Posted on 11/16/2018 6:48:57 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
I had an unfortunate event happen to me this morning. For a semi-retirement job I decided to substitute teach. After hearing 2 black students tell me they hated history, I began to extol the rich contributions of blacks to American history. Moments later I was escorted to the office by the principal and escorted to the door. He implied I was a racist and we do not single out black students in our school. The parents of the students are coming in to support the students. and I will be blacklisted from subbing in county schools.I learned firsthand the sensitivity of race in American Schools and how Politically Correct educators must be in government schools.
Of course, they are Americans. I'm an American too. But I will be lost to history as will most of them, except mostly for the trouble makers. Pretending otherwise is part of the reason we are in the trouble we are in now. (In fact, non-trouble makers like Booker T. Washington, are already lost to history.)
ML/NJ
Ping to my #98
Everything you said is true.
There is an ongoing, systematic effort underway, to reduce whites in first world countries to a kind of second class citizenship - one that is forced to debase itself to a low and subservient level to all other races. It's nothing less than an imposition of institutionalized racism, which is something this country worked worked hard to eradicate more the a half century ago.
What's truly sick, is that so many whites are eagerly adopting this destructive caste system, and are even promoting it. In typical liberal logic, they believe they can absolve themselves of the sins of their forebears by paying penance for crimes they did not commit.
Artificially elevating an entire class of people through 'affirmative action' apparently wasn't enough to balance the scales of past injustices. Now, whites are being made to feel that they must also take affirmative action by artificially lowering themselves to some sort of demeaned and downtrodden status.
Never mind truly raising the formerly oppressed to the higher common denominator of the mainstream culture. That could be viewed as (gasp!) racist!
“After hearing 2 black students tell me they hated history, I began to extol the rich contributions of blacks to American history. Moments later I was escorted to the office by the principal and escorted to the door. He implied I was a racist and we do not single out black students in our school. “
I dont understand what you supposedly did that was wrong. You spoke to 2 black kids about blacks in American history? How is that offensive? Perhaps it was how you said it.
Crooked, isn't it?
I'm just shaking my head that those people took you to task for trying to teach those kids a bit of history that blacks are ostensibly proud of.
Crazy.
As I remarked in my “bilge,”It has been remarked that people don’t rebel when they are repressed, but when they stop being oppressed. The trouble we have with “Black Lives Matter” might best be understood in that perspective.We didn’t have “Black Lives Matter” (meaning, white lives don’t matter) when the blacks were “in their place” as recently as the 1950s.
I just got talked to by my wife, a 24 yr veteran of teaching. Do not personally interact with students. Do not even mention anything about race or personal differences. Do not try to educate or inspire, only teach common core and leave the classroom as quickly as possible. Count me out I’m gonna pick up cans or work at McDonalds for my $58 per day!
A great comment! To be honest, I understand the attempt to demonstrate that the Democrat Party was the party of slavery and segregation, whereas the Republican Party was anti-slavery from its founding, but I still think that is barking up the wrong tree.
The main fallacy is this 20/20 moral hindsight that leads to absurd self-righteousness. Yes, thanks to as you note principally Christian thought, slavery has been abolished throughout most of the world, beginning with the West. But the idea that those who were born into slave societies should be condemned decades and centuries later because of how our morals and ethics have evolved in the interim is just idiocy from my perspective. And that goes not only for slavery but probably a lot of other historical dynamics as well, colonialism comes to mind immediately.
There’s a 100% chance that something that is taken for granted in our society will one day be seen as morally wrong. Abortion is not taken for granted, but it seems a likely case that one day all human life will be protected from the moment of conception, and anything else will be considered abominable. We society then go back and erase everyone who was ever known as pro-choice from the history books? Animal rights also come to mind as something that could easily evolve into a very different place. Maybe not a few years from now, but potentially decades or even centuries, will domestication of animals be considered an abuse of their rights?
So I think it’s very dangerous and self-destructive to get so caught up in who was responsible for the “wrongs” of slavery and segregation. It’s part of our history, it’s how we all came to be, and the perpetrators and victims such as they might be, are all in their graves. Let’s turn around, and face each other and the future with love, forgiveness and optimism!
“But?” That’s precisely what I was trying to convey.
I know, maybe “but” wasn’t the appropriate word. I was more responding to your recitation of D’Souza’s general campaign of trying to shift the “blame” for slavery and segregation from the Republicans, or America, or white people to the Democrats. Yeah, sure, I understand it, but I think it ultimately misses the point.
Sad, but that's apparently the sorry state of public education today. Never thought I'd live to see it get this bad.
I'll bet there are private schools that would love to have a teacher like you.
ML/NJ
>> But this you should know. Do not talk to blacks.<<
RSA redux coming to America. Makes people uneasy to hear me say that, which I view as a strong indication that I should say it more often.
>>It is the BORG of this century and should be stamped out...once and for all.<<
I had to look up the definition of “borg” and it perfectly describes that destructive and detestable ideology. I always like to add useful new words to my lexicon, so thanks for using it.
>>From a teacher (28 years). Never ever engage in any conversation with these kids. They don’t listen, they will find something offensive, they don’t care. Just babysit, that’s what you’re paid for.<<
BINGO! Minority racism, feminism, progressivism, and many other liberal aberrations eventually are going to destroy America, which I believe is their intended purpose.
>>Imagine their reaction when they learn African tribes would capture other tribes and then enslave them....long before Europeans showed up on the continent.<<
Actually there are a range of reactions, but the predominant one is purposeful disbelief.
>>Time for whites to start fighting back and defend their interests.<<
Yes, it’s time, and it’s BEEN time for decades, but in thinking about it I cannot readily recall a specific turn of events that marked the beginning of that time frame. Perhaps it was when the so-called white intelligentsia informed the rest of us that by definition blacks could not be legitimately characterized as racists.
I am curious why you would pose this question after the event?
because I was asked if I was a racist by both the principal and vice-principal. I am certainly NOT a racist but if I didn’t have my Christian faith, I might become one today!
From what you say, whether he/she knew it or not, the principal did you a big favor.
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