Racism part 2
I showed my grade 9 English class the Mclean's article cover today. We didn't read the whole thing - just showed them the cover, told them a bit about the story, and then asked them what they thought. When I released them to talk in groups (they aren't into whole class discussions, much to my annoyance, because I LOVE THEM), they quickly arranged themselves into groups of 4 or 3 or 2, and I wished wished wished that I could have filmed or even taken pictures to share with you.
Every group had more than one 'race' or culture. Every group had a really good discussion (they will talk to me in that context, luckily). Almost every group thought people in other cities shouldn't judge Winnipeg, since racism is everywhere, and everyone wondered why people are still racist when everyone knows you don't judge a book by its cover. Not that some of them didn't have stories of racism; they did. But that wasn't a dominant theme in their lives, thank goodness!
I tell my students all the time that they are so lucky to have such a diverse school. They don't get it, though, because for them, a multicultural Winnipeg, where there is no 'dominant' culture, is the norm. I told them today that there are whole neighborhoods in Winnipeg and whole schools where there are mostly white people. One kid said, with the perfect inflection: 'Well, that's too bad.', as if those people are missing out, and a bunch of other kids didn't believe me.
I really wished that the writer of that article could have seen my classroom today. I know her job is to sell magazines and I know you do that by being sensational and shocking... but what happened in my room today, indeed, what happens most days, is nothing short of a miracle. And no one gets to see that except the lucky few that work there.
I had no doubts about God's existence today. God (or Allah, or Yahweh, or Gitchimanitou) was in every single one of those kids this afternoon, and it was glorious.
Every group had more than one 'race' or culture. Every group had a really good discussion (they will talk to me in that context, luckily). Almost every group thought people in other cities shouldn't judge Winnipeg, since racism is everywhere, and everyone wondered why people are still racist when everyone knows you don't judge a book by its cover. Not that some of them didn't have stories of racism; they did. But that wasn't a dominant theme in their lives, thank goodness!
I tell my students all the time that they are so lucky to have such a diverse school. They don't get it, though, because for them, a multicultural Winnipeg, where there is no 'dominant' culture, is the norm. I told them today that there are whole neighborhoods in Winnipeg and whole schools where there are mostly white people. One kid said, with the perfect inflection: 'Well, that's too bad.', as if those people are missing out, and a bunch of other kids didn't believe me.
I really wished that the writer of that article could have seen my classroom today. I know her job is to sell magazines and I know you do that by being sensational and shocking... but what happened in my room today, indeed, what happens most days, is nothing short of a miracle. And no one gets to see that except the lucky few that work there.
I had no doubts about God's existence today. God (or Allah, or Yahweh, or Gitchimanitou) was in every single one of those kids this afternoon, and it was glorious.
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