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
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