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When Should Academic and Basic Human Disrespect Be Deemed Racially Motivated? Can We Tell?

June 8, 2010 By Egberto Willies

image I have a daughter that grew up in a predominantly white school district. The story below hit a chord. While I am not aware of any major incidents she encountered in school because of who she was, there were many anecdotes in which result analysis would be less negative left alone. One can never know another persons heart so it is best to err on the positive side. It is always difficult as minority, any minority to discern if a particular action is racially motivated or not. More over young children never want to dwell on these issues as it is painful and they want to as they should dwell on the fact that the most insidious and inconsequential thing that separate people is in fact race.

On the story below one must wonder why a teacher with a supposed allergy problem would put the burden of her particular “illness” on a child. The potential scar of her action on the young child far outweigh her being re-assigned to a job commensurate with her supposed allergy. It is the teacher that should leave the class if she is unable to fulfill her duty.

My daughter was in honors classes in high school. If an incident like this had occurred to her where they unilaterally moved her to a conventional class for no fault of her own and the school district did not respond with the speed, attention, and respect that was warranted from a similarly horrendous deed by an unfit educator, I would do all that is necessary to make this an issue that would be unlikely to happen to any other student anywhere.

 

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About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

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