This is a post from July ’19.

I’m back with a bang.  A new discovery – so I’ve finally decided to
“come out of the closet” and face it head on.

BY 2019 STANDARDS, I AM A RACIST!

1.  I’m white.  No other color can be a racist; all whites are racist – born that way, so suffer the consequences.

2. I don’t give a flip what color you are.  You get no bonus points from me.

3. I treat you all the same if I like you; I treat you all the same if I don’t like you.  Well Jesus sometimes makes me be nicer here.  😀

4. I totally forget that it is very important what race you are and I’m not even saying I’m sorry.

5. I taught students and forgot there was a need to think about race except when I had to turn in stats – you know, go down the class roll to see how many whites, how many blacks, how many Mexicans, how many Indians.  We weren’t asked about Asians.  I still don’t hear much about them as victims.  I don’t know but they must have been in a more stable neighborhood.

6. I taught the same thing to all.  Don’t remember ever adding or subtracting points based on race, knowing me, I bet I didn’t.  (Did you just say, “Knowing you, I bet you didn’t.”)  😀

That is the one thing that got me in trouble!  I had a black student teacher who. I found out, was not that unconscious of race!  I had a class of approximately 30% white, 30% black, 20% brown, and 20% red (since I am now thinking colors).  Unbeknowst to me, she reported me to headquarters charging me with racism.  Best I could figure was that when I talked to her about the squalid home environment, the parental lack of care, the lack of basic necessities in that neighborhood, she was thinking racism.  I meant nothing of the kind.

I do know for sure everybody was poor, everybody was some race, and almost none had biological fathers and mothers with whom they lived.  A first/second grade class I remember had 22 members – three of whom lived with mother and father.  Within the three were a set of twins.  Nineteen out of twenty-two lived with one parent (a mother) or they lived with a relative, generally a grandmother!  That, dear citizen of America, is why I thought they were disadvantaged not because of their race!

Fortunately I had a good record before she arrived or I could have been facing what President Trump is now facing.   In my way of thinking, he also doesn’t care a hoot about what color any American citizen is!   But he will help you get out of that squalid neighborhood if possible!