School Was Our Life by Jane Roland Martin

Author:Jane Roland Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

Whether it was the same day or the next I cannot say for sure, but when our classmate was for some reason out of the room and we were sitting in a circle, Miss Kneeland gave us hell. I have never forgotten how angry she was at us and have seldom felt so ashamed of myself. I was totally shocked and I think everyone else was too. Basically, she told us that he was acting out a racial stereotype and that we were feeding into this: our laughing was egging him on to do it more. If we were to be the mature citizens of a democracy that we claimed we were, we needed to take him more seriously so that he would take himself more seriously. We must never, ever do that again. “Do you understand what I am saying? Never, ever!”

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