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Jordan Lanfair

Oct 19, 2026

18:52
How about your students? How do they feel when you teach, and how do you approach?
18:57
You know, whenever I work with my Black students, you know, the kids who look like me, and even brown s- there's just this great rage at not being taught it.
19:07
Um, because when I've worked with Latino students, one of the spins that we've also put in is that the Civil Rights movement supported the Workers' Rights movement, you know? Um, Cesar Chavez, you know, had communication from Martin Luther King.
19:23
I mean, even the 504 protests, you know, for, um, Americans with disabilities got support from the Black Panther Party.
19:30
So there's always this great betrayal that they kind of mention feeling, that they've been in school all these years and they've never gotten accurate history or in-depth history in the way that they got to see themselves, and they kind of feel lied to.
19:48
It, it can all just feel like this unbearable pain.
19:52
But giving them the opportunity to challenge and to resist and to fight and to grow helps them take that pain and turn it into action.

19 MINS LATER

38:47
So interweaving that story of the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, my grandfather was in the Korean War, so making sure that they can see I see myself in history, so then how can you see yourself in history? How about you, Jordan?

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