Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Mandatory Black Curriculum for NYC Schools
Aired: 2025-01-17
Duration: 07:00


=== All-Black Curriculum (05:06) ===

[00:00:00]  I just learned that this year, New York City Public Schools introduced a full pre-kindergarten to 12th grade all-black curriculum.
[00:00:09]  When I looked through this book of detailed lesson plans, I figured it had to be only for black schools in Harlem or the South Bronx.
[00:00:17]  But no, it's mandatory for all students, all one million of them, in the biggest school district in America.
[00:00:26]  Black students make up only that 24% slice on the right.
[00:00:30]  Hispanics are the big 41% chunk.
[00:00:33]  Asians are 17% and whites are just 15%.
[00:00:37]  Whites will put up with anything, of course.
[00:00:40]  But Hispanics and Asians must be irritated by all this blackety-black.
[00:00:45]  The very name of the curriculum is a joke.
[00:00:48]  Black studies as the study of the world.
[00:00:52]  What? Sorry.
[00:00:54]  But if Africa disappeared from the planet, most people wouldn't notice.
[00:00:58]  So I guess the school's chancellor, David Banks, who pushed this thing through, was being modest when he said, Black history is American history, period, full stop.
[00:01:11]  The first lesson in pre-kindergarten is learning everyone's name.
[00:01:15]  Teachers should be able to pronounce all names.
[00:01:19]  Practice may be required.
[00:01:21]  These days, that's true.
[00:01:23]  In a pre-K lesson about the five senses, students will describe how objects connected to black studies, African and black cultures, taste and feel.
[00:01:35]  Still in pre-K, lesson five is Juneteenth.
[00:01:39]  Children will make Juneteenth flags and talk about the horrors of slavery.
[00:01:43]  This is a lesson for four-year-olds, mind you.
[00:01:47]  In kindergarten, students will be introduced to Adinkra symbols.
[00:01:52]  They were used to decorate cloth and pottery.
[00:01:55]  The oldest of these ancient Adinkra symbols dates all the way back to 1817, beats learning the alphabet.
[00:02:04]  And, of course, every kindergartner needs to know about kinticloth.
[00:02:09]  Moving right along to sixth grade, young scholars learn about King Pee, the great Nubian pharaoh who conquered and ruled Egypt.
[00:02:17]  Here are his warriors, crushing all in their path.
[00:02:21]  Likewise, in 6th grade, students study this article about the white teenager who slaughtered 10 blacks at the Topps supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
[00:02:30]  There's a cheerful 8th grade lesson on the Tulsa race riots in which students get to watch a black-produced, black-narrated video about how awful white people are.
[00:02:41]  Also in 8th grade, there's a whole class on Power to the People, the Black Panther Party's 10-point program.
[00:02:49]  Among its 10 demands, Free all black prisoners, autonomy from whites, and the present value of 40 acres and two mules.
[00:02:59]  First lesson in the ninth grade is warrior queens, stateswomen, and queen mothers.
[00:03:07]  This is the beginning of a video that is part of a grade 9 lesson on African communications.
[00:03:13]  12 want you to know I hate you more than you hate me.
[00:03:18]  They really the threat, but that's how they try and portray me.
[00:03:20]  When you spit the truth, they try to view it as haste.
[00:03:22]  In the eleventh grade, more than half the lessons are on reparations.
[00:03:27]  A typical assignment?
[00:03:29]  Lynching, white supremacy, terrorism, and black resilience.
[00:03:34]  In the twelfth grade, lesson four is called Slavery and the American Economy, where you learn that slavery financed the American economy.
[00:03:43]  But America is capitalist.
[00:03:44]  So it has unemployment, inflation, poverty, and environmental impact, which only socialism will cure.
[00:03:52]  Students will learn which companies profited from slavery and will reflect on what they think should happen to the companies or institutions that benefited from slavery.
[00:04:03]  One reading is this.
[00:04:05]  In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.
[00:04:11]  Grade 12, Lesson 5. Black genius in the apparel industry.
[00:04:16]  Major white corporations rely on black creativity to reinvent their brands.
[00:04:22]  Who's a black genius designer?
[00:04:25]  Kanye West, shown here, getting an honorary PhD from the Art Institute of Chicago.
[00:04:32]  And on and on this curriculum goes for 518 black-as-can-be pages.
[00:04:39]  How is this supposed to help students?
[00:04:43]  Here are NAEP achievement scores over the years for New York City, bottom line, orange, New York State, the purple line, and the U.S., which is the dotted blue line.

=== Pushing Latinidad? (02:08) ===

[00:04:54]  New York City is at the bottom.
[00:04:57]  Miserable black and Hispanic scores drag down the average.
[00:05:01]  Stop the video and look at their numbers, as if you really needed to.
[00:05:07]  Does anyone, and I mean anyone, Really think Adinkra symbols and Juneteenth and King P.E. are going to raise those scores?
[00:05:15]  I guess blacks do.
[00:05:17]  Or maybe they just don't care about the white man's test scores.
[00:05:22]  David Banks, who commissioned this curriculum, is authentically black.
[00:05:27]  Note the African decor.
[00:05:29]  His predecessor, Misha Porter, was also black.
[00:05:33]  But it will be up to Melissa Aviles Ramos, who took over just last fall, to push this thing through.
[00:05:42]  Why should Hispanics, who are almost half of all students, sit still for this guff?
[00:05:47]  Well, it turns out they're going to get their own super-duper Hispanic curriculum.
[00:05:53]  New initiative launched to develop Latin Studies curriculum for NYC public schools.
[00:06:00]  Latin Studies?
[00:06:02]  Latinx didn't go over, so I guess high-paid dopes are trying again with Latin.
[00:06:09]  The New York City Council has made a profoundly important and historic investment in Latinidad.
[00:06:16]  Yep, the city has splashed out $3 million to push Latinidad, whatever that is, and I'm sure a stiff dose of it will send Pedro's scores right through the roof.
[00:06:27]  Actually, I'm delighted.
[00:06:30]  Let blacks fill their heads with kinty cloth and black geniuses.
[00:06:34]  Let them be as African as possible.
[00:06:37]  Let them disappear into negritude.
[00:06:40]  And let Hispanics disappear into Latinidad.
[00:06:44]  This will drive even more whites out of the public schools.
[00:06:48]  Another little step towards total disengagement.
[00:06:52]  Remember the Black Panther's ten points?
[00:06:55]  Number one was...
[00:06:56]  Power to determine the destiny of our black community.