I would give anything for my kids to have a law school style syllabus that breaks out assignments class by class. Instead I get high level stuff and a DEI statement.

lunch the kid ate every day?

Disgruntled kid: "God damn it. Another peanut and jelly sandwich! 50 days in a row"

Friend: "Why don't you ask your mother to make you a different lunch?"

Disgruntled kid: ""I make my own lunch."

Is that a think in public schools?

Stolen implies the need for return to rightful owners, where we all just accept the realities of historical conquest.

criticism of Thomas Jefferson's slave ownership.

...Native American Initiatives.

It looks like every public institution in the City of Chicago has a land acknowledgement:

The City of Chicago
The Field Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
DePaul University
Northwestern University
Newberry Library
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago History Museum
...etc.

I just checked the suburbs. Most of them seem to not have land acknowledgement statements, though some of the school and library districts do.

It seems like an easy and almost cheap way to virtue-signal, though I wonder how much of a virtue it really is to say, "We occupy what used to be your land. We're not leaving, but want to send you this cheery note." I'm not particularly opposed to it, but also not sure what it really accomplishes, any more than renaming highways, etc.

live productions. Between the interminable land aknowledgements and the mask mandates that dragged on far past their sell-by date, I've become far more picky.

This is to say nothing of the production quality which has fallen off a cliff.

So this was your land. It was probably someone else's before that too. You took it and had it for a minute. Anyhow it's ours now and if you get some scratch together I suppose you could buy some of it but that's your business, free country n all. Anyhow where were we?

acknowledge both the stolen land and the 272 slaves who were sold to help pay off the school's debt. In our group that day were two students who were descendants of one of the slaves.

Didnt seem so trivial that day.

From whom did native Americans steal land? Wooly mammoths? The Flintstones?

You’re welcome to research the topic.

You’re such a delight to chat with, by the way. We really appreciate your contributions.

natives were all big happy family? They were fighting wars/displacing one another long before honkies invaded the continent.

Just a silly position to take.

Of course various tribes came and went from various parts of this country as the tribes' power ebbed and flowed. There's a reason the Crow hated the Lakota Sioux, to name one of many examples. And the Crow themselves pushed the Shoshone off their land in the first place.

Or rather, people can just concede the point that the European settlers of this country didn't treat the Indians very well.

You morons will never get off your merrygoround of whataboutism.

But the Indians fought each other too!

land and mocked a poster for suggesting otherwise by asking if they stole it from the Flintstones or woolly mammoths. Don’t try to dodge that now.

The point is that these land acknowledgment statements are dumb and ignore that Native Americans took land under “the old rules” — that is, before about 1945, where might made right and you could take land through conquest without remorse — just like everyone else.

But we’d lose out on a lot of virtue signaling opportunities in the present. And we don’t feel THAT bad about it after all.

In reality I have no earthly idea what your problem is, or why anyone tolerates you at all.

I'd wager NEA, NEH is making funding contingent on venue's roster of artists, etc.

posturing nonsense. Let's play to every grievance group rather than do the hard work of governance. How pathetic.

murders and thieves. AND NOW, DECK THE HALLS!

...to provide appraisals required us to sign off that neither our firm nor a predecessor firm had owned slaves.

ideology. Many businesses are moving in the opposite direction after realizing how worthless and expensive these initiatives are, and that the majority of people are not making their hiring, firing, promotion, and other work decisions based on race, gender, or other immutable characteristics that the left is obsessed with. Additionally most people in their jobs just want to keep their heads down, do a good job, and not be lectured to, so they generally don't pay much attention to this nonsense.

The stem teachers (female, BIPOC) are not enthused and tend to fill it in with fluff.