I'm gonna live tweet this anti-racist training seminar so you can all follow along and "enjoy" it.

"Anti-racist training is not a one time thing, but rather a lifelong commitment, which many people struggle to accept, much less engage in. Anti-racist training and growth requires a DEEP level of self-awareness and a willingness to accept that you still have more to learn"

I will take my anti-racism training with sushi

One of the presenters believes “education is her revolution”

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT right off the bat

"It is important that we inspect our text to make sure they are anti-racist at all times."

She goes on to say that we should make sure to show kids doing regular kid things and not "other" them. But anti-racist training literally does that - it teaches them they are the other

BLM neon in the background of one of the presenters

dude....she just said that when she was in school, her teachers were focused on making sure she could read and write well but not on infusing black culture into the curriculum.

THAT'S EXACTLY THE POINT.

I have no issue at all with kids learning about a variety of cultures and experiences. The problem is that this stuff is being prioritized OVER teaching them to read and write. And most importantly, to think.

"I had several black teachers or teachers of color. That doesn't mean they had the capacity to address racism in schools"

"As a teacher, I'm not afraid to go there. In fact, my explicit goal in becoming a teacher is to train an army of revolutionaries"

"It's problematic for our children to be on site with law enforcement because if there's a disruption, it's likely they're going to be engaged with the criminal legal system as opposed to therapy because INSTITUTIONAL RACISM"

One of the trainers just made the argument that you're probably not racist if you don't like Black Lives Matter, but you do live in a structure that has taught you some people are less valuable.

....isn't that just a nicer way of calling them racist?

"Most teachers are paid by public funds. Therefore, your job is an act of politics"

"Any teacher that says they are refusing to play politics is participating anti-blackness and classism, and are marginalizing the children and the families that they signed up to serve"

"The use of property tax to fund public schools emboldens segregation"

Golly gee, that sounds like an argument for school choice if I ever heard one.

I'm fairly certain one of the presenters just insinuated that all white kids have housekeepers and personal chefs.

I assure you, growing up in my small town with a lower middle class family and going to a public school with 48 kids in my class, I had neither of those things.

Presenter: "Micro aggressions are not micro"

Later in the presentation, the moderator goes "I'm not going to say microaggressions anymore because they are not micro"

Microaggressions has become just "aggressions".

I anticipate hearing "words are violence" next

Again, they said "microaggressions are aggressive aggressive"

"The idea that people don't know they are being racist 9 times out of 10 is not the case. Don't give them the out of doing an implicit bias training."

"Using student's scores to determine whether or not they had a quality education is racial trauma. And it's classist as well."

The good news:

"Another term I don't use any longer is diversity, equity and inclusion"

The bad news:

"People say diverse and are not explicit about what diverse means. People say equity and throw equity all over. And inclusion is a problem because that means you're othering"

ANOTHER LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Apparently, racial trauma is caused when some parents pay for their kids to have tutors to better prepare their kids and other kids don't have that privilege. "Tests assess preparedness, not aptitude" (I actually generally agree with that statement, but for different reasons)

"I didn't hear about black people in school except for slavery"

What school did she go to that didn't teach her about Martin Luther King, Jr and the civil rights movement?

She's also saying that schools don't teach about the trail of tears and indigenous people.

Dude, I learned that stuff in public school in VERMONT in the 1990s.

"There is a privilege of individuality with white wealthy men featured throughout the curriculum"

"It's not taught that MLK was vilified and hated."

I don't mean to sound crass....BUT HE WAS LITERALLY ASSASSINATED. And that IS taught in schools.

The most bizarre thing about this training is that there is no goal. I literally don't know what change they want. What do they want people to do?

This is just about complaining about things they don't like, most of which I think is made up because they don't provide data.

"We can find evidence to say whatever we want it to say."

YES YOU CAN

Ok, she's asked about multi-racial students and is essentially saying that students SHOULDN'T identify as multi-racial because if you identify as multi-racial instead of just black, you are opting out of being black because that's how the world sees you.

BLACK TRANS WOMEN

"black girls are rendered invisible when they hit middle school and high school and black boys are exoticized"

Ok sorry guys, I'm bailing. I'm losing interest fast. I almost made it through.