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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)educate black students *because* they're black, just as slaveowners once refused to educate their slaves.
She wrote that her white teachers...are in a "position of power to dictate what I can, cannot, and will learn, only desiring that I may get bored because of the inconsistency and the mismanagement of the classroom."
Instead of truly teaching, most teachers simply "pass out pamphlets and packets" and then expect students to complete them independently, Williams wrote.
As a result, she continued, not much has changed since the time of Douglass, "just different people, different era" and "the same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man."
"What merit is there," she asked, if teachers have knowledge and are "not willing to share because of the color of my skin?"
Glenn Beck loves this story.
Jada, Ive been talking about this this week, about freedom of speech, and theyre trying to get people to sit down and be afraid, Beck said. If theres one thing you should get from Frederick Douglass is, hers a man that refused to be a slave.
Dont you let them bully you, and dont you give up on the promise of America, Beck concluded later. It is always just over the horizon, but it requires each of us to reach for it.
According to Jada, teachers:
"tooled this profession, they brag about their credentials, they brag about their tenure, so if you have so much experience then find a more productive way to teach the so called unteachable."
I've never heard a teacher brag about their credentials or their so-called tenure.
Personally I think someone's been talking to Jada.
But not a teacher.
And if teachers and administrators bullied her over her essay and forced her to leave school, I wonder where the lawsuit is.