"The present racial crisis in this country carries within it powerful destructive ingredients that may soon erupt into an uncontrollable explosion. The seriousness of this situation demands that immediate steps must be taken to solve this crucial problem, by those who have genuine concern before the racial powder keg explodes." Malcolm X 1963
Malcolm said it in 1963, King said it in 1967, America we have a problem; separate and unequal. When the powder Keg explodes, if you read this blog, you’ll know why. If you don’t change this, you’ll know why. This is what America does to Black Children:
In every state but Idaho, a Tribune analysis of the data shows, black students are being suspended in numbers greater than would be expected from their proportion of the student population. In 21 states—Illinois among them—that disproportionality is so pronounced that the percentage of black suspensions is more than double their percentage of the student body. And on average across the nation, black students are suspended and expelled at nearly three times the rate of white students. Yet black students are no more likely to misbehave than other students from the same social and economic environments, research studies have found.
A recent article in the Chicago tribune reveals what I’ve known since I entered kindergarten. The Educational system of the United States is designed to destroy black children. The proportion and severity of disciplinary action taken against black students, overwhelmingly male black students is so egregiously disproportionate that no other explanation can stand except systematic, deliberate, Auschwitz type racism. Another one of the many reasons I will never put a child of mine in the nation’s educational system. The damage that is being done, the trauma of dealing in such a hostile environment is psychologically damaging.
"There simply isn't any support for the notion that, given the same set of circumstances, African-American kids act out to a greater degree than other kids," said Russell Skiba, a professor of educational psychology at Indiana University whose research focuses on race and discipline issues in public schools. "In fact, the data indicate that African-American students are punished more severely for the same offense, so clearly something else is going on. We can call it structural inequity or we can call it institutional racism."
No other ethnic group is disciplined at such a high rate, the federal data show. Hispanic students are suspended and expelled in almost direct proportion to their populations, while white and Asian students are disciplined far less. Link
The myth the black folk are some how degenerate and that black men are vicious, oversexed, predators has a long history and little merit. When a nation stands by and helps perpetuate what amounts to psychological genocide, the systematic “breaking” of a child because of ingrained prejudices, that nation has declared war on the party they are afflicting. How long?
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I'm all over both sides of this one
I'm an eighth grade teacher in a poor urban minority school (there's probably 10 white kids in the whole school), and I second-guess myself every time I send a student to the office, or recommend that one is suspended. I keep track, too, and over the last couple of years, I've definitely written up more black kids than asian or chicano kids. I don't think they have gotten punished more severely, but often the final decision is done in the principal's office when I'm not present. But I desperately try to be fair.
And it's very hard. When I have 30 kids, and 25 of them are willing to learn, and 5 of them can not stay in their seats or stay quiet, and I spend the entire class playing whack-a-mole with those five, and the rest of the class is bored so crazy I want to apologize to them for not being able to educate them because the 5 take up all my time, and then the next hour is just the same... urban schools with high numbers of kids that aren't well socialized are going to continue to have that problem until something can be done about removing kids that keep other kids from learning. And part of why that doesn't happen now is because schools are afraid of numbers that show that they're being unfair to blacks.
So yeah, I don't know.
sherrold, some questions for you:
what is your race, and how does your record of sending kids to the principal's office compare to teachers in your school of a different race? let me be clear and say i am *not* accusing you of racism or anything like that, i'm just curious.
also- what do you think is the root cause(s) of the misbehaving childrens' lack of "socialization" skills? ADD? problems at home? parents who don't discipline? other things?
it's funny, 30 kids doesn't sound like so many, given some of the stories from my teaching friends includes those of classrooms with 45, even 50 students. sigh. what ever happened to the idea that learning doesn't take place in a zoo? no classroom should have more than 12 students, in my opinion. at any level, K-PhD.
Black Boys Are Also Put In Special Education Classes More Often
Black Boys are also put in special education classes more frequently. It's a shame, too, because black children are not genetically inferior but are actually genetically and mentally superior. But the systemic racism in this society makes it more difficult for them to develop.