North Carolina is certainly a different environment than where I teach in the Bay Area, but I’ve been finding that students don’t even need their parents to say this shit at home. There is so much horrific “funny” white supremacist bullshit to be found on youtube/social media, that all they need is the internet and…

Good point

Well, when that dude punched Richard Spencer everyone said he’d gone too far, so there’s really no winning.

He’s in the Sunken Place

It’s not that we can’t hang out, but just not at events that are “black.” I just can’t deal with the comments about how so and so was so loud/rude/didn’t do something the way it should be done that really just boiled down to just being black and comfortable.

Haha. Oh the lengths people have gone through to try and make sure they feel at ease. Only thing that works is inviting more white people than black people

None of my white relatives are invited to the cookout. Not even as a plus one. They’re fine people, but they’ll all sit in the corner together trying not to look uptight while looking very uptight.

Word. One thing I wasn’t ready for with my pregnancy was the amount that I would be policed by men. In general, thanks I think to a combination of my size and presence, men don’t usually try to tell me what to do. At least not more than once. It’s been a shock to me the amount of admonishment, questioning my…

This is coming after years of talk, and many of the black people who use this building saying it was humiliating to be there (if I recall correctly, there was a stained glass scene of slaves working on a plantation or something like that). This isn’t rug sweeping, this is a victorious end to years of protest.

My non-public school is for kids who qualify for special Ed under emotional disturbance. Except in a very few cases, every one of them has been abused and/or neglected, and I’ve worked there nearly 11 years. This kid has a trauma history. Also, in the segment the mother says they “beat each other,” meaning that the…

So we agree? I’m saying this girl was abused, that her behavior is not just a result of permissive parenting. I have spent a very long time working with abused teenagers, I know “abuse” is not a catch-all term. I meant it literally and seriously.

Damn. I feel like I’d have to cast a pretty wide net to find anyone I know for whom Regan is even in the top 5.

This. 100% this.

This. Kids don’t just end up with behavior issues like this magically, or even because their parents were just too permissive. This girl has had some severe trauma in her life that’s never been addressed.

Source: I’ve spent over a decade teaching kids exactly like her.

Also, mental illness doesn’t make you racist. You can be both mentally ill and racist, or one or the other, but you can’t just write off a person who chooses to attack some one based on their race as “just mentally ill.” I work with high school students who have mental health diagnoses. Some of them are also racist,…

This. It would have been better if they hadn’t issued a statement at all.

Yes. I like watching a couple of episodes of West Wing at night while pretending that we have a president who probably won’t bring shame and doom on our country.

A lot of my high school students love her.

Yeah, I’m a (super liberal) teacher and that video is concerning. The other day one of my kids said she wanted to shoot Trump and I shut that down real quick. We had a talk about how it’s ok to criticize and complain, but not threaten. In the end it came down to her feeling helpless “But what can we DO!?” Told her…

Word. Also, what do we have to do to make a Missy E./FKA Twigs collab happen? I could die a happy woman.