[car.insur]

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 you
feel 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.........


more at link:

http://martynemko.blogspot.com/2009/...hat-is-it.html

[tramdoctorsss]

After they finish school they go out to play...
The Big Lie on Parade


A daily roundup of the continuing and ever increasing intifada of black on white crime. Dispelling the Big Lie of the "Violent white racist America" one link at a time.

"105 black on white crimes that I personally could find in 56 days. One hundred and five!! And this is not counting the number of the victims themselves. That averages out to almost two B on W crimes per day. Yet none of the stories I have linked to have gotten major front page coverage in any major paper or television news channel akin to the Trayvon Martin case. I realize that what I am recording is a mere drop in the bucket"

http://biglieonparade.blogspot.com/

24 year old Jacqueline Gardner of Indiana was returning home from her waitress job to her boyfriend and two small children when she was robbed by three black males for her $85 in tip money and subsequently murdered by a shotgun blast. Two savages have been caught and one is still on the loose.

Killed by negros May 19th 2012

[actrisski]

as one who attended a predominately negro highskrool for one year, until I turned 16, the state mandated age to legally stop going to highskrool,( and I was at the Registrar office the MORNING of my birthday withdrawing), I can attest to the accuracy of this story; it makes me laugh now, how so much is put on "bullying"...LMAO ...back then, it wasn't bullying, it was assaults, extortion, theft and intimidation....

[SoftrermaBioniaSat]

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. I don't know why, but this quote stuck out for me. In any sane society she would have forfeited any welfare claims with an admission like that.

[MrsGoo]

i taught english in inner city houston for 3 years. i could have written this article; it is spot on 100% correct.

[ariniaxia]

when i was in junior high, we lived in Denver.

the Educators, in their Esteemed PC non-Wisdom, bussed a few thousand white, black, & brown students across the city for their experiment in multi-culturalism.

it sucked for the students. it was probably something the educators could put on their resume.


i remember this one black kid. he borrowed $1 from me in drafting class. i thought that meant that he agreed to pay me back. i don't think he planned to. i asked him about 15 times for my money back. he finally gave me my money back.

[margoaroyo]

Growing up, I was always around a few blacks, but not a lot, even when I was younger and we were dirt poor, there just werent that many around.

I then attended private school for a while and there were NONE.

I started public high school in 10th grade and was thrown to the grinder. I didnt live in a black area, but half of my schools zone covered one of the darkest neighborhoods in my town. Over 40% of the school was black.

Mind you, this wasnt that long ago I was in highschool, late 90's, early 2000's, in South East Florida




This article is 100% my experience with the high school aged black community and continues to be my experience to this day. Word for Word, I could have written that myself.

[Mister.levitra]

I grew up and attended school in Chicago in the 60s and this description of blacks in schools is
a given. It is known to be this way by anyone who has had any experience teaching or attending
a school with a significant percentage of blacks.

Why this fact is ignored or unknown in all government plans regarding education is a mystery.
Or I should say would be a mystery if you believed the government was truly trying to be helpful.

Just about all official education studies and media reports are fantasy.

Sending white kids to schools with blacks is child abuse.

[antiggill]

I grew up and attended school in Chicago in the 60s and this description of blacks in schools is
a given. It is known to be this way by anyone who has had any experience teaching or attending
a school with a significant percentage of blacks.

Why this fact is ignored or unknown in all government plans regarding education is a mystery.
Or I should say would be a mystery if you believed the government was truly trying to be helpful.

"It is the usurer's game to hurl the savage against the civilized opponent"--Ezra Pound

[padlabtard]

Amazing article. A window into a world I thankfully was never thrust into.

[horoshevapola]

the article forgot to mention masturbating in class while watching porn

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...159265645.html

[Frannypaync]

We should have picked our own cotton.

Shoulda never even fucked with cotton, and just kept growing hemp.

[daasayse]

We should have picked our own cotton.

It was the Jews that brought them here and used them the most.

[Ternneowns]

Jeez some of you have been sheltered, (in a good way) maybe I should write articles like these. I attended inner city schools since kindergarten all the way up until I hit a black kid over the head with a chair in the high school lunch room for stealing my cigarettes and playing cards.

What I learned from these experiences is more valuable to me than anything I learned academically going to these quasi-prisons.

[Anypeny]

I mentored some inner city kids this past school year in Detroit. Third to seventh grade. It was a after school program and I was the only white in the place. They were polite and respectful kids. They built lego robot kits with enthusiasm and were eager to learn MS Movie Maker and Photoshop.

I'm guessing that once they hit their later teen years they'll become thugs through conformity. It's a sad shame. Some of them have real potential but that will quickly fade once they start to believe that whitey is the cause of all their plight.

[KuznehikVasaN]

Some of them have real potential but that will quickly fade once they start to believe that whitey is the cause of all their plight.

All part of the plan.


"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mould them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to install in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause."


Israel Cohen, A Racial Program For The 20th Century (1912) quoted by Congressman Abernathy, Congressional Record (1957), p. 8559

[tropicana]

We should have picked our own cotton.

Man, how many times I've said that in my life! I had to laugh when I read that, because it's so damned good to know other people are thinking the same thing.

[Snweyuag]

Man, how many times I've said that in my life! I had to laugh when I read that, because it's so damned good to know other people are thinking the same thing.

If that's Joe talking, he's gone thruogh a spiritual revolution. Sorry Xizang, but someone pointed to a possibility of you being an old member by the name of Joe King (joking) ha, ha.

[Gromiaaborn]

If that's Joe talking, he's gone thruogh a spiritual revolution. Sorry Xizang, but someone pointed to a possibility of you being an old member by the name of Joe King (joking) ha, ha.

He MAY not be JK, but he's no stranger to this board...

[mpegdvdclip]

the article forgot to mention masturbating in class while watching porn

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...159265645.html

WTF

"Nine male students were suspended from Bell Middle School for allegedly masturbating while looking at pornography on their cell phones during English class."