After writing three long blogs about my personal experiences with the concept of racism, I have come to some conclusions. My memories were spurred by my older granddaughter who expresses a fairly strong opinion about the Black Lives Matter movement and negative opinions about policemen. I began to tell her about the 60’s from myContinue reading “Part IV: What is it that is really systemic?”
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Part III-I don’t know about CRT…
The interesting thing to me about the current Critical Race Theory discussion is that its supporters seem to be divided as well as its opponents. There are a lot of “formally educated” people on both sides of the controversy and there are people educated by life skills and practicality. There are white people who argueContinue reading “Part III-I don’t know about CRT…”
Part II – CRT continued…
At Salem Intermediate School in Salem, Virginia, I began teaching the music segment fo the Humanities Exploratory program for grades seven and eight and developed a middle school choir. I was SO green!! Nobody told me that most of your college education was about theory, methodology and philosophy and that you really didn’t know howContinue reading “Part II – CRT continued…”
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Melody McClung Morrison The boring stuff: Born in Kentucky, I became a Virginian at three weeks old since my dad took his first full time pastorate in Richmond, VA. From ages four to fifteen, I grew up in Farmville, Virginia, attended Prince Edward Academy for grades three through nine. On to Marion, VA, for threeContinue reading “About”
Part I: I don’t know about CRT …
Growing up in Prince Edward County, Virginia, in the 50’s and 60’s laid a shaky foundation for my social conscience. In particular, my father was the pastor of the largest church in a clearly racially divided town, Farmville Baptist Church. My Uncle Happy (Heslip Lee) was the director of the Civil Rights Commission in Richmond,Continue reading “Part I: I don’t know about CRT …”
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