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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp that shared the story about my son and the school election (and the all female staff wearing Girlz Rul shirts)

I’m not trying to equate these micro aggressions with institutional racism. But when you’re an eight year old or nine-year-old or 10-year-old boy it does mean everything to him.

And while I have never had to explain to him that there are People That don’t like him simply based on the color of his skin, I did have to explain to him that they was somebody important in his life, his teacher, that didn’t want to see him succeed simply based off his gender. And to be frank that was a very difficult conversation. I’m not suggesting it as difficult conversations that people of color have to have. But it involved a lot of tears and to be honest I don’t think he understood why his teacher didn’t want to see him win simply because he was a boy. It was a hard lesson.

This isn’t a zero sum game. There can be institutional sexism in the schools and institutional racism in society

And yes, this was raised to the principal. The teacher never mentioned it or apologized.

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That's awful.  People seem to forget that you can have institutional racism and white men can have greater privilege in society overall but an individual child can be hurt by those who focus on promoting greater equality in society.  It's not that child's fault that white men run corporations and government. There is a real crisis in how boys get turned off from school in the elementary years and that applies to boys of all colors. Certainly it is worse for Black and Hispanic boys but all would be helped if the schools thought about how all students could be supported as individuals.

I was also really frustrated by the lack of programs for boys, *all* boys, when my son was young.  He was disinterested in school and needed opportunities to try out things that could spark an interest.  We'd hear about an interesting weekend program but turns out it's just for girls or just for minority boys.  Fortunately, we can afford to pay for camps and tutors so he did get what he needed but I can totally understand a low income white family getting really angry at the school system's decision that they don't really need to invest anything in white boys' success.
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You weren't looking hard enough. If I saw a camp open to a certain segment of society, I could also find 10 more camps for the general population.  [/quote]

+1 I find it hard to believe there's an elementary school or district out there where none of the programs are open for white boys to participate in.[/quote]

Certainly there were programs he could participate in - because we could and did pay for them.  My concern was that the free programs were largely excluding white boys so I can see why that would add to the anger of low-income whites who start to feel that the world is against them. [/quote]

I don't think it's only low-income white males that we are talking about in this thread about white male anger. 
In fact doesn't OP specifically mention that they are a UMC white family?[/quote]

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