Authors of George Floyd book were told not to talk about systemic racism at Tenn. school event
Authors of George Floyd book were told not to talk about systemic racism at Tenn. school event
Memphis-Shelby County Schools denied placing restrictions on what the authors could say, calling it a “miscommunication.”
Journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “His Name Is George Floyd,” are still unclear why they were told they couldn’t read from their book or talk about systemic racism to a room full of high school students in Memphis.
Two days before an event at Whitehaven High School, they said they were “blindsided” by the last-minute restrictions, which they believed event organizers issued in accordance with Tennessee laws restricting certain books in schools. They said they’d also been told the week before the appearance that their book wouldn’t be distributed at the event.
One thing is for certain, the authors said: The students paid the price ultimately.
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Yep. They are big on not having any censorship, unless of course it's any kind of progressive or humane ideas and speech.
The professor who "discovered" systemic racism was recently barred from research because it turned out he literally made up the stats and rigged his research to present systemic racism as being real.
The dude has been barred from all academia for his incompetence and every single paper he wrote and that used his data as a basis for their own research on the existence of systemic racism was pulled. Whether it does or does not exist matters much less now that we are fully aware that people in positions of power over the research are blatantly lying about their findings.
More info on the piece of trash found here: https://thepostmillennial.com/renowned-criminology-professor-who-proved-systemic-racism-fired-for-faking-data-studies-retracted
I think the subject of the post begs the question a little. It's hardly intellectually honest to insinuate that institutional racism doesn't exist in broad form because the guy who formalized it fudged the numbers.
It speaks plenty that conservatives won't allow institutions that they control to even talk about it. If those numbers are so radically false, why stifle the conversation? Especially when the data would then benefit conservative counterpoints.
The truth can be seen in raw data from other sources, like the prison population of the state I live in for instance. How come in Louisiana, black people make up a third of the population but two thirds of the prison population?
Are you going to argue that there's not enough data to draw the conclusion that black people are incarcerated at a higher rate? The numbers are right there. Are you going to try to justify the (racist) idea that black people just do more crimes? Maybe it's just that people stuck in lower socioeconomic positions resort to crime more often. So is it that black people tend to not have the same resources other people do to lift themselves up? Possibly due to a generational pattern of poverty?
Or maybe it's that the police here know that people of a certain color won't be able to afford to fight back as often. Or that the judges in this shit hole state are ancient racists (with the exception of a couple I know) and don't believe black people can reform.
That doesn't sound like institutionalized racism to you?
That reasoning exists independent of the guy who formalized it. It's pretty asinine to deny the existence of something because of flaws in the way it was studied, regardless of the intent of the person who wrote the paper.
why did they comply?
"...which they believed event organizers issued in accordance with Tennessee laws restricting certain books in schools."
Legal worries, I'm guessing.Free speech is bait to put dissidents in jail
While it would be an epic and radicalizing event for the school to have them arrested on stage, it might not be worth tanking their whole movement for one middle finger in the asscrack of Tennessee.
$$$$, probably
But by telling them that they couldn't talk about systemic racism, they themselves were talking about systemic racism.
Checkmate.
That's how you get the students to read the book. Well done.
Tennessee is doing a speed-run to become worse than Mississippi and Missouri.
Because it is a theory? That doesn’t exist?
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Imagine being so stupid that you don't actually understand what the word "theory" means. Despite being on the Internet. Where you can look it up in seconds.
That's pretty goddamn stupid.
Do you have room in there for one more go fuck yourself? Willfully ignorant pos.
And you got your law degree from which university?
Account is 2 days old. This dude is either a troll or a bot