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I know who paid for & put out the racist hit piece against @BibbForCLE.
The one where they darken his skin tone & use the old racist trope of criminalizing a highly educated & qualified black man?
It’s one of the oldest tricks in their book. But they fucked up.
A THREAD
The one where they darken his skin tone & use the old racist trope of criminalizing a highly educated & qualified black man?
It’s one of the oldest tricks in their book. But they fucked up.
A THREAD
As a leader in national dem politics, I’ve seen it all. But if there is one issue that pisses me off more than anything, it’s when white men weaponize race when they can’t win on merit.
And while I don’t know @kevinkelleyCLE, he and his friends have crossed a line.
And while I don’t know @kevinkelleyCLE, he and his friends have crossed a line.
1st - I am not like a lot of black people the powerful white Dem leaders in Cleveland are used to dealing with. I have my own nat’l orgs. I have my own network. I have my own financial resources.
I am not a bought, owned or controlled black man. Hence, their first mistake.
I am not a bought, owned or controlled black man. Hence, their first mistake.
One thing about the #abed curriculum that is not being discussed enough is that the Knowledge-Understanding-Procedures categories don't make sense and there's a total absence of concepts. 
For example, it differentiates between knowledge and understanding, but I have yet to hear a coherent explanation of the difference between the two, or a justifiable reason for separating them.
As discussed by @ArthurJChapman in his new book, history educators typically organize historical knowledge and understanding into first-order (substantive knowledge i.e. know that) and second-order (procedural, disciplinary or metahistorical knowledge i.e. know how).
#ShitShow “Mick Mulvaney, who became Trump's Budget Director and is now his acting chief of staff, has a striking assortment of "red flags," including his assessment that Trump "is not a very good person."
One red flag for Fox News host Laura Ingraham, considered for White House press secretary: "Ingraham said people should wear diapers instead of sharing bathrooms with transgender people."
