Interesting Facebook thinks this one goes against their community standards

Interestingly, I posted this on Facebook this morning, and got a message from Facebook that my post goes against their community standards.
I find it, somewhat amusing that a University Literacy Professor's post on literacy and racism violates Facebook Community Standards. My more cynical mind has me thinking perhaps the status quo prefers a more sterile kind of literacy. Maybe even an effort to keep people ignorant.
Well, anyway here is my may violate Facebook Community Standards on Literacy and Race.

Malcolm X said: “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

What would you need to do to keep a race down?
What would a hidden curriculum of oppression look like?

First, keep books out of the hands of people, close their libraries and bookstores in their communities. Close school libraries, or build schools without libraries.
Turn school literacy lessons into pieces of fragmented texts focused on non-fiction texts only. Understand that narrative inspires, narratives lift, and narratives change lives. Access to narratives must be limited at best.
Turn literacy into lessons you learn without real books. Turn literacy into a chore. Do everything you can to make learning to read as bland as possible. Focus on workplace literacy, never let readers know books transform our lives and the world. Keep it simple, teach just enough to lock learners into low paying jobs.

Keep great books out of the hands of readers. Tell them everything you need to read is online. Give students Chrome books. You would not want people walking around with real books in their hands, reading them in public, on trains, buses, and on their front steps in their neighborhoods.

Focus on endless standardized testing and test prep. Isolate learning into reading, writing, and math drill and kill lessons.
What would you need to do to turn your policies into a racist dream curriculum?
Exactly what America has done to literacy in our Black, Brown, and poor communities.
These Ed Reformers are no reformers, they are the new slave merchants,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
Central Connecticut State University Literacy Center Director
Moral Monday CT Education Ambassador

If you want to listen to the tune that inspired my walk this morning over the mountain...it's Gil Scott-Heron - 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=71&v=qGaoXAwl9kw

Want to save public schools? Build, fund, and open more librairies

When I was a homeless child. My mother would go to work, and I would go to school. Momma insisted that after school I would go to the library. It was safe, it was dry, it was warm, and the librarians were welcoming. Momma, would come pick me up after work. The bus had a stop outside the library. They all knew my situation, one of them went to high school with my mother.

Momma's Librarian friend always watched over me, fed me the most amazing books, and like clockwork she gave me cookies and hot chocolate. She never judged us, there go I, for the grace of god..... On our nightly walk to that wood bench at the train station that was our home on many a night...Momma would say what did you read today. I would tell her about the cookies, she would say that was kind of Marie, but what did you read today...Well I had Dickens, Poe, Langston, Hugo, Cervantes, the Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes, the Invisible Man, Frankenstein...these were my constant companions. These were my life preservers. Without them, and the kindness of those librarians...Honestly, I do not know where I would have ended up. Some might say these were my darkest times, but I am not so sure any more...they just might have been those bright moments that saved Dr. Jesse P. Turner...

Some people think you make readers by building their skills. Skills are necessary components of becoming a reader.
But, I say readers are made by how we invite them into reading. Cookies, hot chocolate, carefully chosen books to inspire, and that welcoming smile, now, these are the things that make readers who love books.

Librarians taught me that books are our constant welcoming companions. Lately, it appears new schools are being built without libraries in poor communities. At the very moment, when public library budgets and hours are being cut. I have urban teachers who are now saying Dr. Turner, there is no librarian in our library. If this is education reform. I want no part of it. These Education Reformers could learn a great deal from listening and talking to our librarians.
I know things, because I read,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
CCSU Literacy Center Director

If you like to listen to the song that inspire my walk over the mountain today...its the Indigo Girls "Closer to Fine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky228

The world is what teachers read in their classrooms

James Baldwin said: " Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.”
If you find yourself perplexed by racism in America? You need look no further than which books are being read in our homes and schools.

You can learn a great from what books are in a classroom, which books are being read,
Which books teachers are choosing to read with their students,
You can learn a great deal about a school, by listening to their morning announcements. Schools have a 180 opportunities every school year to either affirm and celebrate diversity, or not.
You can learn a great deal by looking and listening to what happens every school day.

I would argue that one teacher embracing diverse books,
One school embracing diverse books,
One class embracing our beautiful symphony of American diversity does change the world,
One teacher embracing diverse books in their classroom, does indeed change the world,
Diverse books in our classroom, will indeed alter the way the children view the world.

Teachers don't have to wait for a mandate,
Teachers can start changing the world one classroom at a time.
Teachers can change the world?
Teachers can fight bigotry?
Teachers can be the bringers of truth and humanity,
But, only when the diverse books in our curriculum, in our school libraries, and in our classrooms are being read and celebrated.

Diverse books can indeed alter how future generations see the world,
The reading choices one teacher makes can indeed change the world,
Truth be told, the reading choices one teachers makes also can indeed endorse a status quo that changes nothing.
Children are what they read.
Literature is indeed indispensable, literature does alter the way we see the world, each other, and ourselves,
What teachers read in their classroom, "can" change the way future generation see the world.

Teachers read the books that alter the world,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
CCSU Literacy Center Director

If you like to listen to the tune that inspired my walk this morning its.. For What It's Worth- Buffalo Springfield cover by the Del McCury Band and Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIdfulZ1c5c