{"id":2215325,"date":"2024-04-08T05:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-a-principal-jamaal-bowman-objected-to-teaching-about-white-figures-like-george-washington-honoring-cop-killers-instead\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:07:03","slug":"as-a-principal-jamaal-bowman-objected-to-teaching-about-white-figures-like-george-washington-honoring-cop-killers-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-a-principal-jamaal-bowman-objected-to-teaching-about-white-figures-like-george-washington-honoring-cop-killers-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaal Bowman, Principal, Objects to Teaching &#8216;White&#8217; Figures, Advocates for Honoring Cop-Killers"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fas-a-principal-jamaal-bowman-objected-to-teaching-about-white-figures-like-george-washington-honoring-cop-killers-instead%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=2215325&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>Jamaal Bowman, a former\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whitmer-signs-law-allowing-bus-drivers-school-admins-to-sub-as-teachers-amid-shortage\/\" title=\"Whitmer Signs Law Allowing Bus Drivers, School Admins To Sub As Teachers Amid Shortage\">middle school principal<\/a> and current New\u2062 York Democratic congressman, gained attention for advising against teaching about traditional figures like George Washington and\u2062 advocating for controversial\u2064 figures, including cop-killers, on a &#8216;wall \u200cof\u2064 honor.&#8217; This sparked debate about his educational approach\u2064 and the inclusion of individuals with contentious backgrounds in educational settings.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Bowman celebrated an anti-Semite and cop-killers on &#8216;wall of honor&#8217;<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tJamaal Bowman speaks at a 2018 AERO Conference (Alternative Education Resource\/YouTube)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As a middle school principal, New York Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman advised against teaching about &#8220;white&#8221; historical figures like George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. Instead, he used his position to elevate a renowned anti-Semite and cop-killers.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking at a 2018 conference hosted by the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), Bowman detailed his pedagogy as the principal of the Bronx middle school he founded, Cornerstone Academy for Social Action (CASA). He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LYerup1cadg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encouraged educators<\/a> to instill &#8220;self-empowerment&#8221; in their students by pushing back on &#8220;white&#8221; cultural figures, citing Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus as detriments to his students&#8217; success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can\u2019t have self-directed learning without self-empowerment,&#8221; Bowman said. &#8220;If our kids don\u2019t love themselves, if they don\u2019t love who they are and where they come from, and they\u2019re told that Santa Claus, and George Washington, and Jesus Christ\u2014all these white hope, great people\u2014are the standard, how are they going to feel about themselves?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now they look at social media and they see cops killing people that look like them every other day. How do they feel about themselves? So the path towards education revolution and self-directed learning is self-empowerment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roughly four years earlier, at CASA, Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/jamaal-bowman-defends-decision-to-feature-prominent-anti-semite-cop-killers-on-middle-school-wall-of-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">curated<\/a> a &#8220;Wall of Honor&#8221; featuring former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.), Assata Shakur, and Mutulu Shakur\u2014all of whom Bowman said &#8220;played a major role in moving our society \u2026 toward a world of freedom, justice, and equality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Years before Bowman established the wall, in 2009, McKinney attended a Holocaust denial gathering in London, where she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/intelligence-report\/2009\/former-democratic-congresswoman-cynthia-mckinney-flirts-holocaust-deniers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> anti-Semitic leaders and writers. Assata Shakur was convicted for the first-degree murder of a New Jersey state trooper in 1973, while Mutulu Shakur led a group of armed robbers who killed a guard and two New York police officers in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The newly surfaced video comes as Bowman faces an uphill primary campaign against Westchester County executive George Latimer.<\/p>\n<p>The two<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-gop-reps-hit-with-5000-fines-under-new-house-security-policy\/\" title=\"Two GOP Reps Hit With ,000 Fines Under New House Security Policy\">-term congressman<\/a> went on to defend his decision to honor McKinney and the Shakurs after the wall became public in February, acknowledging their &#8220;complicated biographies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is correct that many leaders in the Black liberation movement \u2026 have complicated biographies,&#8221; Bowman spokeswoman Sarah Iddrissu <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/jamaal-bowman-defends-decision-to-feature-prominent-anti-semite-cop-killers-on-middle-school-wall-of-honor\/\">told<\/a> <em>HuffPost<\/em>. &#8220;It is completely baseless, and a rhetorical tool of the far-right, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamaal-bowman-defends-decision-to-feature-prominent-anti-semite-cop-killers-on-middle-school-wall-of-honor\/\" title=\"Jamaal Bowman justifies inclusion of controversial figures on school 'Wall of Honor\">insinuate educating students<\/a> on major figures of Black American history is serving to promote hateful or divisive rhetoric or actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suppressing the education of Black history only serves to enable violence against Black people,&#8221; Iddrissu concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman and AERO did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman in a 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/11\/09\/principal-says-standardized-testing-is-modern-day-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> railed against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-law-americas-public-education-system-produced-racial-hierarchy\/\" title=\"Stanford Law: America\u2019s Public Education System Produced \u2018Racial Hierarchy\u2019\">standardized testing<\/a>, likening the practice to &#8220;modern-day slavery&#8221; and &#8220;Jim Crow&#8221; inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Public school high-stakes standardized testing is a form of modern-day slavery, and it is designed to continue the proliferation of inequality,&#8221; Bowman wrote. &#8220;America was born of horror for black people and that horror continues today for brown and poor people as well. Slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, crack cocaine and now standardized testing were all sanctioned by the American government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Congress, Bowman went on to introduce the March 2023 &#8220;More Teaching Less Testing Act,&#8221; which aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y9Aw4EsH_yc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design<\/a> curricula that address social, emotional, and cognitive development rather than test prep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re testing too darn much,&#8221; Bowman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y9Aw4EsH_yc\">said<\/a> in an October interview touting the bill with the Human Restoration Project.\t<\/p>\n<p>AERO still supports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/visit-an-alternative-school-instead-of-taking-the-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that mission<\/a> today, according to their website.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman and Latimer will square off at the ballot box on June 25. Latimer leads the &#8220;Squad&#8221; member by 17 points, according to a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/03\/us-news\/rep-jamaal-bowman-trails-rival-george-latimer-by-17-points\/?utm_campaign=nypost&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a 2018 AERO Conference, Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal and now a New York Democratic congressman, suggested against teaching about traditional figures like George Washington, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. He preferred honoring individuals considered controversial rather than celebrating conventional ones, like cop-killers and an anti-Semite, on a &#8216;wall of honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":2215326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-05-at-3.18.37-PM-e1712344816506.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-05-at-3.18.37-PM-e1712344816506.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215325","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\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}