so its official: doesnt matter if the person is racist, dating a person of color, educated, uneducated, or whatever, everybody seems to be blaming the victim.
"its a choice, if some people can get outta the ghetto then other people can too. "
"if they choose to rebel against how to act and believe their own beliefs, why cant people like the KKK have their own beliefs. its not like we're burning crosses or doing lynching anymore, i mean look at their website. says so right there."
when discussing with a friend who had taken Race and Ethnic relations and had seen the same documentary comparing two public schools just two districts away from each other in New York City....
"Omg, yeah i remember seeing that video. And those kids in the classroom were so roudy and just didnt want to learn or listen to the teacher. I felt so bad for that teacher, there was no hope for him to control his classroom!"
K, so with the first quotes, I think thats just ignorance speaking. But for the last one, from a friend who goes to IWU and TOOK a class on racism, HOW? HUH?? The context of the situation of this uncontrollable classroom was also a music teacher, who wanted to teach DANCE in school, was teaching 7th grade science! how ridiculous! And at the beginning of each class the teacher would announce things such as "Alright, alright, now lets pretend today that we are all nice, smart, Normal human beings for just a moment and pay attention to me!" No wonder these 7th graders are behaving in manner that is less than expected... the teacher obviously does not expect them to be smart enough to grasp anything, let along behave.
self-fulfilling stereotype? i think so. its just unfathomable to me to understand How a school could place someone who wants to teach Dance as the instructer of such a fundamental and critical class. Im sure the same held true for many other classes for these kids before they even reached the 7th grade.
how can people expect these kids, living in one of the lower income districts of NYC, to "choose to succeed" when they have such poor instructors, minimal funding, no equipment for the arts or sports, no early education to build higher on, and no expectations to do well and succeed.
we should robinhood this sh*t and stop providing MORE funding for the districts that already have money, good teachers, and community support and maybe distribute some of those dollars to the people that need it most... how can people be so cold :-( and oblivious
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
:-( hope i dont get a zero because i have short term memory loss that sometimes becomes longterm
ok, so the lack of my blogs are not because i am not doing the reading... it is simply because i procrastinate religiously. Thus, here we are, 5 blogs in, and I have been extremely slacking but promise to change!!! So, this is blog entry is regarding the week of Feb 17- Feb 23 reading.
the article 10 quick ways to analyze children's books for racism and sexism seems like it is asking all the right questions, but it is hard to think back to any of the childrens books that i have maybe read, but these questions can be applied to any sort of media that children use for entertainment. racism i feel is a lot more subtle than sexism, as there is a little less awareness about the gender roles that are constructed in our society. and when it comes to games or toys, these are distinctly marketed to be for a specific gender. in all, every aspect of the individual that is constructed in these sorts of entertainment/educational media can be analysed and the pecularities of how the person acts, looks, and Should act, look, etc., will have some sort of stereotypical basis that meets the expectations of the average person in America.
the article looking pretty waiting for the prince makes me wonder how the heck did i miss my presupposed gender role??? I distinctly remember it, 2nd grade, chopped my hair into those awesome 90's style short hair cuts, and fit in with the boys more than ever. i knew i was a girl, i just also knew that i did enjoy playing doctor or dress-up or baking in my easy-bake (definitely had one though!. the underlying cultural stereotypes that are so easy to pick up on now had to have had Some sort of impact on me though... maybe it was an identity issue. i dont know. i was just really really good at football and basketball, one best friend was a boy who enjoyed everything i did (he was also my first boyfriend in the 6th grade) and the other a girl who was a little bit of a tomboy too, but i mean, we werent butch-like or anything. i dont know, i must have just missed something. slow on the uptake.
math and media- photo fairness- my jaw hit da floor, especially with the fact that Every Single woman of color that was issued on the front page of the Washington Post was a VICTIM of fire, poverty, or destroyed homes from drugs. hows that for some stats... ill come back to these biases in the media lata
ABCs of media literacy.... cannot be found by my dumbask
the article 10 quick ways to analyze children's books for racism and sexism seems like it is asking all the right questions, but it is hard to think back to any of the childrens books that i have maybe read, but these questions can be applied to any sort of media that children use for entertainment. racism i feel is a lot more subtle than sexism, as there is a little less awareness about the gender roles that are constructed in our society. and when it comes to games or toys, these are distinctly marketed to be for a specific gender. in all, every aspect of the individual that is constructed in these sorts of entertainment/educational media can be analysed and the pecularities of how the person acts, looks, and Should act, look, etc., will have some sort of stereotypical basis that meets the expectations of the average person in America.
the article looking pretty waiting for the prince makes me wonder how the heck did i miss my presupposed gender role??? I distinctly remember it, 2nd grade, chopped my hair into those awesome 90's style short hair cuts, and fit in with the boys more than ever. i knew i was a girl, i just also knew that i did enjoy playing doctor or dress-up or baking in my easy-bake (definitely had one though!. the underlying cultural stereotypes that are so easy to pick up on now had to have had Some sort of impact on me though... maybe it was an identity issue. i dont know. i was just really really good at football and basketball, one best friend was a boy who enjoyed everything i did (he was also my first boyfriend in the 6th grade) and the other a girl who was a little bit of a tomboy too, but i mean, we werent butch-like or anything. i dont know, i must have just missed something. slow on the uptake.
math and media- photo fairness- my jaw hit da floor, especially with the fact that Every Single woman of color that was issued on the front page of the Washington Post was a VICTIM of fire, poverty, or destroyed homes from drugs. hows that for some stats... ill come back to these biases in the media lata
ABCs of media literacy.... cannot be found by my dumbask
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