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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are not missing the point. You’re just not hearing us. Is it suddenly okay to say this word as a white person because you give a warning first? That’s silly.

I can understand this older teacher maybe thought it was okay. For the work!  The rules don’t apply in the classroom somehow when a black author wrote the word, and because the author’s point is that language has power!

Okay, but language has power!  You are still an old white guy saying this word in a classroom with kids, and you are the one in that room with power as their teacher. The fact that language has power is exactly the point. You reading that word as a white teacher regardless of the wishes of your students is claiming a power over them whether you fully intend it or not.

When folks were railing against wokeness, I didn’t think the issues would be this basic. This is stuff that I as a white person understood at least 15 years ago. Seriously wtf?[/quote]

And the solution is to not expose high school kids to works of great art of universal importance?  This isn't pop music.  This is Toni Morrison's magnum opus.  The book that got her awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.  A book about finding oneself and coming to terms with their family history and legacy, warts and all.  A book about personal growth.  The evolving language choices of the various characters are part of the way she shows that.[/quote]

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