Decolonising the Curriculum | Melz Owusu | TEDxUniversityofLeeds
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Melz who was the Education Officer in the University of Leeds and a recent graduate of the university gave her insight of the current curriculum in our generation speaking from experience in the form of both talking and rapping.
Melz is a recent graduate of Philosophy and Politics from the University of Leeds. She now serves as the Education Officer at Leeds University Union and is completing her second term in office. She is the pioneer of the ‘Why is My Curriculum White?’ campaign on campus.
Melissa is also an artist, using much of her spare time to write and perform Grime music. Recently, she headlined at the ‘gal-dem’ takeover over at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She is deeply passionate about imaging new forms of knowledge, new ways of being and becoming, and believes that a transformative education system is one key way of achieving this.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
The emotional attacks in the comments demonstrate fear in understanding perspective, this is what halts social progress. A lady with learning difficulties just gave a speech on TED and expressed her thoughts clearly and concisely. To understand and comment on what is being said, you need to understand colonialism, the history of the British empire, and most importantly you to understand that although someone has different experience to yours, it doesn't mean it must be undermined or mocked.
What ever your definition of 'social progress' is I don't want and neither does the majority of the UK.
@@jo18533 That much is clear...
@@jo18533 Social progress is obviously subjective, I'm simply highlighting that conversations need to occur for it to happen. It's not that difficult really, cave man talk cave man learn. Perhaps this explains better. Did I think, this lady is the best representation of the decolonising movement? Maybe, maybe not? My opinion doesn't matter in that regard, but I'm glad someone highlighted it as a talking point.
@@user-ui7gd2hi6b "Caveman" is a stereotype Oh Ye Wokeness.
@@AmusedChild fantastic
Well done Melz. I followed every word and thought-process. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
This video was confusing and unorganized.
It s ur mind which is confused and unorganized 😉 for me it s well structured and relevant
it is TEDx after all
No,it was just pure bullshittery!
@@josephrwa2392 '
Dunning Krueger Effect
Shaun Snapp racism
@@eldia2813 imposter syndrome!
mate shes not even on the Dunning Krueger graph she actually has negative competence before it starts
wow what a pile of nonsense... and she even compared Shakespeare to Stormzy.. seriously?
Why is it that a person's opinion different to the majority considered nonsense? M. Owusu's point exactly. Why can't Shakespeare be compared to Stormzy? They are both artists. Why is Shakespeare considered the dominant and superior knowledge? Who decides? Important questions to ask...
@@ainsleyroach7141 these are two different forms of art. One is a play, one is a rap song. Also one is a highly praised historical literature which has shaped the English language (in fact even in Italy we study Shakespeare to comprehend the evolution of the language), one is a form of music made to be listened.
@@ainsleyroach7141 The same reason my English Literature teacher laughed at me when I tried comparing Eminem to Shakespeare.
Amanda G had Eminem been around the time of Shakespeare he coulda been the
shakespeare 😂
@@ainsleyroach7141 Do you really have to ask?
That was the creepiest and cringiest Thing I’ve seen in a while
Decolonizing schools in ENGLAND?? Do you know where you are??
Fair point!
Sorry? The British colonised most of the world and the curriculum doesn't take into account the coloured lives that were lost through it all. so even some kids from colonised backgrounds that live in ENGLAND grow up brainwashed thinking that white people are superior. Anyone should be able to admit that's wrong
@@misspollysdolly Clearly most people thinking that are not White people its mostly people with a victom complex or white guilt thinking that hyperbole and a victim complex won't fix the world
@@DTheCritical Can't handle your victims becoming self aware.
@@misspollysdolly THANK YOU I DONT UNDERSTAND THESE PEOPLE WTF IS GOING ON
Not one coherent thought or argument presented, let alone any actual facts or figures to back them up. Sad.
Truly terrible. Is TEDx so open that there is no vetting of talks beforehand? I don't understand how this was allowed to occur.
But she said a load of really great buzzwords and slogans.
Perhaps what is needed is a listen from human lived experiences, like the young female herself, as opposed to alleged ‘facts’ and biases as this only has been proven to exclude those from minority backgrounds.
So, YES, no ‘facts’ because what we deem as a ‘fact’ is questionable to some regard as it is a reflection of a “reasonable person” which reflects a white middle class male.
Why, then, should she include this as opposed to her human lived experience which reflects reality more then a mere fact???
The real reason that 16% of people of color are doing worse is probably because they let those students in not for their academic achievement but because the schools want to look diverse. If every Asian student for example gets straight A's, and they only let in 10% Asians, then the Asian students also have to have other things on their resume! Like volunteer work and extra curricular work! Thus they will probably do better than the person of color who was let in with lower standards for diversity reasons! But now lets ruin education because the kids getting in on lower standards can't keep up.....
But I guess bias made you take philosophy instead of engineering. People did not believe you had a learning disability because you did too well in school. If they would have believed you, you would have taken engineering instead!
Also... no student should have to develop coping mechanisms.... WHAT? Yeah, they should not learn to cope with the real world...
Part of university is supposed to be about learning coping mechanisms
Lots of assertions, the vast majority very partially true at best, making the whole an insane mass of rubbish. Not a universitarian, but next time, bringing some actual arguments instead of a pseudo religious sermon might be better.
Universitarian? Is that something to aspire to? I found I learned far more when I left, from people who hadn't wasted their time trying to prove something they already knew. You don't need to compete with your peers, just yourself.
Typical product of affirmitive action.
Savage
Watching this in 2020 and as a current Student at Leeds I am in absolute awe. This comment section is absolutely vile. This girl will go on to do great things.
Blinkered. You'll learn in time...
No she won’t. She’ll just spread her unfounded propaganda producing nothing of value to society like 99.9% of all other art majors
playing a victim is not a good way to spend your life, this person will always consider themselves a victim and hence fail at everything
I'm a current student too! and it's 2022 now and people still are commenting the most ridiculous things. this video is highly informative and a great presentation, hopefully more people will realise that.
here in 2023. the comment section is revolting and full of people who refuse to understand any perspective aside from the one they grew up with. so they mock her and act condescending to feel superior. its really frustrating. best not take them seriously, i guess.
Imagine thinking these two are equal:
Stormzy:
First things first, I'm a real G
How's a tweet on Twitter gonna kill me?
If I ain't the GOAT then I will be
They know this so they seven-figure deal me
Oh, do you feel me? Facts, what I'm still on
And I still got racks, I'm a real don
Shakepeare:
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death: O, how may I
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
What if Shakespeare was the Stormzy of his day?
And will he not come again?
And will he not come again?
No, no, he is dead:
Go to thy death-bed:
He never will come again.
His beard was as white as snow,
All flaxen was his poll:
He is gone, he is gone,
And we cast away moan:
God ha' mercy on his soul!
And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' you
@@MarkTAllenby That's just it, he wasn't. Stormzy isn't even the best lyricist around, never mind being comparable to Shakespeare.
Oh yeah all English people know Shakespeare so well and they read him every day all the time everywhere. Now suddenly you are his biggest supporters. I bet many migrants know Shakespeare better than many English.
@@SuperBrisseis Shakespeare is so influential that we still use many of his expressions. He is the single major source of English literature. Everyone after him writing in English is influenced by him. There is no escaping his influence. No other writer has such influence.
"I bet many migrants know Shakespeare better than many English."
Well, migrant I am not. But certainly the child of migrants. But what has THAT got to do with anything?
As a White person I experienced the same thing...it's not colonisation it's just a bad system period
a bad system as a result of colonialism and capitalism. It stems from somewhere, it didnt just appear, have a brain cell or two.
@@Laura-sg6ss have you been to a school outside your mother country? You'll find the overall system is bust
@@Laura-sg6ss if you live in a capitalist country your education will be shaped by capitalism...if you live in a communist country it will be shaped by communism...
Unless you intend to remove all human history you will have a system influenced by local history.
Have a brain cell or two.
@@Laura-sg6ss One or two would still be more than you have clearly
@@Laura-sg6ss "Colonialism" has absolutely NOTHING to do with it and Capitalism is the ONLY working economic system - the one you owe EVERYTHING you have to, including the computer you type your anti-capitalist nonsense on!
You want a non-capitalist society? Enjoy the starvation!
Capitalism allowed humanity to practically elimiate hunger and poverty to a degree that was totally unthinkable, 200 years ago.
Go look up the data about prosperity on "Our world in data"!
Comparing hip-hop rapper Stormzy to Elizabethan play-writer Shakespeare?! I am pretty its because they are part of two separate categories of art work: a play & a rap song. Also one is highly-praised historical literature which has shaped the English language; the other is form of music which purpose is to listen to.
@@lobbyskids2 I don't think her point was the type of art or their discrepant forms but rather that they can both be studied and used as implications for our wider society especially contextually speaking. So unless your comparison speaks to their different forms then it is futile because it's like you comparing a baked sweet potato to a banana, you esteeming a banana over a baked sweet potato would be silly since they are not even in the same category of food. Meanwhile, whilst they are two different types of plant products, they still have about the same approximate amount of potassium (450mg). The same can be said with Stormzy's rap and Shakespeare's plays. You can't really objectively say one is better that the other because the one lacks what the other has or vice versa. They are both goods respectively concerning potassium.
Yes, Shakespeare is different from Stormzy but it doesn't mean you can't learn from art in the rap area compared to art in plays. They are not and don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Lauren, I don't think her point was the type of art or their discrepant forms but rather that they can both be studied and used as implications for our wider society especially contextually speaking. So unless your comparison speaks to their different forms then it is futile because it's like you comparing a baked sweet potato to a banana, you esteeming a banana over a baked sweet potato would be silly since they are not even in the same category of food. Meanwhile, whilst they are two different types of plant products, they still have about the same approximate amount of potassium (450mg). The same can be said with Stormzy's rap and Shakespeare's plays. You can't really objectively say one is better that the other because the one lacks what the other has or vice versa. They are both goods respectively concerning potassium.
Yes, Shakespeare is different from Stormzy but it doesn't mean you can't learn from art in the rap area compared to art in plays. They are not and don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Did she just compare Shakespeare to Stormy 🤢
03:30 I don't want to get too bogged down in having to used facts and figures to exemplify why we need to change our education system or why it's unequal........Yes why do all that when you can make wild generalisation and use anecdotal stories to back up your theories :P
facts booooo feelings yeeeaaahh
this is why i stopped listening!
This is wonderful.
03:22: "I would put this down to...", The Dunning Krueger Effect?
Because Mega Corporations, Governments, Leftists Liberals push the "nature's gentleman" BS and pretend that anything not Judaeo-Christian culture is "better".
Funny that in the countries where the "natives" that they revere still have slavery, and in some places - even cannibalism.
This is why no one takes TEDx seriously.
Most underrated comment in the whole underrated history of underrated comments.
She goes on about critical thinking.
But critical thinking is not critical theory a Neo Marxism.
Critical theory only pinpoints in art literature music biography people's sexism racism and other prejudices.
That's not critical thinking.
That's critical judgement.
It's what everyone does.
It's what morality in religion does.
Compares the individual to a set of ideals to creat a perfect being.
But critical theory is far more dangerous.
Whilst religious criticism on culture and individualism is about changing yourselves. Not a whole group of people. And Watching your own behaviour towards others.
Critical theory is a Neo Marxism
Its role is to change the whole of society collectively. Even against individuals who do not want to comply.
We have seen results of this in classic Marxist struggle. Millions of deaths.
Destruction of books and monuments.
Whilst most religion isn't really about colonialism but only accompanies colonialism.
Marxism is colonialism.Cultural colonialism.
And this is why she says education needs to be decolonised.
So was china of its culture.
Tibetan monks persecuted and having to live somewhere else for not complying.
So no. Her ideas are anti western.
Anti whiteness culture.
In a society where she feels it doesn't honour her because it's too white.
That's what critical theory told her.
That she is a victim. When in fact she is not. She's indoctrinated as those communist thugs ripping up culture and its people who did not comply.
Like Germans saying Germany is too Jewish and we need be decolonising it's culture of Jewishness so the German can feel German.
This is All based on victim status that Marxism teaches.
Marxism and identity politics are not remotely the same thing.
@@cockoffgewgle4993
You cannot have Marxism without identity politics.
You've only to read the communists manifesto by Engels and Marx and you will see it is filled with Identity politics.
Maybe it's not racism holding kids back in schools, maybe it's programs aimed at helping people that end up hurting in the long run as they create lower standards and dependence.
Experienced it first hand. Dyslexic, as a kid was tossed into special ed. Greatly slowed my progress, but worse, gave the truly challenged kids a false sense of their abilities.
It's the racism of low expectations like the democrats in the US practice
nice to see ellesse is back in fashion
I'm confused. How is she oppressed? She's on the biggest platform for educational videos at a red brick university.
Someone please explain.
You're oversimplifying it. Her point wasn't that she is oppressed.
@@plutoreturns9630 That was EXACTLY her point!
“nations and borders are myths” - sums up the deep confusion that underpins this dogma
She also then quickly goes on to say "she likes thinking critically...." she's laugh a minute
Critical theory is, ironically, the antithesis of thinking critically.
An argument based on hardly any factual concepts whatsoever. You can't merely say the reason black people do worse in uni is because of racism, without using any evidence to back it up. Saying we don't academically study Stormzy because of colonialism is downright stupid. We don't study white British rap artists either. Get off your high horse.
Robert Nozick Robert Nozick you completely missed the whole point of this talk. You just focused on one part of the talk that you had a counter argument for. Students of colour underachieving is a fact. When you have students that only have that one thing - race - in common, and are underachieving compared to their white peers; there is clearly something wrong with the education system. Education system is supposed to be reflecting facts and knowledge gained over time, and be passing them over to younger generations. Here, the history of the education system is based on lies. White men, taking credit for discoveries and theories of an oppressed group. Instead of reflecting the facts and knowledge accurately, the education system is shaped to be comfortable for white people.
White privilege exists whether we like it or not. That's why you're more less likely to be searched, arrested, rejected from work or university than a person of colour with the same experience. Because of your white skin colour and your white name, you have white privilege and so do I. That is not our fault, but we need to use that white privilege to stand up for those that are still, in 21st century, not represented fairly, to put an end to it.
those that are still, in 21st century, not represented fairly, to put an end to it.
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the idea that nonwhites have some right to be represented "fairly" in institutions that were built by white europeans for the posterity of white europeans is a ridiculous idea. There is so such right. Nonwhites who are waging war against white people in their own countries and in their own institutions need to be rejected and expelled radically.
Im a nonwhite. I'm glad to have been born at a time when i had the opportunity to participate in the civilization that white europeans have built . I'm happy that even though i had no birthright to this civilization, i was allowed to participate in it. It appears that the vast majority of nonwhites don't realize that they need to be GRATEFUL. That's too bad. It means that eventually they will be radically excluded.
In case you want to reply with "civilization was stolen from POCs", please explain to me in detail how Polish culture and civilization was stolen from black folx. Hint = don't you dare to insinuate that Polish culture was stolen from Haiti.
Countries are ideally the national territorry, the homeland for a particular Nation.
That's what countries exist for. To serve as a home for successive generations of a Nation, which is a very large family.
In many families (not all), there is a process through which a non-family member gets adopted into the family, once in a while. That sometimes happen. But there is no sane family where the next generation is all adopted or even mostly adopted.
Karolina Zarzyczny - "White peers." They are under performing compared to ALL OTHER GROUPS, even African immigrants. Stop blaming White's for their underachievement.
Odd, that she didn't reply to further comments. I wonder why?
Desu - Certain White people despise their Whiteness and heritage. Those who have drank the Frankfurt School, Post Modern, Alinsky poison. If they feel guilty over their personal accomplishments, and assume they have only achieved due to the theft of someone else's opportunity. Then I say, good riddens to them, and they should give all that they have to the nearest POC. I have NO empathy for fools.
Wakanda Forever!
"a sight for sore eyes" used completely contrary to it's meaning. thats it. i made it 45 seconds in. smh
Stormzy the same as Shakespear? Wow.
This is undoubtedly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Incomprehensible word salad from start to finish.
"university gave her insight"... ... X
"Education has always been a massive passion of mine......" hilarious comment to make
One word I haven’t heard is .....gratitude.
You’ve had a good free education of sorts regardless of your complaints.
You’re standing here giving a Ted talk.
Are you or Stormzy so hard done by?
Your parents or grandparents came voluntarily to a predominantly white country and culture. Knowing they would be a minority. If you feel that you can’t integrate then return to that former country but ask yourself if you haven’t gained from your time here and focus on that rather than victim hood.
That sense of gratitude might dispel this aggression you feel towards British culture and tradition.
It is as all history is, imperfect but it is our story so just leave it alone.
one can show gratitude for an education whilst also acknowledging the faults in the system...
1.) Do you know her personal history? Are we certain her family landed there voluntarily?
2.) Many people immigrate to the imperial core because the imperial country has destroyed their own.
3.) British history can’t be “left alone” because you all wouldn’t leave the world alone! The absolute audacity you have to clutch to your fragilities! When you dominate, slaughter, expropriate, oppress, and continue to cling to the profits, you should be thanking your lucky stars everyday that you are only presented with a verbal complaint in response and not revenge.
@@katieakin9397 Your kind should be very lucky that you're alive. It's quite obvious that mistakes were made. They won't be repeated this time.
@@katieakin9397 Stop using British technology and language then or you are also benefiting from colonialism. Also taring modern people with what their ancestors did is just racism.
How is education colonized in Britain? Did the British Empire colonize Britain also?
uh huh, lets not get bogged down in facts and figures!
Melz's expression of the institutional barriers facing people of colour in the UK is accessible and nuanced. The epistemological shift that our generation is responsible for must be spearheaded by articulate and driven voices like this. Thank you!! From one Leeds graduate to another :)
Pure nonsense! You graduated from university,really?
@@honkytonk4465 art degree
There are no "people of colour" in the UK. That's a loathsome Yank term. We try not to define people by their skin colour in the UK. Even in language.
Articulate?!
Fast forward to 7.45 in to experience the worst rap in colonial history
Us this : to make it a time stamp 7:45
She may be deeply skeptical but I wouldn't say that she is deeply critical. And if she is living in England and going to an English school, how is her education colonial?
To explain how her education is colonial: she's talking about the curriculum, and (rightfully) arguing that the English curriculum is Eurocentric, meaning it disregards the real impacts of colonialism by skimming over the pain and lasting damage it caused people of colour. Calling education colonial is perhaps the wrong term, however the context she uses it in means she's describing it as biased towards white British history as it disregards and belittles people of colour's experiences during and after colonialisation- for example, it skims over the impacts and long lasting effects of slavery which are still massively prominent in modern-day society. Hope that helps :)
It is a bit thin on colonial history for sure. That can easily be solved by including a few weeks in the history syllabus.
However, as for the rest the state sector educational system it is based on treating students equally.
This is a European nation and therefore the bulk of material in schools will be British and European.
I would expect an Arabic or Asian nation’s educational system to be primarily Arabic or Asian.
@@ItaloGallese I agree- of course its main focus would be British history, or at least European history, however the way that British historical events (such as colonialism and imperialism) are taught is often in a way which glorifies Britain and ignores the pain they inflicted to ethnic minority groups. also Britain is culturally diverse; many British people also have afro-caribbean heritage, for example. therefore, the curriculum should acknowledge that by altering it's Eurocentric perspective.
@@chrissie1303 a short section on historical Colonialism would suffice. It can stress that British aspect in context of colonialism throughout world. GhengisKahn , Turkish, French etc. Colonialism isn’t uniquely white or British
@@ItaloGallese no of course not- colonies have occurred for thousands of years in various corners of the world. But, we're discussing the British curriculum, and so, as you mentioned, we should focus on British history and hence, British colonialism.
And if we're primarily focusing on British colonialism (as its the British curriculum), we will be touching on aspects of racism, and therefore, we would have to acknowledge the harsh reality of what that meant (and still means) for afro-caribbean and other ethnic minority groups.
London was never colonised.
Anglo Saxons are indigenous to the area. How are you talking about decolonising London schools? You seem to have done pretty well learning cultural Marxism - maybe decolonise Marxism and get all the dead white guys ideas out of it.
Wow. I feel bad for anyone attending this “educational” institution where Shakespeare is compared to some random rapper.
Can’t believe I sat through this whole jibberish. I am very glad she skipped the “facts and stats” though, there were so much else “knowledge” and “learning” going on I would have gotten tired.
I'm sure by 'random rapper' you mean 'multi award winning artist'?
I think mikael meant multiple award winning random rapper
Grumpy lot below the line here
Quick girl, go decolonise your life.
Don't use your iPhone, take Uber or train or plain. Or use the indoor plumbing, any electrical appliance. And on your way out, don't pick up fried chicken or Starbucks coffee.
When you can present an alternative that people will freely choose, lead by example and adopt those things and show us. Next time - don't use the microphone either - that is also a product of "Colonialism".
What a strange comment to make. It doesn’t make any sense
@@naoisepoku4750 Makes perfect sense. If we "decolonize" science, then don't use the products produced by the science that you want to cancel.
This talk quality prove the low expectations ... why don't you decolonize in your African country ?
Worst ted talk I have ever watched
3:30 you can't make an argument if you don't use facts and statistics. Without them your argumentation is highly subjective and if there's any Bias as you are mentioning then in order to solve problem we need to go to the root of the problem which you are not talking about.
Facts and statistics are used by western science to suppresse the magical science of marginalized non white magical scientists.Why don't you get it?!
@@honkytonk4465 its not. this whole presentation is supposed to be about how we can decolonize the curriculum but she is beating around the bush by talking about the prejudice students of color face in school, instead of trying to offer solutions or ideas to how we can decolonize the curriculum. So by her not mentioning so-called western statistics and facts, she's making it seem like she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about
burst out laughing when she said "homonationalism" HAHAHA
the colonial syllabus does not produce words that undermine its gunpowder intelligence. So we reserve that exclusive right to make words that disrupts the colo-illicit narratives
2:03 unconscious bias
The chip on her shoulder is just heavy.
Well that's 10 minutes i'll never get back.
The good news is that she can always go back to Nigeria if it's better
Unfortunately it's always a one way ticket to white oppression and free stuff forever.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to this. - Billy Madison
It felt like the whole garbled speech was building to her doing a terrible cringey rap.
Right lol
It's seriously, genuinely time to defund the universities. Enough
this is fantastic and the presenter must be so brave to tackle oppression in the epicenter of a colonial beast! i am inspired :D
HAHAHAHAH
3:29, you lost me... "i dont want to get bogged down in using facts and figures". you basically lose all credibility at that point. you're doing what all the SJWs do, and base your arguments off feelings instead of facts.
*This is what happens when you have affirmative action in universities.*
And let's include Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Aren't they white?
Karl Marx is Jewish, I think the others are white thought.
@@lindaeriksson1208 Jews are whites. It seems that in the process of decolonizing the Curriculum they are using ideas of white thinkers. :)
@@miahipop987 Jews are more Arabs than they are whites.
"Attended one of the worst schools in my area" she says. It shows darling, but at least your skin colour got you a public speaking engagement educating all of us.
Oof, this entire comment section is uber sensitive.
The greatest figure in English Literature is being compared to a gangster rapper. And you think the problem is that comment section is "uber sensitive".
What a load of guff.
Teds a joke
ikr...Bill would do it better.
Yep,Ted has zero standards.
Or do you just fail to comprehend a word of what any person of colour has to say?
Is this legit?
poor girl. She truly believes she's thinking critically.
Poor you for failing to understand her perspective, this was merely the stance she is taking and you are proof that there is a failure to understand from the perspective of those groups who have been ‘othered’, that individuals like yourself have been indoctrinated in to believing that everything you have been taught to be ‘objective’ was in fact nothing more then colonial influences creating biases in todays so called ‘neutral positions’ that we all have been taught to deem as the correct way of living, when in fact it poses a dangerous impact on society in general but more particularly our ethnic minority counterparts.
Might as well add chicken sacrifice in the curriculum
One flight ticket To Jamaica and the problem is solved.
Where on earth does any mention Jamaica lol
"we're dangerous... (laughs)"
So let me get this straight, you don't see a doctor? you ask your teacher to diagnose you? And the reason he doesn't is due to bias?
Lucky you are a critical thinker and finally figured out what was going on then!!
And then the rap performance at the end, to illustrate thinking outside the box 👏
Poor victim...
Lol
Incredible, spot on and inspiring....smashed it. incredible, thank you
Stunningly brave.
wtf u talking about, this is the worst cringe ever
@@franciscasteliogne354 Stunningly idiotic.
So open your own school and write your own curriculum
But just stop the whining ..please
Great presentation ! I remember checking out mentally during art history. I now realize that I subconsciously knew a lot of the programming was false. I feel that other highly melanated students intuitively know that some of the school programming was/is prejudiced by design.
I think of it like a cleverly cheating narcissist husband. You have a feeling in your gut that something is wrong. But he gaslights you every time you catch him in a lie. He shames you for your questions and tries to make it seem like YOU are the problem. He then strategically (they don't know they are being used as tools) rally's up his supporters ( or flying monkeys) to tell you. Maybe you should be nicer to your husband. Look at all he does for you....he buys you this and gives you that. But until you are actually in her spot it seems like nothing needs changing. Why? .......
Decolonising the curriculum would give us ALL access to MORE knowledge! Bringing education full circle? I can't connect with a mind that would want to know less or would prefer biased information. GIVE ME EVERYTHING TRUTHFUL. So I can learn and discern and specialize.
What most people don't realize is that the very things they were TRAINED to abhor is their own liberation. ( I don't feel like explaining in depth other than to say EVERYONE is getting short changed.) Many hold tight to the concepts of race meanwhile we all have to share the same chemtrailed air, food that is decreasing in nutritional value, seedless and inorganic. The pineal gland and other endocrine systems are under attack by disruptive food/additives like aspartame and fluoride., critical thinking/feeling sliced in half....OR zapped completely.
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I was at 3 different art/ science centers recently ( with unbiased knowledge in my PROGRAM) and saw how the presenters strategically find a way to present the material and OMIT where the information came from originally- as if the word AFRICAN or AFRICA burns the tongue. An assault on our education and general existence has affected us all. What separates robots from humans is the ability to empathize, rationalize and change course based on new information. This society is riddled with NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER. SIMS Just like a proper narcissist they withhold what society needs. Cures for diseases, truth in education, truth about our existence and so many other things.
People should try not to be an Non Player Character and actually step into a more meaningful role with more parts of their brains and bodies illuminated with truth.
By the way, the beef/dairy industry sponsors the heart/ cancer associations.
MANY medication manufacturers give doctors commission on prescriptions they write to you.
They were two main publishers for ALL of the text books in the west hailing from Europe... Palmers and I forget the other... I'm super tired but it bugs me to see ppl of all the nations getting fooled and taken advantage of. Lastly sometimes I come across information printed in scientific journals that say this or that is impossible. Meanwhile, I have experienced said thing. lol
ESP related etc...
When I choose friends I look at the heart. I can normally tell their level of intelligence by how they interact with me. I can see the depth of western influence. (You can be western and be cool af.... but that's always purposeful. ) (YOU ARE TRAINED TO BE ADVERSE TO THE TRUTH/PREJUDICED) I see everything else as well but it's about the resonance with truth. NO one likes to feel gas-lit or undervalued. I generally can't get deep with people that have not also experienced SELF EDUCATION beyond public schools. (Which is this presenters point) It's like she saying lets OPEN the cage so we can all roam freely and people in the comments are like. "Dont open the cage, I like it in here"? Like you want to eat pellets for the rest of your life? What about a SANDWICH???? @The OA on Netflix LOL.
Lastly,
Check out the work by Jane Elliot my friends. Travel outside of America, or your birth place, travel the world....
At this point I feel like I should thank god and my mother like they do in all the award shows ! lol.....We can doooo it people. We got this! xo Power to the sentients :p
Use only non white inventions, discoveries, science, philosophy, literature, engineering, legal and financial tools, artworks, manufacturing, and medicine. Critical Theory destroys Critical Thinking, but a critical theorist is by definition incapable of discerning this.
Whole of the world can use non-western theories which are bound to fail. Western economic theory failed, i mean all of the theories failed. You can use the theories of indian civilization which is 20000 years old and still continuing with pride. I know the people seek for an alternative and when they don't find it they are bound to go for failed and corrupted theories.
Hey! Take our philosophy of life where you treat everybody out of respect where you have a fear and joy of karma. Individual thinks of the society and nation before him. Where families and home are like heaven. Where you worship nature and take care of it in every possible way.
Take our mathematics from zero to continuous series to calculus to algebra to trigonometry. Take the name of branch of mathematics and you will find its origin in india.
Take our sports from badminton to chess which develops critical thinking.
Take our Arthashastra and whole of the worlds economic problems will be solved.
Take our psychological consciousness theories and sound mechanism theories which are very new and fancy to the western world.
We have whole bunch of theories and their practical results that made india wealthiest country in the World till 1750s but these western colonizers looted our country, made us poor and also corrupted our history. And made us forget our true past.
Thus i say to the westerners take away you theories apply non westerns great theories and world will be pro environment and a safer educated society with inner well being and state of high consciousness.
@@shiwanikumari2822 Then why do Indians still sh!t in the streets?
Love your comment.
How about critically thinking about an anecdotal conclusion with no formal investigation behind it, which has also been generalized?
This sort of rhetoric is dangerous and does little to open meaningful discussions about ‘decolonising’ a curriculum. Comparing Stormzy and Shakespeare, for goodness sake. A clear example here of somebody that needs to read more and couch her arguments in academic rather than ideological rationale.
You go gerl!
Learn history though
don't you oppress her with facts and figures!
It is a great pity that her arguments were so weak.
Fantastic talk! Thanks for sharing your work. It was great to see an example of how decolonial theory could be applied in regards to poetry/rap as a tool for social change and promoting critical thinking in a manner that doesn't preference Western ways of knowing and being.
Danielle Jeffery are you being an intellectual charlatan ⁉️
Without Western science rap Music would not exist ‼️
If you live in the West you will get a Western education. Don't like it? Then feel free to leave. It isn't Westerners job to change our entire society to suit non Westerners.
YES IT IS.
Sarcasm?
Danielle Jeffery decolonial theory, poetry/rap, social discourse, critical thinking... all products of the West/ Western way of being... exclusively. So...
Yawn...
You walked into a ring of fire. You left sirens blaring. It's an honest opinion about a miserable system.
What a prat.
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I clicked on this video to understand what decolonising the curricuum meant, and it was worse than I thought lol.
What is the difference between Shakespeare and Stormzy?????
hahahahahahhahahaha
same
She is so articulate and intelligently open
I am honestly appalled that such an event has taken place at a British University. I would find it funny if it didn't happen on my own soil. Nothing this women has said is even close to the full picture of the actual problem at hand, and by no means qualifies her to preach to people at a University. It is disgraceful that the University did this instead of putting it up for a debate.
wow. all of the racists in these comments are very disappointing!
Racists because you say they are..? Lol
Truth!
Her heavy breathing makes me uncomfortable. she needs to get in some cardio
Can’t tell if she’s trying to rap the whole time or talk ?
Full of sound and fury...
Angst.
Thanks Melz Owusu. Food for thought.
Really?
Junk food .
this is amazing
"graduate of Philosophy and Politics"
Gwarrrrrnnn
Keep speaking loud and confidently. I am a product of teachers blocking my intelligence.
brilliant poem/rap
You can tell that she attended the worst school. And comparing STORMZY to the bard and then stating that she saw no difference. 🤣
decolonise the education system and teach real history, otherwise it's just His-stories :P insightful talk!
Why so many dislikes? I don't see anything in her main line of argument that could be reasonably disagreed with, all that was potentially disingenuous of her was the comparison between Shakespeare and Stormzy. both are overrated imo lmao, no reason to judge her whole talk based on that
If you think Shakespeare is over-rated then you're massive twonk.
The title alone is enough to judge her whole talk.
No thanks.