Please note before reading that this short treatise does not discuss the gerrymandering purposes of the War on “Drugs” which enabled the government, predominantly the Republican party, steal representation from poor urban communities (predominantly people of color) and give it to rural white communities. That’s another paper. The “War on Drugs” has all along been… Read More
Stetser Elementary 2014 Thematic Study Writing Project
“Twelve foot tree,
Let me be free.
Twelve feet tall,
I will not fall.
Twelve foot tree,
Let me bee me.
Twelve feet tall,
They hit me with their all.
Twelve foot tree,
I begged on my knees.
Twelve foot tree,
Please let me be free.
Twelve foot tree,
They wouldn’t let me.”
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A Simple Reflection on the More Recent Historical Socio-Positioning of Males
I address this perspective on male positioning over females not to focus on females but to place males correctly, for the purpose of this reflection, in their self-appointed and relegated privileged positions within a running, hegemonic, heteronormative, (w)hite-centric dominant narrative… Read More
Evolution and the Necessity for Friction
The Language of Being Human by Poet Ali
Us: A World & Trace Taylor Production
Is this ethnography? The making of this film was extremely difficult. It takes the viewer from horror to the possibility of joy. I suffered a tremendous emotional downturn for the first four months working on those first three acts. While the two final sections pulled me back towards the living, it took another eight months… Read More
The Traits of a Pedagogy of Access
Connections substantiated by evidence exist between profit, access, skin color, and socioeconomic status. Substantiated too by qualitative and quantitative data both historical and current, are the relationships between education and access, access and political voice, and political voice and social justice. For much of modern human history, the application of education as a means of… Read More
A Perspective Identity
I came from “dirty” “mixed-blood.” I’ve been hungry most of my life. All I ever knew was hard. But before, there was Cara. It was all I could do to wait for the lunch bell. She lingered across the field, by the wild honeysuckle that hung from the live oak tree. She came from Georgia.… Read More
The War on Drugs, A Government Sponsored Racist Initiative
© by Trace Taylor (2015) Header Image provided by Shutterstock The “War on Drugs” is a racist initiative. Statistics and informant-provided information support this conclusion. The examination of both qualitative and quantitative evidence is examined, and with substantive evidentiary weight, supports the argument that the war on drugs is an active government funded war on… Read More
The Boca Ciega High School Human Rights Project Anthology, 2017
© by Community Leveraged Learning (2017) This project was incredible. I wrote a Human Rights curriculum and combined this with the effective writing curriculum I produced for CLL (Community Leveraged Learning), my educational nonprofit. Dr. AnnMarie Gunn at USFSP served as an advisor on the project and hooked me up with a ninth-grade teacher, Nicole… Read More
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