*lmao @ Bean Bros;
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Because violating a dress code by evincing pride in being Black isnât something that should get you escorted from graduation by the fâing cops.
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So, what would you have done in the teacherâs place? (Other than ânot do what he did?â)
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To be fair, anyone whom I first meet has to âproveâ him or herself before I can allow myself to afford them even a modicum of trust; regardless of gender and color.
Too many people are shady or have nefarious intentions nowadays. Even if itâs not the vast majority, itâs still prudent to be cautious until a decent track record has been established.
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Why do you ask?
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A dance off.
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Address âviolationsâ on a case by case basis, like a sane person instead of a salivating rule-of-law fetishist with an authoritarian-punitive streak.
Other options can be worked out for cultural affects, if the deciding party isnt a shrugging, malicious weasel.
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Yes, of course. I was addressing a common white tendency, that of assuming that black men and boys are, basically, guilty until proven innocent.
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Nowadays, beforeadays, foreveradays. Why not be better people? Honesty helps, instead everyone pretends to be hampered by made-up ârulesâ and the false airs of objectivity.
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Yeah, I know. *sighs
Iâm just saying that trust in general is hard to come by.
Oh, HELLZ YEAH!
*lolz
The world would be a much more chill place if that actually happened on a regular basis.
Um, because thatâs too much like the right thing?
Indeed, but letâs keep in mind that many people canât even be truly honest with themselves; let alone anyone else.
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Since you have repeatedly asked people if they thought what the teacher did was reasonable, I wondered if you yourself had a different way in mind that he could have carried out his duties?
Not something vague like ânot do thatâ or âuse common senseâ or âmagic the rule awayâ. Youâre this actual teacher in this actual situation, what actual way do you deal with this student who has broken school rules and point blank refused to do what you asked of him at this communal event?
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Fo sho!
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I see my attempt to demonstrate the gulf between what you see (a fair and equitable dress code erasing inequality) and what this young man and every minority has their faces rubbed in (a systemically racist custom erasing their own heritage) fell on deaf ears. I can see you canât or maybe just wonât accept a comparison to a far more extreme and blatant example of this without getting angry and taking it as a personal insult. I honestly donât know how to say these things to you if you refuse to hear my meaning through your own indignation. I think youâre probably a good guy. I am NOT comparing you to the KKK. Iâm drawing a parallel that the comment of yours which I first replied to seems to show you donât see. Having said that plain as day, youâll either take it the way I meant it or the way you reacted to it in the first place. I can do nothing more to clarify it.
Privilege isnât an insult. Itâs a circumstance. I have it. You have it. We live in a world where weâre not confronted with the same injustices as others. The only shame is in doing nothing when itâs pointed out. A good person doesnât stand silent when fellow humans are suffering inequity. A good person questions; a good person attacks bigotry without hating the bigot; a good person stands by his fellow man. A good person wants this young man to grow up to matter and have the same sort of say he does in whatâs true and just, not taught that any principled stand against the rules will end in his arrest and a crowd of apologists condemning him and defending the actions of the school as though those actions were inflexibly and inextricably one and the same with the policy.
I repeat this one last time for you in case you didnât read the other comments I wrote. The administrators intentions are not the problem here. Their leaving for this young man the only recourse to resist this racism a peaceful act of civil disobedience because they, like you, refused to acknowledge or perhaps simply could not understand the racism of the schoolâs policy, that is the problem.
Dude, what interests me is the racism signaled in this postâs very title. The fact, that is, that black students are repeatedly subjected to excessive suspicion and excessive disciplinary action, including calling in LEOs in situations where that almost never happens with white kids.
So yeah, treating another black kid with excessive suspicion and disciplinary action is what I would not do.
Itâs not up to me to explain why you think thatâs an insufficient answer to your inquiry, a line of questioning that smells an awful lot like one particular thing:
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I mean surely we can all agree that this is not a multicultural society and that the best response to tradition brought over from other countries is to eradicate them in favor of introducing them to a specific âvaluelessâ chosen Western culture.
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Sat down with this student when he first made his request and figured out some way to find accord by actually listening to why he couldnât in good conscience capitulate to the dress code, and I would have found a solution even if it meant taking it to the school board and insisting on amendments to the policy that would respect all studentsâ heritage, not only the traditional Euro-centric graduation gowns or even just that and the studentâs own cultural heritage.
And no matter what, I would not have called the cops on Mr. Holmes for wearing a Kente cloth. Whatever the disagreement between the school administration and the student, thereâs no justification for that reaction.
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Depends where you are as regards the Asian religions. While the communities in the US may have chosen to do so as a way of deferring to majority feelings about the meaning of the swastika, Iâve certainly had Indian and Chinese colleagues (international students from those countries) who wore swastika pendants. AFAIK in many places a swastika on a restaurant sign means the food is vegetarian.
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Take it up after the event, not in public, and without police involvement. Basically, not turn it into an ugly confrontation that just shows the world that a black student who pushes the envelope even slightly will wind up in the back of a squad car for it.
In other words, Iâd let him wear the damn cloth and take it up later. I know you find that unacceptable but defusing, not escalating, is a better solution.
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