Urban Educator Fighting for Public Education for our Communities and Finding My Voice in the Process
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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…
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Where there has been a decades-long fragmenting of subjects like social studies and civics, with the democratized social media space we have now, information-hungry people who want answers and explanations for matters pertaining to government are going to search for them, and find some semblance of both; whether the information is accurate or not matters little as accessibility and one’s ability to discern fact, from nonsense is increasingly a coin-toss.
