I am so mad right now: What happened in my daughters class today (UPDATE)

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43. The teacher is a racist.

Those sound like the kind of racist lies that are spread by white supremacist groups.

Maybe you can use the following information in your meeting with the principal tomorrow:

Table of life expectancy in the U.S. by race.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0105.pdf

A recent article, discussing how the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites is shrinking. As of 2008, black men were expected to live to be 70.8 years old, and black women were expected to live to be 77.5 years, on average.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/us-usa-health-race-idUSBRE85417K20120605

Using national data including life expectancy tables from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he and his colleagues compared how long white and black men and women were expected to live as of 2003 and 2008.

Over that time, average lifespan increased among all groups. In men, it rose from 75.3 years to 76.2 for whites and from 68.8 to 70.8 for blacks. The greater increase among black men meant that the gap shrank from a difference of 6.5 years of expected life to 5.4 years.

Life expectancy also grew from 80.3 years to 81.2 in white women and from 75.7 to 77.5 in black women - a difference of 4.6 years in 2003 compared to 3.7 years in 2008.

The racist teacher's other statement, that "one in three black men are in prison," is also demonstrably false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

"In 2010 black non-Hispanic males were incarcerated at the rate of 4,347 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents of the same race and gender." That is 4.3%.

It's true that the life expectancy of black people is less than that of white people, and it's true that black males are incarcerated at a higher rate than that of white males, and the reasons for that lie with racism in our society, as demonstrated by the racism of this teacher.

I'm glad that you are meeting with the principal tomorrow.