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By: Aaron Benner

Published: Oct 2, 2015

I have been an elementary teacher almost all of my adult life, mostly in St. Paul Public Schools. First and foremost, I teach because I love kids, I love schools, I love our city, and I really love what happens when a group of kids becomes a community in a classroom and a school. For this to occur, everybody has to play a part — parents, students, teachers, building and district administration, and the broader community. As a black man, it breaks my heart to watch these communities fall apart and to see some children who look like me behave so poorly in our schools.

In 2011, I addressed the St. Paul School Board. At the time, I told them about my concerns with student behavior at Benjamin E. Mays Elementary School, where I taught sixth grade. I hoped to start a discussion about what I was witnessing. Although the media paid some attention (likely because my race made for an interesting story), the school board ignored me. I addressed the board again on May 20, 2014, regarding the same issues, but this time I was aware they were happening districtwide. Four other brave teachers accompanied me. The school board ignored us again and tried to paint us as anti-racial equity.

From 2013-15, I taught fourth grade at John A. Johnson Elementary (JAJ). The behaviors that I witnessed last year at JAJ were far worse than what I complained to the school board about in 2011 and in 2014. On a daily basis, I saw students cussing at their teachers, running out of class, yelling and screaming in the halls, and fighting. If I had a dollar for every time my class was interrupted by a student running into my room and yelling, I’d be a rich man. It was obvious to me that these behaviors were affecting learning, so when I saw the abysmal test scores this summer, I was not surprised. Out of 375 students, only 14.3 percent were proficient in Reading, 9.6 percent in Math and 9.3 percent in Science. These test scores are not acceptable in any way, shape or form.

I diligently collected data on the behaviors that I saw in our school and completed behavior referrals for the assaults. These referrals were not accurately collected. The school suspended some students, but many more assaults were ignored or questioned by administrators to the point where the assaults were not even documented. I have since learned that this tactic is widely used throughout the district to keep the numbers of referrals and suspensions low.

The parents who complained to the school board last year about behavior at Ramsey Jr. High know all too well about behaviors being ignored. The students of SPPS are being used in some sort of social experiment where they are not being held accountable for their behavior. This is only setting our children up to fail in the future, especially our black students. All of my students at JAJ were traumatized by what they experienced last year — even my black students. Safety was my number one concern, not teaching.

Who would conduct such an experiment on our kids? I blame the San Francisco-based consulting firm, Pacific Education Group (PEG). PEG was hired by SPPS in 2010 to help close the achievement gap. PEG makes no secret of the fact that its prescription for closing the gap is based on the Critical Race Theory. This theory argues that racism is so ingrained in the American way of life — its economy, schools, and government — that things must be made unequal in order to compensate for that racism. PEG pushes the idea that black students are victims of white school policies that make it difficult or impossible for them to learn. So, when a black student is disruptive, PEG, as I see it, stresses that it’s not their fault, and the student should just take a break, and then return to class shortly thereafter.

Racism and white privilege definitely exist, and there is not enough space in this paper for me to share all of the humiliating encounters I’ve experienced that are a product of racism. But to blame poor behavior and low test scores solely on white teachers is simply wrong. However, it’s the new narrative in our district, pushed by PEG.

I recently dropped out of the St. Paul School Board race to focus on my new job at a charter school, but I’m still concerned with the current state of SPPS and the direction of the school board. Here’s what I think should happen: First and foremost, the newly elected board must sever ties with Pacific Education Group. PEG has charged the taxpayers of St. Paul $3 million over the last five years. According to some reports, SPPS has matched PEG with $1.2 million. What are these matching dollars used for? It is crucial to understand that behaviors throughout the district have escalated to the point where we are at a crisis in St. Paul. PEG is not working. To add insult to injury, two weeks ago, the St. Paul School Board had the audacity to set the ceiling of next year’s tax levy 3.85 percent higher than the current year. Tax increase? This must be a joke.

Racial equity and closing the achievement gap, the correct way, are commendable goals. However, PEG’s idea of racial equity is NOT the answer. PEG stresses black culture and nothing else. What is black culture? Did PEG survey the black community of St. Paul and ask what behaviors should be acceptable in our schools? I don’t recall filling out any surveys or receiving any phone calls regarding this topic.

Because of PEG, we have forgotten about our Asian, Latino and Native communities. The St. Paul Public School district has the second most diverse school population in the country (New York City is ranked No. 1). For the record, Asians make up the largest minority group in our schools. PEG has influenced this district on major policy changes, from questionable behavioral guidelines and hiring practices to the creation of new positions with jargonistic titles.

We now have “Cultural Specialists” and “Behavior Specialists” throughout our schools. An overwhelming number of these specialists are black, and it’s not clear to me what their qualifications are. Their job seems to be to talk to students who have been involved in disruptions or altercations and return them to class as quickly as possible. Some of these “specialists” even reward disruptive students by taking them to the gym to play basketball (yes, you read that correctly). This scene plays out over and over for teachers throughout the school day. There is no limit to the number of times a disruptive student will be returned to your class. The behavior obviously has not changed, and some students have realized that their poor behavior has its benefits.

St. Paul Public Schools is in desperate need of true behaviorists to replace these “specialists.” Licensed therapists who are trained to help change and replace inappropriate behaviors. I expect that PEG would never go for this because it would contradict their excuse that “black culture” accounts for such behaviors. The newly elected school board can change that.

Another action the newly elected school board must take is to visit schools, listen to teachers, and offer them much-needed support. Teachers are currently fending for themselves when it comes to behavior concerns. Part of my frustration is with the leadership of the St. Paul Federation of Teachers. The union is so concerned with getting along with the district that they are paralyzed when the hundreds of teachers they represent bring up the issue of behavior. This needs to change.

PEG and SPPS are harming the very people whose interests they claim to represent. Follow the money. The taxpayers of St. Paul should demand to know who exactly is benefitting from PEG. Students definitely aren’t.

Aaron Anthony Benner works as the African- American Liaison/Behavior Coach and Community of Peace Academy, a public charter school in St. Paul.

By: Victor Skinner

Published: Sep 24, 2019

Aaron Benner, a black teacher from St. Paul, Minnesota, won a large settlement with the St. Paul School District last week over retaliation he faced for speaking out against the district’s race-based student discipline policies.

Benner argued the investigations came in retaliation for complaints to the school board about race-based student discipline policies implemented by then Superintendent Valeria Silva and promoted by President Obama. The discipline policies aimed to reduce suspensions of black students by lowering the expectations for behavior and increasing the threshold for suspensions, something Benner repeatedly, publicly argued was against the best interests of black students.

The “restorative justice” approach to student discipline was accompanied by “white privilege” teacher training sessions that cost the district taxpayers more than $3 million. Those sessions focused on the “white privilege” theory that the public education system is hopelessly stacked against black students, who shouldn’t be held accountable for poor academics or bad behavior.

In St. Paul and hundreds of schools across the country, the “white privilege” training sessions were conducted by Pacific Educational Group, also known as PEG.

“PEG was hired by SPPS in 2010 to help close the achievement gap. PEG makes no secret that its prescription for closing the gap is based on the Critical Race Theory. This theory argues that racism is so ingrained in the American way of life – its economy, schools, and government – that things must be made unequal in order to compensate for that racism,” Benner wrote in a 2015 editorial for the Press.

“Peg pushes the idea that black students are victims of white school policies that make it difficult or impossible for them to learn,” Benner wrote. “So, when a black student is disruptive, PEG, as I see it, stresses that it’s not their fault.”

Benner refused to accept that black students are less capable than their white classmates and left the school district in 2015. Benner taught at a local charter school and was later hired for a administration position at the St. Paul private school Cretin-Derham Hall, according to the Star Tribune.

After years of complaints from parents, teachers, administrators and others about violent and disruptive students running rampant with impunity, St. Paul school leaders eventually got rid of Silva and scrapped the failed student discipline policies.

Last week, the school board settled up with Benner, though the district denied any wrongdoing.

“This agreement enables the district to avoid the time, expense and uncertainty of protracted legal proceedings regarding its previous policies, practices and expectations,” board members wrote in a prepared statement.

The district contends taxpayers are responsible for $50,000 of the settlement, while its insurer will cover $475,000.

Benner told the Star Tribune he credits God for the favorable outcome.

“I thank God for all the blessings in my life,” he wrote in an email to the news site. “I turned 50 this year, got married in July and now (there is) this settlement.”

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The school board for Colorado Springs District 49 moved to ban critical race theory in a vote of 3 to 2 after the man and others spoke, as reported by a local news outlet. The board’s president, John Graham, was in favor of outlawing the dogma.

The man speaking said he has three kids and “can think of nothing more damaging to a society than to tell a baby born today that she has grievances against another baby born today, simply because of what their ancestors may have done two centuries ago.”

“There’s simply no point in doing that to our children, and putting critical race theory into our classrooms in part does that,” he said, to which attendees gave a standing ovation. “Putting critical theory into our classrooms is not combating racism. It’s fanning the flames of what little embers are left. I encourage you to support this resolution. Let racism die the death it deserves.”

You can see the video of his speech, shared by anti-CRT advocate Christopher Rufo, here.

#school boards #fathers #critical race theory #CO #Tristan Justice #Colorado Springs #public schools #bans #blacks #speeches #pers com #neoracism

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Slavery is not a matter of American culture. White europeans did not create slavery. Blacks were not slaves to only whites. Slavery doesn't have a race. White Americans don't owe black Americans anything.

#slavery #neoracism #black racism #racial Marxism #end racism #end white guilt #end the race war #equality #all are equal #black victimhood #black Marxism #black victim culture

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Wokeness, (anti)racism, and neoracism

The most striking facet of contemporary antiracism is how much its adherents agree with racists on just about everything.

Now, you can’t call this straight-up racism because, well, it’s anti-racism. The people who practice antiracism have taken great pains to establish racism as purely a matter of semantics. A person’s actions don’t factor into it, nor do the consequences of those actions, nor even the basal presumptions that underlie those actions. All that matters is whether a person regards what they do as being antiracist. If they announce “this is antiracist” before agitating for, say, a re-establishment of segregated schools, then they’re being antiracist. If they don’t, then they’re not Doing the Work, and so their actions are de facto racist regardless of everything else.

To stress, and I’m not exaggerating: semantic programmatics are the entirety of contemporary antiracism. Nothing else factors into it. Nothing.

And so, like I said, we’ve reached a point where antiracists agree with racists on most issues, and so by a bizarre twist of logic disagreeing with racists can make you racist.

Within this understanding, “The Working Class” always refers to white people, and the immiseration of the working class was caused by the minor gains made by a handful of non-white people since the early 90′s. The suicide and opioid epidemics were therefore caused by the racial diversification of the ruling class. You can determine whether or not someone is racist or antiracist by whether or not they think these epidemics are a righteous comeuppance (antiracist) or a disgusting travesty (racist).

To focus on a less pressing (but more annoying) aspect to the current discourse, consider the treatment of benign symbols that mentally unwell people regard as racist. There’s hundreds of examples. Let’s look at this zoo that had lighted silhouettes of monkeys. Monkey are animals. Zoos contain animals, and often contain monkeys. A person whose brain is not diseased would see the monkey as a crude, appealing representation of wild creatures held in amusing captivity.

But this, we are told, is wrong. If you look at a cartoon monkey and do not immediately read it as a representation of black people, you are not racist. But since you are not racist, you cannot be properly antiracist. Antiracism requires one to agree with racists but to make different semantic gestures in regards to your shared understanding of world: do you denounce the monkeys (antiracist) or celebrate them (racist)? That’s it. That’s the only choice.

John McWorter recently wrote a piece arguing that what I call wokeness should instead be regarded as neoracism. While I first bristled at the term (and it’s going to be a long while before you can get away with using in polite company), this framing is entirely correct and has immense utility. Contemporary antiracism is a truly hateful and malignant worldview. Many of us have to pretend to respect it in order to keep our jobs and social standing. But that doesn’t mean we have to actually respect it. If we want any hope of a marginally more decent future, we need to begin resisting it.

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I really am sorry that you didn't enjoy 'our chats' as much as I enjoyed them. You're really good at keeping your cool, you know that? At making it seem like you're doing okay when you're not doing okay, like the things happening are okay when they're not really okay. It'd probably be hard to live your life without a firm handle on that. I really want to talk to you. Really. I like you. I want you to be honest with me, though. Tell me when I'm putting too much on you or treating you too rough. V

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man, i enjoyed them. i cant help my empathy, frustrations aside, when you ARE genuine with me thats... like not in a dark and threatening way. lol

You have alot of crunchy insights wrt christian philosophy and no reservations in expressing them. Like there are principles often behind it and not a vague, nihilistic moron blackpill thing alot of neoracs have wrapped layers of obfuscation over.

but like, ur ideology seeks to kill me so, shruggie. It was a question of how do i balance my curiousity and intrigue with i guess, ur murderous fervor. You coming into my chat and my twitter to harass me and my friends and peers who simply want to be comfy.jpg was about the final straw of tolerance. I guess that lack of awareness toward that.

also the hate that explodes out of you is immeasurably stressful and simply toxic, even considering my enormous facility for patience, especially when in such a candidly, antisocial manner as in my chat. I couldn't discern if it was COMING FROM SOMEWHERE (lmao psychoanalysis) or if you flatly just didn’t give a shit and wanted the day of the rope for the libidinal excess of it and so on.

If i were to be honest? maybe i feel disappointed. Mostly in myself, for like, not prioritizing my MeNtAL hEaLtH. Thru you and alot of people and groups i was a part of, I kind of saw the futility or a frequent sort of “why the fuck am i even doing this” in engaging with neoreactionaries of ur sort.

I do it because nrx, unlike alot of contemporary ideologues, have a finger on the pulse of the outside, or the threads of darkness that erupt from the abyssal sun. An engagement with undercurrent, subsurface phenomena as well as macro trajectory and societal observation, ie the cathedral. But it’s a balance of mitigating my annoyance and disgust in exchange for that insight and study. Because my process of externalization requires bodies of thought to bounce off of, or else i starve, so to speak. I abhor insulated bubbles of awareness.

But the disgust comes from the way many reactionaries react to that darkness. A violent explosion of incomprehensible pain and fury from glancing strikes that seeks a recontextualized sort of blue pill for security. something to pull you back from yawning abyss. Something to render sense, a phenomenonal rationalization. And that comes down to, well, antisemitism among other things. A human desire to render a one or whole or sort of identifiable well from which suffering pours from. things like antisemitism rely on myth in the familiar way of the unga bunga eternal Other, i guess to put it flatly, as scapegoat. It helps to render sense of great horror by ascribing it to the influence of the Other. “All of your ills is because this tribe poisoned your water,” and orgy of madness ensues. No amount of science and media can diminish this aspect of human nature. A herd morality springs forth to vindicate it, which is the threat. The Human centipede of theory and philosophy that i ascribed to neoreaction, where it begins with neocameralism and arrives at americanized white nationalism and an ideology constructed around mass murder. It’s really easy to craft rhetoric of synchronicities to vindicate such activities, because the ills you see is being produced or caused or effecting everything and everyone. It comes down to mass hypnosis and manipulation and that’s mad gay lol.

Because where it arrives, is simply more generational trauma to no good end. Like a man in a suppressed dark place who murders his wife in an eruption of pent up rage, only to live with the consequences of murdering an innocent, perhaps someone he loved, and STILL live with that darkness. Rage is a survival technique from wounds and pain. It’s useful, but intoxicating.

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“The Neoracism in the Suspension of a Law Professor for Nothing Whatsoever at the University of Illinois in Chicago” – Reason.com

That’s from a John McWhorter column on the Kilborn controversy, which came out in late January but which I somehow missed; here’s the introduction: Law professor Jason Kilborn cited the N-word (and the B-word) on an exam thusly: n****, b****. It was in a question about an employment discrimination case. He has done so for years previously to no comment – as all reading this but a sliver would…

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"If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion." -- Thomas Sowell

#Thomas Sowell #bigotry of low expectations #low expectations #neoracism #antiracism as religion #antiracism #low standards #religion is a mental illness

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The development and popularization of language, memes, and narratives is central to political warfare. Terms like “diversity”, “equity”, “social justice”, and “systemic racism” began to appear in American society, first among leftist fringe elements in the universities, but then with increasing frequency across popular culture and social media. The meaning of these terms, however, was not as ordinary Americans might expect. Rather, these words were code language, used to mask the actual revolutionary Marxist objectives of the insurgency. Those objectives remain exactly as first laid out in “The Communist Manifesto” of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848: “abolition of private property”, “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax”, “centralization of credit in the hands of the state”, “centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State”, and “free education for all children in public schools”. The means by which the destruction of our Constitutional Republic and free market capitalist system are to be achieved bear quoting as well:

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Obviously understanding that openly revealing their aims in the shocking language of Marxist texts too few Americans will ever read would give away the game, today’s communist revolutionaries instead insinuated their precepts first into upper-level academia (co-opted since the 1930s by Frankfurt School operatives), and then gradually throughout the lower levels of K-12 education. For those familiar with the “45 Goals of Communism Today”, the way this was done will be familiar. Teachers’ unions fell easily into their clutches; popular culture coarsened; religious faith was mocked; foundational principles of the Republic were demeaned and ridiculed; Founding Fathers were attacked as nothing more than slave-owning racists.

#Clare Lopez #education #public schools #Marxism #cultural Marxism #critical race theory #neoracism #academia #Antonio Gramsci #Karl Marx #The Communist Manifesto #20th century #45 Goals of Communism Today

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Davide Ongaro vince il Neo2017

Davide Ongaro sembra non volersi più fermare dopo la finale del Mondiale di Las Vegas, con un secondo gradino del podio sfumato a pochi minuti dalla fine. Dopo aver vinto la prima prova del Campionato Italiano a Corigliano Calabro, Davide conquista la terra d’Albione andandosi a prendere una vittoria importantissima al Neo 2017 davanti a praticamente tutti i più forti piloti a livello Mondiale.…

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berghahnbooks · 7 years

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Resistance Reading List

“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” — Howard Zinn

Protest movements have been recognized as significant contributors to processes of political participation and transformations of culture and value systems, as well as to the development of both a national and transnational civil society. We present here a selection of titles that examine the nature of protest, political dissent, and civil inequality with the hopes that these may contribute to a public understanding of the current Western sociopolitical climate.

‌• CIVIL SOCIETY AND GENDER JUSTICE Historical and Comparative Perspectives Edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde

‌• NEO-NATIONALISM IN EUROPE AND BEYOND Perspectives from Social Anthropology Edited by Andre Gingrich & Marcus Banks Epilogue by Ulf Hannerz

‌• MEDIA AND REVOLT Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen & Rolf Werenskjold

‌• RACISM IN THE MODERN WORLD Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation Edited by Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt

‌• MILITANT AROUND THE CLOCK? Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure, and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 Nikolaos Papadogiannis

‌• SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES IN EUROPE The State of the Art Edited by Olivier Fillieule and Guya Accornero Foreword by James Jasper

‌• PROTEST CULTURES A Companion Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth

‌• A FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe Edited by Silvia De Zordo, Joanna Mishtal, and Lorena Anton

‌• EUROPE'S NEW RACISM Causes, Manifestations, and Solutions Published in association with and edited by The Evens Foundation

‌• SISTERS IN ARMS Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 Katharina Karcher

‌• THE ANNOYING DIFFERENCE The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World Peter Hervik

‌• CHANGING THE WORLD, CHANGING ONESELF Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s Edited by Belinda Davis, Wilfried Mausbach, Martin Klimke, and Carla MacDougall

For more, visit the Peace & Conflict Studies section of our website here.

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