Students at Michigan State University hoping to become the educators of the next generation are forced to take a race-centered course that follows “the guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter” movement and requires students to read from a book condemning “whiteness.”
Course materials obtained by the Young America’s Foundation group on MSU’s campus and shared with The Daily Wire show that one class for future teachers pushes leftist theories on race. The introductory three-credit class, “TE 101: Social Foundations of Justice and Equity in Education,” is required for all Secondary Education majors at MSU and is typically taken before their junior year. TE 101’s course description states that it emphasizes “racial justice, equity, and social identity markers.”
The syllabus for TE 101 states that the class is “committed to the Guiding Principles of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards, and the principles of the Abolitionist Teaching Network.”
One Michigan State education major, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Daily Wire that 90-100% of the class is focused on race.
“This class is an indoctrination of modern racial ideology,” the student said.
Asked if sitting through hours of leftist ideology becomes discouraging, the student replied, “No, it actually makes me want to pursue this degree more. It makes me want to be able to teach children instead of these other people.”
“Because I feel like there is a lack of conservatives in education,” the student added. “We see how the other side has done with these students.”
The only book TE 101 students are required to read for the semester includes a section that condemns “whiteness” as a privilege that “will never allow true solidarity to take place.”
The book, “We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom,” by Bettina Love, “argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color.” The author writes that for education reform to take place, leaders must “approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist.”
One excerpt from the book focuses on how “whiteness” cannot be included in the fight for education reform.
“Whiteness cannot enter spaces focused on abolitionist teaching. Whiteness is addicted to centering itself, addicted to attention, and making everyone feel guilty for working toward its elimination. Whiteness will never allow true solidarity to take place. Those who cling to their Whiteness cannot participate in abolitionist teaching because they are a distraction, are unproductive, and will undermine freedom at every step, sometimes in the name of social justice. Being an abolitionist means you are ready to lose something, you are ready to let go of your privilege, you are ready to be in solidarity with dark people by recognizing your Whiteness in dark spaces, recognizing how it can take up space if unchecked, using your Whiteness in White spaces to advocate for and with dark people. And you understand that your White privilege allows you to take risks that dark people cannot take in the fight for educational justice.”
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