http://whitereference.blogspot.com/2009/07/blackboard-jungle-2009-christopher.html
It is a first person account from someone who taught at a majority black high school in the Southeast for several years. I can't vouch for the veracity of the account -- it was featured on a white nationalist website -- but it rings true.
When I expressed surprise to my friend -- who takes positions from both sides of the aisle -- that he would frequent such a site, he replied,
"I don't exactly 'hang out' but I sometimes tiptoe around the dark side.
Actually I do like to shop for a wide range of views from across the political and ideological spectrum. The internet is wonderful for unfiltered commentary, but the downside is that some of it is spiteful bile or uninformed c##p.
But when the terms of the mainstream debates on important questions, like health care or education, are so poorly framed and fail to cut to many core issues, one has to go a little off-piste to make any intellectual progress."
Actually I do like to shop for a wide range of views from across the political and ideological spectrum. The internet is wonderful for unfiltered commentary, but the downside is that some of it is spiteful bile or uninformed c##p.
But when the terms of the mainstream debates on important questions, like health care or education, are so poorly framed and fail to cut to many core issues, one has to go a little off-piste to make any intellectual progress."
True enough. Take a look at the link, it's more entertaining than you'd think.
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