I'm 75 years old, and I have watched our black culture decline over the decades into trashy degeracy. Decorum, decency, manners, and real class don't seem to matter anymore. It's sad.
The biggest challenge facing the black community today is……..
-personal accountability.
I was a teacher in a poor, all black school for one year. I was right out of college, I had amazing intentions. I was bullied, sexually harassed, cursed at, stolen from, punched, scratched, and generally abused by my students, as well as their parents, all while being accused of racism for trying maintain an orderly environment, trying to do my job, and occasionally expressing very human frustration. I quit the entire profession. I will never teach in public schools again.
I had some students with great parents, who were trying very, very hard to keep their kids on the right path so they could get them into better schools, better neighborhoods, better environments, better lives. I had some students who had disastrous home lives, kids who I knew weren't eating on the weekend, kids I had to do mandatory reporting for because I suspected child abuse and neglect. I pray for all those kids. I care deeply about them. But I could not make it through the abuse of other students and parents to hang on to help them. I think I was deluding myself to even imagine I could.
We need to understand that teaching is one of the only professions in America where you can get called a c*nt or take a punch from a person, and have to continue serving that individual. In almost every other job, there's some process by which you don't have to serve that person anymore, but not teaching. In teaching, not only do they return to your classroom to further abuse you, but you will be judged based on how well they perform on exams. All for $33,000 dollars a year, with over $60,000 in student loan debt. You wanna know why good teachers are so rare? That's why. It's one of the most abusive professions in the country.
I'm an old school guy. When I was growing up, neighbors were allowed to discipline you when you were out of order. The principals and morals the black community used to have seems to have dissipated. It's sad and I agree with everything you said in the video. Keep it up.
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