My sociology teacher wants to focus on “Reverse Racism” next class
As a white cis male, he claims that while growing up in Hawaii, he faced constant “racism” from the natives.
I’m preparing for battle, and I’ll need your help.
Everyone link me, give me keypoints,quotes,anything
I’m not going down without a fight.
(This is the same man who makes racist comments towards darker skinned people of color and their use of ebonics. He constantly puts this one girl down and even went as far as pointing out her yearbook photo, and laughing at how she was so dark “You couldn’t see her if she wasn’t smiling”)
POC TUMBLR!!! let’s give this young woman some support!
Sis, do you have other people in the class who agree that reverse racism is bullshit and where you can all back each other up?
I wouldn’t normally recommend this, but if you do have a bunch of folks—sit in separate areas of the class, hold on to the desk, and don’t let him control the class.
If he interrupts you say: “Let me finish” or “As I was saying”…do not let him finish what he was saying. If he railroads you, he will probably contradict what you were going to say, then you can say, “If you had let me finish I was saying this.”
—Sociology is about structures, societal level oppression, groups in society (including marked ones) — not about individual circumstances of interpersonal conflict.
—Being marked for being white might seem strange to you because whiteness is invisible —but POC are marked according to their language, skin colour, culture, immigration status, indigeneity (trying to think within a U.S. framework), religion, assumptions about how violent we are, accent, etc.
—Talk about the 400 years of oppression and that whites on the basis of their race have never been singled out on a systematic basis in this way from people of colour.
—Mention the stamping out of Ethnic Studies in areas with majority Latinx/Chicano/as — I think it’s Tucson, Arizona — so even where there is a majority of Latinx/Chicano/as white supremacy still prevails.
—Talk about how even post Brown v Brown, schools are even more segregated and that black schools receive less money than schools with majority white folks.
Also fuck this mother fucker! Fuck him to hell.
Instead of just debunking him in class, I’d suggest asking your department chair & someone from the office of diversity/minority student affairs/whatever they call it on your campus to drop by the class. Mention the magic words “hostile learning environment” if you get any push back from the administration.
(Source: blck-grrl)
