S1:E8 - Why Should Educators Care About "White Rage"?

"As we shift our understanding from racism and white supremacy as an “individual aberration” expressed through outright violence and open discrimination — viral videos of police shootings or Civil Rights-era images of dogs used against nonviolent protesters — to something “systemic, institutional, and pervasive” — say, that black students are three times more likely to be suspended from school than white students — , it is so vitally important for us as teachers to understand our individual and collective complicity, how our supposed “colorblindness” fails us and the children we teach, as well as our individual and collective power to resist these structures in our classrooms." This is an audio recording of an article published on July 25th, 2019 to our Medium page by me, Nick Covington, as HRP’s Book of the Month for “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide” by Carol Anderson, you can read the full article and find more by other contributors at our Medium page. The Human Restoration Project is a non-profit dedicated to informing and spreading progressive education, through free educational programs, resources, and online materials for teachers, families, and students. You can learn more and follow us at humanrestorationproject.org or on twitter @humrespro. Follow founder Chris McNutt @mcnuttGISA and myself @CovingtonAHS. Be sure to add the hashtag #restorehumanity. We hope to hear from you. Quiet_recording ambience from user Jaturo used under Creative Commons License 1