White Privilege Conference in Philadelphia has suggested that teachers must be activists too, working to overcome the racial supremacist narrative of disciplined hard work leading to individual success.
The white imperial gaze must be deconstructed by transgressing against the normative hetero-patriarchal conceptions of goal orientation and proper English. The hierarchical power structure of grading emphasizes traits chosen to favor whites! Students should be assessed not for their individual merits, but rather taught as a class.
Classroom learning and class consciousness must be intimately intertwined, like the hammer and sickle of our mighty banner.
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