tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post1147838053947357689..comments2024-03-19T23:29:12.334-07:00Comments on Journal of Educational Controversy Blog: What is the Real Pedagogical Value of the Obama Election?Lorraine Kasprisinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01872465453874056191noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post-72954291127406072252015-10-12T01:34:36.435-07:002015-10-12T01:34:36.435-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08486538876466828402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2460967271492760386.post-28237844302400440062008-12-12T20:45:00.000-08:002008-12-12T20:45:00.000-08:00Acknowledged and no argument with me. My argument ...Acknowledged and no argument with me. My argument in my classes, is never whether he's been Black enough (Where Black is acting as if you have the memory of the Eldest people, who have been it, done it, wrote the book, suffered, dished out suffering, and healing, telling the truth and forgiving them when they lynch you, or sitting under the Bo tree until all beings are liberated)...but is he Mandela enough?<BR/>It's not as if COINTELPRO is actually dead. And it isn't as if in order to sit in that chair, in that oval office, you can't have made some backroom deals with the powers that be, especially those powers that would kill a black messiah, secret service aside its not like you can't be Wellstoned, or Ron Browned. To quote the good Rev. Wright, would we put it past them? No we would not. <BR/>This is America, Emmett Till, Tuskegee, Katrina, and ethnic specific bio-weapon research did occur, they were not conspiracy theories. So the question is can Obama, actually address health disparities, disproportionate sentencing, school inequities, and my particular favorite, promote effective strategies similar to what his pastor's church might implement, and not lame strategies like DARE, Yo' Chile Left Behind. If I'm not going to get my Slavery reparations check under an Obama administration, then I would settle for a Constitutional Rewrite along the lines of the post-Apartheid South African Constitution. Which if we memetically combine it with the Iroquois Confederacy's White Roots of Peace, gives us a constitution that is not racist, sexist, heterosexist, does not base nationalism on a particular religion, nor if we are smart about it, place the rights of corporate persons, over living beings, especially ecological systems...wouldn't want to have Bechtel claiming that rainwater is corporate property, like they tried to do in Bolivia. <BR/>So the pedagogical value is that of pointing out possibilities for praxis.<BR/>Theory is nice, but what happens on the ground to actually alleviate human suffering.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11928698916522569841noreply@blogger.com