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originally posted on an alabama craigslist, this essay by a teacher has been making the rounds of the internet. although it's clearly written by a cac, i could see tommy sotomayor writing something along similar lines
Celestial Blog: The truth about blacks that whites need to know and blacks need to know that they know
here are the choice parts:
Celestial Blog: The truth about blacks that whites need to know and blacks need to know that they know
here are the choice parts:
The truth is usually a tough thing to accept, so I understand if this is flagged. It would be a cowardly thing to do, but I understand it. Some people just ignore unpleasant truths. However, if you think ignoring the problem, or trying to censor the truth, will help our black children improve, youre dreaming.
Most whites simply do not know what black people are like in large numbers, and the first encounter can be a shock.
Anyone who is around young blacks will probably get a constant diet of rap music. Blacks often make up their own jingles, and it was not uncommon for 15 black boys to swagger into a classroom, bouncing their shoulders and jiving back.
They were yelling back and forth, rapping 15 different sets of words in the same harsh, rasping dialect. The words were almost invariably a childish form of boasting: Who got dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe, who got dem shine grill (gold and silver dental caps)? The amateur rapper usually ends with a claimin the crudest terms imaginable that all womankind is sexually devoted to him. For whatever reason, my students would often groan instead of saying a particular word, as in, She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh, she lick dat aaaahhh.
Many black people, especially black women, are enormously fat. Some are so fat I had to arrange special seating to accommodate their bulk. I am not saying there are no fat white students there are but it is a matter of numbers and attitudes. Many black girls simply do not care that they are fat. There are plenty of white anorexics, but I have never met or heard of a black anorexic.
Black women be big Mr. Jackson, my students would explain.
Is it okay in the black community to be a little overweight? I ask. Two obese black girls in front of my desk begin to dance, You know dem boys lak juicy fruit, Mr. Jackson. Juicy is a colorful black expression for the buttocks.
For decades, the country has been lamenting the poor academic performance of blacks and there is much to lament. There is no question, however, that many blacks come to school with a serious handicap that is not their fault. At home they have learned a dialect that is almost a different language. Blacks not only mispronounce words; their grammar is often wrong. When a black wants to ask, Where is the bathroom? he may actually say Whar da badroom be? Grammatically, this is the equivalent of Where the bathroom is? And this is the way they speak in high school. Students write the way they speak, so this is the language that shows up in written assignments.
Anyone who teaches blacks soon learns that they have a completely different view of government from whites. Once I decided to fill 25 minutes by having students write about one thing the government should do to improve America. I gave this question to three classes totaling about 100 students, approximately 80 of whom were black. My few white students came back with generally conservative ideas. We need to cut off people who dont work, was the most common suggestion. Nearly every black gave a variation on the theme of We need more government services.
My students had only the vaguest notion of who pays for government services. For them, it was like a magical piggy bank that never goes empty. One black girl was exhorting the class on the need for more social services and I kept trying to explain that people, real live people, are taxed for the money to pay for those services. Yeah, it come from whites, she finally said. They stingy anyway.
Surprising attitudes can come out in class discussion. We were talking about the crimes committed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and I brought up the rape of a young girl in the bathroom of the Superdome. A majority of my students believed this was a horrible crime but a few took it lightly. One black boy spoke up without raising his hand: Dat no big deal. They thought they is gonna die so they figured they have some fun. Dey jus wanna have a fun time; you know what Im sayin? A few black heads nodded in agreement.
My department head once asked all the teachers to get a response from all students to the following question: Do you think it is okay to break the law if it will benefit you greatly? By then, I had been teaching for a while and was not surprised by answers that left a young, liberal, white woman colleague aghast. Yeah was the favorite answer. As one student explained, Get dat green.
There is a level of conformity among blacks that whites would find hard to believe. They like one kind of music: rap. They will vote for one political party: Democrat. They dance one way, speak one way, are loud the same way, and fail their exams in the same way. Of course, there are exceptions but they are rare.
Whites are different. Some like country music, others heavy metal, some prefer pop, and still others, God forbid, enjoy rap music. They have different associations, groups, almost ideologies. There are jocks, nerds, preppies, and hunters. Blacks are all well black, and they are quick to let other blacks know when they deviate from the norm.
One might object that there are important group differences among blacks that a white man simply cannot detect. I have done my best to find them, but so far as I can tell, they dress the same, talk the same, think the same. Certainly, they form rival groups, but the groups are not different in any discernible way. There simply are no groups of blacks that are as distinctly different from each other as white nerds, hunters, or Goths, for example.
How the world looks to blacks: One point on which all blacks agree is that everything is racis. This is one message of liberalism they have absorbed completely. Did you do your homework? Na, homework racis. Why did you get an F on the test? Test racis.
I was trying to teach a unit on British philosophers and the first thing the students noticed about Bentham, Hobbes, and Locke was Dey all white! Where da black philosopher a? I tried to explain there were no blacks in eighteenth century Britain. You can probably guess what they said to that: Dat racis! One student accused me of deliberately failing him on a test because I didnt like black people.
Do you think I really hate black people?
Yeah.
Have I done anything to make you feel this way? How do you know?
You just do.
Why do you say that?
He just smirked, looked out the window, and sucked air through his teeth. Perhaps this was a regional thing, but the blacks often sucked air through their teeth as a wordless expression of disdain or hostility.
What about black boys and white girls? No one is supposed to notice this or talk about it but it is glaringly obvious: Black boys are obsessed with white girls. Ive witnessed the following drama countless times. A black boy saunters up to a white girl. The cocky black dances around her, not really in a menacing way. Its more a shuffle than a threat. As he bobs and shuffles he asks, When you gonna go wit me?
There are two kinds of reply. The more confident white girl gets annoyed, looks away from the black and shouts, I dont wanna go out with you! The more demure girl will look at her feet and mumble a polite excuse but ultimately say no.
There is only one response from the black boy: You racis. Many girls all too many actually feel guilty because they do not want to date blacks. Most white girls at my school stayed away from blacks, but a few, particularly the ones who were addicted to drugs, fell in with them.