Guadalupe Ramirez

“Given White supremacy’s intentions to disempower African American people by miseducating us, we do not have the privilege to approach our students with the objectiveness many teachers and curricula endorse. Our students”
― Na'ilah Suad Nasir, "We Dare Say Love": Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys

“The report stated that “Systemwide P&T [Promotion and Tenure] has been concerned about low level discriminatory actions that occur over a long period of time—things such as undervaluation, microaggression, and marginalization—that never as a single instance reach the threshold for filing a formal grievance”
― Adrienne D. Dixon, Condition or Process? Researching Race in Education

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Alone

“Both the segregationists and the assimilationists think there is something wrong with Black people and that’s why Black people are on the lower and dying end of racial inequity. The assimilationists believe Black people as a group can be changed for the better, and the segregationists do not. The segregationists and the assimilationists are challenged by antiracists. The antiracists say there is nothing wrong or right about Black people and everything wrong with racism. The antiracists say racism is the problem in need of changing, not Black people. The antiracists try to transform racism. The assimilationists try to transform Black people. The segregationists try to get away from Black people.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You