Teaching the choir?

[highyella]

So I've taught mostly high school and college students (I've also taught little kids but that was mainly as skills course where I was explicitly told to not "be political") Anyway, as I'm sure it is with many teachers, I've learned a lot from my students. Most interesting to me right now is how young people who grew up during the Bush Regime Pt.2

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[bias_cut]

This is some great food for thought. Thanks for taking the time to write it down.

[chomp]

Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot as well. We did the Class Race and there were a lot of guilty, angry, and shameful feelings. We're working through it right now and my students are being very smart and open about it. For example, we talked about how the exercise might have felt different if a woman of color hadn't been running it. I also started a POC student group at my school and we're not sure where it's going. Again, just some thoughts.

[angiereedgarner]

Hi-- thanks for this. May I add?

[highyella]

Sure...

[angiereedgarner]

Thanks.

ap_racism join request

[kmd]

So speaking of racism and the choir ... can you see your way clear to adding me to ap_racism? I'm relatively new to the lj anti-racist conversation, but many years away from new to the struggle.

Re: ap_racism join request

[highyella]

Sure, let me "check you out" and you should be added by this evening.

[fa_ikaika]

I just wanted to add something to your recent interesting post on APR about "Experience Africa".

"You weren't crazy at all. Right now I'm having similar reservations about a similar campus campaign at my university focussing on Ugandan child soldiers (the movie is called "Invisible Children") which seems to have some sort of links to an evangelical Christian group.

There's way too much of this "charity for poor dumb Africans" stuff kicking around. And the Christians are right up there. There are some really good Xtians doing work in the trenches, but the vast majority of the US Xtians I might have no clue other than the "charitable" suburban white people version."

[highyella]

"There's way too much of this "charity for poor dumb Africans" stuff kicking around. And the Christians are right up there. There are some really good Xtians doing work in the trenches, but the vast majority of the US Xtians I might have no clue other than the "charitable" suburban white people version."

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BTW, You are a member of APR now

[fa_ikaika]

thanks much,

:-)