https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn So You Want to Talk About Race ~ Chapters 6-10 en-us 2020-08-17 18:28:05 UTC 2020-08-20 16:30:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/683970355 "I have no criminal record, no past indication of dangerous driving or violence. And yet, by the age of eighteen I couldn’t shake the feeling that cops were out to get
me. And this experience is even worse for many black men and for those who do have criminal records that give cops even more reason to harass them." --Tara]]> 2020-08-18 00:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/683970355 https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/683972531 "We have moments where we forget what our blackness means behind the wheel, when we are enjoying a great song on the radio, or leaving a fun event. For a few moments, we are driving like any other carefree American. But then our pulses rise at the sight of an officer on the street." --Tara]]> 2020-08-18 00:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/683972531 https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/684514239 SO much here that extended my thinking - her experiences, facts she included, her perspectives (without making you feel brow-beaten).  Lots I wanted to capture.  Going with the last statement in the chapter: "People of color are not asking white people to believe their experiences so they will fear the police as much as people of color do.  They are asking because they want white people to join them in demanding their right to be able to trust the police like white people do." - Louise


]]> 2020-08-18 10:33:20 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/684514239 https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/684527685 Connecting to - "I think about my first-grade class and wonder how many black and brown kids weren't identified as 'talented' because their parents were too busy trying to pay bills to pester the school the way my mom did." -Louise]]> 2020-08-18 10:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/684527685 https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/687598782 This chapter caused some discomfort for me because I've never truly understood what the criteria for cultural appropriation is. I try to include artists and artworks from diverse cultures in my classes and I want to make sure I am doing that without exploiting those cultures and including only doing it through my "white" lens. -Michelle]]> 2020-08-19 16:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/687598782 khdenton https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689163712 Connection:  I have been hit, bitten, and  had things thrown at me by 5 year olds. It's not okay...and it's not an assault.  Because I'm a 36 (or a lot older) year old adult who is not going to be irreparably harmed by the  blows of someone barely our of toddler-hood or who still requires a car seat.  

No body asked him how he was feeling.  He was simply denied education.

]]> 2020-08-20 13:26:44 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689163712 khdenton https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689189374 Extend:  In what ways might I have contributed to the school to prison pipeline?  How often have I used achievement gap and perhaps the better term is opportunity gap.  

How many times might I have expected my student to behave according to my white expectations. ]]> 2020-08-20 13:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689189374 https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689394054 Extend: "And I’m not sure what’s worse, the fear and anxiety and fatigue brought on by yet another encounter with an officer that you are hoping and praying to make it out of intact, or the never-ending denial by the rest of society of
the fear and anxiety and fatigue you experience as a valid response to the near-constant reminder that those assigned and empowered to protect you see your skin color as evidence of wrongdoing, and could take your freedom or even your life at any time, with no recourse."

Talking about the origins of the police as a way of catching escaped slaves really made me understand the systemic racism of the police force. The idea it exists to police people of color and protect whites was something that I hadn't yet realized/recognized.
--Ali M

]]> 2020-08-20 14:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689394054 https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689635562 Connect: "Many (likely underfunded and understaffed) schools who find themselves ill-equipped to work with black students who are having interpersonal issues in class are quicker to give students a blanket diagnosis of learning disability than they would with struggling white students. This segregates black children from the general population of white students..."

When I was completing my student teaching in special ed at a self-contained school in inner city Pittsburgh (nearly all black students), I saw this SO much. Many kids with EBD were in classes with students with severe intellectual disabilities.]]> 2020-08-20 16:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/khdenton/uja1wgwlf71x9srn/wish/689635562