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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]harmonicon
(12,008 posts)'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."'
Not her non-white teachers? You really think that white teachers desire that their students get bored and not learn? That's some tricky conspiracy shit. Here I thought these people sacrificed to be public servants, but I guess I was wrong. All the time, they'd have an underground racist agenda.
"the same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man."
REALLY!?! I think my white uncle who retired after decades in the Chicago public school system would have some words to say about that... oh, but I forgot, through decades of killing himself on a low wage teaching in a predominately black inner-city school, nervous breakdowns, and a destroyed marriage (none of which stopped his enthusiasm for helping children learn) he really had a secret agenda to disenfranchise black students because of the discrimination that resides in his heart. Yeah, I guess he was basically the same as a slave owner who didn't want his slaves to know how to read. Tricky, him.
'Williams called for her fellow students to "start making these white teachers accountable for instructing you" and challenged teachers to do their jobs.'
Yep, it's the teachers who set the curriculum and determine what they teach...
'"What merit is there," she asked, if teachers have knowledge and are "not willing to share because of the color of my skin?"'
Yes, of course, they just don't teach the non-white kids. Public school teachers have secret rooms where they take the white kids and give them the real instruction - my ex-girlfriend who's a teacher at a predominately hispanic Chicago public school told me about it.
All this is is a violent screed against public education and unionized teachers. It disgusts me that there would be not only sympathy, but support for this kind of right-wing hate on DU.