By: Pelvo White, Jr.

Pelvo White, Jr. — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:38:12 +0000

” As the bogus war against “CRT” rages hotter than a Death Valley afternoon, I was heartened to learn that a group of Black teachers and scholars will soon hold a conference in Florida to address the issue head-on. I pray for them. Few things are more Sisyphean than battling an “educational” system that actively seeks to deny American history.”You have raised numerous important points in this thought provoking article.The philosopher Albert Camus poked fun at the seeming absurdity of life in his philosophical writing titled ” The Myth of Sisyphus.” In this work the character “Sisyphus” angered the gods, and was condemned by them to push a heavy rock up to the top of a hill but never completed the task because the gods would cause the rock to roll back down the hill before Sisyphus could push the rock all the way to the top of the hill.I accuse many state governors who wish to take a “nihilistic” view of education as those, like Camus who, through his writing, uses their actions in an attempt at devaluing education as ” absurd “and subject to the manipulation of members of the Republican Party.Such behaviors are a great departure from the truth, and does not recognize the fact that Sisyphus was a mythological, fiction character presented by Camus for the sake of causing further thought on the definition of the Absurdity of life.To define education as absurd is very, very dangerous, and could lead to autocracy.

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By: Pelvo White, Jr.