FLC Diving Deeper into Racism & White Supremacy by C Brazas https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312 Share your thoughts, questions, and/or meaningful quotes here. en-us 2021-03-10 20:44:17 UTC 2021-03-12 19:57:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303806728 Relationships need to go both ways.  We can't fully understand and respect our students if we only expect them to learn from us--we need to be prepared to learn from them and adjust ourselves.  Otherwise we can wind up perpetuating the systemic problems that harm our students.]]> 2021-03-12 18:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303806728 BR 3 - Robin rvannlynch https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303807137 Love talks about requiring all students especially those studying to become teachers to take African Am/African/Latinx/Carribean/Chicana/Asian and Southeast Asian studies or Cultural Studies in general. I couldn't agree more. There are many districts that don't require an African Am History course (not SDP of course). It is important that students engage this American History in their K-12 (age appropriate) schooling and especially as they begin the journey toward becoming teachers to truly understand why they love children, who they are ethnically and culturally.]]> 2021-03-12 18:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303807137 BR 5 (A Garcia)- The concept of being highly visible while simultaneously invisible really stands out. https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303808935 It can create the illusion that you know someone who you truly don't know at all. How are we doing this with our students? What assumptions do we make of our students?]]> 2021-03-12 18:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303808935 BR6 https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303810208 The author suggests for teachers to take courses based on African-American, African Studies, Latino Studies, Asian-American Studies, and so on.

Expose teachers to make lessons more inclusive, and fight for children for equal education,  and practice and voice justice for all children.

Discussion on students use of N-word in the school hallways. They need to be aware of the connotation/history of the term. Is it appropriate or normal to use among them? As teachers, we need to be responsible and teach students the content of that term.

]]> 2021-03-12 18:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303810208 How will you fight? https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303811993 2021-03-12 18:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303811993 Discussions need to happen! tbailey48 https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303818502 "The article centers on the idea that there are conversations that have needed to happen a long time"

-"What I experienced is what I know"

And it is absolutely necessary that we know our students' experiences if we are going to educate them. Education is an immersed experience.]]> 2021-03-12 18:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303818502 BR 4 jtway https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303823915 Questions about most constructive ways to learn about Philadelphia culture. Huge racial imbalance between teaching staff and student in the school. We need to be surveying the students about their favorite music, their cultural backgrounds, students are more responsive based on the teacher's ]]> 2021-03-12 18:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303823915 How can this interfere with your ability to form relationships with students, coworkers, and your union brothers and sisters? https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303827623 Those we have the most in common with are more than likely going to be those you connect with the most, because its easier. Those you don't connect with as much might begin to feel invisible. There more knowledge of our students' culture means more connection with them.]]> 2021-03-12 18:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303827623 Some proposed solutions to tackling implicit bias, ignorance, and subtle racism in schools includes requiring culture-based classes for incoming teachers, as well as having teachers work in more urban settings to get an idea of how to teach and understand their students. I agree with all of these proposals and feel that they are necessary to have students and faculty alike, feel accepted in a school setting. Along with these, I would propose having times in the school year where people can go over their cultural backgrounds and be able to share with their peers who may not be fully aware of different backgrounds https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303829518 2021-03-12 18:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303829518 The conditions of African- Americans as well as other people who have been labeled as minorities are almost seen as not being "real". They seem to be an ideology, not real live humans. Examples from reading, "African- Americans, in South Africa..." https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303841014
--- Ms. Dana]]> 2021-03-12 18:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303841014 If both groups are generationally from the same city....and economic class but not the same ethnicity.. is that commonality taken into account? https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303859034 2021-03-12 18:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303859034 cchrestay https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303860236 How can FLC improve society instead of just mirroring it?]]> 2021-03-12 18:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303860236 Emphasizing the fact that white supremacy was invented as a way for white people to justify the enslavement of Black human beings, It's important to note that this isn't just a topic to skim during Black history Month but is also very much a part of white history. - Miss Mia https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303937265 2021-03-12 19:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303937265 Toni Morrison video - if you can only feel tall because other person is on their knees, you have a serious problem - yes! https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303971994 2021-03-12 19:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303971994 Teachers feel the weight of representing in students in a curriculum when the system itself has restricted that curriculum so much. We fight tooth and nail to serve the students we represent. https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303987693 E.g. having one black history teacher plan all of Black History Month]]> 2021-03-12 19:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1303987693 cchrestay https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304009273 Very grateful for Toni Morrison's final answer in that clip: go buy her books! Don't demand that Black people give you free advice!]]> 2021-03-12 19:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304009273 rvannlynch https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304010806 I love the Taylor analogy about French as a language and racism as a language as well. I think that this takes some of the charge out of the racism discussion and makes it simple as if you are in an environment that speaks a particular language like RACISM then "of course you are racist!"]]> 2021-03-12 19:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304010806 How does a white teacher, or a minority teacher who works for a systemic racist institution reach students who are in a defense mode, and have been taught of perceived lack of morality? How do you teach when they have no hope that you will ever work in their best interests? https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304010915 2021-03-12 19:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304010915 Thinking about the white supremacy pyramid and how the top tier includes many things we expose students (including many Black students) to in classroom curriculum/documentaries/books about race, particularly during Black History Month. - Miss Mia https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304022862 2021-03-12 19:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304022862 If only it were just the republicans... tbailey48 https://padlet.com/cbrazas2/flc312/wish/1304023670 People often cite "the last four years" and that is a recency bias into the conversation about race in America. George Zimmerman walked in 2012 on murder.

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