Matthew R. Kay

@MattRKay

Dad, Philly Educator, Author of Not Light, But Fire, Columnist at Educational Leadership Magazine, Executive Director of Philly Slam League, Varsity Coach 🏀🏈

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    26 Aug 2020

    "For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake." - Frederick Douglass, 1852

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Not to mention paragraphing. 🤦🏾‍♂️ Shoot, I wish it was all as easy as “Sometimes people who are smart in some ways also have racist ideas, and sometimes they give these ideas the wheel. Sometimes these ideas combine to make systems. Those systems suck. Got it? Cool.”

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  3. 10 hours ago

    It’s more complex teaching them how to use a comma!

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  4. 10 hours ago

    Anti-CRT bots sell their own kids thinking ability so short. A founding father can have + ideas about government & still be an objectively awful human because they enslaved people. That’s not at all tough for kids to process. Not the hardest thing we teach by a country mile!

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    20 hours ago

    Through the years people would ask me why I didn’t teach at an HBCU and I’d say because no HBCU ever asked me. Thank you for asking. So happy to be part of The Mecca.

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  6. 19 hours ago

    This is low key a nice document to tuck away for a unit that engages the 1st Amendment. I’m gonna make a slideshow. Which points make sense? Which hold no water? Why?

    And in a third lawsuit, Trump sues YouTube for violating the First Amendment:
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    21 hours ago

    I’ve been thinking about this — the idea that internet companies have “more power than governments” is so blatantly untrue and yet such an effective fundraising vehicle.

    Here is prominent “conservative” big tech critic and Internet Accountability Project head, Mike Davis, criticizing American tech companies for… wait for it… standing up to the Chinese Communist Party puppet government in Hong Kong.
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    22 hours ago

    To create that "safe space," shares three discussion guidelines (and activities) in ch 1 of NOT LIGHT, BUT FIRE that should really help make that "safe space" not so elusive and magical.

    The first step to teaching effectively is to create a space where young people feel welcome. If they cannot be themselves in the classroom, they will not learn from you
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    Jul 6

    Nikole Hannah-Jones: UNC denying me tenure ‘confirms my life’s work’ via

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  10. Jul 6

    Oh dang Giannis is back back

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    Jul 6

    Blessed be for this morning as is making all the boss moves and saying “thanks, but I’ll take my talents to Howard University”

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  12. Jul 6

    Oh she got a word for us today. You go head and preach 🙌🏿

    "It's not my job to heal the University of North Carolina." with a WORD this morning Amen.
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    Jul 6

    . reminded us today that we shouldn’t go where we are tolerated—we should go where we are celebrated. No more begging to occupy spaces that were never intended for us in the first place.

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    Jul 6

    The story about the discrimination I faced in the UNC tenure debacle was broken by excellent local reporter . So I gave him the exclusive print interview. Local news matters. Please support and other local news.

    Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC offer, heads to Howard University has the full story via
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    Jul 6

    Here is my full statement about my decision to decline tenure at UNC Chapel Hill and instead accept the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at .

    "I have never asked for special treatment. I did not seek it here. All I asked was to be judged by my credentials and treated fairly and equally." ' official statement on declining the tenure offer from UNC Chapel Hill:
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    Jul 6

    Bwahahahahahahahahhaha. did THAT y’all. 💯💯💯💯💯

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    Jul 6

    Why Teaching Students How to Listen to Each Other Is More Important Than Ever (and How to Do It)

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  18. Jul 6

    This makes me so happy.

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  19. Jul 5

    My kid’s happy birthday balloon is eerily American Beauty-ing around me as I sit here and write. Not enough helium to go down. Not enough to go up. Feels prescient re: my writing at the moment 😬

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  20. Jul 5

    Coach, get some shots up with me

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  21. Jul 4

    As powerful as the words are - and they are utter genius - the context under which Douglass generally spoke is what should humble us. It wasn’t just abolitionist societies. It was being regularly met with brickbats, stones, fists, bullets. And then doing it again. And again.

    Continuing our annual tradition of posting one of Frederick Douglass' most famous speeches.
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