THAT`S GOOD T-BONES!!!! Your latest e-mail was much more polite! Mommy scares you into being more polite! But....hey T-bones.....muted rudeness does NOT constitute any sort of valid argument! Such as this below:
A pair of Toronto Sun writers have done a good job of explaining what sort of poison is being taught by special interest groups that have infiltrated our schools. These groups are using GRANT MONEY given out by LIE-beral politicians and civil service loons seeking to BUY ethnic votes. These wretched LIE-berals are more interested in grabbing power and gravy for themselves than they are in who gets SHOT on our increasingly MEAN streets! I reprint the article by Sun writers Levy and Henri below, along with some comments of my own in brackets):
Black Lives Matter Toronto misses point of protest. By Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun. First posted: Sunday, July 24, 2016 06:30 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, July 24, 2016 08:18 PM EDT
Black Lives Matter-Toronto Freedom School classroom inside a TDSB school on July 13, 2016. (Veronica Henri/Toronto Sun)
TORONTO - An expert on the Mississippi Freedom movement of 1964 that led to desegregation and gave alienated blacks the vote says there “doesn’t seem to be any thinking” by Black Lives Matter “about how to build a movement.”
(I say: American Blacks in 1960`s had logical goals they worked towards by sensible means while BLM Toronto is a bunch of arrogant loudmouths who want EVERYTHING in life THEIR WAY-REGARDLESS of what laws all the rest of us have to live by!)
Dr. Kathy Emery, a lecturer at San Francisco State University who has written extensively on the Freedom Summer and Freedom Schools movement, says not only was the situation completely different back in 1964 — namely that blacks were being lynched, tortured and sexually abused by the police and by white citizens, and the entire state was dedicated to maintaining “white supremacy” — but she says the leaders of the Mississippi movement were trained in the history of “non-violent” action, had a strategy, and carefully “chose their targets” before engaging in the summer’s campaign.
“There was infrastructure and organization the way there doesn’t seem to be yet in the BLM movement,” says Emery, who ran her own summer Freedom School in San Francisco from 2005-2010.
“They don’t understand the history of the south Freedom movement and they don’t understand the history of nonviolence.”
I contacted two American experts last week to better ascertain what the 1964 Freedom School movement was all about and whether it has any connection — either as far as the curriculum or the rationale is concerned -— to the one initiated this summer by a member of BLM Toronto, LeRoi Newbold.
BLM Toronto and Newbold refused numerous efforts to respond to questions about the Toronto school — which runs until July 29 — but many details are available on the BLM-Toronto Facebook page (facebook-dot-com/blacklivesmatterTO).
Emery says the original Freedom Schools — there were 41 in Mississippi — were part of a summer project to attempt to “crack open” the state, which was the “heart of apartheid in the south.”
“The stuff that we see today on camera and all that, that’s a drop in the bucket compared to Mississippi in the 1960s and earlier,” says William Sturkey, whose excellent article “The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools” was just posted online about a month ago.
Sturkey, assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, says the curriculum included remedial reading, writing and arithmetic, which was intertwined with teaching the students — ages 5-82 — how voting works and what it can do (to change their lives).
After attending segregated schools where the curriculum “was closely monitored” to ensure certain black history wasn’t taught, he said the Freedom School kids “were bursting with excitement” to express themselves.
Black history became a “huge part” of the Freedom School curriculum, Sturkey says, with a focus on such activists as Harriet Tubman (a former slave and abolitionist who rescued other slaves through the Underground Railroad), and Frederick Douglass and Ella Baker, both African-Amercian civil rights activists.
The students created their own newspapers, wrote stories, poems, plays and essays, and even wrote letters to the president, he says.
“They felt their voices were actually being heard.”
Sit-ins were carried out to “incite boycotts” of stores and movie theatres, for example, that still wouldn’t allow blacks to sit with whites, even after president Lyndon B. Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964.
Sturkey said a lot of the Freedom School students that summer went to their local Woolworth’s and “just began sitting in.
“They became the first ones served at the local Woolworth’s,” says Sturkey,
These sit-ins were done to “gain sympathy” of the public, Emery adds, and not to anger people, as BLM appeared to do by disrupting Toronto’s July 3 gay Pride parade.
“The thinking (by BLM) seems to be disruption … to bring attention to the issue …but then what?” she says.
“Anger is the opposite of what you want to do … it alienates people. You have to have humour and audacity … that’s the key to success of any direct action.”
Sturkey notes that the Washington, D.C.-based Children’s Defense Fund operates a modern kind of Freedom School program (summer and after-hours) throughout the U.S. that is more focused on teaching kids to read, providing daycare, feeding kids nutritious meals, and providing a “really positive environment” in many places “where kids don’t experience a lot of positivity.”
ABOUT THE TORONTO FREEDOM SCHOOL
It started two weeks ago in Toronto District School Board (TDSB) school in the west end.
The Black Lives Matter-Toronto Freedom School is being led by LeRoi Newbold, a teacher at TDSB’s Africentric school and a member of the BLM movement.
The Children’s Peace Theatre — heavily subsidized with Toronto, provincial and foundation grants and which operates out of the city-owned Massey Goulding Estate for rent of $2 a year — took out the permit for the Freedom School space. TDSB spokesman Ryan Bird says they paid approximately $3,400 for the three-week permit.
(Yeah, that`s great-a whole pile of GOVT MORONS ENCOURAGING Blacks to blame White people for ALL their troubles. As if it was White people who encouraged ignorant Black kids to drop out of school and deal drugs! And was it White people who suggested to Black dorks that it was a good idea to drive through a police radar trap or police roadblock and threaten to run down cops-and then blame cops for Black dorks getting shot? In a BLM school a car is NOT defined as a lethal weapon when a Black driver is trying to run down a White cop. BLM dorks apparently see running over cops as `social justice` and consider reverse discrimination to be fair play? And maybe this helps explain WHY cops are so willing to shoot-BEFORE they get run over and to use lethal force to stop wild drivers before they kill a member of the public?)
Newbold and the BLM organizers refused several requests for an interview about the school, its curriculum and the attendees.
(I bet that`s right! If BLM DID tell us what they were teaching there would be a HUGE outcry from DISGUSTED tax payers-and much of that anger would be directed at LIE-berals who are doing such a FINE job of undermining our society by encouraging DORKS who hate Whites and western civilization to demand `change`! But then what can we expect when the Ontari-owe LIE-beral premier dislikes men and has little use for them except as walking wallets to be LOOTED and our prime minister that stupid Boy was raised by his father to consider Canada to be IMPERIALIST! Add in the reality that LIE-berals MUST BUY civil service union votes along with whatever votes they can gather from other LUNATIC fringe groups such as BLM if they are to be elected and you have a package of values that are POISON to ordinary Cdns!)
Karen Emerson, artistic director of the Children’s Peace Theatre, would only say they were “particularly proud” to be trusteeing the Freedom School this year for BLM, whose members were “just awarded the city’s race relations award.”
But according to information posted on the BLM Facebook page, the program was designed to “engage children in political resistance to anti-black racism and state violence” — through a trans-feminist, queer-positive lens — and offer “an entry point into the #BlackLivesMatter movement.”
It appears that the students have spent their time so far making accessible playgrounds out of jinx wood, learning about resistance in Brazil, about Nanny Maroon (a Jamaican national hero) and the Haitian Revolution, cooking hominy porridge and veggie patties, and visiting the Sustenance Greenhouse at the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. They also prepared drawings and notes to the incarcerated engaged in hunger strikes at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay.
(OH swell-kids writing notes to CRIMINALS on hunger strikes in Lindsay jail! And who would these poor innocent/hungry CRIMINALS be? And just what are their crimes? And would ordinary Cdns think it a good idea to persuade their kids to be sympathetic to such people? BLM thinks its none of our business and NOT our concern to know what propaganda they are stuffing into the kids in their classes! It is OBVIOUS to me that one quick way to save govt tax money is NOT to continue funding MORONS who mislead kids! But its TYPICAL LIE-beral **** that THEY decide what-if anything-to tell us about how OUR MONEY is used!)
The three-week program will end Friday with an event displaying the art of Freedom School students.
SLevy@postmedia.com
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That's nice. You run and tell Mommy now, hear?
