The cheering spectators are icing on the cake! It still amazes me that “content of their character” has been eclipsed by “color of their skin” and it’s telling that racial identity IS now the first thing this student notices about a person. I agree with Morgan Freeman that the best way to end racism is to stop talking about it.
very true, Tricia! If you constantly talk about my 'problem' in the end i will feel like i really have a problem. Where you focus is key! Our focus determines our reality.
I recall when I first went to the University of Illinois as a freshman in 1969. Coming from a small town in the center of rural Illinois I had little contact with black people, likely less than 1%. I could not say I knew the name of any black person there and nearly never saw one except on rare occasion between classes in High School. There were exactly zero in my Catholic grade school. I had no opinion on black people, good or bad. I had no basis for it.
During that decade there was serious racial unrest in the urban areas around the US, but never a word in my little town.
At the U of I, I was immediately immersed in a huge dormitory culture where all races lived together with only minor segregation -- some wanting to room buddies from their home town. Regardless, it was odd that in one row of rooms there were lots of black guys. It was not unusual for lots of loud music to come out of that area but it was not obstructive. It appeared these guys were always about twice the size of me. Once while studying at the library, a really huge place with lots of study "carrells" I was exiting late at night around 10 or 11pm. Walking into the large stairwell I was confronted by this line of huge black guys, must have been basketball players, holding close by each other back to front and holding up their fists. They blocked the exit. With an armful of books I tried to sidle in between a couple of them and was pushed back-- into my place. I later learned this was fraternity going through a "rush" tradition to inculcate new members in their culture. I also learned all these guys were "big" because they were members of the basketball and football teams! So, athletic scholarship recipients. I paid my own way, my own board, my own tuition. These guys were from the big city-- the "windy" city of Chicago.
Could you guess how my naive, rural-yokel outlook was changed from that day forward?
It should be taboo just to mention skin colour, I first heard Morgan Freeman come up with it as an idea, it could work, and there are more important things to discuss, like who is killing all these useless eaters? I'd like that addressed.
It's harder to complain about waste, corruption, and incompetence when the authority figures are putting a majority or plurality on the defensive constantly.
This is what truth looks and sounds like. I’m feeling some hope lately that wokism is on the descent. Finally. It’s voices like this kid, in unexpected places and with zero apology or equivocation, that make me feel the narrative is cracking. What will our overlords do about it!!??
Watch the MisEducation of American by Pete Hegseth. You’ll see how the crazy left (not the classic liberals) are trying to destroy and rebuild in their image …
Inconvenient to the ruling class, indeed! Classical Liberalism began to go out the door when we nationalized/centralized our country's schools into an educational "system," and then the standards came from the top, down. Collectivists were drawn to the field of education because they saw the centralization as an opportunity to control what was taught and how, and perhaps more importantly, what was not taught. Classical Liberalism teaches for the purpose of creating a self-responsible, independently-thinking adult. The current indoctrination camp model creates minds incapable of discerning truth from fiction--minds that instead, blindly and all-to-willingly accept the words of "experts" as gospel.
taught WHAT to think and not HOW to think. so necessary to be discerning in order to balance both community and individuality.
even though part of me can't help but feel sad and beaten that my 17 yr old is gonna drop out of school, the silver lining is getting him out of that indoctrination BUT... its probably just as bad online. however I do see my son with a healthy irreverence for authority and he doesn't seem beholden to any ideology. well other than the typical teen 'I know everything. you can't tell me shit' stuff. ;)
I totally understand dropping out at that age. But there's still danger a-plenty after that. Our daughter got her GED at 16 after private school, then homeschool. The plan was to go to community college, but then she dropped out of that, rightfully disgusted by the disrespect and lack of seriousness she saw in the other students. Despite an excellent private school and homeschooling where she learned in a Classical education model and having us, her loving, supportive parents, she was lured into the idea of estrangement from her family, and then the trans cult--all through social media. We had no idea what the hell happened. She left home at 18, and only when she was 21, did we get to see her. It's like a beast has reached inside your house and stolen your beloved child from you, heart, soul and body.
For a shocking eye-opener of how easily this happens, please check out some of the stories posted on the PITT Substack (Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans). No kid, apparently, is completely safe from these woke monsters today.
oh no. that's just unbelievably awful. I am heartbroken for you. I cannot begin to imagine what your family is going thru. that they people have to get kids to be estranged from there family... red flag cult/abuse stuff. I have an 85 yr old client (I'm her housekeeper) who I believe is going thru the same thing with her granddaughter. at present, her son, the girl's father, refuses to tell her what's going on but she hasn't seen or heard from her in over a year.
makes me have a lot more gratitude for my still-intact family.
It's devastating, and happening to far too many families. Your client's son might be doing what my husband and I have done--protecting his elderly mom from an emotional shock she might not be able to physically cope with.
Awesome speech. Unfortunately it probably fell on deaf ears. The racists at the table were probably just happy to hear that he's leaving their school so they can continue to be racist.
goes to show just how far removed our local school boards are from the actual students whose lives they influence. their heads are berried in budgets and getting extra funding if they push this or that agenda/rule (witness the windfall $$ for following govt mask mandates and hosting vax clinics). can't speak for other places but public education in the United States is absolutely abhorrent.
i truly wish he had more time to express his views. Youth are the way to the future. If we foster a spineless youth with no focus on creativity and with no respect for the dignity of life, and with no sense of dependent origination (interconectedness and interdependence), we cannot expect our lives to get any better.
couldn't agree more. the current generation coming up seems to care more about their number of 'likes' or 'followers' than any true, human relationships or contribution to society. I know this because sadly, I have one of them. I thought I was making some headway with him until the school closures. I fear I lost him completely during that, when his entire life went 'online'. he's dropping out of high school because he thinks its 'beneath' him. I can't force a 17 yr old to cooperated with 'learning'. he doesn't understand the value of knowledge, which is incomprehensible to me. if I knew then what I know now, I would have sought out a home school co-op or something. struggling to find any kind of hope right now.
Don't give up! Many of us were misguided at that age and are here now with Jessica, and each other, trying to tame the tyrants. I have my own 3 teen children and the fight is real but we will prevail if we keep showing them what real love & humanity is.
thank you for the encouragement. the past 5 yrs have been an uphill battle that has exhausted me and we've run out of options. I am resigned to the fact that he has to experience, first hand, what an 'uneducated' life is going to be like for him. I totally get that formal educational experience is not right for everyone and my son is VERY intelligent (he skipped 2nd grade!). I don't want to 'give up' on him but I also don't want to enable stubbornness & lack of effort either. he doesn't understand that his actions effect our entire family (I have a developmentally disabled 18 yr old and elderly parents that I am also responsible for)
The cheering spectators are icing on the cake! It still amazes me that “content of their character” has been eclipsed by “color of their skin” and it’s telling that racial identity IS now the first thing this student notices about a person. I agree with Morgan Freeman that the best way to end racism is to stop talking about it.
very true, Tricia! If you constantly talk about my 'problem' in the end i will feel like i really have a problem. Where you focus is key! Our focus determines our reality.
I recall when I first went to the University of Illinois as a freshman in 1969. Coming from a small town in the center of rural Illinois I had little contact with black people, likely less than 1%. I could not say I knew the name of any black person there and nearly never saw one except on rare occasion between classes in High School. There were exactly zero in my Catholic grade school. I had no opinion on black people, good or bad. I had no basis for it.
During that decade there was serious racial unrest in the urban areas around the US, but never a word in my little town.
At the U of I, I was immediately immersed in a huge dormitory culture where all races lived together with only minor segregation -- some wanting to room buddies from their home town. Regardless, it was odd that in one row of rooms there were lots of black guys. It was not unusual for lots of loud music to come out of that area but it was not obstructive. It appeared these guys were always about twice the size of me. Once while studying at the library, a really huge place with lots of study "carrells" I was exiting late at night around 10 or 11pm. Walking into the large stairwell I was confronted by this line of huge black guys, must have been basketball players, holding close by each other back to front and holding up their fists. They blocked the exit. With an armful of books I tried to sidle in between a couple of them and was pushed back-- into my place. I later learned this was fraternity going through a "rush" tradition to inculcate new members in their culture. I also learned all these guys were "big" because they were members of the basketball and football teams! So, athletic scholarship recipients. I paid my own way, my own board, my own tuition. These guys were from the big city-- the "windy" city of Chicago.
Could you guess how my naive, rural-yokel outlook was changed from that day forward?
It should be taboo just to mention skin colour, I first heard Morgan Freeman come up with it as an idea, it could work, and there are more important things to discuss, like who is killing all these useless eaters? I'd like that addressed.
That kid is going places. Kudos to his parents.
Unbelievable what kids are having to put up with! This kid DOES kick ass! And yes, it would be wonderful to share this around!
Thank you Jessica, for sharing signs of bravery standing up against this wave of woke-ism.
It's harder to complain about waste, corruption, and incompetence when the authority figures are putting a majority or plurality on the defensive constantly.
Yes, he does engender hope!
So refreshing to hear a courageous young voice.
Thank you for sharing! What a brave kid who is actually willing to ask questions and stand for what he believes! We need more of this!
This is what truth looks and sounds like. I’m feeling some hope lately that wokism is on the descent. Finally. It’s voices like this kid, in unexpected places and with zero apology or equivocation, that make me feel the narrative is cracking. What will our overlords do about it!!??
Wow, what a great kid!
The look on the teachers face right at the end, priceless...
Wow! Such a clear mind.
It’s just spectacular
Watch the MisEducation of American by Pete Hegseth. You’ll see how the crazy left (not the classic liberals) are trying to destroy and rebuild in their image …
wondering where the heck 'classic liberalism' actually went. got cancelled I guess. asked too many questions that the ruling class found inconvenient
Inconvenient to the ruling class, indeed! Classical Liberalism began to go out the door when we nationalized/centralized our country's schools into an educational "system," and then the standards came from the top, down. Collectivists were drawn to the field of education because they saw the centralization as an opportunity to control what was taught and how, and perhaps more importantly, what was not taught. Classical Liberalism teaches for the purpose of creating a self-responsible, independently-thinking adult. The current indoctrination camp model creates minds incapable of discerning truth from fiction--minds that instead, blindly and all-to-willingly accept the words of "experts" as gospel.
taught WHAT to think and not HOW to think. so necessary to be discerning in order to balance both community and individuality.
even though part of me can't help but feel sad and beaten that my 17 yr old is gonna drop out of school, the silver lining is getting him out of that indoctrination BUT... its probably just as bad online. however I do see my son with a healthy irreverence for authority and he doesn't seem beholden to any ideology. well other than the typical teen 'I know everything. you can't tell me shit' stuff. ;)
I totally understand dropping out at that age. But there's still danger a-plenty after that. Our daughter got her GED at 16 after private school, then homeschool. The plan was to go to community college, but then she dropped out of that, rightfully disgusted by the disrespect and lack of seriousness she saw in the other students. Despite an excellent private school and homeschooling where she learned in a Classical education model and having us, her loving, supportive parents, she was lured into the idea of estrangement from her family, and then the trans cult--all through social media. We had no idea what the hell happened. She left home at 18, and only when she was 21, did we get to see her. It's like a beast has reached inside your house and stolen your beloved child from you, heart, soul and body.
For a shocking eye-opener of how easily this happens, please check out some of the stories posted on the PITT Substack (Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans). No kid, apparently, is completely safe from these woke monsters today.
oh no. that's just unbelievably awful. I am heartbroken for you. I cannot begin to imagine what your family is going thru. that they people have to get kids to be estranged from there family... red flag cult/abuse stuff. I have an 85 yr old client (I'm her housekeeper) who I believe is going thru the same thing with her granddaughter. at present, her son, the girl's father, refuses to tell her what's going on but she hasn't seen or heard from her in over a year.
makes me have a lot more gratitude for my still-intact family.
It's devastating, and happening to far too many families. Your client's son might be doing what my husband and I have done--protecting his elderly mom from an emotional shock she might not be able to physically cope with.
Hug your family, take nothing good for granted <3
Good on that kid!!! Shame on the education system!!!!
Awesome speech. Unfortunately it probably fell on deaf ears. The racists at the table were probably just happy to hear that he's leaving their school so they can continue to be racist.
goes to show just how far removed our local school boards are from the actual students whose lives they influence. their heads are berried in budgets and getting extra funding if they push this or that agenda/rule (witness the windfall $$ for following govt mask mandates and hosting vax clinics). can't speak for other places but public education in the United States is absolutely abhorrent.
i truly wish he had more time to express his views. Youth are the way to the future. If we foster a spineless youth with no focus on creativity and with no respect for the dignity of life, and with no sense of dependent origination (interconectedness and interdependence), we cannot expect our lives to get any better.
couldn't agree more. the current generation coming up seems to care more about their number of 'likes' or 'followers' than any true, human relationships or contribution to society. I know this because sadly, I have one of them. I thought I was making some headway with him until the school closures. I fear I lost him completely during that, when his entire life went 'online'. he's dropping out of high school because he thinks its 'beneath' him. I can't force a 17 yr old to cooperated with 'learning'. he doesn't understand the value of knowledge, which is incomprehensible to me. if I knew then what I know now, I would have sought out a home school co-op or something. struggling to find any kind of hope right now.
Don't give up! Many of us were misguided at that age and are here now with Jessica, and each other, trying to tame the tyrants. I have my own 3 teen children and the fight is real but we will prevail if we keep showing them what real love & humanity is.
thank you for the encouragement. the past 5 yrs have been an uphill battle that has exhausted me and we've run out of options. I am resigned to the fact that he has to experience, first hand, what an 'uneducated' life is going to be like for him. I totally get that formal educational experience is not right for everyone and my son is VERY intelligent (he skipped 2nd grade!). I don't want to 'give up' on him but I also don't want to enable stubbornness & lack of effort either. he doesn't understand that his actions effect our entire family (I have a developmentally disabled 18 yr old and elderly parents that I am also responsible for)
I'll pray for your son and your family. It's the tough part of parenting, that sometimes they demand to make mistakes we know they could avoid.
yup. and thank you so much for your kind words.
D E I is a communist demoralization tactic. It should be called DIE.
Wow, refreshing, honest and brave!