To see such an outcome for something so promising is truly
sad. Whether or not what the class reinforced is hard to say, but the progress
that it stood for is what everyone feared. Society worldwide is suffering from
racism and prejudice. The idea that Latinos could become well educated as a
united ethnicity would scare the hell out of your average white politician. It’s
sad to see that after all these years, race still matters to people. Race is
merely a label and boy do Americans love labels. Racism and sexism has indeed
shrunk immensely, but when it comes to positions of power it holds true. In the
end, that is all it boils down to. Minorities cannot be successful or to your
typical white American, that is scary as all hell. You don’t see Asian school
bus drivers, all yard workers are Hispanic and black people are in every KFC
commercial. God Bless America… right? It can range from large to small in the
ways that America devalues what it means to be “American” unless you’re a white
one and that is most likely what happened to the MAS program at TUSD. The
managed to produce unheard of numbers from Latino students and suddenly it is
like some cult dedicated to hate the white man. Goodness knows if the Latinos
want to come together as an ethnicity and become well-educated then that means
it is to overthrow America. Just goes to show you that freedom still is not
free.
Re: "when it comes to positions of power it holds true. In the end, that is all it boils down to. Minorities cannot be successful or to your typical white American, that is scary as all hell. " Yes, right on! Something to think about for the third paper is that obstreperous students are often those who feel they've been excluded from success in school, whether directly or indirectly. If your class might have this issue, what can you do to ensure that they know you'll treat them differently?
ReplyDeleteAfter reading through this blog post it got me thinking about racism. When you said "Racism and sexism has indeed shrunk immensely, but when it comes to positions of power it holds true." I totally agreed with you. But as I continued to read my thoughts on it changed a little. Maybe Sexism and racism haven’t shrunk at all; maybe it’s just a lot more subtle. We are in a time when being racist is a bad thing and so it stands to reason racism will most likely be hidden and sneaking such as attacking a successful program for educating Latinos. I’m thinking it hasn’t shrunk at all we are just better at hiding it then before.
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