Sunday, April 17, 2016

Racist Teachers



Why is Winston Churchill taught to colored kids, in a manner where we are supposed to admire that racist man? He is responsible for the Bengal Famine of 1943. It is funny how I did not find that peice of history in his autobiography. Why would they teach colored kids to look up to these racist men? Does that fall into somewhere in between they teach us how to hate ourselves and worship those who hate us?

I once had a teacher who would tell us how Barrack Obama was not the right choice for president. How he would vote for D.L. Hughley, but not Barrack. I could tell this guy did  not like  the African American candidate,  so he throws in some comedian, who was not on the ballot as a scapegoat to his racism. He also once said that Mexicans and Puerto Ricans were the same thing, like there was no real difference, boy did that anger me, but like any dumb kid, you figure  if you say something it might affect my grade. I  still got a C , when I feel I should have  gotten a better  grade.

I remember a time when I was 7 or 8 years old, I once was day dreaming and I did not salute the American flag, and the teacher made me do it by myself after everyone had finished, and I was shy so I did not do it, so she sent me to the principal's office, and that man asked me if I did not do the flag salute because I was a Communist, or he asked if I was a Jehova's Witness? I did not know what a Communist was¸ but it sounded like he was accusing me of being something bad, so I being a kid just started to cry.

I can remember another racist teacher I once had, who kicked an African American kid, because he was standing in a leaning position during the flag salute. His foot was sticking out too much for her liking and she kicked his foot back into place. I never forgot that. What has that flag done for his people, that he needs to honor that flag. He is a child of 11 or 12 years old, she could have explained it to him, that she thought it was irreverant, or maybe the kid was smart enough to know that he was being played, and he knew exactly that that flag had done nothing but enslave his people and kept them down like a colonized people in what supposedly was also there country.
Today there are standardized testing they are pushing kids who test poorly out of the system, they want to push these kids out of school so that the schools can receive more funding. These kids are entering something called the preschool to prison pipeline. Everything is about money now, and these racist teachers will have no problem complying to the demands of this greedy , racist, capitalist system.

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