Why can't we focus on the positive? My responce...
Racism is a cancer. We have tried bandaids, aspirin, holistic approaches, and even to ignore it. This country is coming to a point, I feel, where we are ready to deal with it...
To get at cancer it needs to be explored fully, understood fully, and be cut out which will cause pain, and some surrounding tissue may be damaged... but in the end there will be healing.
Certainly, while people have cancer they might buy a nice outfit, get a facial, or take a trip... something nice we can all recognize... but as the cancer is rooted out we need to acknowledge the pain and deal with it.
That's what's happening now in the country. As teachers, if we can't see that, recognize it, understand, and teach with that in mind, then we are doomed to not fully educate the next generation.
By Eric Gibbons - Author of ArtEdGuru.com
To get at cancer it needs to be explored fully, understood fully, and be cut out which will cause pain, and some surrounding tissue may be damaged... but in the end there will be healing.
Certainly, while people have cancer they might buy a nice outfit, get a facial, or take a trip... something nice we can all recognize... but as the cancer is rooted out we need to acknowledge the pain and deal with it.
That's what's happening now in the country. As teachers, if we can't see that, recognize it, understand, and teach with that in mind, then we are doomed to not fully educate the next generation.
By Eric Gibbons - Author of ArtEdGuru.com
If you do not believe racism is a systemic issue, because you have never seen it, this video may be helpful in understanding a small sliver of the "black experience."
Interview with journalist, civil rights advocate, lawyer Roger Wilkins
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