{"id":558060,"date":"2021-06-09T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558060"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:51:53","slug":"massachusetts-history-class-forced-students-to-comment-on-how-systemic-racism-impacted-george-floyd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-history-class-forced-students-to-comment-on-how-systemic-racism-impacted-george-floyd\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts History Class Forced Students To Comment On How \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Impacted George Floyd"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmassachusetts-history-class-forced-students-to-comment-on-how-systemic-racism-impacted-george-floyd%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=558060&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><span>A 10th-grade U.S. history class in Concord, Massachusetts, forced students to comment on how \u201csystemic racism\u201d \u201cimpacted\u201d George Floyd\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the organization <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/incidents\/concord-carlisle-high-school-history-class-encourages-only-one-viewpoint\/\"><span>Parents Defending Education<\/span><\/a><span> (PDE), a history class at Concord Carlisle High School assigned students to read a Washington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/national\/george-floyd-america\/systemic-racism\/\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span> about George Floyd\u2019s life. The article is titled, \u201cBorn with Two Strikes: How Systemic Racism Shaped Floyd\u2019s Life and Hobbled his Ambition.\u201d The article argues that the strictures of \u201csystemic racism\u201d led to Floyd\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lesson, which was titled \u201cRace in the Post-Civil Rights Era: George Floyd, Black Lives and the Persistence of Racial Inequality,\u201d asked students to read another Washington Post article on \u201csystemic racism\u201d in housing, education, the economy, law enforcement, or health care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The assignment did not allow students to question the existence of \u201csystemic racism,\u201d but instead taught it as fact.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nicole Neily, the president of PDE, told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/08\/massachusetts-high-school-forces-students-to-accept-concept-of-systemic-racism-in-essays\/\"><span>The Federalist<\/span><\/a><span> that students are not provided an opportunity to engage with the subject matter critically as they\u2019re often pressed to \u201ccomply for a good grade.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStudents are getting these assignments now where they\u2019re very clearly being told what their political perspective is,\u201d Neily said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students were asked to create a slide on the effects of \u201csystemic racism\u201d on their institution. PDE obtained a sample slide provided in the classroom. Students were asked, \u201cHow does the system or institutions that your article focuses on (education, health care, etc.) serve to create or maintain racial inequality?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_233067\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233067\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-233067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-300x169.png\" alt width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-1022x576.png 1022w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-1536x866.png 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM.png 2040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-233067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>via Parents Defending Education<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The largest section of the slide asked students to discuss how systemic racism impacted Floyd\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHere talk about how George Floyd\u2019s life was impacted by the system or institution,\u201d the slide read. \u201cHow did it impact him on a personal level? How did it shape how his life unfolded? What did George Floyd do to deal with this system or institution? What decisions did he make in response? How did this decision matter?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Washington Post article assigned to students was also notably political. The author claimed that \u201csystemic racism\u201d \u201ccontinually undercut\u201d Floyd\u2019s ambitions to be a Supreme Court justice or a professional athlete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cGeorge Perry Floyd came of age as the strictures of Jim Crow discrimination in America gave way to an insidious form of systemic racism, one that continually undercut his ambitions,\u201d the article read.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The article continued:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><i><span>Throughout his lifetime, Floyd\u2019s identity as a Black man exposed him to a gantlet of injustices that derailed, diminished, and ultimately destroyed him, according to an extensive review of his life based on hundreds of documents and interviews with more than 150 people, including his siblings, extended family members, friends, colleagues, public officials, and scholars. The picture that emerges is one that underscores how systemic racism has calcified within many of America\u2019s institutions, creating sharply disparate outcomes in housing, education, the economy, law enforcement, and health care.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, Floyd\u2019s girlfriend Courteney Ross detailed his opioid addiction. Ross said that the two became addicted to opioids four years ago after obtaining them for chronic pain. After the prescriptions ran dry, they turned to illegal drug use. Floyd was hospitalized for several days for a drug overdose when he was unemployed during the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd\u2019s addiction, previous criminal conviction, and the coronavirus pandemic shut down also attributed to his death.<\/p>\n<p><i><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><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10th-grade U.S. history class in Concord, Massachusetts, forced students to comment on how \u201csystemic racism\u201d \u201cimpacted\u201d George Floyd\u2019s life.\u00a0According to the organization Parents Defending Education (PDE), a history class &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279743,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-300x169.png","fifu_image_alt":"Massachusetts History Class Forced Students To Comment On How \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Impacted George Floyd","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-09-at-10.28.14-AM-300x169.png","fifu_image_alt":"Massachusetts History Class Forced Students To Comment On How \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Impacted George Floyd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558060","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=558060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}