Channel 12's Derrick Rose has a lengthy story about the need for "Context."
We happen to agree with that need. More than Derrick Rose does.
Nutshell: a widely-circulated ad calling for the abolition of "critical race theory" education contains a 5-second video of an MPS teacher asking her students to salute the "Pan-African flag."
The "missing context" is that the grade school in which this salute was shot is an African-American Immersion School. That's not the only "missing context," however. Read on!
...The Immersion program's design, according to Harris [the teacher], was to address academic disparities among black students.
"One solution to that was by creating a school that would immerse children in Black and African culture, where it would be a part of the curriculum and teachers who taught there would have a certain number of credits in African studies," Harris added.
As for that Pledge of Allegiance, Harris said it, too, has valuable context.
"First, we do the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag, and then we do the Pledge of Allegiance to the Pan-African flag, which was created by Marcus Garvey. In that pledge, we talk about how we want to seek peace, promote and generate unity, and take care of our community," she said....
Well.....ummmmnnnnhhh....seeking peace, unity, and care for the community is good. But we had no idea that 'seeking peace, unity, and care for the community' was strictly an African thing. The implication is that non-Africans seek war, division, and NOT-care for the community.
The problem with this "immersion" should be obvious to all of my readers except "Capper,"
But here's where "context" is really missing:
... "It's very similar to a French Immersion school or a German Immersion school," Harris said. "Except for our school, it just isn't a language immersion. It's a cultural immersion school."...
OK, then.
Do the French- and German-immersion schools require students to salute the French or German flags?
Context matters, Mr. Rose.
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