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Chapter 7- Culture
Ibram X. Kendi speaks about Ebonics and how it is viewed as broken English whereas English is not viewed as broken Latin or broken German. Based on what you have been reading so far, why do you think that is?
Chapter 7- Culture
Whoever makes the cultural standard makes the cultural hierarchy. The act of making cultural standards and hierarchy is what creates cultural racism.” (pg 83)
Who all makes the cultural standard and hierarchy within the educational system? WHy do you think that is? How does that create cultural racism within schooling?
Chapter 8- Behavior
“......Black person who is asked to be exceptional just to survive- and even worse, the Black screwup who faces the abyss after one error, while the White screwup is handed second chances and empathy.” (pg 93)
How does this scenario play itself out in school discipline? How do you see Black students needing to be exceptional to avoid discipline whereas White students can screwup and be given second chances and empathy?
Chapter 8- Behavior
“The use of standardized tests to measure aptitude and intelligence is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies. We degrade Black minds every time we speak of an academic achievement gap based on these numbers. The acceptance of an academic-achievement gap is just the latest method of reinforcing the oldest racist ideea: Black intellectual inferiority. …… From the beginning, the tests, not the people, have always been the racial problem.” (pg 101-102)
What role do you see standardized testing in education? Do you see them being able to serve any purpose or should they be removed? Changes? Why?
Chapter 8- Behavior
“To be antiracist is to think nothing is behaviorally wrong or right- inferior or superior- with any of the racial groups. Whenever the antiracist sees individuals behavior positively or negatively, the antiracist sees exactly that: individuals behavior positively or negatively, not representative of whole races. To be antiracist is to deracialize behavior, to remove the tattooed stereotype from every racialized body. Behavior is something humans do, not races do.” (pg 105)
Have you ever yourself, or seen someone else, attaching behavior to a race instead of an individual? Have you been part of a conversation around behaviors of a racial group?
Chapter 9- Color
Ibram X. Kendi talks about color racism within races. How familiar are you with this concept? Did he speak on anything that spoke true to you and your experiences or was new to you?
Chapter 9- Color
Considering the race you identify as, is there anything you can do to become a color antiracist?