I think I posted this a while back but it's still worth reading. What is noteworthy is the Supreme Court Case of 1948 in Brown Vs. The Board of Education mandating the integration of white schools. Perhaps in the beginning they DID want an education as evidenced by Eisenhower calling out the 101st Airborne Division so a dozen blacks could attend Little Rock High School in Arkansas. Then in the 1970's came busing and the whole system turned to shit. This article explains blacks and their goddamn Rap-HipHop culture better than I ever could. They take their education for granted and basically don't give a shit, and in the process make it impossible for white students to learn. Blacks students falling behind? The government throws billions at the problem without addressing the real issue: The vast majority of inner city blacks or School Districts where they are the majority could care less about knowledge or education. Throwing money at them isn't going to change their inner chimp one bit.
What is it Like to Teach Black Students?by Christopher Jackson
Until recently I taught at a predominantly black high school in a southeastern state.
The mainstream press gives a hint of what conditions are like in black schools, but only a hint. Expressions that journalists use like “chaotic” or “poor learning environment” or “lack of discipline” do not capture what really happens. There is nothing like the day-to-day experience of teaching Black children and that is what I will try to convey.
One of the most immediately striking things about my students was that so many of them were were loud. They had little conception of ordinary decorum. It was not unusual for five students to be screaming at
me at once.
It did no good to try to quiet them and white women were particularly inept at trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as she begged the children to pipe down.They just yelled louder so their voices would carry over hers.
So many of them seemed to have no conception of waiting for an appropriate time to say something. They would get ideas in their heads and
simply had to shout them out. I might be leading a discussion on government and suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get more Democrats! Clinton, she good!” The student may seem content with that
outburst but two minutes later, he would suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton good!”
It was not uncommon for 15 boys to swagger into a classroom,
bouncing their shoulders and jiving back. They were yelling back and forth, rapping 15 different sets of words in the same harsh, rasping dialect.
The words were almost invariably a childish form of boasting: “Who got
dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe, who got dem shine grill (gold and silver dental caps)?” The amateur rapper often ends with a claim—in the crudest terms imaginable—that all womankind is sexually devoted to him. For whatever reason, many of my students would often groan instead of saying a particular word, as in, “She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long
grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh, she lick dat aaaahhh.”
So many black girls dance in the hall, in the classroom, on the chairs, next to the chairs, under the chairs, everywhere. Once I had to take a
call on my cell phone and stepped outside of class. I was away about two
minutes but when I got back, girls had lined up at the front of the
classroom and were convulsing to the delight of the boys.
Blacks, overall, are the most directly critical people I have ever met: “Dat shirt stupid. Yo’ kid a bastard. Yo’ lips big.” Unlike whites, who tread gingerly around the subject of race, Blacks can be brutally to the point. Once, I needed to send a student to the office to deliver a message. I
asked for volunteers, and suddenly you would think my classroom was a bastion of civic engagement. Thirty hands shot into the air. I picked a light-skinned boy to deliver the message. One very dark student was indignant: “You pick da half-breed.” And immediately other Blacks take up the cry, and half a dozen are screaming, “He half-breed.”
For decades, the country has been lamenting the poor academic performance of Blacks and there is much to lament. There is no question
that many Blacks come to school with a serious handicap that is not their fault. At home they have learned a dialect that is almost a different language. They not only mispronounce words; their grammar is so often wrong. When a Black wants to ask, “Where is the bathroom?” he may actually say “Whar da badroom be?” Grammatically, this is the equivalent
of “Where the bathroom is?” And this is the way they speak in high school.
Students write the way they speak, so this is the language that shows up in
written assignments.
It is true that some whites face a similar handicap. They speak with what I would call a “country” accent that is hard to reproduce but results in
sentences such as “I’m gonna gemme a Coke.” Some of these country whites had to learn correct pronunciation and usage. The difference is that most whites overcome this handicap and learn to
speak correctly; many Blacks do not.
Most of the Blacks I taught simply had no interest in academic subjects. I
taught history, and students would often say they didn’t want to do an assignment or they didn’t like history because it was all about white people. Of course, this was “diversity” history, in which every cowboy’s Black cook got a special page on how he contributed to winning the
West, but Black children still found it inadequate. So I would throw up my
hands and assign them a project on a real, historical black person. My favorite was Marcus Garvey. They had never heard of him, and I would tell them to research him but most of them never did. They didn’t care and they didn’t want to do any work.
Anyone who teaches Blacks soon learns that they have a completely different view of government from whites. Once I decided to have students write about one thing the government should do to improve
America. I gave this question to three classes totaling about 100 students,
approximately 80 of whom were Black. My white students came back with
generally conservative ideas. “We need to cut off people who don’t work,”
was the most common suggestion. Nearly every Black gave a variation on
the theme of “We need more government services.”
My students had only the vaguest notion of who pays for government
services. For them, it was like a magical piggy bank that never goes empty. One Black girl was exhorting the class on the need for more social services and I kept trying to explain that people, real live people, are taxed for the money to pay for those services. “Yeah, it come
from whites,” she finally said. “They stingy anyway.”
“Many Black people make over $50,000 dollars a year and you would
also be taking away from your own people,” I said.
She had an answer to that: “Dey half breed.” The class agreed. I let the
subject drop.
Many Black girls are perfectly happy to be welfare queens. On career day, one girl explained to the class that she was going to have lots of children and get fat checks from the government. No one in the class seemed to have any objection to this career choice.
Surprising attitudes can come out in class discussion. We were talking about the crimes committed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and I brought up the rape of a young girl in the bathroom of the Superdome. A majority of my students believed this was a horrible crime but a few took it lightly. One Black boy spoke up without raising his hand: “Dat no big deal. They thought they is gonna die so they figured they have some fun. Dey jus’ wanna have a fun time; you know what I’m sayin’?” A few Black heads nodded in agreement.
My department head once asked all the teachers to get a response from all
students to the following question: “Do you think it is okay to break the law if it will benefit you greatly?” By then, I had been teaching for a while and was not surprised by answers that left a young, liberal, white woman colleague aghast. “Yeah” was the favorite answer. As one student explained, “Get dat green.”
How the world looks to Blacks One point on which most 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 appeared to care 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 youfeel 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 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.
Blacks are keenly interested in their own racial characteristics. I have
learned, for example, that some blacks have “good hair.” Good hair is black
parlance for black-white hybrid hair. Apparently, it is less kinky, easier to
style, and considered more attractive. Blacks are also proud of light skin.
Imagine two black students shouting insults across the room. One is dark
and slim, the other light and obese. The dark one begins the exchange: “You fat, Ridario!” Ridario smiles, doesn’t deign to look at his detractor, shakes his head like a wobbling top, and says, “You wish you light skinned.” They could go on like this, repeating the same insults over and over.
My Black students had nothing but contempt for Hispanic immigrants. They
would vent their feelings so crudely that our department strongly advised us never to talk about immigration in class in case the principal or some outsider might overhear.
Whites were “racis’,” of course, but they thought of us at least as Americans. Not the Mexicans. Blacks have a certain, not necessarily hostile understanding of white people. They know how whites act, and it is clear they believe whites are smart and are good at organizing things. At the same time, they probably suspect whites are just putting on an act when they talk about equality, as if it is all a sham that makes it easier for
whites to control Blacks. Blacks want a bigger piece of the American pie. I’m convinced that if it were up to them they would give whites a considerably smaller piece than whites get now, but they would give us something. They wouldn’t give Mexicans anything.
What about Black boys and white girls? No one is supposed to notice this or talk about it but it is glaringly obvious: Black boys are obsessed with white
girls. I’ve witnessed the following drama countless times. A Black boy saunters up to a white girl. The cocky black dances around her, not really in a menacing way. It’s more a shuffle than a threat. As he bobs and
shuffles he asks, “When you gonna go wit’ me?”
There are two kinds of reply. The more confident white girl gets annoyed, looks away from the Black and shouts, “I don’t wanna go out with you!” The more demure girl will look at her feet and mumble a polite excuse but ultimately say no.
There is only one response from the Black boy: “You racis’.” Many girls—all
too many—actually feel guilty because they do not want to date Blacks. Most white girls at my school stayed away from Blacks, but a few, particularly the ones who were addicted to drugs, fell in with them.
There is something else that is striking about Blacks. So many of them seem to have no sense of romance, of falling in love. What brings men and women together is sex, pure and simple, and there is a crude openness about this. There are many degenerate whites, of course, but some of my white students were capable of real devotion and tenderness, emotions that
seemed absent from most Blacks—especially the boys.
Black schools are violent and the few whites who are too poor to escape
are caught in the storm. The violence is astonishing, not so much that it happens, but the atmosphere in which it happens. Blacks can be smiling, seemingly perfectly content with what they are doing, having a good time, and then, suddenly start fighting. It’s uncanny. Not long ago, I was walking through the halls and a group of Black boys were walking in front of me. All of a sudden they started fighting with another group in the hallway.
Blacks are extraordinarily quick to take offense. Once I accidentally scuffed
a Black boy’s white sneaker with my shoe. He immediately rubbed his body
up against mine and threatened to attack me. I stepped outside the class and had a security guard escort the student to the office. It was unusual for students to threaten teachers physically this way, but among themselves, they were quick to fight for similar reasons.
The real victims are the unfortunate whites caught in this. They are always
in danger and their educations suffer. White weaklings are particularly susceptible, but mostly to petty violence. They may be slapped or get a couple of kicks when they are trying to open a bottom locker. Typically, Blacks save the hard, serious violence for each other.
There was a lot of promiscuous sex among my students and this led to
violence. Black girls were constantly fighting over Black boys. It was not uncommon to see two girls literally ripping each other’s hair out with a police officer in the middle trying to break up the fight. The Black boy they were fighting over would be standing by with a smile, enjoying the show he had created. For reasons I cannot explain, boys seldom fought over girls.
Pregnancy was common among the Blacks, though many Black girls were
so fat I could not tell the difference. I don’t know how many girls got abortions, but when they had the baby they usually stayed in school and had their own parents look after the child. The school did not offer daycare.
Aside from the police officers constantly on campus, security guards are everywhere in Black schools—we had one on every hall. They also sat in on unruly classes and escorted students to the office. They were unarmed but worked closely with the three city police officers who were constantly on duty.
There was a lot of drug dealing at my school. This was a way to make a fair amount of money but it also gave boys power over girls who wanted drugs. An addicted girl—Black or white—became the plaything of anyone who could get her drugs.
One of my students was a notorious drug dealer. Everyone knew it. He was
19 years old and in eleventh grade. Once he got a score of three out of 100 on a test. He had been locked up four times since he was 13.
One day, I asked him, “Why do you come to school?”
He wouldn’t answer. He just looked out the window, smiled, and sucked air
through his teeth. His friend Yidarius ventured an explanation: “He get dat
green and get dem females.”
“What is the green?” I asked. “Money or dope?” “Both,” said Yidarius with a smile.
A very fat student interrupted from across the room: “We get dat lunch,” Mr. Jackson. “We gotta get dat lunch and brickfuss.” He means the free breakfast and lunch poor students get every day. “Nigga, we know’d you be lovin’ brickfuss!” shouts another student.
Some readers may believe that I have drawn a cruel caricature of Black
students. After all, according to official figures some 85 percent of them graduate.It would be instructive to know how many of those scraped by with barely a C- record. They go from grade to grade and they finally get their diplomas because there is so much pressure on teachers to push them through. It saves money to move them along, the school looks good and the teachers look good.
Many of these children should have been failed but the system would crack under their weight if they were all held back.
How did my experiences make me feel about Blacks? Ultimately, I lost
sympathy for them. In so many ways they seem to make their own beds.
There they were in an integrationist’s fantasy—in the same classroom with
white students, eating the same lunch, using the same bathrooms, listening to the same teachers—and yet the Blacks fail while the whites pass.
One tragic outcome among whites who have been teaching for too long
is that it can engender something close to hatred. One teacher I knew gave up fast food—not for health reasons but because where he lived, most fast-food workers were black. He had enough of Blacks on the job. This was an extreme example, but years of frustration can take their toll. Many of my white colleagues with any experience were well on their way to that state of mind.
There is an unutterable secret among teachers: Almost all realize that Blacks do not respond to traditional white instruction. Does that put the lie to environmentalism? Not at all. It is what brings about endless, pointless innovation that is supposed to bring Blacks up to the white level. The solution is more diversity, or put more generally, the solution is "change."
Change is an almost holy word in education, and you can fail a million times as long as you keep changing. That is why liberals keep revamping the curriculum and the way it is taught.
For example, teachers are told that Blacks need hands-on instruction and more group work. Teachers are told that Blacks are more vocal and do not learn through reading and lectures. The implication is that they have certain traits that lend themselves to a different kind of teaching.
Whites have learned a certain way for centuries but it just doesn’t work with
Blacks. Of course, this implies racial differences but if pressed, most liberal
teachers would say different racial learning styles come from some indefinable cultural characteristic unique to Blacks. Therefore, schools must change, America must change. But into what? How do you turn quantum physics into hands-on instruction or group work? No one knows, but we must keep changing until we find something that works.
Public school has certainly changed since anyone reading this was a student. I have a friend who teaches elementary school and she tells me that every week the students get a new diversity lesson, shipped in fresh from some bureaucrat’s office in Washington or the state capital. She showed me the materials for one week: a large poster, about the size of a forty-two inch flat-screen television. It shows a diverse group—I mean
diverse: handicapped, Muslim, Jewish, effeminate, poor, rich, brown, slightly brown, yellow, etc.—sitting at a table, smiling gaily, accomplishing some undefined task. The poster comes with a sheet of questions the teacher is supposed to ask. One might be: “These kids sure look different, but they look happy. Can you tell me which one in the picture is an American?”
Some eight-year-old, mired in ignorance, will point to a white child like
himself. “That one.”
The teacher reads from the answer, conveniently printed along with the
question. “No, Billy, all these children are Americans. They are just as American as you.”
This is what happens at predominately white, middle-class, elementary schools everywhere. Elementary school teachers love All of the Colors of the Race, by award-winning children’s poet Arnold Adoff.
These are some of the lines they read
to the children: “Mama is chocolate …
Daddy is vanilla … Me (sic) is better …
It is a new color. It is a new flavor. For
love. Sometimes blackness seems too
black for me, and whiteness is too sickly
pale; and I wish everyone were golden.
Remember: long ago before people
moved and migrated, and mixed and
matched … there was one people: one
color, one race. The colors are flowing
from what was before me to what will
be after. All the colors.”
Teaching as a career
It may come as a surprise after what I have written, but my experiences have given me a deep appreciation for teaching as a career. It offers a stable, middle-class life but comes with the capacity to make real differences in the lives of children. In our modern, atomized world,
children often have very little communication with adults—especially, or even, with their parents—so there is potential for a real transaction between pupil and teacher, disciple and master.
A rewarding relationship can grow up between an interested student and his teacher. I have stayed in my classroom with a group of students
discussing ideas and playing chess until the janitor kicked us out. I was the
old gentleman, imparting my history, culture, personal loves and triumphs,
defeats and failures to young kinsman. Sometimes I fancied myself Tyrtaeus, the Spartan poet, who counseled the youth to honor and loyalty. I never had this kind intimacy with a Black student, and I know of no other white teacher who did.
Teaching can be fun. For a certain kind of person it is exhilarating to map
out battles on chalkboards, and teach heroism. It is rewarding to challenge
liberal prejudices, to leave my mark on these children, but what I aimed for with my white students I could never achieve with most Blacks.
There is a kind of child whose look can melt your heart: some working-class castaway, in and out of foster homes, often abused, who is nevertheless almost an angel. Your heart melts for these children,
this refuse of the modern world.
Many white students possess a certain innocence. Try as I might, I could not get theBlacks to care one bit about Beethoven or Sherman’s march to the sea, or Tyrtaeus, or Oswald Spengler, or even liberals like John Rawls, or their own history. Most of them cared about nothing I tried to teach them. When this goes on year after year, it chokes the soul out of a teacher, destroys his pathos, and sends him guiltily searching for The Bell Curve on the Internet.
Blacks break down the intimacy that can be achieved in the classroom, and
leave you convinced that that intimacy is really a form of kinship. Without
intending to, they destroy what is most beautiful—whether it be your belief in human equality, your daughter’s innocence, or even the state of the hallway.
Just last year I read on the bathroom stall the words “F**k Whitey.” Not two feet away, on the same stall, was a small swastika.
The National Council for the Social Studies, the leading authority on social
science education in the United States, urges teachers to inculcate such values as equality of opportunity, individual property rights, and a democratic form of government. Even if teachers could inculcate this milquetoast ideology into whites, liberalism is doomed because so many non-whites are not receptive to education of any kind beyond the merest
basics.
It is impossible to get them to care about such abstractions as property rights or democratic citizenship. They do not see much further than
the fact that you live in a big house and “we in da pro-jek.” Of course, there are a few loutish whites who will never think past their next meal and a few sensitive Blacks for whom anything is possible,but no society takes on the characteristics of its exceptions.
Once I asked my students, “What do you think of the Constitution?” “It white,” one slouching Black rang out. The class began to laugh. And I
caught myself laughing along with them, laughing while Pompeii’s volcano simmers, while the barbarians swell around the Palatine, while the country I love, and the job I love, and the community I love become dimmer by the day.
I read a book by an expatriate Rhodesian who visited Zimbabwe not
too many years ago. Traveling with a companion, she stopped at a store along the highway. A black man materialized next to her car window. “Job, boss, (I)work good, boss,” he pleaded. “You give job.”
“What happened to your old job?” the expatriate white asked. The man replied in the straightforward manner of his race: “We drove out the whites. No more jobs. You give job.”
At some level, my students understand the same thing. One day I asked
the bored, Black faces staring back at me. “What would happen if all the
white people in America disappeared tomorrow?”
“We screwed,” a young, pitch-black boy screamed back. The rest of the
blacks laughed.
I have had children tell me to my face as they struggled with an assignment. “I cain’t do dis,” Mr. Jackson. “I black.”
The point is that human beings are not always rational. It is in the Black man’s interest to have whites in Zimbabwe but he drives them out and starves. Most whites do not think Black Americans could ever do anything so irrational. They see Blacks on television smiling, fighting evil whites, embodying white values. But the real Black is not on television, and you pull your purse closer when you see him, and you lock the car doors when he swaggers by with his pants hanging down almost to his knees.
I have been in parent-teacher conferences that broke my heart: the child
pleading with his parents to take him out of school; the parents convinced
their child’s fears are groundless. If you love your child, show her you care— not by giving her fancy vacations or a car, but making her innocent years safe and happy. Give her the gift of a not-heavily black school.
Mr. Jackson now teaches at a majority- white school.
FOLLOW-UP:
White teacher sues because of racial abuse and wins. 2006 / Bill O'Reily
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99cw-wdHUwA Mindy Stokes, Lesbian Queen Bee of the Feminist Studies Department at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, Oregon, as well as an Andrea Dworkin fellow for her book, "Mama Baby Mama", a bio about creating a half-nigger child in a laboratory, has called this piece, "Pure propaganda". She also stated, "It's a shame that people of color are depicted in such a false, racist and homophobic light". This comes from a woman who lives in a county where 90 percent of the residents are white. When asked what was "homophobic" about Mr. Jackson's piece, she stated that, "Racism and homophobia are interchangeable".
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