Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
In Camden, we know the difference that one caring adult can make in a child’s life. We know that education doesn’t begin and end in the classroom. It starts at home, in the community, and in the relationships between families and schools. For years, Family & Operations Coordinators (FOCs- Formerly Community School Coordinators) have embodied that connection.
…to close Part I, I repeated Part II would be much worse, and here we are.
So what does the Tuskegee Experiment have to do with the Camden City School District in 2025?…
The content discusses the link between white American voting patterns and underlying racism. It argues that many white voters support Trump, citing economic concerns, yet consistently reject candidates advocating universal opportunities. The piece criticizes society’s failure to confront racism and highlights that such denial contributes to Trump’s political resurgence and detrimental policies.
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continued from Part III… Groups like these (above) invest, meaning put up money, to make money by propping up corporate charter schools, and dismantling specifically public schools with majority students and teachers of color in the process. These investment firms, started by the rich (and white), are quite literally making Continue Reading…
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And in folks ignoring that economic situatedness, more than anything, influences students’ academic outcomes and economic opportunity, again, absolves government and politicians of their responsibility to fix economic inequality.
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Black folks have always had to contend with the systemic injustices of capitalism, while we simultaneously have to deal with centuries of injustice due to racism and racial exploitation. That dual experience is real, distinct, and unique.
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We are dealing with an exceedingly tenuous moment in American history and looking away from reality will not save us any more than insufficient solutions will. The late Barbara Ehrenreich commented, “delusion is no way to confront reality.”
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Picking up where we left off, and digging deeper on the substance of civics and politics, here, we delve into why achieving change is so difficult, particularly for constituencies that are poor, working-class, Black and Latino — even when elected leadership is Democratic or Black and Democratic.
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…And no more than 48 hours after posting that entry, I scrolled on my Twitter timeline (@keithericbenson) to find that Luther Luke Campbell (@uncleluke) would be hosting a Twitter Spaces entitled, “Years of supporting the democratic party, why Black still in poverty” where it appeared 77 people were committed to participating or, at the very least, listening. Here we go…
