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Post by meshakhad on Nov 8, 2009 23:37:17 GMT -5
They did that with my class in third grade. Students with yellow wristbands were superior, those with green were inferior. I got a yellow wristband, but that didn't stop me from recognizing the unfairness of segregation and going on a campaign of destruction, ripping down signs and tearing off wristbands. I actually didn't get in trouble - my teacher recognized that I was doing this because I honestly believed it was the right thing to do, and I imagine it had something to do with the experiment being cut short before we even got to classes. So you reacted to a Civil Rights demonstration by rallying against injustice and protesting? Please tell me somebody with a sense of humor gave you an A on something... We really didn't have traditional grades. But I did get away with it, and I got a sense of vindication. I didn't just learn that inequality is wrong - I learned that opposing it by any means necessary is right. And they knew that, so they put an end to the whole thing before I started a revolution.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 8, 2009 23:53:54 GMT -5
I've never done any racism projects in school (atleast, none that I remember). But I remeber watching this film about the holocaust in the seventh grade. It was showing this scene where nazis were throwing bodies into mass graves.
I had nightmares about that scene for years.
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Post by peanutfan on Nov 9, 2009 15:43:30 GMT -5
So you reacted to a Civil Rights demonstration by rallying against injustice and protesting? Please tell me somebody with a sense of humor gave you an A on something... We really didn't have traditional grades. But I did get away with it, and I got a sense of vindication. I didn't just learn that inequality is wrong - I learned that opposing it by any means necessary is right. And they knew that, so they put an end to the whole thing before I started a revolution. I WISH the demonstration I had had gone that well. As it is, I had learned from years of bullying being ignored or abetted by teachers that opposing inequality is not only useless, but likely to get you in more trouble than it's worth. Took me years to get over the lessons bullying taught me.
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