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I love
-yoga 4 times a week still
-my go-go danceresque fame
-my new found love for bois
-my new found love for teaching writing to ESOL students
-the spring break plans I'm working out (a cross country type excursion)
-ms. v for sending my Silas back to me chubbier than ever
-the thought of shaving the locks
-spikey dykey performances
-free massages whenever I please
It's coming together. slowly. slowly.
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My thoughts on teaching about Black History Month
-Fuck all that jazz.
If "separate but equal" was something we wanted to uphold then why are we celebrating Black History as if our history is above all the rest. We never talk about the Asian-Americans and their plight during the Pearl Harbor craziness. They were put into camps just like ghettos in Germany. And what about Hispanic heritage? Before they brought the slaves from Africa where do you think they were getting them from?
I understand that America has designated this for the benefit of all children. I know that it is so we don't forget how our country became the country it is today: through raping, pillaging, and destroying. But to single out one culture in a country full od diversity sickens me. We should all learn about the Civil Rights movement and what it was about about what it did in the lives of so many, but we should not do so by excluding other races/cultures/creeds/ethnicities from understanding where they fit into the puzzle.
This should not be a month of "evil white man" propaganda; to do so would mean that all white people hated black people, which is not true by any means. We often forget to mention the other people who helped along the way were often white. This month always leaves the white students feeling resented and belittled I think. This should be about unity not separation.
I said all that to say we should teach appreciation for multiple cultures year round.
*off of soap-box*
-yoga 4 times a week still
-my go-go danceresque fame
-my new found love for bois
-my new found love for teaching writing to ESOL students
-the spring break plans I'm working out (a cross country type excursion)
-ms. v for sending my Silas back to me chubbier than ever
-the thought of shaving the locks
-spikey dykey performances
-free massages whenever I please
It's coming together. slowly. slowly.
time
time
time
My thoughts on teaching about Black History Month
-Fuck all that jazz.
If "separate but equal" was something we wanted to uphold then why are we celebrating Black History as if our history is above all the rest. We never talk about the Asian-Americans and their plight during the Pearl Harbor craziness. They were put into camps just like ghettos in Germany. And what about Hispanic heritage? Before they brought the slaves from Africa where do you think they were getting them from?
I understand that America has designated this for the benefit of all children. I know that it is so we don't forget how our country became the country it is today: through raping, pillaging, and destroying. But to single out one culture in a country full od diversity sickens me. We should all learn about the Civil Rights movement and what it was about about what it did in the lives of so many, but we should not do so by excluding other races/cultures/creeds/ethnicities from understanding where they fit into the puzzle.
This should not be a month of "evil white man" propaganda; to do so would mean that all white people hated black people, which is not true by any means. We often forget to mention the other people who helped along the way were often white. This month always leaves the white students feeling resented and belittled I think. This should be about unity not separation.
I said all that to say we should teach appreciation for multiple cultures year round.
*off of soap-box*