7 Things I Can Do That My Black Son Can’t

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I always wondered when we would finally learn about African history (beyond Pharaohs and pyramids).

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Moron

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In my experience, white people (and straight people, and male people, and Christian people — all groups of which I’m a member) tend to dismiss the notion that we’re privileged.

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Except that we are not. We are an ethnic group that raise our children better and instill more sense of responsibility in them than far too many black families. That privilege is not bestowed, it is earned, and even then it doesn't always help...I am literally being held out of a promotion at work right now because this place is hell bent on promoting a minority first.

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But when you’re a parent, those privileges stop being invisible. It’s the reason why male congressmen with daughters are more likely to support women’s issues.

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Nope, that's a media expectation and you will be skewered if you don't fall in line.

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5. I Can Loiter in Wealthy Neighborhoods No one has ever called the cops on me to report a “suspicious person.” My wife can’t say the same.

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Horse shite. I live in a neighborhood of nosy fricks who call the police on suspicious characters all the time. A better question is why would anyone be loitering in a place where they do not live?

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6. I Can Complain About Racism When I point out that black people are incarcerated at alarming rates, or largely forced to send their children to underperforming schools, or face systemic discrimination when searching for jobs and housing, no one accuses me of “playing the race card.”

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He won't acknowledge why black schools are shitty schools, and therefore he's a piece of shite playing the race card.

i really don't get the "i never learned about my people's history in schools". we're a western nation and a former colony of a western nation. we learn plenty about our country's origins as well as a lot of latino history (because it overlaps with our story)

on top of that, africa has no real history to speak of because sub saharan africa didn't really have a written language when it was colonized. there is not a history to be told because what history exists was lost, for the most part.

asia has a rich history that is oft-ignored because it really doesn't have much overlap with our country's history, or that of its former colonial masters. it's covered in world history classes, but that is obviously a summary.

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i really don't get the "i never learned about my people's history in schools". we're a western nation and a former colony of a western nation. we learn plenty about our country's origins as well as a lot of latino history (because it overlaps with our story)

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Yep. And hey, there are even instances where history unfavorable to blacks is glossed over or ignored.

Want to get a blank stare from someone talking about slavery. As them how we got the slaves? With RARE exception, I've found that if I say, "so, how did the U.S. get the slaves? Did the U.S. send an Army unit to go capture them?........it's blank stare time.

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Bingo. Those schools are shite because the parents of the kids are shite, and the kids have no expectations placed on them for good performance.

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I very recently had a conversation that flat out hurt my brain with one of these "good schools/bad schools" people.

The high school near me had more than 25% of its senior class score better than 30 on the ACT. Not 25% of those taking it, 25% of the whole class.

He asserted that the way to get the underperforming school not far away to do that would be simply to have the same caliber of teachers with the same approach. I clarified. I asked him, so, you're asserting that if we could somehow just 100% switch students that we would get the "good" results from the other batch of students? He confidently said "yes".

He genuinely believed the ONLY factor in the underperformance was that the state "doesn't care" about that other school because of who goes there.

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5. I Can Loiter in Wealthy Neighborhoods No one has ever called the cops on me to report a “suspicious person.” My wife can’t say the same.

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I can loiter in a poor, black neighborhood and the police will be very likely to ask what I am doing there. Is that racism too?

That guy is 100% part of the problem.

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He asserted that the way to get the underperforming school not far away to do that would be simply to have the same caliber of teachers with the same approach. I clarified. I asked him, so, you're asserting that if we could somehow just 100% switch students that we would get the "good" results from the other batch of students? He confidently said "yes".

He genuinely believed the ONLY factor in the underperformance was that the state "doesn't care" about that other school because of who goes there.

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you'll never change the mind of these people

what's fricked up is that while the shite schools have a ton of lazy-bad teachers, they also often have people who give 10x the fricks as most suburban schools. many energetic young people go and bust their arse only to be ground down by the pervasive, terrible culture of the student population

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they also often have people who give 10x the fricks as most suburban schools. many energetic young people go and bust their arse only to be ground down by the pervasive, terrible culture of the student population

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I can't upvote, +1 this statement enough.

i had a weak teacher (in a really good public school) for calculus AP. the amazing teacher who had taught the class for like 10 years left to teach at a middle school that her son just became old enough to attend, so we got a replacement who had never taught calculus before. the new teacher still used the advanced/tough tests of the prior teacher. she was not capable of teaching the material at the level necessary for us students to succeed when taking those tests

what did we do? teach ourselves calculus in conjunction with what small morsels we got from class