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Boatshoe are you saying that these kids are stupid? What is there for the tacher to explain? That SHE stupid?
Malcolm and Martin go hand in hand
What part don't YOU understand?
The first question I'd ask if I was a parent there would be why they are teaching history in technology class anyway. The second question would be what programming language are they teaching my forth grader in technology class. Then the third question would be what does Malcolm X have to do with technology class.
Guess what technology teachers overseas teach their 4th graders. And we wonder why we can't compete for IT jobs.
Boatshoe are you saying that these kids are stupid? What is there for the tacher to explain? That SHE stupid?
Malcolm and Martin go hand in hand
What part don't YOU understand?
I'm not saying the kids are stupid. I'm saying they are probably like any other 4th grade class.
If the teacher didn't care about her job security she'd explain that she didn't want to assign Malcolm because the kids might find out he belonged to a racial supremacist religion for most of his public life (before leaving it and getting killed for it) and that he advocated a violent solution to the problem of racism (a stance that is controversial to this day). You've said yourself that kids these days are clever. What if they do a google search for Malcolm X quotes and find a bunch of stuff he said before he left the Nation of Islam? Quotes avowing black supremacy? Anti-semitic quotes? You think the teacher wants to touch those questions with a 10 foot pole?
Malcolm X
was fighting against racial supremacists
What religion were They?
Bottom line is fourth graders everywhere
Already should know about Malcolm
X and if they don't the teacher should have taken the opportunity to teach them
Not decide oh I don't approve of what the man was about so I just gonna cut him out of Black History
She's a teacher. She supposed to get asked questions and Islam is a religion of
Peace and taught Black men discipline how to eat and defend themselves too
I don't see what it doing in technology
class but I'm surprised if tech class even got wifi
Today's fourth grade students have no conscious radio music from political rap acts like Public Enemy or X-Clan. The least parents can do is expose them to Malcolm X and MLK through films or music, so they can develop critical thought and intelligently challenge mess that narrow-minded educators like this Queens teacher profess to teach.
I agree with the parents
the teacher needs a LESSON
Malcolm X is just as much a part of Black History as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks and MLK are American icons who changed the country.
Malcolm X is a black nationalist and black Muslim icon, and he didn't really change the country.
That's not to say that I have a problem with the guy. Towards the end he seems to have abandoned his hatred of white people and become a real Muslim, abandoning the heretical doctrines of the NOI. However, that doesn't make him at the level of a Rosa Parks or a Martin Luther King.
If there's any black Muslim who changed this country, it's Muhammad Ali.
Malcolm X
was fighting against racial supremacists
What religion were They?
Bottom line is fourth graders everywhere
Already should know about Malcolm
X and if they don't the teacher should have taken the opportunity to teach them
Not decide oh I don't approve of what the man was about so I just gonna cut him out of Black History
She's a teacher. She supposed to get asked questions and Islam is a religion of
Peace and taught Black men discipline how to eat and defend themselves too
I don't see what it doing in technology
class but I'm surprised if tech class even got wifi
Ok, this is the last time I'm posting in this thread. You don't seem to comprehend the difference between Sunni Islam and Nation of Islam. I was speaking specifically of Nation of Islam in my previous post which is an inherently racist and supremacist religion. This is not an opinion. You can look it up. As you were so passionate in your defense of Malcolm X, I made the mistake of assuming that you knew what you were talking about.
Ok, this is the last time I'm posting in this thread. You don't seem to comprehend the difference between Sunni Islam and Nation of Islam. I was speaking specifically of Nation of Islam in my previous post which is an inherently racist and supremacist religion. This is not an opinion. You can look it up. As you were so passionate in your defense of Malcolm X, I made the mistake of assuming that you knew what you were talking about.
So what. American culture is racist and white supremacist. If Black children want to learn about Mailk Shabazz then why is it a problem?
So what. American culture is racist and white supremacist. If Black children want to learn about Mailk Shabazz then why is it a problem?
Send them to private school. Public schools the serve American "white supremacist" "racist" culture.
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