These mechanisms can only be destroyed by the oppressed themselves. Ultimately, there are two purposes for teaching in Minneapolis. First, to equip the oppressed to throw off the chains of doubt, fear and oppression. Second, to convince those of the middle or lower middle class that their prosperity has come with a price paid by others and they have a responsibility to become part of the solution. There are those that tell me that it is too much to put on the backs of children, but they are mistaken.
Children understand global issues, sometimes even more then the more minute ones.
To be educated in the solution is to give hope and lighten the burden. Teaching these things lightens the burdens of children who believe that the way things are is the way they have always been and always will be. The burdens are hopelessness and acceptance of oppression. Freedom comes from knowing otherwise and acting on that knowledge. To be purposeful is to understand the reason for your actions, philosophy and process.