I’m of an age where Richard Pryor was the main individual who at any point utilized the N-word in a public setting. Today, be that as it may, rappers and hip-jump music is immersed with the word, and our childhood who pay attention to it impersonate their golden calves. It is viewed as hip, as in “buddy” or “homeboy”, & it currently has turned into an issue in the Dallas schools, just as numerous different schools the country over. As of late, a moderately aged, white English educator in Kentucky utilized the word toward one of his dark understudies and was suspended for 10 days without pay. The educator protected his utilization of the word as attempting to relate with the understudy in a hip way. As you can well envision, dark guardians, ministers and social equality pioneers griped noisily and openly, many needing the instructor terminated. I can’t say I fault them, since that was my equivalent response when I previously read about the episode.
Lauren Roberts, a representative for the Kentucky secondary school, expressed that every one of the understudies utilize the term toward one another, paying little heed to their race. A Dallas educator at Carter High School sees exactly the same thing in his school and has crusaded energetically to have the N-word restricted from all schools in Dallas.
Hollis Brashear has taken up the mission & needs to see all ethnic or racial slurs prohibited from the Dallas schools. The Dallas schools as of now have an arrangement that restricts the utilization of indecent and hostile language, yet Brashear needs more explicit language composed into the approach.
Brashear is a local of the city, who went to the schools in Dallas. He likewise was the longest serving trustee of the Dallas schools load up at the hour of his abdication this previous spring. During his residency, he was blunt on everything from initiative worries of various administrators to racial issues inside the Dallas schools. An alum of Lincoln High School during the ’50s, he noticed that such language was not legitimate for understudies who needed to make a big deal about their lives, paying little heed to their race. Brashear brought up that it is as yet unseemly today. It boils down to the essential standards of respectability, politeness and regard for you & others.
You can’t have it the two different ways. Understudies who utilize the N-word as a pet name one second can’t blow up the following when it is utilized by an Anglo, Brashear brought up to the Dallas schools board last April. This hazardous twofold standard is the issue with which the Dallas schools are as of now catching.
As per Brashear, the appropriate response is simple – quit utilizing any hostile language, particularly in open scenes and particularly racial slurs. As a veteran Dallas schools trustee, resigned military official of 21 years in the Army Corps of Engineers, graduate of An and M University, proprietor of a designing counseling firm, and a fruitful dark financial specialist, Brashear is aware of what he talks. Hostile language, particularly ethnic slurs, doesn’t have a place in the Dallas schools & more explicit language in school strategy is clearly required for everybody’s direction, just as authorization of the arrangement.
