I posted in several places that I had a blog about teaching in a ghetto school. I received the following e-mail from someone who had not bothered to go to the blog and read it before he reacted. I will leave his name and e-mail off this post so as not to publicly embarrass him.
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I saw you posting stating that you work in a "Ghetto" school wel I worked at a school just a few blocks from the beach and the children were badd bad. I resent you labeling but what
can I expect from those such as you.
You just turned 70 is indicative of the fact that maybe you need a change of venue--teaching is a hard job in our day and hey I am just a few years younger than you.
I by just being whom I am have beeninvolved in situations whereas the modern sterotypes have been asumed and I have had to stand up for my rights-well enuff said
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"Rather than going off half-cocked, as they say, you might make your comments AFTER you have read my blog:
http//teachinginaghettoschool.blogspot.com
"Feel free to leave whatever comments you wish to leave. As long as they are not obscene or filled with profanity, I would probably allow their publication right there.
"Several things about you are obvious from your e-mail to me:
"1) You are prejudiced against an older person when you don't know anything about his or her physical or mental capacities.
"2) You are among the group of African-Americans who refuse to admit the problems in their communities. You see any public discussion of these things (which impact us all) as being impermissible. People like this in the Black community were very offended when Bill Cosby came right out and articulated truths about problems in Black America. Yet those problems did and do exist, they impact us all, and because of their impact we ALL have a right to discuss them publicly. Those problems affect our schools.
"3) You do not understand -- at least in this instance -- that before we can solve a problem, we must admit that it exists.
"4) You have had bad experiences that fill you with anger and aggression against any slight, real or IMAGINED, and against anyone whom you know nothing about. If you want to vent, fine with me.
"5) You do not know that I have spent a major amount of my 70 years doing free civil rights work on behalf of African-Americans, working to find indivduals job, working to get unjustly incarcerated African-Americans out of prison, working to help them better themselves financially.
"But the main point really is that you should first read my blog, and only then comment."
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