Brown v Board of Education Going Be Damned
A place for everyone, and everyone in their place. Fresh off the story of the special school for gay kids, now we find that we may need to have special teachers for certain subjects - specifically, only black teachers for black history class. The reason is a good one:
Phyllis Yarber Hogan, a member of the Oberlin Black Alliance for Progress, said a white teacher wouldn't be well-suited to teaching students about subjects like slavery.
"When you talk about slavery, students need to understand it is not our fault," she said. "Our ancestors did nothing wrong to be enslaved.
"How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who did the enslaving?"
Thats flat out racist. Thinks of this another way. The kids in black history class need to be taught that slavery is not the 'fault' of the white kids in class. How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who was enslaved?
UPDATE: More on this issue from John Hawkins and National Review.
Phyllis Yarber Hogan, a member of the Oberlin Black Alliance for Progress, said a white teacher wouldn't be well-suited to teaching students about subjects like slavery.
"When you talk about slavery, students need to understand it is not our fault," she said. "Our ancestors did nothing wrong to be enslaved.
"How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who did the enslaving?"
Thats flat out racist. Thinks of this another way. The kids in black history class need to be taught that slavery is not the 'fault' of the white kids in class. How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who was enslaved?
UPDATE: More on this issue from John Hawkins and National Review.
# | July 28, 2003