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28 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The former argument is inherently racist. The latter is about exposing children to the 21st century world of liberal values. If you don't think this matters because you really don't care about the question at hand and instead have an education agenda of your own, just stop.
My own position is that everyone, not only kids, should read both classics and diverse literature. But Matt is totally misrepresentation this debate as being about education instead of values. For the purpose of teaching kids to read, either is fine, except.....
....that for children of color, reading stuff that actually touches their lives may really matter in sparking their interests. That definitely matters.
Also, you know what would help kids read? Adults also reading actual physical books. Maybe let's focus on that too.

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30 Dec
This Day in Labor History: December 30, 1900. Advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help German colonialists institute a southern-style cotton regime in their African colony. Let's talk about this shameful event! Image
This moment demonstrates the globalized nature of the American cotton production economy as it developed after the Civil War, as well as the active assistance of the nation’s leading black institution of higher education in propagating it.
In 1895, Booker T. Washington gave his famous Atlanta Compromise speech, when he told a white audience that African-Americans should give up on fighting for political rights and instead just work hard, while whites support that work, especially his own Tuskegee Institute.
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28 Dec
This Day in Labor History: December 28, 1869. The Knights of Labor were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The organization grew slowly, but by the late 1870s, the Knights had become the nation’s largest labor union, remaining so until 1886. Let's talk about the Knights! Image
Labor was at a crossroads in post-Civil War America. The Civil War helped spur the growth of large factories and capitalists like John D. Rockefeller began expanding their economic reach into what became the monopoly capitalism of the Gilded Age.
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25 Dec
This Day in Labor History: December 25, 1831. The Baptist Rebellion began in Jamaica. This slave rebellion of up to 60,000 people, put down over the next couple of weeks, also was the final straw that moved the United Kingdom toward outlawing slavery in its colonies!!!
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Second, the British religious denominations had engaged in large-scale missions among the slaves in the previous decades.
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23 Dec
This Day in Labor History: December 23, 1872. Coal miners near Clearfield, Pennsylvania got into a fight with strikebreakers trying to mine coal during a strike. This tells us a lot about how miners defined their jobs and their rights in 1872, providing lessons to us today! Image
In November 1872, the miners of central Pennsylvania went on strike. The mine owners did nothing. They just waited them out.
Railroads found alternative coal sources. In this still early period of American industrialization, companies attacking their own workers violated a lot of customary relationships that defined early American work. But times were changing fast.
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23 Dec
Conor's constant complaining about cancel culture comes from his inner knowledge that any decent society would cancel his stupidity in the public discourse.
Conor really is the ultimate "wellwhatabout" white male who has very little to offer but constantly gets work over real journalists who actually contribute to making the world a better place.
And now Friedersdorf has blocked me, lol
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22 Dec
Predictable, safe, and basically fine. Not my top choice, but OK.

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With every interest group putting tons of pressure on Newsom to put in someone who looks like them, it's extremely predictable that he would see this is a no win situation and revert to putting in a trusted ally who is also now the first Latino senator from CA.
And the fact that Newsom now gets to appoint the new Secretary of State and Attorney General for California gives him plenty of tools to placate other groups.
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