Comparing with all the weird stuff I've read in school, this is nothing worth noting.
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I love what she's doing. That said-
“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.”
I doubt they're unfamiliar with racism, what with being raised by white conservative southerners. They probably heard the N-word a thousand times before they could say it themselves.
Of course, they're very unfamiliar with being at the receiving end of racism, something that Ta-Nehisi Coates can teach them a lot about.
Looks like she thinks the kids might lack exposure because they're rich:
Both teachers knew that most teens in Chapin — a wealthy town where the median income is above $100,000 and large homes line pretty Lake Murray — had never read anything like Coates’s searing account of growing up Black in Baltimore. They had not spent their childhood, as Coates wrote he did, “naked … before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease.” They had never memorized “a list of prohibited blocks,” unsafe due to guns and violence.
I was being a little facetious. The teacher obviously meant that they had never been the object of racism. I was just saying that because they're white, white and Southern, they probably have plenty of racist relatives. So they've experienced racism, they've just never been harmed by it like someone on the receiving end.
It’s all good. I figured that was what you were doing. I just wanted to encourage more people to read the full article (which I think is fantastic) by sharing relevant quotes from it.
They probably heard the N-word a thousand times before they could say it themselves.
A lot of them don't even think that's racism.
Which is exactly why they need to read this book.
Absolutely! However, the bigger obstacle is right there in the article; "Twenty-six students, all but two of them White".
We need to forcibly re-desegragate schools and break up the white school districts that were created by the more modern intersections of race and class. As long as we have 24-to-2 classes we are never going to save enough white kids from growing up to be racist.
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