Teaching After Brown v
Board of Education: Choice 2-Ladson-Billings, Lomax, and Orfield on “The Other
3 R’s Race, Reform, Rights”
Argument:
I
do not agree with Gloria Ladson’s argument she made towards the end of the
video. She said that white people do not respond well to instructors or
teachers who have power over them that are of a different race than white. I
think that is 100% not true, and that it is stereotyping white people. Black
people and any person of a different race do not want to be stereotyped and
neither do white people. A prime example of how this is not accurate, is me in
this class. Professor Stevos is not of my race or ethnicity but I do not look
down upon her or feel any type of negative way because she is different than me
and has power over me. I would never correlate race and a feeling of
aggravation that they have authority over me together. Besides Professor Stevos,
I have had many other teachers, coaches, or people of higher authority, that
were of different race, have power over me and I was not spiteful because of
it. I feel like by Gloria saying that statement she was being stereotypical
towards whites and giving us a single story that is inaccurate, negative, and
hurtful. The point she was trying to prove I do not feel can be actually
proved. This was just one of the points that Gloria was trying to argue in the
presentation that stood out to me because I did not agree with it and I felt it
was hypocritical to everything we have been learning about throughout the
semester.
Point to share: I would
like to share the link below, which is a clip from an E: 60 video which shows
racial discriminate from a white person to a black person. This goes to show
some people are still racist, but not all. So how do we address the situation
when there is a lot of gray area?
The images below are of
the E: 60 documentary story
Also attached is an
article further describing the situation of the E: 60 story, which addresses
racial issues still present in today’s society.
All Gloria said was that there should be more culturally diverse teachers in the classroom and that it would benefit all students, not just white ones.
ReplyDeleteI agree. That comment she made was not entirely true. Things have changed and her comment would have been true if we were in the 70's or 80's.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Betsy. It is a respect thing that when someone is teaching you, you listen no matter what color.
ReplyDeleteyes i believe she is stereotyping here, you cannot call out an entire race. are there white students who dont listen? yes but there are in every race, you can not discriminate
ReplyDeleteI also agree that her comment isn't true. That she is just stereotyping. No matter what race you are, when someone else is speaking not even teaching, you listen to what they are saying.
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