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A history teacher of 40 years explains the difference between liberals and Conservatives
#104582 Re: A history teacher of 40 years explains the difference between liberals and Conservatives
20 Aug 2022 8:22 pm
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 philosophers’?” 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 didn’t 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.
My students were sometimes unable to see the world except through the lens of their own blackness. I had a class that was host to a German exchange student. One day he put on a Power Point presentation with famous German landmarks as well as his school and family. From time to time during the presentation, blacks would scream, “Where da black folk?!” The exasperated German tried several times to explain that there were no black people where he lived in Germany. The students did not believe him. I told them Germany is in Europe, where white people are from, and Africa is where black people are from. They insisted that the German student was racist and deliberately refused to associate with 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 philosophers’?” 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 didn’t 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.
My students were sometimes unable to see the world except through the lens of their own blackness. I had a class that was host to a German exchange student. One day he put on a Power Point presentation with famous German landmarks as well as his school and family. From time to time during the presentation, blacks would scream, “Where da black folk?!” The exasperated German tried several times to explain that there were no black people where he lived in Germany. The students did not believe him. I told them Germany is in Europe, where white people are from, and Africa is where black people are from. They insisted that the German student was racist and deliberately refused to associate with blacks.