UnculturedPearl
November 2011
181 posts
"She Doesn't like 'Niggas""
I’m covering for a math teacher who I had. A 14 y/o black kid, D, is in the class (I know him well enough from my times covering in-school detention). I do my regular intro and warnings as to the consequences for unacceptable behavior and then D starts blurting out how the teacher doesnt like Black people (the faculty is white-washed and a vast majority don’t know how to deal with students of color). Even though I hated the woman’s guts when she taught me, I still defended her:
“She doesn’t like black people!”
“That’s not true…I’m black! She liked me! I got an A in this class”
“Well she doesnt like niggas!”
“What?”
“She doesnt like niggas!”
I’ve heard his rants about racists teachers before but ‘we’ (as in only people of color) were in the room during those times. But the fact that he made this declaration in a classroom full of white kids, I was…I was…I don’t know what I was. Angry, embarrassed, and surprised. The look on the faces of the white kids in the classroom spoke volumes. They looked absolutely shocked and kind of scared waiting to see my response. I wanted to say a lot of things at that moment, so many things. How inappropriate and offensive his statement was; how as 1 of 3 black students in a class of >20 he should conduct himself better; how the vocab we use amongst ourselves and how we talk around others sometimes arent the same (I hate the N-word and personally dont use it. Everyone who knows me knows this including D). But I didn’t, at least not at that moment. I simply said “Stop it” and moved on. It wasnt the right place or time… What are parents teaching their children?
AND ANOTHER THING
I hope Blackboard is destroyed when I get to college professor status. I ain’t gonna use it. We’re actually going to discuss things in class. And actually have a stable syllabus schedule.
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THIS
All of that…I want the hard-copies of papers and don’t email me during my office hours; stop in or call with your request for an extension (body language and vocal inflections can’t be read via email)
I refuse to turn older than 25...
After that age I will simply have a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc ‘Annual’ 25th Birthday…
“We’re never going to erase race as a factor in American life…It is a birth defect with which this country was born out of slavery; we’re never really going to be race blind”
—Condoleezza Rice
Last night I was eating dinner at Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant then jammed with Miss Jill Scott and DJ Jazzy Jeff as her opening act. It was a lot of fun.
Today I watched a friend bury her 3 month old baby. This isn’t how it’s suppose to work. Parents aren’t suppose to bury their kids.
Today needs to be the first and last infant funeral of my life.
"THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING" | Manataka American Indian Council →
manataka.org
‘In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared “A Day Of Thanksgiving” because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.’
