{"id":117092,"date":"2021-02-03T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117092"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:58:28","slug":"education-group-reveres-black-panther-party-in-new-lesson-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-group-reveres-black-panther-party-in-new-lesson-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Group Reveres Black Panther Party In New Lesson Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feducation-group-reveres-black-panther-party-in-new-lesson-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117092&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Black-Panther-Party.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A prominent education association released a new lesson plan on the FBI\u2019s so-called \u201cwar\u201d on the Black Panther Party \u2014 an identified domestic extremist group that advocated for the use of violence to overthrow the U.S. government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lesson plan is titled, \u201cTeaching the FBI\u2019s War on the Black Freedom Movement,\u201d and focuses on COINTELPRO, the FBI\u2019s counterintelligence program that targeted domestic extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. The lesson teaches students that the U.S. government terrorized peaceful organizations that were a threat to government power in the 1960s and 70s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a copy of the lesson plan obtained by The Daily Wire, the plan was designed for 11th-grade students and should be taught alongside the Black Panthers\u2019<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/materials\/black-panthers-ten-point-program\/\"><span>Ten Point Program<\/span><\/a><span>, which calls for government reparations \u2014 and more \u2014&nbsp;for black Americans. The author of the lesson plan describes her first time teaching the lesson to a classroom of hyperactive 16-year-olds eager to learn about how the U.S. government spied on activist organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lesson plan is distributed by the Zinn Education Project, which designs and distributes instructional materials from a left-wing perspective. The organization\u2019s ideology is based on Howard Zinn\u2019s best-selling book \u201cA People\u2019s History of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lesson plan asks teachers to pass out declassified FBI memos for students to analyze. One FBI memo dated Sept. 27, 1968, called the Black Panther Party \u201cthe most violence-prone organization of all the extremist groups now operating in the United States.\u201d Teachers are told to immediately remind students that the Black Panther Party also hosted community programs such as nutrition classes and free breakfasts for children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the author of the lesson plan asked her students why they thought the FBI was spying on activists groups, one student allegedly responded by saying, \u201cMaybe [Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover] was really a racist and didn\u2019t want the Civil Rights Movement to succeed!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lesson plan glosses over the violent tendencies of Black Panther Party members. Most notably, there is no mention of Assata Shakur. Shakur was a prominent member of the Black Panther Party and was charged with the murder of New Jersey police officer Werner Foerster, as well as attempted murder, armed robbery, bank robbery, and kidnapping. While serving a life sentence for murder, Shakur escaped from prison and was granted political asylum in Cuba. She remains on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted List to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead, students are taught about the Black Panther Party\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zinnedproject.org\/materials\/black-panthers-ten-point-program\/\"><span>Ten Point Program<\/span><\/a><span>,<\/span> <span>which calls for the full employment of black people, the end of capitalism, for all black men to be exempt from military service, and freedom of all black men held in prison, among other demands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lesson also encourages teachers to link COINTELPRO to modern-day government surveillance. Among the listed programs are George W. Bush\u2019s NSA surveillance program, which was exposed by Edward Snowden, and the alleged government tracking of Black Lives Matter activists under the Trump administration. The plan does not include the Obama administration\u2019s reported surveillance of conservative non-profit organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The author of the lesson plan concludes the instructional material with a personal note calling out textbook publishing companies for allegedly whitewashing COINTELPRO from history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTextbook publishers\u2019 disregard for the history of COINTELPRO is one more example of the crucial importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, which lays bare the systemic dangers faced by Black people in the United States while simultaneously affirming and celebrating Black life,\u201d the author wrote. She could not be reached for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent education association released a new lesson plan on the FBI\u2019s so-called \u201cwar\u201d on the Black Panther Party \u2014 an identified domestic extremist group that advocated for the use &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892589,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4212,5152,3670,5165,4787,5162],"class_list":["post-117092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-black","tag-education","tag-group","tag-panther","tag-party","tag-reveres"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}