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Historian David Blight champions teachers; criticizes Democratic Party’s “endless debates over the right language”

John Fea   |  November 16, 2021

Blight spoke at Messiah University last month

Here is the Pulitzer Prize-winner and Frederick Douglass biographer:

Trust teachers! We should support them, pay them better, make sure they control the curriculum, and continue to help learn even more and better how to teach about race and slavery. Trust teachers!

— David W. Blight (@davidwblight1) November 13, 2021

We not only should trust teachers, but they need far fewer diversity training courses, and much more time to read, think, further their own education in the subject fields. They need autonomy, respect, higher status and better pay. Trust teachers!

— David W. Blight (@davidwblight1) November 14, 2021

Blight is also concerned about the current state of the Democratic Party:

Likely not popular with us progressives, but John McWhorter nails this piece on white guilt. Enough with guilt; we need policy, action, dedicated work, not mere feelings expressed in endless debates over the right language.https://t.co/aQ3rpdB4mA

— David W. Blight (@davidwblight1) November 1, 2021

Ari is completely right. Structures have to be changed! The Senate, Electoral College, Supreme Court. Ah… but how to win elections and muster the waves of support? https://t.co/plRWbziIXc

— David W. Blight (@davidwblight1) November 1, 2021

Of course it is systemic; that is why it needs policy and hard work and less sentiment. Ask a white farmer in Michigan who gets up a 5 am every day or a marginally employed laborer in Ohio about their white privilege or guilt and you have lost their vote forever. https://t.co/rQyulc2RTY

— David W. Blight (@davidwblight1) November 1, 2021

Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: David Blight, Democratic Party, diversity training, identity politics, teachers, teaching, teaching history

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