[Mike B.]

Do blacks get offended in school when discussing the KKK or black history?

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[Vaunda J.]

This is my response to your question: As far as black history is concerned, I think that Black History is essential for all children to learn. However, all the school seem to teach is that ‘blacks came to this country as slaves, were treated miserably until this white man came and saved them and they were freed. Then, things were still bad until the 1960’s with Martin Luther King Jr and his march for freedom. And since then, everything has been a bed of roses’. I bet you, and others, probably don’t know that there A LOT of inventions that were invented and patented by African-Americans, even during the slave times. I would like to see schools start teaching more than the basics. As far as the Klan is concerned, I grew up in a predominately white neighborhood with kids whose parents were in the Klan and I was subjected to a lot of racism. So yes, I do not like discussing them at all.

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[Ashley23504]

I am African American and was never offended by the lecture, but I was offended by the fact that all of the white people in the room looked at me when the subject was mentioned. Did they expect me to burst into tears or something? Also, some of the ignorant remarks the white people made offended me, such as ‘Why can’t they (meaning black people) just get over slavery? It was a LONG time ago!’

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[AmberW]

Well, I think we do not really get offended at all…Do you get offended? You know that the KKK does not like Hispanics either, don’t you?

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[Aayesha Izoela LaMark]

I don’t get offended because in order to know where you’re going you have to know where you came from. I do get angry though to think that people could be so inhuman to another person.

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[christy32118]

I dont really get that offended. It depends on the person who is teaching it. Most teachers are taught how to present this topic to students. I know its something that has to be dealt with so I just deal with it.

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[Geoff]

Students, particularly minors, generally take their cues from their teachers. As such, if a teacher covers potentially sensitive topics with confident, professional, academic clarity, the students will respond well. The more sensitive the topics, the more advance preparation is required to ensure that the teacher has a thorough mastery of the topics and can competantly field a full range of related student questions and reactions. Comfort is contagious; the more comfortable the teachers are with their topics, the more so thus will be their students.

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