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Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again. (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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South Carolina high school English teacher Mary Wood was reprimanded last school year for teaching a lesson on race. She began teaching it again this year.

Mary Wood walked between the desks in her AP English Language and Composition classroom, handing out copies of the book she was already punished once for teaching.

Twenty-six students, all but two of them White, looked down at Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me,” a memoir that dissects what it means to be Black in America — and which drew calls for Wood’s firing when she tried to teach it last year in her mostly White, conservative town. Wood crossed to a lectern and placed her hands on either side of a turquoise notebook, open to two pages of bullet points explaining why she wanted to teach Coates’s work.

“That book that you guys have, it deals with racism,” she said on a recent Tuesday. “It’s going to be something with which you’re unfamiliar. That you need to spend time to research to fully understand.”

Wood stared at her class. She tried to make eye contact with every teenager. Anyone, she reminded herself, might be secretly recording her — or planning to report her.

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Plus, both teachers believed the book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is superbly written: a master class in the deployment of rhetorical devices. There was no better way to teach children how to formulate their own arguments, they thought.

“It teaches kids a different perspective, [it] teaches kids how to write well,” Wood said in an interview. And “it’s the right thing to do.”

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[+] [email protected] -38 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Its clearly dogwhistling it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We're all still waiting on that quote.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Well, conservatives certainly use a lot of dog whistles.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please quote the part that is dog whistling. I already asked you for a quote. You do know how to copy and paste, don't you?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He may not, but I do

He develops a belief system similar to that of Malcolm X and disagrees with the idea of non-violent protests.

He begins to think of Black people as “kings in exile,”

Coates finds himself unable to sympathize with the victims of the September 11 terrorist attack

Coates is confident that white America will continue to plunder not only Black bodies but the environment, too.

I haven't read the book, but it all turns on whether the author agrees with the main character. That makes a huge difference in the tone and message of the book. It could be a story of an understandable reaction by a wronged man to the society who wronged him, and the process of illuminating how hatred breeds hatred. Or it could be a simple, preachy, moralizing, "all white men are bad" worthless piece of crap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So it's all the usual argument of "the only true racism is saying whites shouldn't be able to rape and exploit blacks and their resources/neighborhoods/etc anymore"

Got it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Did you reply to the wrong post? I specifically said that I have no idea because I didn't read the book.