{"id":1801490,"date":"2023-01-10T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801490"},"modified":"2023-01-10T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T21:35:44","slug":"michigan-cites-racism-in-decision-to-ban-term-field-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-cites-racism-in-decision-to-ban-term-field-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Cites Racism in Decision To Ban Term \u2018Field Worker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmichigan-cites-racism-in-decision-to-ban-term-field-worker%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=1801490&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--><p>  <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">\u2018While the widespread use of this term is not intended to be harmful, we cannot ignore the impact its use has on our employees\u2019<\/p>\n<p> Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\/Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/aaron-sibarium\/\" title=\"Posts by Aaron Sibarium\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Aaron Sibarium<\/a> \u2022 January 10, 2023 4:25 pm  <\/p>\n<p id=\"m_-4001583715564394018docs-internal-guid-5539f805-7fff-1019-82c9-27ab676db094\" dir=\"ltr\">Michigan\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services says it will no longer use the words &#8220;field worker&#8221; In agency communications, use the term &#8220;s&#8221; &#8220;implication for descendants of enslaved Black and Brown individuals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the department &#8220;staff and stakeholders have raised concerns&#8221; about the term\u2019s allegedly racist connotations, according to a\u00a0January 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/8372F257-8FEE-4D63-90A6-BDAD023AD315.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memo<\/a> Obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;While the widespread use of this term is not intended to be harmful, we cannot ignore the impact its use has on our employees,&#8221; The memo says. &#8220;Establishing shared language is essential to our collective progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The memo came from Demetrius Starling, the director of the department\u2019s Children\u2019s Services Agency, and Dwayne Haywood, the director of the department\u2019s Economic Stability Administration, neither of whom responded to requests for comment. Its letterhead contains Gretchen Whitmer (D.), the Michigan governor, who will retire in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gretchen-whitmer-mandates-implicit-bias-training-health-professionals-michigan-1596642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gretchen-whitmer-mandates-implicit-bias-training-health-professionals-michigan-1596642&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1673464420274000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0doFlTBMcJ4xnaGp9td7kF\">Mandatory<\/a> &#8220;implicit bias training&#8221; For all state health professionals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Michigan&#8217;s government is not the only progressive institution to place. &#8220;field&#8221; out to pasture. On Monday, the University of Southern California\u2019s school of social work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smobserved.com\/story\/2023\/01\/09\/news\/usc-school-of-social-work-replaces-field-work-with-practicum-because-field-is-racist-no-were-not-making-this-up\/7350.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.smobserved.com\/story\/2023\/01\/09\/news\/usc-school-of-social-work-replaces-field-work-with-practicum-because-field-is-racist-no-were-not-making-this-up\/7350.html&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1673464420274000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1v0VMH5UTilwsvtkDrZjP7\">Announcement<\/a> The term was removed from the curriculum because of the need to &#8220;reject white supremacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4311BFEA-40B3-4986-80E7-2ED67BE1CD6D.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an email<\/a> from the university\u2019s education department said. &#8220;Phrases such as \u2018going into the field\u2019 or \u2018field work\u2019 may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Formerly called the &#8220;field education department,&#8221; the school\u2019s education program will now be called the &#8220;practicum education department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The linguistic churn of the changes has led to these changes &#8220;woke&#8221; Progressivism is a system in which insensitive and harmful words are removed from bureaucratic vocabularies. This has caused a lot of turmoil on college campuses. Yale University stopped referring specifically to the heads its residential colleges in 2016. &#8220;masters,&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/president.yale.edu\/president\/statements\/decisions-residential-college-names-and-master-title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/president.yale.edu\/president\/statements\/decisions-residential-college-names-and-master-title&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1673464420274000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1dP9NgJnS-fo9d9Hm5MUOs\">Claim<\/a> The term was &#8220;associated with the ownership of slaves.&#8221; Stanford University will open its doors in December. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/bad-words-california-colleges-push-students-to-purge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/bad-words-california-colleges-push-students-to-purge\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1673464420274000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2jvHjzD1tD9QJsFR-yKmd2\">A list of &#8220;harmful phrases&#8221;<\/a>Includes\u00a0 &#8220;brown bag&#8221;  &#8220;blackballed,&#8221; This should be removed on university websites<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Blackballed,&#8221; The guide stated, &#8220;Assigns negative connotations of the color black, racism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan\u2019s Department of Health and Human Services says it will no longer use the words &#8220;field worker&#8221; in agency communications, citing the term&#8217;s &#8220;implication for descendants of enslaved Black and Brown individuals.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Michigan Cites Racism in Decision To Ban Term \u2018Field Worker\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":1712309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[544],"tags":[7008,4092,7381,4552,7196,4601,5243,9095,7677],"class_list":["post-1801490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-ban","tag-beacon","tag-cites","tag-decision","tag-field","tag-michigan","tag-racism","tag-term","tag-worker"],"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\/1801490","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\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}