BlackPrint’s 5-Point Position on Instructional Materials

Written By Henoss Taddesse

  1. We are strongly against censorship.

  2. We appreciate bias as a learning tool to sharpen students’ analytical, critical-reading, debate and hypothetical-thinking skills.

  3. We zealously believe that students should be engaged in the deconstruction and critique of biased materials in and out of their classrooms.

  4. We passionately urge all departments, offices, schools and individual instructors to examine instructional materials from the perspectives of persons from as many social locations as possible.

  5. We emphatically recommend that students engage with rigorous curricula that exposes them to a broad range of experiences, narratives, and perspectives in and within cultures, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation.

Henoss Taddesse
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