Black Teachers, White Parents

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Please expand. What in the world are you talking about?

Not the pp but understand what is being stated. White folks act out racism and other whites defend them and make excuses for them and no very little to combat racism.

[Anonymous]

Sooooo, let me get this straight, if a white person compliments a black person, then the white person is racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, let me get this straight, if a white person compliments a black person, then the white person is racist.

If a white person compliments someone for something that includes the implication "for a black person" e.g. you are very professional/smart/well dressed/well spoken "for a black person" then yes, it's racist. That's not really a genuine compliment just a back handed one at best.

[Anonymous]

So, you don't expect black people to be professional?

[Anonymous]

Why is life so complicated? Couldn't we just say a compliment is a compliment and go home? Its like you are dammed if you this and you are dammed if you do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Please expand. What in the world are you talking about?

Not the pp but understand what is being stated. White folks act out racism and other whites defend them and make excuses for them and no very little to combat racism.

White people are offended at being called racist. But actually being racist is not offensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Please expand. What in the world are you talking about?

Not the pp but understand what is being stated. White folks act out racism and other whites defend them and make excuses for them and no very little to combat racism.

White people are offended at being called racist. But actually being racist is not offensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with OP's post? I don't see anything wrong with it.

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Therefore, it is more productive to stick nails through your eyes than to have these sorts of discussions.

May I suggest an anger management class?

It's not needed. I've learned to pay little attention to passive-aggressive white people, which eliminates a great deal of the white population. Most of you are racist, and you can't help it. Though you may not show it at all times, you imagine yourselves to be superior to all minorities except certain Asians. So there is no need to get emotional about your delusions. You are not as important as you imagine yourselves to be.

Once others who have to deal with your type realizes how pathetic you are, there is no need to be angry. It's mental freedom. I'm glad I have it. Those of you who are still tap dancing around hoping to take the heat off of your backs should heed my advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with OP's post? I don't see anything wrong with it.

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Therefore, it is more productive to stick nails through your eyes than to have these sorts of discussions.

May I suggest an anger management class?

It's not needed. I've learned to pay little attention to passive-aggressive white people, which eliminates a great deal of the white population. Most of you are racist, and you can't help it. Though you may not show it at all times, you imagine yourselves to be superior to all minorities except certain Asians. So there is no need to get emotional about your delusions. You are not as important as you imagine yourselves to be.

Once others who have to deal with your type realizes how pathetic you are, there is no need to be angry. It's mental freedom. I'm glad I have it. Those of you who are still tap dancing around hoping to take the heat off of your backs should heed my advice.

I think you NEED that class. Trust me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with OP's post? I don't see anything wrong with it.

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Therefore, it is more productive to stick nails through your eyes than to have these sorts of discussions.

May I suggest an anger management class?

It's not needed. I've learned to pay little attention to passive-aggressive white people, which eliminates a great deal of the white population. Most of you are racist, and you can't help it. Though you may not show it at all times, you imagine yourselves to be superior to all minorities except certain Asians. So there is no need to get emotional about your delusions. You are not as important as you imagine yourselves to be.

Once others who have to deal with your type realizes how pathetic you are, there is no need to be angry. It's mental freedom. I'm glad I have it. Those of you who are still tap dancing around hoping to take the heat off of your backs should heed my advice.

It's "once others who have to deal with your type REALIZE how pathetic you are." (Just FYI.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sooooo, let me get this straight, if a white person compliments a black person, then the white person is racist.

If a white person compliments someone for something that includes the implication "for a black person" e.g. you are very professional/smart/well dressed/well spoken "for a black person" then yes, it's racist. That's not really a genuine compliment just a back handed one at best.

PP from a couple pages ago. I agree with the above comment that complimenting someone as "professional/smart/well dressed/well spoken for a black person" is offensive, because it clearly suggests there's some lower norm of quality among black people. But by contrast, complimenting someone as "professional/smart/well dressed/well spoken for a teacher (or for an accountant/auto mechanic/florist)" is not offensive. And IMHO it's non-offensive even if the teacher (or accountant/auto mechanic/florist) happens to be black.

But that said, there'll always be someone who is prepared to take offense at even the most innocuous comment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with OP's post? I don't see anything wrong with it.

People who benefit from white supremacist ideologies are more offended at being seen as racist than they are of actually being racist.

Therefore, it is more productive to stick nails through your eyes than to have these sorts of discussions.

May I suggest an anger management class?

It's not needed. I've learned to pay little attention to passive-aggressive white people, which eliminates a great deal of the white population. Most of you are racist, and you can't help it. Though you may not show it at all times, you imagine yourselves to be superior to all minorities except certain Asians. So there is no need to get emotional about your delusions. You are not as important as you imagine yourselves to be.

Once others who have to deal with your type realizes how pathetic you are, there is no need to be angry. It's mental freedom. I'm glad I have it. Those of you who are still tap dancing around hoping to take the heat off of your backs should heed my advice.

I think you NEED that class. Trust me.

Why should anyone trust a member of the most vulgar, violent, lying, deceitful race of people on this earth? A race of people who have done nothing but lie, cheat, kill, and destroy entire nations and groups of people while at the same time pretending to be so virtuous and moral. What a joke!

No, it's much better to pay little attention to you and your kind so that one can live in PEACE. I am posting to remind those who need to hear this message. There is nothing to be angry about. Your kind is pathetic and not deserving of any emotions.

Bye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was at a back-to-school night recently. Two of DS's teachers are AA, the rest are white. One of his AA teachers made the greatest impression - she was full of enthusiasm, she'd prepared a slide deck with a lot of pop-ups that conveyed lots of information in the limited time allotted, and she had the parents laughing with her spot-on observations about teenagers.

On the way out, we stopped to briefly introduce ourselves and thank her for some after-school help she'd been providing DS. As we did so, we overheard another white parents telling the teacher that her presentation had been "very professional." I kind of froze in my tracks when I heard that. It sounded incredibly patronizing to me. I was just waiting for the teacher to respond with something like "well, yeah, I'm a professional, so that's what I do," but of course she just said thanks.

So my question to black teachers is do you still get this all the time from white parents, and does it bother you, or do you just move on and try not to think worse of the kids because some of their parents sound like characters out of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"?

Thanks OP; what you could not have known back when this happened was:

this was a classic, racist, micro-aggression.

So much has been discovered since you witnessed this happening. So much more research has been done on white supremacy, systemic racism, and the daily racial injustice inherent in our white-dominated society around here.

Hope there are far more than just 2 Black teachers at the school today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand what you are saying OP. It's like when people hear an African American professional athlete give an interview and say "wow, he is so well-spoken."

Yes. It's called a microaggression.

[Anonymous]

so just like what Biden said about Obama: "articulate, bright and clean..."