Black Lives Matter should be avoided by Christians.

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More about what is being taught to children in Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action. Its part of a national curriculum in the US.


13 Guiding Principles for Middle and High School Students

1. Restorative Justice
We are committed to collectively, lovingly and courageously working vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension all people. As we forge our path, we intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting.

2. Empathy
We are committed to practicing empathy; we engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.

3. Loving Engagement
We are committed to embodying and practicing justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.

4. Diversity
We are committed to acknowledging, respecting and celebrating difference(s) and commonalities.

5. Globalism
We see ourselves as part of the global Black family and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black folk who exist in different parts of the world.

6. Queer Affirming
We are committed to fostering a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking or, rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual unless s/he or they disclose otherwise.

7. Trans Affirming
We are committed to embracing and making space for trans brothers and sisters to participate and lead. We are committed to being self-reflexive and doing the work required to dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

8. Collective Value
We are guided by the fact all Black lives, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status or location.

9. Intergenerational
We are committed to fostering an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with capacity to lead and learn.

10. Black Families
We are committed to making our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We are committed to dismantling the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” that require them to mother in private even as they participate in justice work.

11. Black Villages
We are committed to disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, and especially “our” children to the degree that mothers, parents and children are comfortable.

12. Unapologetically Black
We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a necessary prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

13. Black Women
We are committed to building a Black women affirming space free from sexism, misogyny, and male‐centeredness.


Talking to Young Children about the Guiding Principles of the Movement for Black Lives.

As we think about discussing big ideas with little people, we consider age-appropriate language so that our students or children can grasp the concepts we’re introducing and incorporate these ideas and language into their own thinking and conversation.

While adults can obviously talk about any of the principles (and many of us already do) without mentioning the Black Lives Matter movement, we can also mention the movement as a group of people who want to make sure that everyone is treated fairly, regardless of the color of their skin. We can say something along the lines of, "The Civil Rights Movement, with people we know about, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, worked to change laws that were unfair. The Black Lives Matter movement is made up of people who want to make sure that everyone is treated fairly, because, even though many of those laws were changed many years ago, some people are still not being treated fairly." The idea of police violence is frightening to young children, and the same way we don't discuss the violence which met Civil Rights activists, I would not discuss this kind of violence with our youngest children.

After each principle, I’ve suggested some language you might want to use when talking to young children. Whenever possible, make connections to children’s lived experience, in your classroom, your home, or out in the world.

Restorative Justice is the commitment to build a beloved and loving community that is sustainable and growing.
We know that if you knock down someone's block building, you have to help them rebuild it, you can't just say, “Sorry,” and walk away. We also know that it’s important for kids to be able to make a better choice another time, and it’s grown ups’ job to help them make better choices and to give them chances to do that. Another way to say that is restorative justice.

Empathy is one’s ability to connect with others by building relationships built on mutual trust and understanding.
It’s so important to think about how other people feel, because different people have different feelings. Sometimes it helps to think about how you would feel if the same thing that happened to your friend happened to you. Another way to say that is empathy.

Loving Engagement is the commitment to practice justice, liberation and peace.
It’s so important to make sure that we are always trying to be fair and peaceful, and to engage with other people (treat other people) with love. We have to keep practicing this so that we can get better and better at it. Another way to say that is loving engagement.

Diversity is the celebration and acknowledgment of differences and commonalities across cultures.
Different people do different things and have different feelings. It’s so important that we have lots of different kinds of people in our community and that everyone feels safe. Another way to say that is diversity.

Globalism is our ability to see how we are impacted or privileged within the Black global family that exists across the world in different regions.
Globalism means that we are thinking about all the different people all over the world, and thinking about the ways to keep things fair everywhere.

Transgender Affirming is the commitment to continue to make space for our trans siblings by encouraging leadership and recognizing trans-antagonistic violence, while doing the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk.
Everybody has the right to choose their own gender by listening to their own heart and mind. Everyone gets to choose if they are a girl or a boy or both or neither or something else, and no one else gets to choose for them.

Queer Affirming is working towards a queer-affirming network where heteronormative thinking no longer exists.
Everybody has the right to choose who they love and the kind of family they want by listening to their own heart and mind.

Collective Value means that all Black lives, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status or location, matter.
Everybody is important, and has the right to be safe and happy. Another way to say that is collective value.

Intergenerational is a space free from ageism where we can learn from each other.
It’s important that we have spaces where people of different ages can come together and learn from each other. Another way to say that is intergenerational.

Black Families creates a space that is family friendly and free from patriarchal practices.
There are lots of different kinds of families; what makes a family is that it’s people who take care of each other. It’s important to make sure that all families feel welcome.

Black Villages is the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the “collective village” that takes care of each other.
There are lots of different kinds of families; what makes a family is that it’s people who take care of each other; those people might be related, or maybe they choose to be family together and to take care of each other. Sometimes, when it’s lots of families together, it can be called a village.

Black Women is the building of women-centered spaces free from sexism, misogyny, and male-centeredness.
There are some people who think that women are less important than men. We know that all people are important and have the right to be safe and talk about their own feelings.

Unapologetically Black is the affirmation that Black Lives Matter and that our love, and desire for justice and freedom are prerequisites for wanting that for others. These principles are the blueprint for healing and do not include nor do they support ignoring or sanitizing the ugliness and discomfort that comes with dealing with race and anti-race issues.
There are lots of different kinds of people and one way that we’re different is the color of our skin. It’s important to make sure that all people are treated fairly, and that’s why we, and lots of other people all over the country and the world are part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Early Childhood Resources — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice

www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org

BLM@School Curriculum Resource Guide - Google Drive

drive.google.com

That’s also in Washington DC at some head start daycare. Most areas here would not encourage this curriculum because the general preschool education already is sufficient in discussing gender roles and race. In that girls and boys are encouraged to participate in homemaking role play and stem activities. Irregardless of race and culture the ABCs and 123s are the same. Literacy and math don’t change.

 

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Walter Williams: Back to Academic Brainwashing

On Sep 08, 2020 07:30 am

CNS News, By Walter E. Williams: Parents, legislators, taxpayers, and others footing the bill for college education might be interested in just what is in store for the upcoming academic year. Since many college classes will be online, there is a chance to witness professors indoctrinating their students in real-time. So, there’s a chance that some college faculty might change their behavior. To see recent examples of campus nonsense and indoctrination, visit the Campus Reform and College Fix websites.

George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley warned congressional lawmakers that Antifa is “winning” and that much of academia, whether wittingly or unwittingly, is complicit in its success.” In his testimony before Congress, Turley said “to Antifa, people like me are the personification of the classical liberal view of free speech that perpetuates a system of oppression and abuse. I wish I could say that my view remains strongly implanted in our higher educational institutions. However, you are more likely to find public supporters for restricting free speech than you are to find defenders of free speech principles on many campuses.”

The leftist bias at our colleges and universities has many harmful effects. A University of California, Davis mathematics professor faced considerable backlash over her opposition to the requirement for “diversity statements” from potential faculty. Those seeking employment at the University of California, San Diego, are required to admit that “barriers” prevent women and minorities from full participation in campus life. At American University, a history professor wrote a book calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. A Rutgers University professor said “watching the Iowa Caucus is a sickening display of the over-representation of whiteness.” A Williams College professor has advocated for the inclusion of social justice in math textbooks. Students at Wayne State University are no longer required to take a single math course to graduate; however, they may soon be required to take a diversity course.
Maybe some students will be forced into sharing the vision of Professor Laurie Rubel, a math education professor at Brooklyn College. She says the idea of cultural neutrality in math is a “myth,” and that asking whether 2 plus 2 equals 4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.” She tweeted “y’all must know that the idea that math is objective or neutral IS A MYTH.” Math professors and academics at other universities, including Harvard and the University of Illinois, discussed the “Eurocentric” roots of American mathematics. As for me, I would like to see the proof, in any culture, that 2 + 2 is something other than 4.

Rutgers University’s English department chairwoman, Rebecca Walkowitz, announced changes to the department’s graduate writing program, emphasizing “social justice” and “critical grammar.” Leonydus Johnson, a speech-language pathologist and libertarian activist, says Walkowitz’s changes make the assumption that minorities cannot understand traditional and grammatically correct English speech and writing, which is “insulting, patronizing, and in itself, extremely racist.”

Then there is the nonsense taught on college campuses about white privilege. The idea of white privilege doesn’t explain why several historically marginalized groups outperform whites today. For example, Japanese Americans suffered under the Alien Land Law of 1913 and other racist, exclusionary laws legally preventing them from owning land and property in more than a dozen American states until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. During World War II, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned. However, by 1959, the income disparity between Japanese Americans and white Americans had almost disappeared. Today, Japanese Americans outperform white Americans by large margins in income statistics, education outcomes, and test scores, and have much lower incarceration rates.

According to Rav Arora, writing for the New York Post, several black immigrant groups such as Nigerians, Trinidadians, and Tobagonians, Barbadians, and Ghanaians all “have a median household income well above the American average.” We are left with the question whether the people handing out “white privilege” made a mistake. The other alternative is that Japanese Americans, Nigerians, Barbadians, Ghanaians, Trinidadians, and Tobagonians are really white Americans.

The bottom line is that more Americans need to pay attention to the miseducation of our youth and that miseducation is not limited to higher education.

Prophetic Link:
“…our country shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a Protestant and republican government…” Testimonies to the Church, Vol. 5, page 451.

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BLM Leaders Discuss ‘Resurrecting a Spirit So That It Can Work Through Us’

(CNS News) -- In a June 13 conversation between Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors and BLM-Los Angeles chapter co-founder Melina Abdullah, Abdullah discusses how the two of them have “become very intimate with the spirits we call on regularly,” and Cullors talks about how using a hashtag for BLM is “almost resurrecting a spirit so that it can work through us.”
“We’re invoking” our ancestors, states Abdullah.

https://cdn.mrctv.org/videos/44357/44357-480p.mp4

The conversation between the two Black Lives Matter activists took place after a live performance art event by Cullors entitled “A Prayer for the Runner.” The performance was sponsored as part of June Pride Month by the Fowler Museum at UCLA. (Cullors identifies as queer and she is “married” to BLM activist Janaya Kahn, who also identifies as queer.)

In addition to her Black Lives Matter activism, Melina Abdullah is the chairman of the department of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA. She also is a defender of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Abdullah spoke at the 2015 Million Man March, organized by Farrakhan.

In the interview, Abdullah states, “maybe I’m sharing too much but we’ve become very intimate with the spirits that we call on regularly. Right? Like, each of them seems to have a different presence and personality. You know, I laugh a lot with Wakiesha [Wilson]. You know? And I didn’t meet her in her body.”

Wakiesha Wilson was a black woman who suffered from bi-polar disorder and reportedly hanged herself while in LAPD custody. Her death has become a cause célèbre among BLM activists.

Cullors responds, saying that she was raised a Jehovah’s Witness but, “as I got older, ancestor, ancestral worship became really important.”

Cullors then explains how the hashtags such as #SayHerName and #BLM are a means to honor the dead and invoke them.

“Hashtags for us are way more than a hashtag,” Cullors says. “It is literally almost resurrecting a spirit so that it can work through us so that we can get the work that we need to get done.”

Later in the conversation, Abdullah says that “even beyond remembering them [ancestors], we’re invoking them.” She further describes “in our tradition, when we call out our ancestors, we call them out for specific purposes,” and “the first thing we do when we hear of one of these murders is we come out, we pray, and we pour libation, we build with the community where the person’s life was stolen.”

Before these protests, where people have died, we know “we literally are standing on spilled blood,” says Abdullah.

Patrisse Cullors is one of the three co-founders of BLM, along with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Cullors is credited with creating the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in 2013 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Treyvon Martin case. She cites Weather Underground member Eric Mann as being an inspiration, her “mentor.”

In a video, Patrisee Cullors describes herself and Garza as “trained Marxists.”

During the interview with Abdullah, Cullors references two articles written by her “home girl” Hebah Farrag, about the spirituality of Black Lives Matter. Hebah Farrag is the assistant director of research of the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture. On her webpage at USC, one of Farrag’s areas of expertise is listed as “The Spirituality of Black Lives Matter.”

In a July 3, 2020 article, “The Fight for Black Lives is a Spiritual Movement,” Farrag says, “Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters, along with organizations affiliated with the larger movement for Black lives, channel deep grief and trauma caused by racial injustice into political action through a spiritually informed movement.”

Farrag then describes a BLM-Los Angeles protest outside the home of Mayor Eric Garcetti that occurred on June 2, 2020.

“Melina Abdullah, chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and co-founder of BLM-LA, opened the event explaining that while the movement is a social justice movement, it is first and foremost a spiritual movement,” wrote Farrag.

She continued, “[Abdullah] led the group in a ritual: the reciting of names of those taken by state violence before their time—ancestors now being called back to animate their own justice: ‘George Floyd. Asé. Philandro Castille. Asé. Andrew Joseph. Asé. Michael Brown. Asé. Erika Garner. Asé. Harriet Tubman. Asé. Malcom X. Asé. Martin Luther King. Asé.’”

“As each name is recited, Dr. Abdullah poured libations on the ground as the group of over 100 chanted ‘Asé,’ [Amen] a Yoruba term often used by practitioners of Ifa, a faith and divination system that originated in West Africa,” wrote Farrag. “This ritual", Dr. Abdullah explained, "is a form of worship.”

She then described Patrisse Cullors during the COVID-19 lockdown as follows: “As a person ordained in Ifa, she also led meditations that allowed participants to better imagine the future while advocating for self-care, mental health awareness, healing justice, and art activism during the pandemic."

“The movement infuses a syncretic blend of African and indigenous cultures’ spiritual practices and beliefs, embracing ancestor worship; Ifa-based ritual such as chanting, dancing, and summoning deities; and healing practices such as acupuncture, reiki, therapeutic massage, and plant medicine in much of its work, including protest,” said Farrag.

The Yoruba religion of Ifa is a system of spiritual divination that is practiced in West Africa, the Canary Islands, and in South America. It is also practiced in the United States. Sacrifice is a fundamental part of Ifa and elements of the system are found in Voodoo and Santeria.

“Victims and materials of sacrifice vary from one circumstance to another and from one divinity to another,” according to J. Omosade Awolalu, with the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in an article for the Journal of Religion of Africa.

“But, on the whole, things offered are those which are used by the human beings in their day-to-day life, ranging from the smallest living and non-living things to the biggest domestic animals, like the cow; and, in some very special circumstances, human beings are offered,” he states.

However, human sacrifice was abolished by the British in West Africa in the 19th century, according to Awolalu.

In a Sept. 14, 2020 article, Cullors’ “home girl,” Hebah Farrag states, “BLM leaders, such as co-founder Patrisse Cullors, are deeply committed to incorporating spiritual leadership." Cullors grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness, and later became ordained in Ifà, a West African Yoruba religion.

“Drawing on Native American, Buddhist and mindfulness traditions, her syncretic spiritual practice is fundamental to her work. As Cullors explained to us, ‘The fight to save your life is a spiritual fight.’”

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Born Alicia Schwarz:

Alicia Garza - Wikipedia

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Garza was born in Oakland, California, on January 4, 1981. She grew up as Alicia Schwartz in Marin County in a mixed-raced and mixed-religion household, with a Jewish stepfather and a non-Jewish African-American mother. Garza identifies as Jewish.​

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Something else to mention is that one of the founders Patrisse Cullors follows the African relgion "Ifa" which she incorportates the rituals into their protests and the "spirituality" itself has been regarded as Witchcraft and if you know what the bible says regarding it, its best left alone.

 

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Something else to mention is that one of the founders Patrisse Cullors follows the African relgion "Ifa" which she incorportates the rituals into their protests and the "spirituality" itself has been regarded as Witchcraft and if you know what the bible says regarding it, its best left alone.

Oh man where to begin with this person? Patrisse Cullors. She was born in a poor neighborhood in Pacoima, NOT south central LA. Even though the neighborhood was low income, the area was nicer than the stereotypical ghetto. She became involved as a teenager with the Bus Riders Union (BRU) and campaigned against what looked like racist planning and decision making that made it difficult for people from low income areas to use public transportation to access needs such as jobs and medical care. This was the beginning of the roots as "Critics also take issue with the BRU’s rhetorical or political style, contending that BRU organizers are overly combative and ideological." ("The Clenched Fist". Los Angeles Times. November 5, 2000. Retrieved April 14, 2011.). This fostered the seeds of BLM, and from the leadership of Eric Mann who has affiliations with Black Panther Party, SDS, etc. He had such an influence on her, that it seems like the young Cullors idealized the teachings which she then brought into BLM. Mainly prejudice of white people and law enforcement.

The interest in "Ifa" and West African spiritualism has it's basis in reinforcing the slave mentality that to reclaim her "identity" she must go back and revisit the practices of her "ancestors" or some sort of bullshit that has no actual weight to what is currently being practiced in West Africa today. It is no different than a white southern person who decides to cherry pick the gospel and add norse/pagan mythology to it because they want to connect to their "heritage".

Cullors has used her "black card" and her connections with the Black Panther Party to make her way up through the ranks of academia to become a voice for the new "black panther party" rebranded as Black Lives Matter. It is the same racist propaganda that is anti-establishment, anti-police, anti-Christ, and does absolutely nothing toward protecting black women, children, and men. They divide the black family, and many African Americans who find themselves on the other side of the economic gap, realize this and are moving away from BLM because they see the truth for what it is.

Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Romans 6:16
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

Ifa and other "spiritual" teachings originating from West Africa are NOT going to free anyone, rather they continue to spread division and fear among those who practice it. They are far from God as the East is from the West, and move a person's mind further into slavery with delusions of self-centeredness parading around as social justice. Sadly, as we speak children who are healthy have been killed to appease these "gods" because they were born with some sort of fixable defect and seen as "cursed".

https://www.christianaid.org/missions-insider/2019-ritual-human-sacrifice-uncovered-in-africa/. (This was published in 2019)

On 21 September 2001, the torso of a young boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London. Dubbed "Adam" by police officers,[1] the unidentified remains belonged to a black male, around four to seven years old, who had been wearing orange girls' shorts.[3][4]
The post-mortem showed that Adam had been poisoned, his throat had been slit to drain the blood from his body[5] and his head and limbs had been expertly removed.[2][3] Further forensic testing examined his stomach contents and trace minerals in his bones[5] to establish that Adam had only been in the United Kingdom for a few days before he was murdered[5] and that he likely came from a region of southwestern Nigeria near Benin City[1] known as the birthplace of voodoo.[5] This evidence led investigators to suspect that Adam was trafficked to Britain specifically for a muti killing, a ritual sacrifice performed by a witchdoctor that uses a child's body parts to make medicinal potions called "muti".

So much for Black Lives Matter eh? This woman is deep in chains with some pretty powerful demonic forces, and the saddest part of it all is that she is oblivious to the whole thing. However, the more people wake up to the truth, the more they will see through this facade and move away from the movement.