Sixth week of teaching, finished.
I'm not sure what to write about this week.
I feel like I've expressed most of my thoughts already on here.
1. I really like Tempestt
2. Teaching is hard but good
3. Hurricanes recently make me more and more nervous about this planet
4. I don't like the president of my country because of his actions, words, and choices
5. America views black athletes as merely entertainers, they shouldn't speak they should just play their game and go away
6. I wish my friends would stop moving away from Columbus and Ohio.
That's pretty much my life right now.
Last week I tried to watch one of my students football games on Saturday morning. I showed up to the game couldn't spot him on the field (but they are all suited up and tiny) Then after about a half an hour his mother came up behind me in tears she told me his dad was suppose to bring him to the game but he didn't. She apologized and started expressing her frustration with the student's father. We talked for an hour or so then she left and I left shortly after.
I had a few thoughts I suppose I could attempt to express here.
First I thought again about the idea of all people being created equal and the comparison of my childhood vs my student's childhood. I'm not sure what the authors of the American Declaration of Independence has in mind with those words but it seems more and more evident to me that people are not created equal. Some are born into poverty, health issues, inheriting debt, fetal alcohol syndrome, addicted to substances their mother took while pregnant, parent incarcerated, parent deceased. Not everyone is created equal and I think it's that very reason why we need to be aware and sensitive to that fact.
We need to acknowledge that a bunch of 1700s white men wrote that and that isn't the world we live in today.
There's this image online that really paints the picture of my opinion on the word "equal" Equal doesn't mean fair.
All men aren't created equal (the fact that the writers used the word 'men' instead of people is telling of their views on equality) and that's why it is up to the government for the people by the people to help the people receive fairness or as the illustration says "equity."
I know I already ranted a few weeks about about our governments increased military spending budget and I think it is the allocation of resources in such a way that frustrates me when I think about all not being created equal.
Second, I realized I was the only white person at the football game. But the game took place in the same city I lived in. Segregation is very much alive today. How is it possible if all are equal there can be neighborhoods of all white or all black or all one race without diversity? There is obviously something systemic happening here. It may be subconscious, it may be intentional, whatever it is, it feels very strange to come to the realization of my ignorance of the segregation within my own northern union free state underground railroad city.
I don't have the solution to any of the things I'm observing but I am at the very least aware of them and know we need to find the root causes of such things and work on improving our country to hopefully move closer and closer to the idea that all PEOPLE are created unequal so we much be intentional with equity.
I think that starts with something as simple as taking a knee.
Logic - 1-800-273-8255
I'm not sure what to write about this week.
I feel like I've expressed most of my thoughts already on here.
1. I really like Tempestt
2. Teaching is hard but good
3. Hurricanes recently make me more and more nervous about this planet
4. I don't like the president of my country because of his actions, words, and choices
5. America views black athletes as merely entertainers, they shouldn't speak they should just play their game and go away
6. I wish my friends would stop moving away from Columbus and Ohio.
That's pretty much my life right now.
Last week I tried to watch one of my students football games on Saturday morning. I showed up to the game couldn't spot him on the field (but they are all suited up and tiny) Then after about a half an hour his mother came up behind me in tears she told me his dad was suppose to bring him to the game but he didn't. She apologized and started expressing her frustration with the student's father. We talked for an hour or so then she left and I left shortly after.
I had a few thoughts I suppose I could attempt to express here.
First I thought again about the idea of all people being created equal and the comparison of my childhood vs my student's childhood. I'm not sure what the authors of the American Declaration of Independence has in mind with those words but it seems more and more evident to me that people are not created equal. Some are born into poverty, health issues, inheriting debt, fetal alcohol syndrome, addicted to substances their mother took while pregnant, parent incarcerated, parent deceased. Not everyone is created equal and I think it's that very reason why we need to be aware and sensitive to that fact.
We need to acknowledge that a bunch of 1700s white men wrote that and that isn't the world we live in today.
All men aren't created equal (the fact that the writers used the word 'men' instead of people is telling of their views on equality) and that's why it is up to the government for the people by the people to help the people receive fairness or as the illustration says "equity."
I know I already ranted a few weeks about about our governments increased military spending budget and I think it is the allocation of resources in such a way that frustrates me when I think about all not being created equal.
Second, I realized I was the only white person at the football game. But the game took place in the same city I lived in. Segregation is very much alive today. How is it possible if all are equal there can be neighborhoods of all white or all black or all one race without diversity? There is obviously something systemic happening here. It may be subconscious, it may be intentional, whatever it is, it feels very strange to come to the realization of my ignorance of the segregation within my own northern union free state underground railroad city.
I don't have the solution to any of the things I'm observing but I am at the very least aware of them and know we need to find the root causes of such things and work on improving our country to hopefully move closer and closer to the idea that all PEOPLE are created unequal so we much be intentional with equity.
I think that starts with something as simple as taking a knee.
Logic - 1-800-273-8255