This is old, but I showed this to My Boy Blue and we both agree:
1) The teacher was being ignant, but ultimately harmless
2) THAT KID NEEDS TO HAVE HIS ASS BEAT!!!!!
I'm sorry, but teachers need to be paid WAY more than they do. I know for a fact that even if that little boy didn't say Nigga right before the incident, that he and others probably said it regularly. For that little bastard to say that man needed to be PUNISHED and lose his job? He is taking things way too far.
First of all, the man WAS punished. 10 days unpaid leave. Public humiliation. Lesson Learned...but to lose his job??? It wasn't like the continuous and obvious racism of Imus, he just seemed to be having trouble relating to the young black men in his class. I seriously would have written a letter if they did any more than suspend him. You don't go to school, get your license, work for years in an oftentimes turbulent environment to try to help these youngins' just to lose your job over something so trite?! I think THAT'S crazy...but what do YOU think?
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'm way more worried about the less obvious disparities betwixt the different races of the world. For some of my favorite and most enlightening videos on race, look at the facebook page for Everybody Loves Crazy.
OH MY GOD?
ReplyDeleteim negra in south america... i still feel weird about using this word or it being said towards me though im brown in the states..............
this dude needs to get FIRED.
I dunno man...I seriously think he was just clueless. Plus, niggardly is a word, he seemed to just feel that since it wasn't "NiggeR" it was ok.
ReplyDeleteI think as afro-oriented people, we should be more understanding of misunderstandings. The more we lash out against others when it comes to racial remarks, the more weak we seem and the more anger we stir up for being unmalleable.
Considering the environment, I think it was an honest mistake. There is no way that I can believe that a teacher would intentionally make a "racial slur" against a student while in a classroom full of other students who could witness to it. To me, it seems more like he's making an attempt to possibly break down a racial barrier or maybe just fit in with his students.
ReplyDeleteTeachers don't make enough money as it is so 2 weeks w/o pay is pretty damaging to his pockets first off... then, having to attend this sort of "corrections" class doesn't really help. And on top of all that, he has to come back and face his students and fellow co-workers. That's worse than [as a child] stealing something and then your mother making you take whatever you stole back to the owner and apologizing [and possibly working for the owner til punishment is fit in her eyes, lol].
I think people play the race card a little too much and honestly, i feel like we have bigger problems than this.
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