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MegaCassie83 Feb 5, 2023

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

After 1 white parent complained about "controversial ideas" from Nat'l Book Award finalist Derrick Barnes speaking at three Alabama elementary schools as part of Black History Month in February—Barnes' lectures were cancelled😳

It was never about CRT. It was never about protecting our children. It was always about advancing white supremacy.

Now, hundreds of Black & white children will be deprived meaningful education, because of the whims of 1 white racist parent. smh

https://t.co/0acZhaLAIk

Alabama Schools Cancel Black History Month Event With Award-Winning Author

Award-winning children's book author Derrick Barnes was scheduled to visit three schools in Alabama during Black History Month. But just before Barnes' planned appearances in February, the invitation to Hoover and Alabaster City Schools was abruptly canceled.

Essence

GeddyLeeRoth Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid Fuck that racist cunt.

Litzz11 Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid Crazy that one white parent has more power than the hundreds of other parents of all races who welcomed Derrick Barnes. We have to stop this tyranny of the minority. We need to figure out a more effective way of fighting back against this stuff.

Agora Feb 4, 2023

@Litzz11 @QasimRashid I can not believe that no one stood up to this

Litzz11 Feb 5, 2023

@Agora @QasimRashid From the story:

"Initially, the school district cited a “recent change” and claimed Barnes had failed to provide the information required to offer a contract. However, The New York Times best-selling author stated that implying that there were contract issues was a “boldfaced lie” and that the cancellations were political and motivated by ignorance and fear."

Sounds like some people DID stand up to this and the school board just ... lied.

Agora Feb 5, 2023

@Litzz11 @QasimRashid, but it's not enough.
Right-wing fascism is on the move.
If regular people like us don't start marching forward to block them, it will be too late.

CellyBlue Feb 5, 2023

@Litzz11 @Agora @QasimRashid the school district lied. But that’s what they do. It’s Hoover.

Agora Feb 5, 2023

@celset2 @Litzz11 @QasimRashid it's just another face of the creeping fascism. Black folks are once more their football in this power struggle.

ReneeVoiceBrand Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid The so-called 'master race' are nothing more than cowardly, whiney, lazy, and incompetent. All they have are intimidation tactics.

C. Lambeth Feb 5, 2023

@ReneeVoiceBrand @QasimRashid
...and a corrupt structure of systemic racism that enables, encourages, and rewards their bullying. 😔😡

SAPhillips Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid 🤬🤬🤬 Infuriating! This has to be turned around!!

J Mills Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid Bring back 1960s-style teach-ins

Spicewalla Feb 4, 2023

Its revealing that they scream and yell about "parental rights," but all they ever do is take away the right of *other* parents to decide what their kids experience.

Katrags Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid
That is the culture of the South and always has been. 160 years ago, the illiterate poor white was eager to fight and die for the rich slave owner so that he could be one rung up on the Southern feudal system. 60 years ago, they were willing to destroy their children's education and future if said child was made to sit next to a POC.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 4, 2023

@Katrags @QasimRashid
Much of the division in the South between races stems from the slavery and indentured servants days. There were black slaves and white indentured servants. Both were basically slave labor, but under different sets of laws. Ever since slavery was abolished, they became, together, the poor working class, and division amongst them has been purposely fomented to keep them from joining forces and having their voices heard.

Katrags Feb 4, 2023

@PJLavatai @QasimRashid
No. Historians have debunked this for decades and it is one of the most RACIST myths about early America. Indentured servitude was nothing like slavery and to claim so undermines and insults the people that survived it and their descendants that still live with the institutionalized ramifications.
I would highly recommend you delete this post before YOUR descendants find it, and realize they come from bad people.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 4, 2023

@Katrags @QasimRashid
I did not say that indentured servitude was like slavery at all.
I simply pointed out that the two co existed and that division between them was purposely fomented in order to keep both sets of impoverished people from joining voices . Please don’t read into it more than that.

Katrags Feb 4, 2023

@PJLavatai @QasimRashid You said, " they were both basically slave labor".
That's straight from the KKK, and you just outed yourself.
Keep talking. Give your offspring more reasons to be ashamed of you.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 4, 2023

@Katrags @QasimRashid
Today, working for minimum wage is basically slave labor. Working to repay a debt that is insurmountable is basically slave labor.
That is the premise I am dialoging from.
To make myself clear, a slave was a human bought or sold as property, and blacks own that history. Slave labor is a term I use to describe labor that is had at the expense of anyone who will never be free of such labor.

MegaCassie83 Feb 5, 2023

@PJLavatai @Katrags @QasimRashid Sir amazon has a book called The Other Slavery it is in fact about the enslavement of Indigenous people. Please know your history before opening your mouth thank you have a great enjoyable day.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 4, 2023

@Katrags @QasimRashid
Oh, just took a look at your feed.
Goodbye.

Sharon Gibson Morgan Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid What a lost opportunity. Students had a chance to have an honest-to-goodness author visit their schools and engage in discussions about his work and writing in general. Whoever was the twit who objected over this writer--and the school administration that canceled the event--should be ashamed.

[email protected]Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid Along those lines, I understand why wealthy or white nationalists want to prevent the teaching of the 1619 project sine it explains how the loss of slavery was translated into ways to enslave free people. One is to arrest the poor and force in prison labor at very low wages.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 4, 2023

@BeenThere @QasimRashid
Exactly.
Indentured servants from Ireland worked side by side with enslaved blacks. Once freed, all became indentured servants together, and division was purposely fostered by the wealthy in order to keep all of them in “their place”. It continues to this day.

DiasporaDiamond Feb 4, 2023

@PJLavatai @BeenThere @QasimRashid After white indentured servants were freed they became overseers, members of the slave patrol and slave owners. Stop with the BS

Patricia Lavatai Feb 5, 2023

@DiasporaDiamond @BeenThere @QasimRashid
I have read quite a bit of history on this subject.
You are talking about an earlier time period. Even in the period you are talking about, very few ended up in a position to own slaves. Being offered positions of overseers or on the slave patrols is exactly the division and racial hatred that was purposely cultivated. Poor whites and even currently indentured servants made up most of the slave patrols.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 5, 2023

@DiasporaDiamond @BeenThere @QasimRashid
How is it B.S. to point how how racism was purposely encouraged by the wealthy ?
I am talking about the period after the Civil War, but the same persisted, as it does today. Distrust and division is a tool of the very rich to keep people fighting each other, rather than joining voices to demand better for all. Exactly what was used against equal opportunity laws for blacks.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 5, 2023

@DiasporaDiamond @BeenThere @QasimRashid
As laws were put in place to ensure blacks could compete in the first place, the white working man was told that he would lose his job to a black man. It was another lie to keep all labor cheap and in control. Poor whites became the rich white man’s racists militias.

Patricia Lavatai Feb 5, 2023

@DiasporaDiamond @BeenThere @QasimRashid
Here is a snippet about when and how blacks and whites were purposely divided, and racism encouraged after Bacon’s rebellion.

Alex Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid your not surprised?

Alex Oct 30, 2023

@QasimRashid surprised? Not really. But was warm all last week. Now below freezing every night

KatQ Feb 4, 2023

carodjah!✨at the disco✨Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid @anarchosurreal oh yeah, “controversial” ideas like “black people are people, too.”

Lou Katz Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid That is the beauty of the system, working as intended. A single random person can disrupt anything by asserting an arbitrary unverifiable complaint, whose properties are unknowable in advance and subject to change without notice. This is just secular blasphemy, make it up as you go along.

Agora Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid unfuckingbelievable🤬🤬🤬

I cannot believe white folks are doing the same a shit they did to our ancestors🤬🤬🤬

Kelsey Marie Bell She/Her Feb 4, 2023

@QasimRashid ?!! ❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻✌🏻✌🏻🕊🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Kelsey Marie Bell She/Her Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid #Grateful #gratitude #thankyou for sharing❣️❣️ I #hope more sharing helps further elevate him and his book! #DerrickBarnes #Alabama #BlackHistoryMonth #DEI #education #history #CrownAnOdetotheFreshCut ❤️🙏🏻🕊✌🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Old Man Mike Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid what do you get with 1 white racist parent who complains about a book enough to completely change a curriculum to echo the descent into nationalistic white power and 49 parents who say nothing? 50 racist parents.

James M.Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid other parents should complain about the religious and/or white supremacist brainwashing of their children at school. Would the schools cancel those events too?

edgeoforever 🍎Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid and I wonder if that one racist guy was even a parent. These things were organized some years ago with money from Koch Brothers. I remember reading “next objective: school boards”many years ago.

Nicole Parsons Feb 5, 2023

@edgeoforever @QasimRashid

Koch, DeVos, Tim Dunn, & Farris Wilks hate public education, especially literacy in the working class.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/08/11/koch-network-infiltration-public-schools-harms-students-teachers-and-our-democracy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/arizona-fight-koch-brothers-school-vouchers

https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-koch-brothers-sneak-into-school/

https://dianeravitch.net/2021/08/19/un-koch-my-school/

Koch Network Infiltration of Public Schools 'Harms Students, Teachers, and Our Democracy': Report | Common Dreams

"The Koch network has made no secret about the critical role that public education plays as an ideal arena for influencing U.S. policy and culture," says UnKoch My Campus.

Common Dreams

@QasimRashid "Sweet home Alabama"

CellyBlue Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid HOOVER City School District is in Shelby County Alabama. This district that I worked in for years the same district that tried to stop school buses from bringing students (mostly of color) to school. The county of the Shelby v Holder. The school district that tried to zone out students ( mostly of color) who lived in apartments. https://www.al.com/spotnews/2013/09/hoover_will_become_sixth_and_b.html

To bus or not to bus: Four points as Hoover eyes ending bus services (POLL)

Hoover going against national trend with its decision to stop bus service, which it says is necessary to remain financially solvent.

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OR Wine Woman Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid SMH

Valkyrie Kerry Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid I live in Ireland and Black American History is on the school curriculum. In Ireland. How can you teach history correctly if lumps of it are being erased? Most ridiculous thing I have heard. There is no rationale that can justify it beyond simple prejudice.
Would you teach maths without division because you dislike the symbol?
Prejudice has no place in education, nor does rewriting facts.

BlackDutchSnark Feb 5, 2023

@ValkyrieKerry @QasimRashid personally as a mathematically challenged individual, I think all maths should be abolished. It hurt my self-esteem to not do well in those classes…this argument makes about as much sense as the one against CRT…🤦🏻

Virginicus Feb 5, 2023

@ValkyrieKerry @QasimRashid I hope our School Board doesn’t see this. They’d ban arithmetic for being divisive.

Uncle 6 🌁Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid @ubiquity75 Hoover. What are the !-ing odds. Even my dad used to mock Hoover as “God’s Country” and say “don’t fire til you see the whites,” and WE’RE WHITE.

DemocracyMatters

@QasimRashid Outrageous and shameful.

toxtethogrady Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid White people are such snowflakes...

C. Lambeth Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid True, but that one racist was enabled and encouraged by a racist school district.

Aya Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid seriously, non-white populations in the US really need to start uniting properly, withholding labour, protesting and rising uniformly because this won't get better

paul Feb 5, 2023

this was their plan.

abuse local officials and occupy their jobs.

at a community level enforce their ideals.

they think they can brainwash a generation into being republicans.

they are morons.

but they see this as a fight for survival because they can not exist where others have equal rights.

others being anyone who does not conform to their beliefs,

they with force an underage rape victim to have a child.

they will allow school shootings.

they will restrict knowledge.

Evan Light Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid @anildash Web archive without paywall: https://archive.is/9gML7

Mike McGraw Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid
Some Alabama group needs to sponsor the tour itself. Don’t allow the racist crowd to silence Mr. Barnes. Instead of three lectures how about organizing ten? twenty? And adding more authors, poets, and others whose work is being attacked, banned, and probably eventually burned!

Sue Strong Feb 5, 2023

@QasimRashid most unfortunate. Back when my daughter was in school, Rosa Parks visited. Important to learn Black history. Sides many years later doing genealogy, I found we were distantly related. I noted the books that were banned and plan to read them. Have family members of several races too, love and understanding are helped by learning their experiences, history. I have a very low opinion of those that ban books. Vote them out.

Bonnie Sonder Feb 7, 2023

@QasimRashid disgusting southerners

Gil Friend, sustainability OG Feb 7, 2023

@QasimRashid
If nothing will stand except what no one objects to, we will be left with nothing.

(And then layer racism on top of that…)