Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.
California's proposed ethnic studies curriculum urges students to chant to the Aztec deity of human sacrifice
ANYTHING helping in decolonization and cleansing this continent from what the whites brought (religion included) is salutary
Next week, the California Department of Education will vote on a new statewide ethnic studies curriculum that advocates for the "decolonization" of American society and elevates Aztec religious symbolism.
In theoretical terms, the new ethnic studies curriculum is based on the "pedagogy of the oppressed", developed by Marxist theoretician Paolo Freire, who argued that students must be educated about their oppression in order to attain "critical consciousness" and, consequently, develop the capacity to overthrow their oppressors. Following this dialectic, the model curriculum instructs teachers to help students "challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs" and critique "white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression". This approach, in turn, enables teachers to inspire their pupils to participate in "social movements that struggle for social justice" and "build new possibilities for a post-racist, post-systemic racism society".
... whites began "grabbing the land", "hatching hierarchies", and "developing for Europe/whiteness", which created "excess wealth" that "became the basis for the capitalist economy". Whites established a "hegemony" that continues to the present day, in which minorities are subjected to "socialization, domestication, and 'zombification'".
... white Christians committed "theocide" against indigenous tribes, killing their gods and replacing them with Christianity. White settlers thus established a regime of "coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide", characterized by the "explicit erasure and replacement of holistic Indigeneity and humanity". The solution... is to "name, speak to, resist, and transform the hegemonic Eurocentric neocolonial condition" in a posture of "transformational resistance". The ultimate goal is to "decolonize" American society and establish a new regime of "countergenocide" and "counterhegemony", which will displace white Christian culture and lead to the "regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity".
Next week, the California Department of Education will vote on a new statewide ethnic studies curriculum that advocates for the "decolonization" of American society and elevates Aztec religious symbolism.
