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Posted by: Black
Date: March 16, 2012 07:46PM
[news.yahoo.com]

"Offensive" bumper sticker "takes Facebook by storm."

My reaction:

We know there are people in this country who happily entertain the basest of racial animosities.

We know that most or all of them don't like Obama.

We assume that race has something to do with their dislike.

So, what's so horrible about them showing their true colors? Are we better served by stomping down any evidence of racism that manages to see the light of day so we can pretend it doesn't exist?


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Posted by: Acer
Date: March 16, 2012 08:18PM
I like these. If I'm looking for a racist ass, I know right where to find one!
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Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: March 16, 2012 10:35PM
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Black
So, what's so horrible about them showing their true colors? Are we better served by stomping down any evidence of racism that manages to see the light of day so we can pretend it doesn't exist?

I have often thought the same thing. George Carlin had basically the same thing to say about this situation: hate the person, not the word.
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Posted by: kj
Date: March 16, 2012 11:49PM
Two thoughts:

I would object to letting it fly, due to how it might make minorities feel when they see stuff like that. I think of some of the young minority children I know, and I can't handle the thought of them having to deal with more of that.

I suspect we're all around people who are racist to some degree, and I don't favor hating them. Once you hate and reject them, you've given up any possibility of influencing them. kj.
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Posted by: billb
Date: March 17, 2012 07:57AM
Keep it alive by finding and keeping every last and final vestige of it plastered everywhere you possibly can.
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Posted by: decay
Date: March 17, 2012 11:49AM
i'm against racist crap like that, but people of color need to stop using that word, too.

don't ban the word - learn from it.




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Posted by: cbelt3
Date: March 17, 2012 11:54AM
Sticks and Stones, children...

I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.
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Posted by: Ted King
Date: March 17, 2012 01:17PM
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cbelt3
Sticks and Stones, children...

I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.

Those appellations are not okay and if they are spoken around me I generally let people know I don't want to hear them used. When words are used to demean or dehumanize a person, it is almost always better that we speak out against that use. But not all words carry the same symbolism with them. Calling someone "four eyes" because they wear glasses is meant to demean that person but it doesn't have the same weight of history of bad things behind it that some of the words used to describe Jews for example. The "N" word has a long and terrible history of discrimination, repression and violence behind its use and that makes it much more unacceptable in my opinion when it is being used to demean a black person (or anyone).
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Posted by: graylocks
Date: March 17, 2012 01:27PM
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cbelt3
Sticks and Stones, children...

I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.

oh, really. and in your lifetime did you have to ride the back of the bus because you were a honky? did your 'Mickyness' deny you a promotion, or a job, or access to education? (and yes, i am aware of ethnic bias against the irish around the turn of the 20th century but never to the level of legalized, legitimized oppression of african americans.)

As Ted King points out some words have the weight of history behind them. we should not allow them to be used lightly. my son knows that the N word is not a term of brotherhood in this house despite its use among his peers o' color.


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Posted by: Uncle Wig
Date: March 17, 2012 02:33PM
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cbelt3
Sticks and Stones, children...

I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.

This is a very disappointing statement from you. Something tells me you never had this problem growing up:





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Posted by: Lux Interior
Date: March 17, 2012 02:36PM
CB3, you are starting to make Romney-like statements.

"I remember being bullied because the chauffeur would open my door for me. The other kids had to open their own doors. And those Rolls Royce doors can be pretty heavy for a 10 year old! You know what I mean, don't you folks?"
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Posted by: billb
Date: March 17, 2012 04:16PM
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Uncle Wig
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cbelt3
Sticks and Stones, children...

I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.

This is a very disappointing statement from you. Something tells me you never had this problem growing up:



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Posted by: Greg
Date: March 17, 2012 04:51PM
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billb
No Joos ?

da joos


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Posted by: Black
Date: March 17, 2012 04:55PM
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graylocks
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cbelt3
Sticks and Stones, children...

I was called "Honky" and "Mick". So what ? Do we assume those with more melanin are somehow less proud of who they are, and have to be babied and protected from negative apellations ?This obsession is merely left-handed racism, IMHO.

oh, really. and in your lifetime did you have to ride the back of the bus because you were a honky? did your 'Mickyness' deny you a promotion, or a job, or access to education? (and yes, i am aware of ethnic bias against the irish around the turn of the 20th century but never to the level of legalized, legitimized oppression of african americans.)

As Ted King points out some words have the weight of history behind them. we should not allow them to be used lightly. my son knows that the N word is not a term of brotherhood in this house despite its use among his peers o' color.

In my initial post I think I was reacting most to the tone of the majority of comments to the linked article, which were of the "that should be removed from the internet"/ "they should be prohibited from displaying that sticker publicly" flavor. Would be interested to hear if people think the message in question should be suppressed, and if so, how (legally? Other?).


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Posted by: $tevie
Date: March 17, 2012 06:14PM
It's like you have all forgotten that Mr. Obama is our President. Debating whether or not Black people should use the term "n****r" among themselves is not really the point here, is it? The bumper sticker is tasteless and insulting and rude -- but this country is based on everyone's right to sound like a giant @#$%& if they so desire, so I'm afraid we are stuck with it. I am hopeful that someone will smash the owner's window or key his car. smiling smiley


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Posted by: graylocks
Date: March 17, 2012 06:17PM
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Black
Would be interested to hear if people think the message in question should be suppressed, and if so, how (legally? Other?).

absolutely not. it's a free country. we're also free to let folks who sport this crap know what we think of them.


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Posted by: RgrF
Date: March 17, 2012 06:21PM
You won't see that car or others like it parading through most of America. It'll only appear in areas that are prone to such a mindset, mainly rural and probably regional and only on vehicles that don't travel much beyond their closed minded boundaries.

On the other hand it might be fun to watch what would happen if the guy were to take a wrong turn into South Central.
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Posted by: RgrF
Date: March 17, 2012 06:26PM
oops



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Posted by: billb
Date: March 17, 2012 09:14PM
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RgrF
You won't see that car or others like it parading through most of America. It'll only appear in areas that are prone to such a mindset, mainly rural and probably regional and only on vehicles that don't travel much beyond their closed minded boundaries.

On the other hand it might be fun to watch what would happen if the guy were to take a wrong turn into South Central.
Sounds like a like-mindset.


People have been "spotting" that bumper sticker for a while.
All over America.
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Posted by: Black
Date: March 17, 2012 10:21PM
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billb

People have been "spotting" that bumper sticker for a while.
All over America.
[eclectablog.blogspot.com]

And how do you feel about that, billb?


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Posted by: john dough
Date: March 17, 2012 10:38PM
Bill isn't capable of honest dialogue.

Ironic that the ones that will not vote for Obama because he is black will happily vote for a rich white guy that cares nothing for them, and will gleefully do things that cause them the greatest economic harm (like sending their job overseas or polluting their communities or letting their roads got to hell or closing their schools).

It must suck to be racist AND a stupid fcensored smiley.


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Posted by: graylocks
Date: March 17, 2012 10:44PM
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john dough

It must suck to be racist AND a stupid fcensored smiley.

ooo! Ouch!


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Posted by: Black
Date: March 17, 2012 10:50PM
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john dough
Bill isn't capable of honest dialogue.

Ironic that the ones that will not vote for Obama because he is black will happily vote for a rich white guy that cares nothing for them, and will gleefully do things that cause them the greatest economic harm (like sending their job overseas or polluting their communities or letting their roads got to hell or closing their schools).

It must suck to be racist AND a stupid fcensored smiley.

In fairness, I'm not sure that the cross section of the population that would openly espouse racial hatred has much overlap with the cross section that would "happily" vote for Mitt (if that's who you were referencing-- if not-- "never mind."winking smiley


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Posted by: billb
Date: March 18, 2012 08:22AM
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john dough
Bill isn't capable of honest dialogue.

Ironic that the ones that will not vote for Obama because he is black will happily vote for a rich white guy that cares nothing for them, and will gleefully do things that cause them the greatest economic harm (like sending their job overseas or polluting their communities or letting their roads got to hell or closing their schools).

It must suck to be racist AND a stupid fcensored smiley.




I like John's example of honest dialogue.
See what John's all about ?
See John Hate.
See John do it so well.
That must take practice.
Lots and lots of it.
Good to see your heart is in what you love to do.




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Posted by: billb
Date: March 18, 2012 08:25AM
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Black
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billb

People have been "spotting" that bumper sticker for a while.
All over America.
[eclectablog.blogspot.com]

And how do you feel about that, billb?

I wouldn't have one on my car.
Would you have one on yours ?


Wouldn't have most gangsta rap decorating the inner space of it either.




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Posted by: john dough
Date: March 18, 2012 08:51AM
This is typical Bill. I never said you were hateful, just some that would vote against their interests. He goes from slamming those who do not think as he does to (indirectly) calling another an aßßh0le. If you are guilty of whatever I have pointed out, don't point your hate towards me.

The point I was making is that the people most likely to vote against Obama because of the color of his skin are the ones most likely to get the short end of the stick if a GOP president is in power. If you care to refute that statement, bring some facts to back it up, not opinion.

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For the record, I could not care less what bumper stickers are put on cars or what people think about the color of skin; announcing for all the world to see makes you what you are, but go ahead, knock yourself out. If you think that Obama is bad for this country, wait until Mitt Romney is in charge.






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Posted by: cbelt3
Date: March 18, 2012 09:16AM
I rode in the back of the bus through East Cleveland at 2AM once after being chased there by a few angry young men in gang colors. Happy ?

Wow, most of you missed the point. Bad behavior is still bad behavior, no matter who does or says it. I do not encourage our countenance it. But your indignation should be apples, as Ted noted, towards ALL forms of repression.

And please... "make the word illegal" ? Heloooooo thought police. Do you really want to go that path?
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Posted by: Gutenberg
Date: March 18, 2012 09:54AM
Ooooh, seriously, you once rode in the back of the bus after being chased there by gang members? Why did you corner yourself that way? After your previous exaggerations and lies I have difficulty believing this story.

And certainly, if it was true, you were never consigned to the back of the bus every single damned day of your life like the people who suffered through Jim Crow.

And no one said the word should be made illegal. Try responding honestly and people will show you more respect.
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Posted by: Ted King
Date: March 18, 2012 10:59AM
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graylocks
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Black
Would be interested to hear if people think the message in question should be suppressed, and if so, how (legally? Other?).

absolutely not. it's a free country. we're also free to let folks who sport this crap know what we think of them.

agree smiley
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Posted by: graylocks
Date: March 18, 2012 11:26AM
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cbelt3
I rode in the back of the bus through East Cleveland at 2AM once after being chased there by a few angry young men in gang colors. Happy ?

cbelt3, i'm really surprised by this. i've come to appreciate your usually conservative but reasoned view even when it doesn't agree with mine. surely you don't equate a brief personal episode of thug intimidation with institutionalized racism?


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Posted by: Black
Date: March 18, 2012 02:19PM
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cbelt3
And please... "make the word illegal" ? Heloooooo thought police. Do you really want to go that path?

Not really the intent of the question . . . but "hate speech" is already illegal, and we have legally codified bans on some types of language in some contexts (see FCC regulations.) So it's more a question of whether people are suggesting going further down that path when they passionately decry overtly racist messaging.


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Posted by: $tevie
Date: March 18, 2012 02:25PM
It's a disgusting bumper sticker used by a disgusting person, and reflects how freaked out some people are that our President isn't a white man. Consider the source.


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Posted by: Grace62
Date: March 18, 2012 06:23PM
You can encounter these attitudes anywhere, all over the country. It's just something that ails us and even though we have freedom of speech it's surprising that anyone feels free to be so hateful, but they do.

Then you hear stories like this one...

"Fairfax County (VA) school administrators are investigating a student’s allegations of racially insensitive behavior by a veteran English teacher at George C. Marshall High School. (Falls Church)

Ninth-grader Jordan Shumate said that during class this month, he was reading aloud a poem by acclaimed African American writer Langston Hughes when his teacher interrupted and directed him to read in a “blacker” style.

“She told me, ‘Blacker, Jordan — c’mon, blacker. I thought you were black,’ ” said Shumate, who is African American.

Shumate told his mother, Nicole Cober Page, about the incident Tuesday. She complained to school administrators.

“We take these allegations very seriously, and we’re investigating,” Principal Jay Pearson said Friday. He declined to provide further details.

Shumate, 14, and his mother identified the teacher as Marilyn Bart. Bart did not respond Thursday or Friday to e-mail and phone inquiries about the incident. Records show that Bart has worked in Fairfax schools since 1990.

Another ninth-grader, Kaila Denny, said she witnessed the incident. Shumate was “just sitting there reading normally like any person would,” Denny said, when Bart instructed him to speak “blacker.”

Shumate said that when he refused to continue reading the poem, Bart read it aloud herself, demonstrating what she meant.

“She sounded like a maid in the 1960s,” Shumate said. “She read the poem like a slave, basically.”

Shumate said he asked Bart that day whether she thinks all black people speak that way. She reprimanded him for talking out of turn, he said, and told him to take his seat.

Cober Page said she spoke with Pearson by telephone Friday about the incident but learned nothing more from him about Bart’s side of the story.

“My feeling is that he is an advocate for the kids and wants this to be taken seriously,” Cober Page said of the principal.

The poem Shumate read in class was Hughes’s “Ballad of the Landlord.” The poem, written in 1940, tells of a black tenant thrown in jail for challenging a deadbeat landlord.

“Landlord, landlord,” it begins. “My roof has sprung a leak./Don’t you ’member I told you about it/Way last week?”

If the teacher thought the poem should be delivered in a Southern dialect, she could have said so without referring to race, Cober Page said.

Shumate said it wasn’t the only time that he felt singled out in English class because of his race.

This week, in preparation for reading literature about the Holocaust, the teacher showed photographs to illustrate common stereotypes about different groups of people, Shumate said.

Shumate said Bart showed an image of grape soda — a drink of choice among African Americans, according to a racial stereotype — and asked him to explain its meaning. Denny corroborated his account.

“I do know the stereotypes,” Shumate said, “but she could change the questions so I’m not like the king of black people.”
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Posted by: August West
Date: March 18, 2012 07:45PM
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I rode in the back of the bus through East Cleveland at 2AM once after being chased there by a few angry young men in gang colors. Happy ?

They probably were not aware of your deep sensitivity to the disenfranchised, but, then again, maybe they were.
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Posted by: Black
Date: March 18, 2012 08:22PM
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Grace62
You can encounter these attitudes anywhere, all over the country. It's just something that ails us and even though we have freedom of speech it's surprising that anyone feels free to be so hateful, but they do.

Then you hear stories like this one...

"Fairfax County (VA) school administrators are investigating a student’s allegations of racially insensitive behavior by a veteran English teacher at George C. Marshall High School. (Falls Church)

Ninth-grader Jordan Shumate said that during class this month, he was reading aloud a poem by acclaimed African American writer Langston Hughes when his teacher interrupted and directed him to read in a “blacker” style.

“She told me, ‘Blacker, Jordan — c’mon, blacker. I thought you were black,’ ” said Shumate, who is African American.

Shumate told his mother, Nicole Cober Page, about the incident Tuesday. She complained to school administrators.

“We take these allegations very seriously, and we’re investigating,” Principal Jay Pearson said Friday. He declined to provide further details.

Shumate, 14, and his mother identified the teacher as Marilyn Bart. Bart did not respond Thursday or Friday to e-mail and phone inquiries about the incident. Records show that Bart has worked in Fairfax schools since 1990.

Another ninth-grader, Kaila Denny, said she witnessed the incident. Shumate was “just sitting there reading normally like any person would,” Denny said, when Bart instructed him to speak “blacker.”

Shumate said that when he refused to continue reading the poem, Bart read it aloud herself, demonstrating what she meant.

“She sounded like a maid in the 1960s,” Shumate said. “She read the poem like a slave, basically.”

Shumate said he asked Bart that day whether she thinks all black people speak that way. She reprimanded him for talking out of turn, he said, and told him to take his seat.

Cober Page said she spoke with Pearson by telephone Friday about the incident but learned nothing more from him about Bart’s side of the story.

“My feeling is that he is an advocate for the kids and wants this to be taken seriously,” Cober Page said of the principal.

The poem Shumate read in class was Hughes’s “Ballad of the Landlord.” The poem, written in 1940, tells of a black tenant thrown in jail for challenging a deadbeat landlord.

“Landlord, landlord,” it begins. “My roof has sprung a leak./Don’t you ’member I told you about it/Way last week?”

If the teacher thought the poem should be delivered in a Southern dialect, she could have said so without referring to race, Cober Page said.

Shumate said it wasn’t the only time that he felt singled out in English class because of his race.

This week, in preparation for reading literature about the Holocaust, the teacher showed photographs to illustrate common stereotypes about different groups of people, Shumate said.

Shumate said Bart showed an image of grape soda — a drink of choice among African Americans, according to a racial stereotype — and asked him to explain its meaning. Denny corroborated his account.

“I do know the stereotypes,” Shumate said, “but she could change the questions so I’m not like the king of black people.”
[www.washingtonpost.com]

Deserves its own thread.
The "talking out of turn" comment suggests there's a chance this teacher could be an ignoramis, but my money is on this possibly being a great teacher with the potential to turn out students with a deeper understanding of race, culture, and history than they might get from someone just going through the motions and taking pains not to call any attention to themselves professionally.


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Posted by: Grace62
Date: March 18, 2012 10:16PM
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Black


Deserves its own thread.
The "talking out of turn" comment suggests there's a chance this teacher could be an ignoramis, but my money is on this possibly being a great teacher with the potential to turn out students with a deeper understanding of race, culture, and history than they might get from someone just going through the motions and taking pains not to call any attention to themselves professionally.

I'd want to know more about the teacher and her intentions. All I know is that she is around 65 and has been teaching at the school for 22 years. It's an unusual thing for an experienced teacher to do, and if the student felt humiliated by it I have a hard time seeing how she was helping or what she was teaching. This is a famous poem with many recorded readings, she could have played a recording of it being read "in character" instead of calling on the only black kid in the class to do so, when he didn't volunteer.
Saying that a black person was "talking white" or "talking black" was a very racially charged thing to say when I was growing up in the south, definitely considered very rude. Maybe she just made a poor word choice, absent more information that's the best I can think that happened here.
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Posted by: Black
Date: March 18, 2012 10:42PM
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Grace62
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Black


Deserves its own thread.
The "talking out of turn" comment suggests there's a chance this teacher could be an ignoramis, but my money is on this possibly being a great teacher with the potential to turn out students with a deeper understanding of race, culture, and history than they might get from someone just going through the motions and taking pains not to call any attention to themselves professionally.

I'd want to know more about the teacher and her intentions. All I know is that she is around 65 and has been teaching at the school for 22 years. It's an unusual thing for an experienced teacher to do, and if the student felt humiliated by it I have a hard time seeing how she was helping or what she was teaching. This is a famous poem with many recorded readings, she could have played a recording of it being read "in character" instead of calling on the only black kid in the class to do so, when he didn't volunteer.
Agree that more needs to be known to make an assessment, hence my use of "possible." I missed that there was only one black kid in the class somehow and assumed it was a predominantly or completely African-American school. I also assumed the teacher was black. In re-reading, I can see from context that the fact that the kid feels singled out often suggests my assumptions are wrong, but otherwise I don't see anything definitive.
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Saying that a black person was "talking white" or "talking black" was a very racially charged thing to say when I was growing up in the south, definitely considered very rude. Maybe she just made a poor word choice, absent more information that's the best I can think that happened here.
I'm not gonna fall into "some of my best friends" here but based on what I know I don't think "talking black" is particularly 'charged', at least among people my age and younger.
My guess, if this teacher is white, is that they are lucky enough to have familiarity with and insight into some aspects of African American culture via friends or family, but is edging on recklessness in terms of who knows what her experience is and how they might perceive the things that come out of her mouth, knowing little to nothing about her.
Plus, she needs to check in with this particular kid to see if he's comfortable with this unusual sort of attention.


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Posted by: decay
Date: March 19, 2012 11:42AM
it IS racist and rude.

so is calling an Arab a "towel-head" or "camel jockey" but many Americans feel they are patriotic when saying crap like that.

you ought to see the signs that a small independent car dealer near me puts up - all anti-Obama and pro-Santorum.

at least it helps me know where not to spend any of my money. it probably brings him the anti-O business.

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Date: March 19, 2012 11:43AM
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at least it helps me know where not to spend any of my money. it probably brings him the anti-O business.

without a doubt it cuts both ways.


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Posted by: SteveO
Date: March 21, 2012 10:50AM
I'm a fan of the freedom of speech bumper sticker that bill posted. But this "don't re-nig" thing is so totally stupid and practiced by people for whom stickers like the former are completely lost. Why? Did I mention they are stupid?

I just think we should all call this crap out whenever and wherever we see it. There are always going to be @#$%&. Maybe we can minimize their impact, though.
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