Empowering Education

(Argument)

In shore article he talks about how school should be focusing on socialization of the students in the classroom. and that it is good for they to participate because otherwise they become withdrawn.   The students become what he calls endullment. there brains become dull from lack of participation.  And I think that true. Working with each other encourages growth both education wise but also that as friendship wise.  If people work together they are able to interact. 

The video I chose is going to seem a little crazy like what does teaching kids to drive have to do with participation and socialization in classrooms but it really does. The children are playing and working together to learn the rules of the road.

In class I would like to talk about the pros and cons of participation in the classroom and also Shore idea of endullment.

Promising practices cofereance paper

The conference was good. I liked it a lot. It was a early day for me I would never have gotten up that early on a weekend unless I had to. But that was ok. Umm it was a little confusing in the beginning when they could not find my folder because they gave it to someone else with the same last name just one less r. It was kind of funny though we got it sorted out.  I'm quite in general so for the first half hour or so I sat by myself going through and reading the materials. I like the magazine that was in the folder I ready some of the articles one that caught my eye was called Monsters, Devils and Mary Poppins it was about a teacher in California who taught  English to Immigrant students and most of the story was about Halloween and the fun the kids had. There was one  girl who loved her teacher and stayed after school and helped her cleaned the desks and the chalkboards. near Christmas time the child asked the teacher when was her Christmas or all saints days and the told her she didn't have one because she  was Jewish. "The child recoiled as I were suddenly transformed from Mary Poppins to a cruel, monstrous beast. I inadvertently touched my head as if I had grown horns. The pain in Marie Elena's face was real, and she would not allow me to comfort her. Tears welled in her eyes and in mine too. The world is a scary place, with ghosts and monsters lurking where we least expect them to be."  In the end the girl gave the teacher a Christmas present which showed that even though it has taken a while the child was able to overcome her fear of something she did not know. I liked it because it just showed even though ignorance still exist if we as teachers are patient and teach about these difference why there a good thing then we can scare off some of those ghost and monsters that reere there ugly heads when ignorance is present. After that I head to my first workshop called Students with Special needs with Dubrule which talked about how to help kids with special needs and how to make there life easier in the class room. My second workshop was  Destination Fun with Thompson  the workshop was about how to integrate geography into everyday classes wither it math or history.  After the workshop I walked around the career fair. I was not really look for anything in particular but when I went to the education book table I came across a Kozol book which look good so I bought for a bit of light reading. One of the kids from the class saw and when I told her it was just for fun she just shook her head and laughed. I think the most helpful booth was the Sherlock center.  It was great to talk to them and I liked how they brought sample of some of the books they converted so that anyone can read them.  I liked the keynote speaker I will agree he was kind of all over the place but I also think he had a central message. which was that even when a teacher feels like the pressure coming from above is to much and they are all alone there really not. There are other teachers in the same situation and if you reach out you will find a helping hand when you need it.  In the special education workshop I learned different tech to help kids in the classroom. Such as if they are reading a story you can highly difference section so it is easier  for them to find the information. Though I think this is helpful I think it makes the job to easy for those who know what they are doing. It reminded me of Delpit in a negative way. She always says to teach children the rules of the games so that they can learn to survive in this world. But if your doing everything for them and not challenging them to figure out for themselves how can they every learn the rules of the game.  It would be ok if you taught them the rules in a way that worked for them but by basically giving them the answer  they are not learning the rules delpit wants them to learn.  But one thing I liked was she talked about ways of working with "normal" classroom teachers and how to come up with ways so that they will succeed in the classroom. like leaving the homework on the board for more that five seconds because some kids are slower writes than others. This reminds me of the article we just read by Kliewer he talks about total immersion of children with special needs into a general education classroom were the special education teacher and the general education teacher work together to make the classroom assessable for everyone. some of Dubrule suggestions would help accomplish this. "Remember that not all students are the same-what works for one may not work for all-and that's why students have individualized programs." "Many special education students need help with organization-provide check-ins, use assignments books, use note cards and personalized schedules. " "Ask for help when you need it-nobody is expected to do everything! There are many people who can help with your students." these strategies will help you not only help kids with disabilities but also general education students also. These three simple suggestions can make the immersion presses be easier for both teacher and student. The first article I found was a study done by the Vanderbilt Peabody college were they worked with 25 schools in Virgina  which had at least one separate special education classroom but they also have general education classrooms were kids with sever behavioral problems are in the general education classroom and they noticed that teachers attention is usually on these kids and that they think the best solution so that  will help keep order in the classroom is to get the kid out of the room. So this study teaches teacher strategies on how to deal with these children so that they can remain in the general education classroom because once these children are pulled out and placed in the special education room it is really hard for them to ever go back into the general education classroom. The second thing I found was I goggled Dennis Shirley and came across a sight called Mindful teacher. com and it basically brakes down  what he talked about at the conference but in much more detail. One of the thing is the core values.  In the core values they name the seven synergies for mindful teacher which are (1) open-mindfulness (2) caring (3)stopping (4) expertise (5)authentic alignment (6) integration (7) collective responsibilities.   I like the website because it takes what Dr.Shirley talked about at the conference about how we sometimes feel alone like no one understand but in reality your not alone at all you just have to learn to reach to others. This website talks about that and much more of what he said in greater detail.  The third and final video I found really ties in with my second workshop I went to were we learned  different techniques of tying Geography into our everyday classroom lesson. This video is about a charter school which kids during there lunch time meet people from different parts of the world and learn about where they come from and some of there traditions from the contury they came from. I loved this video not only is it educational but it also just plan fun.

Citizenship in School: Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome

(Reflection) 

As I read the article it hit home more than others that we have read. Maybe it's because I worked with kids with disabilities or maybe it's because I've experienced what they have been through. I have always had to work harder than everyone else to get the same grades and to prove my worth.

As I read this at times I got mad at the ignorance of people or how they lump these kids together because they have the same disability. Just because they all have the same diagnosis does not mean it effects them in the same way.  Kliewer keeps talking about a teacher named Shayne who teaches special education and three of her kids have Down Syndrome. But what I love about her when I read what he writes about her is that she sees beyond the label and sees the child within. 

"It's not like they came here to be labeled, or to believe the label. We're all here--kids, teachers, parents, whoever--it's about all of us working together, playing together, being together, and that's what learning is. Don't tell me any of these kids are being set up to fail."

If you allow them to try, these kids can be amazingly smart.  They can do whatever they want in life.  Them may not look like you and me they may not even speak like we speak but that does not mean they're not human. Don't they have two eyes.  Don't they have two hands. Don't they have a heart. Don't they have a brain? On the inside they're just like us. They can think, they can learn, it may just be different than you. In the paper he talks about a little boy named Isaac who has Down Syndrome. He can't speak a conherent word, he just babbles but when you read to him she says he starts to dance and to act out the story.  He understand everything that going on it just in different way than us.

This is very long because I'm very passionate on this issue because I've also had people tell me you can't do it you're aiming to high just because I don't learn like them. My answer was always yes I can you don't know what your talking about and to prove them wrong which I did.

My name is Anne Marie Morreira and in third Grade I was diagnosed with a learning disability called: Nonverbal Learning  disability or NLD for short. The definition of NLD according to www.nlda.org is

"NLD is a neurological disorder which originates in the right hemisphere of the brain. Reception of nonverbal or performance-based information governed by this hemisphere is impaired in varying degrees, causing problems with visual-spatial, intuitive, organizational, evaluative, and holistic processing functions.
The syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NLD) consists of specific assets and deficits.
The assets include:

• Early speech and vocabulary development
• Remarkable rote memory skills
• Attention to detail
• Early development of reading skills and excellent spelling skills
• Eloquent verbal ability
• Strong auditory retention

The three categories of deficits are:

• Motoric: lack of coordination, problems with balance and graphomotor skills
• Visual-spatial-organizational: lack of image, poor visual recall, faulty spatial perception, and difficulty with spatial relations
• Social: inability to comprehend nonverbal communication, difficulty adjusting to transitions and novel situations, and deficits in social judgment

People with NLD can be affected in varied levels of severity in each of the categories, so that each person with NLD presents a unique clinical, behavioral, and educational picture. People with NLD can be helped by many forms of therapy, but their world is filled with confusing sensory stimuli. For some, their physical endurance is challenged by generally low muscle tone. Some need support throughout life with cognitive and organizational skills, motor skill development, pragmatics and social skills.
Children with NLD have advanced verbal and auditory memory. Some are precocious readers with advanced vocabularies. Nevertheless, NLD is a problem of language. People with NLD have rote language skills but when it comes to functional daily use of language, they have difficulties with tone of voice, inference, written expression, facial expression, gestures, and other areas of pragmatic speech.
People with NLD have difficulty understanding patterns and lining up columns of numbers. Spoken instructions can be troublesome due to difficulty picturing consecutive directions and poor visual memory. NLD can also affect coordination, causing clumsiness, poor balance and a tendency to fall. Many people with NLD have poor safety judgment.
We are not sure what causes NLD, but we know that the earlier the intervention, the better the prognosis."
That the scientific definition and if you could not completely understand all that mumbo jumbo, let me break it down for you. Basically it means I learn by hearing that I'm not really  a visual person. If you gave me a text book and told me to learn all the info in it without any out loud teaching, I probably would look at you with a blank stare. Oh I have no doubt I could do it eventually. It just would take me a really really long time. Another major thing that over the years I have become better at doing is making eye contact.  You may notice sometimes I will be talking in class and I will look at the ceiling or just off in space. I'm not trying to be mean or rude I just have a hard time making eye contact. I could go on and on about all the little things I do and understand or don't understand that someone who is "Normal" would. But why should I. I can't change the fact I have a learning disability There  is no magic potion I can drink to make it go away. I have it and it's always going to be there. So what I do instead of dwelling on the fact that I have it is to find ways to make my life easier to live with it like learning to understand sarcasm or to tell the difference when someone joking or not. To learn how to read and project and understand body language and keeping eye contact with people. Now if I don't tell someone I have a learning disbilty they could never tell but that's because I've worked so hard on the things that could be considered flaws. I graduated high school with A's and B's and was in the Rhode Island Honor Society and now I am a second year college student going for Early Ed and special education. I live by the saying "Dont judge a book by it cover." the part I always add is judge it by it first hundred pages. Whether the child has a severe disability like Autism or Down Syndrome or a learning disability like mine we are all normal in our own way.
I learn by hearing, you learn by sight. Our differences is what makes us human and you can be sure as long as we walk on two feet and have a heart and a brain we're human. It our differences that make us special and allows us to have this diverse and beautiful world we like in. Get below the surface and get to know a person and you may realize that you have a best friend in someone despite how they look and act. If you take nothing else from this,just know we're all human in the end.

I found this video which interviews three kids who have down syndrome and other disabilities and how in college they are teaching them how to survive on their own and also be able to get an education and a degree they want.

In class I would like to talk about what are good ways of dealing with kids with disabiltes and how to treat them like everyone else and how not to talk down to them.  They are human too and should be treated like everyone else in school.

Literacy in schools according to Oak and Finn

(Argument)

In the articles Literacy  with an Attitude by Patrick J.Finn and Tracking: Why Schools Need to Take Another Route By Jeannie Oakes the authors are different but share a concept. In Oakes article  he talks about how we are separating the kids into groups based on there ability to learn and because this kids who are "High preforming" get better materials than those in the middle or lower preforming groups. He uses John Goodlad and his book A place called school he uses as a example to prove his point that kids are not equal in the example Goodlad uses literature as his focus for showing this.

" students in high-ability English classes were more likely to be taught classic and modern literature, provided instruction in expository writing and library research, and expected to learn vocabulary that would eventually boost their scores on college  entrance exams...... students in the low-ability classes were likely to have little contact with the knowledge and skills that would allow them to move inot higher classes or to be successful if they got there."


Oaks argument is that this is wrong and that by grouping people by levels but others at a disadvantage just because they may be slower. what he thinks the teachers should do is not give up on there standers but let the kids figure things out for themselves it ok if they struggle that how they learn. "To be successful, heterogeneous classroom probably need to lean toward placing students more in charge of their own understanding and asking for and providing feedback.  This is what happens naturally when students are engaged in complex tasks and have lots of intereaction."

In his artical Finn talks about how if we keep high power literacy from the working class we are hindering them and that we must find a way for the upper-class and the working class to get along and allow the literacy to be able to be privilege for everyone.
"Contemporary social scientists believe that if we can understand
these mechanisms, we can change them and bring ourselves
to a different place, one where there is greater equity and justice.
That would require that both the rich and poor get empowering
education and powerful literacy." for this to work both groups have to work together so that everyone rich or poor can get a good education and  rise up in status.

I found this video that through different comics show the importance of literacy and why we should teach kids to read. Some you wont be able to understand seeing as there in either Spanish or French I'm not sure which. I hope you enjoy them I did.

In class I want to talk about why literacy is so important and school and what education would be like if books did not exist in school for us to learn from.

Gender and Education

(Hyperlinks)

While surfing the web for videos and articals about gender and education in 2010 I came across this artical called Girls think they are cleverer than boys from age four, study finds

Teachers' expectations may reinforce gender gap in school performance 

This study was done in the United Kingdom  the arical was published 1 September 2010. In the artical it showed that girls do better than boys in school because of their teacher belife in them and for the boys the lack there of so by age 7 or 8 they have come to believe this. So on tests the girls profrom better as statsics show. "The findings come just over a week after exam results revealed that the gap between boys and girls at GCSE is widening. This summer, the pass rate for girls was 72.6% at A* to C, compared with 65.4% for boys. Last year, the rate was 70.5% for girls and 63.6% for boys."

But as I countued to read the artical started to talk about a expariment silmlar to that of  the doll expariment. Except this time the children were give a picture of a girl and of a boy and asked who was clever. The girls always said the girls. At age four to seven the boys were evenly devided on who was clever but by age 7 and 8 the boys would agree with there female peers that girls were clever and more susseful.

I just found this astoudning and now there encourging teachers not to use phrases like "silly boy" or "schoolboy pranks." so the boys have a more even chance.

In class I would like to discuss ways for us to keep a gender nutral classroom and how to prevent this from happing. This just goes to show that it not just race we should be worring about but about how we speak to boys and girls in general.

Between Barack and a Hard Place

(Connections)

I thought the videos were interesting and I might read the book. I picked up on one thing Wise talked about which was because Bush was white he was more likly to be taken seriously. This reminded me  of  McIntosh article  White Privilege:Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack in the article she talks about  how being white is a privilege even if we don't know it. "I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks." in this she saying because that because she white it gives her privileges that she did not even know she had but made her life easier. The author makes a comment about how a African American president must work harder than that of a white president for one main reason the person is white. The author calls Bush a bafoon but he was white. I don't remember who said this but this quote has stuck in my head through out all these reading we have done. "My son knows how to be black. You need to teach him how to survive in a white man world." (Not word for word)  This just helps to show that even though we are equal and segregation is gone  it is still harder for African American  to find a job because of the clor of there skin.

In class I would like to talk about why it hared for a African  American person to get a job when there just ad highly qualified as that of a white person.
I found a article I thought was interesting it talks about the loss of jobs and how it might be harder for African Americans to find jobs again in the upturn of this job market.

In The Service of What? The Politics of Service Learning By Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer

(Extended Comments)

In the Service of What? by Kahne and Westheimer

In Darlene's blog "In the Service of What? by Kahne and Westheimer" She talkes about the main arguments that they make which are "  here seem to be two main subjects to the argument, service learning for charity, or service learning to identify and respond (change)." I think she right as I read the article those were the two things that kept poping up.

" If we are doing it because we have to (charity) or that we are learning about how to live like other people and becoming more aware of social issues (change)." I think the two actually blend together.  you can do Charity work while being able to take a walk in another persons shoes and see what it like to live there life. and once you witness these issues  hopefully you will want to learn more about the issues at hand.

I think the idea of service learning is not a new idea in the into the author quotes two form presidents from two different decades. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. I think John F. Kennedy  famous quote from his inaugural address "... ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." I think this summons up service learning because in this quote he telling the people of the united States to be selfless and to help someone in need because it the right thing to do rather than be selfish and ask what a person can do for you.

In class I would like  to talk about what it means to participate in service learning and what are the benfits of it. But more importantly what the differences between now and say the 1960's when Kennedy was promoting this.

I found this video It about UCF students what it means to do service learning for the people doing it and the people befitting.

Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us by Linda Christensen

(Hyperlink)

The video is called Disney and the dark manipulation of the young mind  and it relates to the artical we read because in the video the director talks to different profisoals and kids about what they noticed in the disney flims that shows what they want reality to be and not what reality is. Such as one child who was seven said they never saw a black person in the films. Christensen students say something simlar. "A Black Cinderella? Give me a Brake." She wrote "Have you ever seen a black person, an Asian,a Hispanic in a cartoon? Did they have a leading role or were they a servant? What do you think this doing to your child's mind?"

and it true. Maybe not intentional but Disney does either skim over or but people in roles that socity at the time dubs they fit in.  Like at one point they talk about Tarzan and how it focus on  a white man in Aferica and not on the aferican people.  I talked to my mom about that and she said you got to remmber Trazan based off a book written by a white author. So with that one Disney could not really change unless they want to change the entier concept of the book which is a white baby raised by gorilas.  But others I do agree there are message but it also the culter we live in as Carlson but it there a war were waging betwwen new age thinking and the "Father knows best" way of life that soscity is.

I think in recent times since the mid 90's till today Disney has tried to make more a effort like make films like Mulan were a asian girl was the main lead. Or the recent release of Princess and the frong were the lead lady was a black girl. Though I felt it was a ok film it shows that finally Disney is trying to get with the times. It showed not only a bi racela relationship with the leading man being possible hispanic  and the leading lady being black. Maybe they are trying to make up for there ways who knows.

In class I would like to talk about how skin color plays a role in where you fit into a movie and how though unintetional at time I feel. Thighs like Disney movies shape the early years of our children and the soscity they grow up in.

Gayness,Multicultural Education, and Community By Dennis Carlson

(Argument)

In the article Carlson is talking about how in schools we should be teaching our children how to create and to live in a democratic community were we are to be the teaching the values of supporting and respecting people. But for some reason it seems that when it come to gay people we always seem to shove them under the rug. "gay people have for the most part been made absent,invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological "Other."  

Carlson sees the struggle between the "new right" and the tradtional family were father always new best.

Former President Bill Clinton created a rule for the military called "Dont Ask Dont Tell" In terms to gays in the miltary. It allows people who are gay or lesbian to be in the military but they are not allowed to admit to it for fear of being discharged. Again this is just another example of making them invisable.I think Carlson is implying that the rule of "Dont Ask Dont tell" Applies to school also though they take more drastic measures to make sure it insured.  "account of the specific techniques and apparatuses of power that have been employed om the school tp keep gayness "in its place" as an invisible presence.  Three techniques of normalization and (hence) marginalization have been of primary importance in this regard: (1) the erasure of gayness in the curriculum, (2) the "closeting" and "witch hunting" of gay teachers and (3) verbal and physical intimidation of gay teacher and students."

Even though were suppose to teach kids to treat everyone evenly when it come to being different we always find someway to cover it up and make it like it never there when it fully is.
Carlson argument is basically this in a nutshell.  there is a war waging between new age thinking and the old fashion thinking of "Father knows best." and the simple fact that the society we live in is a white heterosexual male dominated society. So instead of letting the fact that people maybe gay lesbian or bisexual be know in school were supose to be teaching them to respect  vaule people in a democratic society but when we make it in schools that gays and lesbian basicly dont exsit from not hirering gay and lesbian teaches to take storeies about gay and lesbian off the school reading list how is this going to be possible.

In school on Tuesday I would like to talk more about the "Dont Ask dont tell" rule and why it seems that it not only applies to the military but to the school too and also why school fear the potential knowledge or is it influence of gay and lesbians on our classmates you children. After this it got me wonder why because I remember things like that in school. No of the books we read had a bi gay or lesbian tone to it. I'm not sure if any of my teachers were bi, gay, or lesbian but from the ones I got to know really well they weren't, And I really would love to know why what so wrong with them that we have to make it so there not exsitant as much as possible.

I found a article that shows them trying to make it easier for Gay and Lesbians to have a better  school experience but at the same time give reasons why people are against homosexuality being taught in schools.

Aria By: Richard Rodriguez

(Reflect)

I had to reread the article a couple  times to understand what the author was talking about. Even know I'm not 100% but I do have a basic jist.  When I read the article it made me think about how many children are bilingual and English is not there fist language but we make it there so they can "survive" in a country were English is the common language.

I started student teaching on Monday and while working with two cousins the boy made a goofy mistake and his cousin laughed and called my loco which is Spanish means crazy. I said what did you call him that? She said cus he is loco and I said no he not and it was not nice to say that about him. He did not seem to mind they were just laughing and having a good time. What was interesting was after the conversation the little girl said that she could speak Spanish as fluently as she could speak English.

And I continued my day i noticed that most of the children had either spainish first name or last names.

Though still when they were in the classroom they addressed me in the teacher in English because that was there first language. As you go up in age like when I worked in middle school the children learn quick if they don't want the teacher to know something they said they switch from English which is suppose to be their first language to Spanish because they know that most teachers can either speak little or no Spanish unless they took classes teach it or  speak it themselves.

Ive always heard that someday Spanish is going to become the first language in the US. Though I don't believe it will ever over take English I think it come in a close second.
As Rodruguez says in Aria "What tget seem not to recognize is that, as a socially disadvantaged child, I considered Spanish to be a privet language.  What I needed to learn in school was that I had the right and the obligation to speak the public language of los gringos."  I think people should be able to speak the language they wish.  though no matter what it is it is apperent that english at least in the near fesature will be the number one language in this contry.

While on the web I goggled the term bilingual children and found a article that I think is very relevant to the article by Rodriguez.

White Privilage by

I went to youtube and typed in the word White Privilege just to see what I would get and one thing that caught my eyes was a rap song called White Privilege. As I listened to it with the lyrics I realized that it explains the whole idea of what we been talking about it class. Like how we live in a white society and that we as white people don't even realize that we have these privileges because of the fact that we cash in on them everyday without knowing because simply we are white.

Below I will put the lyrics and as link to the song. I hope you will see the connections as i did.

White Privilege
By: Macklemore
Lyrics

 

From LyricWik

Macklemore

Macklemore:White Privilege

Send "White Privilege" Ringtone to your Cell

Now nod your head and wake up.

I see so many people lost who really try to pretend
But am I just another white boy who has caught on to the trend
When I take a step to the mic is hiphop closer to the end?
'Cause when I go to shows the majority have white skin
They marketed the windmill, the air flair and head spin
and white rappers albums really get the most spins
the face of hip hop has changed a lot since Eminem
and if he's taking away black artist profits I look just like him
claim the culture that wasn't mine, the way the american
hip hop is gentrified and where will all the people live
it's like the central district, beacon hill to the south end
being pushed farther away because of what white people did, now
where's my place in a music that's been taken by my race
cultural appropriated by the white face
and we don't want to admit that this is existing
so scared to acknowledge the benefits of our white privilege
cause it's human nature to want to be part of something different
especially when your ancestors are European Christians
and most whites don't want to acknowledge this is occurring
cause we got the best deal, the music without the burden
of being black in a system that really wants you to rock
cause all you need is a program and you can go and make hiphop
and we hate the mainstream cause we're the ones that took it
now we listen to Aesop Rock and wear t-shirts that say Brooklyn
but it's not about black and white right
I mean good music is good music regardless of what you look like
but when you don't give them props isn't that selfish
that's like saying rock was actually started by Elvis
so where does this leave me?
I feel like I pay dues but I'll always be a white MC
I give everything I have when I write a rhyme
but that doesn't change the fact that this culture's not mine
But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard
I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
but we still owe 'em 40 acres now we've stolen their 16 bars
hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to
to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means I'm not keeping it true, nope
hiphop started off in a block that I've never been to
to counter act a struggle that I've never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means I'm not keeping it true, I'm not keeping it true
now I don't rap about guns so don't label me conscious
but I don't rap about guns cause I wasn't forced into the conflict
see I was put in the position where I could chose my options
blessed with the privilege that my parent's could send me to college
now who's going to shows the kids on the block starving
or the white people with dough that can relate to my content?
marketed the music now adapted to the lifestyle
what happened to jazz and rock and roll is happening right now
where's my place in the music that's been taken by the media
with white corperations controlling what their feeding ya
I brought up aesop rock but Im not even dissing dude
we love hiphop and what do you think caucasians are listening to
and I speak freely when I write this
if a black emcee examined race there goes half their fan base, white kids
and this is so true. and we didn't even have to fight the system
we just went and picked up the microphone too
and we got good at it so we should be rapping
but only supporting them is like burning Jimmy and buying Clapton
now Clapton's incredible. but no Jimmy no foundation
so here comes history and the cultural appropriation
white kids with do rags trying to practice their accents
from the suburbs to the upperclass mastering a language
but hiphop is not just memorizing words
it's rooted in authenticity something you literally can't learn
But I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
this is something that's effortless and shouldn't be hard
I said I'm gonna be me so please be who you are
but as I'm blessed with the privilege, they're still left with the scars

hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to
to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means im not keeping it true, nope
hiphop started off in a block that ive never been to
to counter act a struggle that Ive never even been through
if I think I understand just because I flow too
that means im not keeping it true, Im not keeping it true

Send "White Privilege" Ringtone to your Cell

"Whit Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" By: Peggy McIntosh

(Quotes),

1) "I realized that since hierarchies in our society are interlocking, there is most likely a phenomenon of white privilege that was similarly denied and protected.  As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage."  

McIntosh is talking about because she is white when she was growing up she was taught about how racism but everyone else but herself at a disadvantage but because she is white she has a unspoken advantage that puts her in a better place than say someone who is African American  or Hispanic. Then reason why she has this advantage is simply it because she is white. This is relevant to the article because the article talks about and recognizes the advantages and disadvantages of being white.

2) " I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing each day, but about which I was "meant" to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools and blank checks."

The author talking about because were white there are certain privileges that we are entitled to because where white and we use them everyday but at the same time were not supposes to know that we cash in on them because it would show us as being above everyone else. As McIntosh describes it an "Invisible weightless knapsack." It always there though we cant see it and we can dip into it anytime we need something. This is not something we know consciously but it there neither the less that the advantage of being white no matter how wrong it is.

3) "I was taught to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will.  My schooling followed the pattern my colleague Elizabeth Minnich has pointed out:  whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow "them: to be more like "us".

So she is saying that we as white are seen not as spcial but as the norm what everyone else should espiar  to be like.  So  because we are taught we are white and the ways of the white are the best when you work with or help others of another race you should help them to be more like what is considered the norm. This yet again brings us back to the main focus of the paper which is white privilege white people dont see themselves as being special but normal just like everyone else.

I think this goes back to early artical and our talk on the SCWAMP I know I don't try to be better than anyone else and because I'm white I don't feel like I'm better than anyone else.  But maybe that the point no matter or attention or how we feel it the white privilege is going to be there . That why we have to work harder to lessen it existence. as McIntosh says "so one who writes about having white privilege must ask, "Having described it, what will I do to lessen or end it?" I think that the question that needs to be addressed and  I hope in the feature a solution can be found.

On another note in the article Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit. She talks about how White and African American people  talk to people different because of there cutler and where they come from. Well I was at the Ester States Expo this weekend and the bathroom attendants where a couple African American women and ever time they told you which stall to go into they would call you sweetheart or baby or Hun. But when I go to the Washington county fair the bathroom attendants are a group of white women and they just tell you the stall number and that it. Now I would never have thought about it before  but after reading this article I realized that there is  a difference between how we grow up and how we treat people. When some one class you Hun or tell you God bless you or something it makes you feel good inside. But when they don't you just go about your business and leave.  I just find how en lighting these articles are. They make you think in ways you would never have thought before.

About me

Hey, My name is Anne though I use Anne Maire because in my FNED class which Im bloging for there is another girl with the same first name and spelled the same. This is really interesting because she is the first person I have ever met with the same first name of as me spelt the same with the silent e on the end.

Umm i guess a little about me. Im a sophomore at Rhode Island College and I am studying to be a education major.   I'm a member of  few clubs at my school  such as Inter varsity Christan association and chess club. I'm also a mentor for my school Open Books Open minds program which gets freshmen and transfers to read a book then join a discussion about it.

For fun I like to write book, poems, read, and play chess.
My hobbies include collecting pins, and trading cards.
There not much else to tell I like all kinds of music except rap what i listen to depends on my mood.
I like to be outdoors and hang with my friends.
Im quite but once you get to know me I a nice person.
Yah that about it this my first time bloging and we will see if I like it.
Yours truly
Anne Maire