"Don't make the black kids angry" sounds like something I would tell a new student at any of the schools I attended until college. It's how I stayed safe. They would even get angry over too much eye contact. Inner city schools are no fun. I will check out this book.
People like me and your brothers truly understand this. The vast majority of the racist people I have met in my lifetime were black. Each one told from childhood that they could have so much more if it weren't for white people. They say that a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged. I believe it 100%. I wonder how naive I'd be if I were raised in the suburbs and went to safe schools.
I grew up in an area where it was mostly Latino. When hurricane katrina hit, our school was forced to accept a bunch of black students from Louisiana.
This was the first time I've ever seen major fights, theft, and sexual assault happen in our school. They even had to assign a few more resource officers to the school because of the amount of crime that was going on. A native student and one of our teachers were sent to the hospital because one of the Louisiana kids brought a knife and started stabbing the kid. When the teacher got involved, he started to stab her.
I walked past that hall during the aftermath and I remember seeing blood all over the floor and walls.
Before these kids showed up, we only had 3 black students in our school. It was a small school. Our graduating class was only 200 students. Luckily, all those kids were kicked out and sent back home before my senior year, so we got to enjoy the last year without worrying if we were gonna get into a fight, or robbed.
"Don't make the black kids angry" sounds like something I would tell a new student at any of the schools I attended until college. It's how I stayed safe. They would even get angry over too much eye contact. Inner city schools are no fun. I will check out this book.
People like me and your brothers truly understand this. The vast majority of the racist people I have met in my lifetime were black. Each one told from childhood that they could have so much more if it weren't for white people. They say that a conservative is just a liberal who has been mugged. I believe it 100%. I wonder how naive I'd be if I were raised in the suburbs and went to safe schools.
while serving in the army and having a very diverse group of friends - 90% of the racists i knew were black
If being 'racist' keeps me alive than I'll wear that badge proudly.
I grew up in an area where it was mostly Latino. When hurricane katrina hit, our school was forced to accept a bunch of black students from Louisiana.
This was the first time I've ever seen major fights, theft, and sexual assault happen in our school. They even had to assign a few more resource officers to the school because of the amount of crime that was going on. A native student and one of our teachers were sent to the hospital because one of the Louisiana kids brought a knife and started stabbing the kid. When the teacher got involved, he started to stab her.
I walked past that hall during the aftermath and I remember seeing blood all over the floor and walls.
Before these kids showed up, we only had 3 black students in our school. It was a small school. Our graduating class was only 200 students. Luckily, all those kids were kicked out and sent back home before my senior year, so we got to enjoy the last year without worrying if we were gonna get into a fight, or robbed.