Critical Race Theory

[The Architect Of Fate]

The 'You all look alike to me' phenomena is hard wired, research finds  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...112419.htm

I don't usually have this problem with black faces, but Asian faces do look very similar to me and it is hard for me to tell them apart. This is science. Teach the black kids that this is science and not personal, and don't validate their thoughts that the white teachers are just being racist and hate all black people. That line of thinking is not going to help black kids in life. I don't see how it could. And teaching black kids to be the angry black stereotype and rage and yell at their teachers is not the answer either. Teaching black kids to have even less respect for authority figures is not the way to go, imo, and can only cause more problems with blacks shunning authority figures and acting out.

That doesn't mean a person can't make more of an effort to get to know their students, colleagues, etc.  It's the lack of effort that makes it so annoying.

Indeed using sociology as an excuse to be lazy is poor form for a teacher and black people have good reason to suspect o be suspicious of authority

[Spongebob]

I had a teacher from 8th through high school who called me by the wrong name all the way through.  Funny that I didn't get all bent about it.  Some years back when I went home for a reunion he and I went to dinner together.  Maybe offense needn't be taken when none is intended.

I agree and I think this is where communication and effort come into play.  A little communication and effort to do better can go a long way to establishing trust.  Once trust is established, the rules can be bent in all kinds of ways.

[arewethereyet]

I had a teacher from 8th through high school who called me by the wrong name all the way through.  Funny that I didn't get all bent about it.  Some years back when I went home for a reunion he and I went to dinner together.  Maybe offense needn't be taken when none is intended.

I agree and I think this is where communication and effort come into play.  A little communication and effort to do better can go a long way to establishing trust.  Once trust is established, the rules can be bent in all kinds of ways.

I would put that teacher among my top three favorites over my jr. high and high school years.  In fact, he was probably my number one.  

He was mispronouncing my given name (not unusual since it's an unusual name)...it was actually kind of funny that he called me Angies like there were multiple of me...and no one wants that.

[Spongebob]

I can remember laughing at funny names when I was in elementary school. That was a terrible thing to do and I would do anything to go back and slap my young self.

One black girl was named Cherry, like the fruit. I remember calling her Sherry, like the drink, because I was sure she was just mispronouncing her own name, until she yelled at me one day. It scared me so much I didn't speak to her for a couple of years. She was a pretty scary girl.

Another black girl, whom I liked very much, laughed at my shoes one day and it hurt my feelings. I don't think I explained why I was wearing those weird shoes but I wish I had. She would have understood. She was eventually valedictorian.

[The Architect Of Fate]

English speakers do struggle with my true name. So I just adopted an Anglo name to make it easier.

[Spongebob]

English speakers do struggle with my true name. So I just adopted an Anglo name to make it easier.

OK, I have a Nigerian friend with the same problem.  We get a huge laugh out of it whenever we are travelling together because its usually in the South and what they think he says is usually hilarious.  He often just goes by John to avoid the problem.

[Irreligious Atheist]

Are we back to worrying how much the guy rocking an imperial mullet hates Teh Whites?

Candace Owens defense. I'm black so I can't be anti-black. You're better than that.

[The Grand Nudger]

There's a race traitor under every bed, in every closet. That's the only thing that could explain it.

[Irreligious Atheist]

It’s one thing to accidentally misname someone. It’s another thing entirely to keep calling someone the wrong name for months on end, especially if the name you use came from another student whose only real similarity is that they’re black males.



Maybe if it was established that she had a bad memory for names, but it seems she only has that problem with black students.

To be fair, most of the white adults in the book were basically written as ridiculous parodies, like the gym teacher who kept asking if what he was saying was racist every five seconds, and then you had the white Karen teacher who got his name wrong all year long, which is not a realistic situation at all and would not happen in real life, especially given that the teacher gets his name right all of a sudden when he gets in trouble. The message of the book to be learned ends up being that black kids shouldn't take shit from their white teachers, and that they should stand up for themselves and tell their teachers off if they get their name wrong. I simply don't think this is good advice for young black kids, as they are already being suspended at a far greater rate than children of other races, so don't give the teacher another legitimate reason to suspend you.

[The Grand Nudger]

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