Amskeptic wrote:hippiewannabe wrote:
Heck, the rate of auto accident deaths is 100 per million.
More black male high school dropouts aged 20–35 are in custody than in paid employment;
70% of black babies are born to single mothers.
To paraphrase the philosopher Ice-T, black America's got 99 problems, and police violence ain’t one.
Plenty of fascinating and complex social phenomena surrounds us. Many many ways to interpret the data.
For example, the stigma of being a child of a single mother is greater on the suburban white child, while it is more understood and accepted in the urban black community.
Black drop-outs have been groomed to drop out, if you look at elementary school discipline. Unbelievable bias right out of the box. You could say that a punitive overworked teacher helps to land our black children in jail. The stats prove this. And these children who have been prejudiced against in elementary school are absolutely wired to be prejudiced against by authority figures known as "police". The astonishing number of blacks in jail I cannot ever interpret at face value to mean that they are just so much less behaved.
I was a delinquent, hippiewannabee. I did not have the words or the clarity to express my furies against my very own in-house hypocrites who presented a perfect facade in polite daytime company, so my fury leaked out at school against these prissy little autocrat teachers whose bestowed "authority" was not earned, whose punitive classroom shaming sessions alienated me away from the "good kids". I was game for every sadistic authoritarian asshole teacher that needed to have an incident to make their assholish day complete with "proof" of their asshole assumptions. Power and privilege and assumptions have little to do with the truth of human lives, and I'll be damned, but there is a large group of your fellow Americans that are bearing the brunt of power privilege assumptions and authoritarian assholery, and they have heard all of the justifications before. There comes a time when words like "obey" are the very last fucking thing you are ever going to do so help you God, because you have had enough.
I know people who can spot that last stand, who can identify that last stand, and actually know how to diffuse it with grace and dignity and maturity, and nobody has to die. At this point in our Nation's history, I say that the onus is not on the people whose lives take hopeless turns and they have to sell "loosies", but on the people who swear to protect and to serve.
Colin
I guess I was lucky in some respects, growing up attending about 30+ schools because of various reasons beyond our control insulated me from focused abuse by authority, except when I had to get immunization shots every time I switched schools because the records hadn't shown up yet.
I hear this post from you loud and clear, my cousin was a poster child for scared straight and put into juvy detention at age 13, she never assimilated.
I live in a very rural area and the racism here is very strange, its actually based on issues unique to hawaii and damn if I'm going to try and understand it all in one post,
Anyways,, My oldest son was getting into trouble at school for disrupting class repeatedly. I was out of the loop until the third time he was sent to the office, "long story short" He had been talking to 'local boys" whose parents were born here about technical information being taught by "local lady teacher" basically the local boys were asking my son for help, and my son was helping, and getting in trouble for it!
Turns out the teacher has issues with anyone not born here, its a "local thing" and its really bad when a "local by blood" is born in say california, like in this case, "the teacher" no pun intended.
So story getting longer,, hopi its not too disjointed.
So my son ( best academic student in class according to teacher ) was punished by this teacher repeatedly for helping out in class when asked by fellow table mates. And get this, She singled him out every time, not once in 4 altercations was another boy held accountable for asking for help from my son, "any boy can talk except my son" actually happened.
So all of this came to a HEAD two weeks before the end of last school year, in a 10 day period. On the last day, I had enough, and had a discussion with the teacher with two of my sons present about it.
When asked "by me" why no other boys were getting into trouble for talking, "because my son wasn't talking to himself" the teacher started pointing the index finger "very bad form in Hawaii" and yelling at my son, right in front of me,,,
we were in an open classroom about 10 feet apart, I raised my hands in front of me and told the teacher that this was unacceptable and we would have to talk again later.
I left the classroom shaken, but vented my situation to the next teacher in the next class room when picking up my third son.
I told that teacher I figured the indecent was a one off and caused by being tired or stressed about something else,, so left it that.
I kept the kids out of school the next day, for a re-evaluation of reality.
following that, I got a call from the principal on the third day Stating that the teacher in question was accusing me of yelling and pointing my finger at the teacher,,, wtf? really? Yes it really happened that way.
So, in closing, I pulled all of my kids out of public school and am now homeschooling them full time myself, and I am very happy about it, as is every member of the family, it has been very good for us.
The principal although "white in appearance is native american, full blood cherokee" was, had to be, protecting her job, because well the story never changes in this school, this incident wasn't the first, but it was the last for us, because it was the most blatant.
The teacher has a horrible rep around the community, but thats not saying much at Peyton Place.
Im called a witch, and who knows what else, lol.
Basically, there are innumerable hoops to jump in this community to fit in, and many circus masters.