We were hanging on every word during our class with Eve L. Ewing on Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.
You’ll realize why if you check out the excerpt and audiogram below. Then click on the button to read more.
Our young folks are experiencing the vanguard of everything that we know is wrong and broken about this society, and therefore they bring with them a profound expertise about what it could look like to imagine something different.
My insurgent and absurd dream in this moment is that even as things could be and can be, and in many cases are, so hopeless in so many of our schools, that this will be the time for these conflagrations of new possibility to spark and to emerge.
And that the way that they are making it so evident how scared they are of us, how terrified they are of these relationships, how terrified they are of young people loving themselves and each other, how terrified they are of teachers understanding the profoundly political and radical nature of this work, they are tipping their hand.
They are letting us know. We are so dangerous. In case you didn’t already know, now you know. — Eve L. Ewing
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