![]() About a year later Miriam became turned her life and was even able to take care of her son but sadly in 2011 she lost her life to an accidental overdose. ![]() In the middle of her turbulent and wild life she had also become a mother to a son named Joey.Īt one point his sister lived in a crack house in Philadelphia Ted recounts the story of how he and his father attempted to rescue Miriam and her son–whom were living with “a man with a serious drug addiction.”Īfter seeing his sister in such a low point, Ted decided to send his nephew to a military school at Valley Forge Military Academy. That’s how Miriam Cruz ended up developing addictions to alcohol and drugs which led her to be in prison several times for crimes such as shoplifting. He considers his sister to have surrender to her wild side and as a result she was in constant search of bad characters. He tells, Miriam married a physically abusive man who was in and out of prison. He describes his deceased sister as ‘beautiful and quite intelligent, and incredibly loving” but also “perpetually angry - emotionally trapped as a rebellious teenager.” Ted had two older half-sisters, Miriam and Roxana, the children of his father Rafael’s first marriage. ![]() Cruz who is happily married to wife Heidi Suzanne Nelson and is the father of their two daughters, rarely speaks about his sisters, but it is now the chance to get to know more about the presidential candidate. Make the Senator’s day.POLITICO reports in Ted’s new book “A Time for Truth,” set to be released on Tuesday, the Cuban-American opens up about Miriam’s turbulent life and the strain it caused the Cruz family. Share them with the little ones in your life. ![]() So we've compiled a list for your reading pleasure here. It's such a fine reading list, in fact, that Cruz’s children can find the very same books available in their own school library, as one Twitter user notes. Irrelevant as the reading list may be to Judge Jackson's judicial record, it's nevertheless a great list, with selections for younger children, developing teenagers, and interested parents alike. “They don’t come up in my work as a judge, which I’m respectfully here to address.” “I have not reviewed any of those books or any of those ideas,” she said. Kendi’s Antiracist Baby, Jackson reminded him that this moral panic wasn’t at all relevant to the job she was being interviewed for. As one teacher told EdWeek, “The way we usually see any of this in a classroom is: ‘Have I thought about how my Black kids feel? And made a space for them, so that they can be successful?’ That is the level I think it stays at, for most teachers.”Īs Cruz railed about racist babies, gesturing toward blown-up pages from Ibram X. Republicans have weaponized the term to demonize curriculum that highlights ideas of racism and privilege, but if you’re looking for CRT in K-12 schools, you generally won’t find it. ![]() Jackson rightly explained that “Critical race theory, as an academic theory, is taught in law schools.” Developed over forty years ago as a framework for legal analysis, the theory argues that racism is not just a personal prejudice, but a social construct sometimes embedded in our laws and institutions. ![]()
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