Anti racist baby by Ibraim Kennedy

[Jersey Girl]

I sure hope this garbage isn't actually being taught to my kids in school.

What do you mean, you hope? Don't you know what your own children are being taught in school?

[ajax18]

What do you mean, you hope? Don't you know what your own children are being taught in school?

Would you teach from Ibram Kendi's "Anti Racist Baby Looks Excellent?"

[Jersey Girl]

What do you mean, you hope? Don't you know what your own children are being taught in school?

Would you teach from Ibram Kendi's "Anti Racist Baby Looks Excellent?"

Would you answer the question I posed to you?

[ajax18]

Would you answer the question I posed to you?

No I don't know everything that is being taught or what is actually said at school. Now answer my first question and this one as well.

If you planned to teach from a book like, "The two Kings," or "Antiracist Baby is Excellent" would you notify the parents first?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Would you answer the question I posed to you?

No I don't know everything that is being taught or what is actually said at school. Now answer my first question and this one as well.

If you planned to teach from a book like, "The two Kings," or "Antiracist Baby is Excellent" would you notify the parents first?

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/ ... _BReFc2nPA

[Jersey Girl]

Would you answer the question I posed to you?

No I don't know everything that is being taught or what is actually said at school. Now answer my first question and this one as well.

If you planned to teach from a book like, "The two Kings," or "Antiracist Baby is Excellent" would you notify the parents first?

No and for the very same reason that your professor/instructors didn't teach you how to correct vision using the Harry Potter Witchcraft and Wizardry Book of Spells.

Don't you know how schools actually function?

[Gadianton]

I say that he's a cult leader because he actually says things like If you don't listen to me and repeat what I say, then you are a racist and you can only be cleansed of your racism by paying me twenty thousand dollars to do a diversity session about how your racist.

CFR

[Res Ipsa]

I haven’t read the baby book, but I just finished Kendi’s How to be an Anti Racist. The baby book sounds like a simple illustration of the principles he develops in How to be an Anti-Racist.

I thought the book was very well written and that it set out a well thought out model of racism and anti racism. Each chapter begins with a definition of some term, often with a racist and an anti racist formulation. The term is then illustrated through a story or incident from the author’s life. We follow the author as he struggles to understand and comes to terms with his own experience as both a subject of racism and as a racist.

Kendi defines racism in terms of formal and informal policies. Most of these policies were created out of someones perceived self-interest and not out of racial hatred. It is the effect of these policies, not the intent, that determines whether they are racist. The justifications offered in defense of racist policies often drives the narratives that create individual bigotry. So, it is the policies that leads to racial hatred and not the other way around.

Viewing racism as created by policies also leads him to pair the terms racist and anti racist. He rejects “not racist” as a meaningful position, as tolerating the existence of racist policies is itself racist.

Kendi strongly argues against the notion that blacks people cannot be racist because they lack power. He discusses in detail black on black racism and how anyone can be racist, even toward his own racial group, if he supports or tolerates racist policies.

The book led me to re-examine how I think about racism. There are several things I like about his approach. I think it makes more sense to acknowledge, accept, and celebrate diversity instead of pretending we don’t see color. In general, I’m a functionalist, so viewing racism as a matter of policy as opposed to individual characteristics makes sense to me. And it makes anti racism empowering: if an effort to change a racist policy fails, the response is to formulate a new strategy, rather than wallow in the notion that changing hearts and minds is nearly impossible. Change the racist policy, and the hearts and minds will follow.

If the baby book is a simplified version of his steps to becoming anti racist, I would have no problem using the book to teach my own young child about racism.

[ajax18]

Don't you know how schools actually function?

I've heard of teachers making books like, "The Two Kings," part of the curriculum in grade schools. Are you saying that never happens or only as often as optometry schools teach from alchemy and Harry Potter witchcraft texts?

[Jersey Girl]

What do you mean, you hope? Don't you know what your own children are being taught in school?

Would you teach from Ibram Kendi's "Anti Racist Baby Looks Excellent?"

I wouldn't teach from a book to begin with. I teach based on Constructivist theory and practice.