The education advocacy group FaithActs for Education conducted a virtual meeting today (Monday) with Bridgeport Schools Superintendent Michael Testani to demand the district provide direct distance learning support to students and families during the coronavirus shutdown. See video conference above.
From FaithActs:
The transition to distance learning in Bridgeport has been far from smooth. The process students and parents must follow to obtain technical or curriculum support is sporadic, frustrating and ineffective. This deepens pre-existing educational inequities, sets Bridgeport children further behind and compounds the tension parents are already experiencing with schools closed.
“The coronavirus pandemic did not create the educational inequities our children face, but it has exposed them further for all to see,” FaithActs for Education Executive Director Jamilah Prince-Stewart said. “Parents are their children’s first teacher and they’re going above and beyond during this pandemic. Families are struggling to navigate curriculum and technology. They need a lifeline for support.”
Currently, students and parents must call their teachers or their schools for technical or other support in implementing remote learning. It’s a school-by-school responsibility that leaves parents with no easy source for getting questions answered.
“After completing more than 100 meetings, it’s abundantly clear: Bridgeport parents and children need more support with distance learning,” said Prince-Stewart. “The schools are really burdened enough with handling distance learning day to day. The district can take on some of that load.”
FaithActs for Education, a non-profit committed to getting children the schools they deserve, will demand that Superintendent Testani immediately provide 2 distance learning helplines:
One with access to tech support specialists to help with navigation of technology and programs used for distance learning, and
One with access to curriculum support personnel to answer and troubleshoot questions related to distance learning school work and homework.
Additionally, both helplines must:
Take calls during evening and weekend hours (Mon-Fri 12 pm – 8 pm, & Saturday 9am – 2pm)
Provide assistance in English and Spanish.
I wonder why Maria Pereira has not stepped to address this issues, also where are the BBOE members and the City Council?
This is old news with no response from Bport.
I’ve been reading about this for a month. Not specifically about a help desk but more importantly lack of internet access, computer literacy among parents and other problems with distance learning. It’s a damn shame that the Bridgeport Superintendent is just waking up to this and his response is inadequate.
Bob, why does it take FaithActs for Education will conduct a virtual meeting today (Monday) with Bridgeport Schools Superintendent Michael Testani to demand the district provide direct distance learning support to students and families during the coronavirus shutdown. It will be streamed live 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on on FaithActs’ Facebook page but not the BBOE members, Mayor Ganim and the City Council? Thanks FaithActs for Education for stepping up and looking for the 21,000 plus school students.
For the record,there has been one board member calling for a district wide survey of students who have devices, in order to get devices in the hand of those who need them most. There has been one board member who asks at every single meeting how many devices are still sitting in schools gathering dust. There has been one board member constantly trying to bring light to this already existing issue that our current superintendent inherited due to lack of adequate funding (mostly by the CITY OF BRIDGEPORT). This board member brought this up the day schools were closed, and thought it important enough to call an emergency meeting about, but alas one member can’t call a meeting.
I’ve been singing this song since March! The pressure being brought by outside entities is quite welcome. We need to do better as a district. There needs to be a district wide Proactive survey of eVery student, every single device left in our schools should be in the hands of a child in need, not sitting idly collecting dust. But I am only one voice, I have spoken out at meetings and in the media about this issue, doing so has had at least one board member say I’ve gone rogue! If that’s rogue, so be it.
If there is anybody on OIB who would like to comment publicly on this (if y’all could stop obsessing about Maria Pereira and focus on the issue and atop getting sidetracked like cats chairing a laser pointer) here is the link to sign up for public speaking this evening.
https://forms.office.com/FormsPro/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=uE3vGMKJ3EWMoQ-2BlLeWXKVitIFtc5Io10kbO8u_bhUMElGUUhXVTcyNVBQMVlQSTBHRlRTUTVCUi4u
Rant over.
Please, you are a narcissist as Maria, and always blame everything on funding, city-specific. Let’s not forget in the last 4 plus years the BBOE had made 50 million in cuts and is still operating in the same manner without the sky falling. To the Ports’ and state’s credit, the schools have been being upgraded. But that does account for policies.
A survey on who has device and access (computers and the internet), really? The annual BBOE is well over 225 million and let’s not forget Maria accretion, becoming a board member is about control that annual budget not what is best of the kids, right Maria. Yet here you are just asking for more money. There is no reason, like all the other suburban school districts, why the Port’s school system doesn’t supply the students with laptops, e-book, and educational software along with all the other advantages that come with them, for a teacher as well as the students. Just look at how a free Grammarly software has improved my communicational writing on OIB, right JML, Lisa, and Maria? 🙂
Joe, do OIB an investigative survey 🙂 SMH, as to the drop-out and graduation rate when the BBOE was overfunded and gave the city (Finch) 7 million dollars to now with the 50 million in cuts and why the BBOE doesn’t supply it students with laptops like its counterparts suburban school districts.
People, don’t buy that, let’s go back the tape. Maria, burn the tapes. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVzgXYGjJYs
Meow, listen kitty cat, try and stay focused and don’t follow the laser pointer. Bridgeport is not a suburban school district. It is an URBAN school district that is severely underfunded. See my prior posts breaking down funding. I’m not gonna waste my time breaking it down again for you. But if you’re lazy I’ll link it. http://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/public-hearings-for-school-board-and-library-budgets-on-tap-thursday-jo-so-help/
You’re welcome now go back to chairing the laser.
Please, I am a cat person though, but you are the one pointing the laser. My counterpart’s comment was towards the suburban school district to the Port’s urban school district that borders it.
Hey, narcissist, I saw your post, have you. ” 243 positions lost, such as kindergarten paraprofessionals, home school coordinators, math and reading coaches, guidance counselors, and security to name a few.
Home Schooling coordinator is a joke, just like the Port’s home school distance learning program is under this pandemic. There is no greater cost-effective asset to aiding a student performance than the computer with the right software, as well as to add the teachers, and the school system in general. Don’t buy that take them all out of the schools.
We take about Mario’s and the mayor’s office using the city budget as slush fund but no one ever stays that about the other have of the budget that goes to the BBOE. We spend 60 million a year (I believe) to get students to school but won’t spend 5 million to supply them with computers. (probably spend twice as much on books) What is the book budget each anyway? I bet you won’t point your leaser in that direction or lead OIB readers to the dropout rate or graduation rate prior too and now and after those cuts, not because it will be a waste of your time but you will not like what you find or care to tell.
P.S I’ll bet your narcissist ass was quite disappointed that no one commented on your self aggrandized commentary, Financial Chair. 🙂 At least Maria get feedback. I know, “if y’all could stop obsessing about Maria Pereira and focus on the issue and atop getting sidetracked like cats chairing a laser pointer” and focus on me. BAM!
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Aiding teacher. 🙂
No don’t pay attention to me pay attention to what I’m saying without getting distracted so you could use OIB to learn Math as well.
Since this is a bit harder to follow and I’ve not explained it before, and others may benefit, I will take the time to explain.
Go back to the approximately 559 Million dollar operating budget for the city of Bridgeport. (Bottom line page 14,15) Remove the 167.5 million of STATE tax dollars that flows through city hands Next remove the approximate 17 million FEDERAL nutrition tax dollars that also flows through city hands. Those two dollars are calculated as “almost 50% of the city budget that goes to education. Take those two numbers out you arrive at an operating budget of about $375 million in LOCAL tax revenue. Of this about 66 million went to education. Or about 18 percent of LOCAL tax dollars. Don’t feel too badly at being fooled, it is kind of hard to follow and Mr. Nkwo, Mr. Nestor and the career politicians do a wonderful job of selling the “almost 50% (actually 41% is the number they push) of our budget, smoke and mirror lie.
You want to see a poor city that spends over 50%? Look at the city of Waterbury that spends over $2000 more per pupil in LOCAL tax dollars.
Another gimmick they use is where is the 15 million dollars going to go, we won’t see it? That’s right they are called escalated costs. Raises, increased utilities, etc rise each year. When costs increases, not one dollar more could be spent until that deficit is closed. Then and only then could additional services be added.
You’re welcome.
Joseph, never reply to this guy again, just a word of wisdom.
Thanks Mr. Mackey. I know what he is. Right now he is only a tool being used to get the message out.
Ron If you don’t want to engage in a ti of ta in the OIB with me, that is fine. l, I know your race card can only take you so far at the time but to ask everyone to not, seems petty, shitty, and personal. I am that bad of a guy.
P.S Can you not make a comment without mentioning Maria. 🙂 While Maria is not on the BBOE anymore and is removed from this conversation she is renting space on yours and Day’s head. 🙂
I mean what about Bob. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk9iWXsdB-8
Joe, what’s the message, there is no real financial reason for not supplying the Port students with computers? By the way what kind of tool am I, hammer or monkey wrench, or a tool or yours to get out your message because it seems like I am the only one paying your narcissist ass any attention, BAM 🙂
P.S you know what is a great educational tool? A computer with educational teaching software. 🙂 Like the laptop in your back pocket. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA
Ron
I agree with you on “why does it take FaithActs for Education to conduct a virtual meeting.” Why isn’t the City Council, the BOE., the BEA or parent leadership saying and doing more?
I saw on Facebook the Lighthouse Program was having a mobile hot spot helping student get internet. Two hours twice a week at Central one and a half hours twice a week at Bassick and one other place once a week. This is supposed to help 22,000 students in Bport.
Nothing personal but why isn’t FaithWorks doing more things like this rather than a virtual public meetings?
Ron
Don’t take this personal but why haven’t we seen dramatic improvements in Bridgeport Public School system if FaithWorks actually works. They will DEMAND certain things and maybe Testani will agree or maybe somewhat agree and FaithWorks will take credit and Testani will take credit and NOTHING will be done.
Remember Testani is related to Fabrizi and Testani got his job because of Mario and we all play the circle jerk and nothing of any real improvements will be done. N O T H I N G!!!
Bob, FaithActs for Education at this time and place because the City Council and the BBOE act like FaithActs for Education doesn’t exist but that doesn’t stop them from pushing forward, there are no other organization in Bridgeport that calls out those in power to properly fund and to increase the educational level for those 21,000 plus students.
Meeting live now. https://youtu.be/679bjRX1RPw
I wonder if anyone speaking out, including representatives from ‘FaithActs’, who have been in a Bridgeport classroom with twenty-five students. I don’t mean as a guest or observer for a few minutes, but interacting with students and teachers. If they did, they may have a different view of the problem. There are students who complain, make excuses and blame others for their poor performance just as their parents (usually a ‘single mom’ or grandma) do.
really WOW!
Tom White, you said, “There are students who complain, make excuses and blame others for their poor performance just as their parents (usually a ‘single mom’ or grandma) do,” so Tom White why is that?
So tell us Tom. How many years have you spent as a teacher, what school you are referring to and your personal experiences.
@RT carpenters pencil. Short and stubby, useful for a moment to make a mark, so the real tools could get to work, then it’s set aside and it gets lost and replaced.
@RT carpenters pencil. Short and stubby, useful for a moment to make a mark, so the real tools could get to work, then it’s set aside and it gets lost and replaced.
Much has changed in this world since my high school graduation 60 years ago. Technology, across many disciplines, has changed and a phone delivers images and content, and is a storehouse or more information, factual and opinion, than anyone can access in multiple lifetimes. As schools have shut down, teachers, school buildings and students have been separated. Teachers are budgeted. School expenses likewise are budgeted including the 20 year mortgage like bonds use to pay for brick and mortar. But how are students fairly and fully connected with course content and educator input?
COVID 19 is so infectious and potentially fatal to many Americans and our ability to freely move has been limited in practice. Most neighbors seem to see the sense in this, and hunker down rather than stridently protest. Schools have been closed and students are at home, supposedly to receive education through technology. It is called distance learning. But has anyone looked at current learning, such as it is? How do we measure, before and currently? Who weighs the results and compares them to the inputs of committed and annual resources?
This morning Linda Connor Lambeck, a Hearst reporter with special coverage of education matters in this region, relayed that six charter schools in the city have 3,500 students enrolled, but they like the public school students are at home dealing with the new world of distance learning. If Bridgeport Public Schools exceed 21,000 students, charter schools have 3,500, and we make allowance for parochial or other private schools, why don’t we use the number of 25,000 local k-12 students who as residents of Bridgeport have family resources that are less than contemporaries in the suburbs. (Multiple systems attempting to educate local children with different ways of delivering resources. What are their service indicators?) From where do they gain equal starting points for distance learning if they do not have the appropriate technology tools? Tools are supplied in the workplace by management in an OPEN, ACCOUNTABLE , TRANSPARENT and HONEST manner. Or not. If one executive responsible for the greatest number is content and quiet about his situation, at least another school executive pulled out all stops to find the necessary technology for her students and teachers.
The educational executive leader for Bridgeport seems to not answer questions about technology gathering dust at Harding HS? Maybe there is nothing to that story, but it would be easy to deny, if untrue. He may be waiting for funds from the Dalio philanthropy to the poorest school districts, but why does he not share his knowledge, and this handicap to teachers and students??
City budgets include funding for salaries, health benefits, and retirement funding for City employees and for more folks covered by the City education budget. To the extent that bonding for new or renewal school buildings is spread over 20 years, the brick and mortar expense annually “crowds out” new technology to be purchased and shared with students, as appropriate, with an expectation of use rather than a litany of excuse.
Invaluable years of young lives? To whom do folks look for honest and clear facts? Can OIB bloggers drop the name-calling and divisive rhetoric that causes many people to retreat from voicing their opinion? Doesn’t COVID force all of us to deal with a threat like wartime and cause us to re-think our response including allocation of public tax dollars going forward? To re-think getting informed during the balance of the year, prepared to vote for folks running for office who are curious about solving conundrums; caring about all of those whom they run to represent; and willing to admit when they are wrong? (Thank you Joe Sokolocvic for you work.) Time will tell.
Ron Mackey said:
“Tom White, you said, “There are students who complain, make excuses and blame others for their poor performance just as their parents (usually a ‘single mom’ or grandma) do,” so Tom White why is that?”
Ron Mackey, I shared the observation. In the past, the answer would be attributed to multi-generation dysfunctional family structure. What is your explanation?
Bob Walsh, one of my ‘gigs’ in retirement has been baby-sitting (aka substitute teacher) in Bridgeport high school classrooms. In that time I have been assigned to classroom duty over 500 days.
Over a period of years, I was an adjunct in the UB School of Business and instructed 45 classes in that time,
Any other questions, Bob?
There you go Tom (Being) White more of your blame the victim of a substandard education and not hold the white people who contribute to the the mess the children have to endure!
Over 50% of the members BBOE are white yet over 80% of the students are Black and Latino. The same can be said for the Principles in the Bridgeport school system where whites account for 82% while Black’s are 10% and Hispanic are 7%. The same can be said of the teachers of the Bridgeport school system where whites are 82% of teachers yet Black’s are 8% and Hispanics are just 7%. The same can be said of the funding for Bridgeport schools where Bridgeport contributes less toward the education of its children than any city in the State. As you can see WHITE PEOPLE are the primary reason that the children of Bridgeport recieve a substandard education because the decisions that they make don’t effect their children or their people, just Black and Latino children and they aren’t their primary concern!
Black’s and Latinos are anxious to have everything the white man has even if it is harmful.
Well, once again and as usual, Donald Day has it figured out.
In his words: “As you can see WHITE PEOPLE are the primary reason that the children of Bridgeport recieve a substandard education because the decisions that they make don’t effect their children or their people, just Black and Latino children and they aren’t their primary concern!”
Day has declared that Black and Latino children are victims of substandard education because most of the teachers and administrators are white.
He is a genius! How could the world have overlooked this!
Or, perhaps the problem is the effort by people like Donald Day to perpetuate the victim status of Blacks.
Here is the Donald Day critical thinking process:
Answer: Racism.
Question: Fill in the blank.
Tom White being white and as usual you know very little of American history, so let me share some with you and if I’m wrong tells us all. Blacks has been discriminated against by laws in the Constitution of the United States. Tom White, maybe you can tell us when did blacks become equal with whites?
Three-fifths of a citizen of the U.S., the three-fifths clause (Article I, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution of 1787) in fact declared that for purposes of representation in Congress, enslaved blacks in a state would be counted as three-fifths of the number of white inhabitants of that state.
Roger Taney became the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,Taney became best known for writing the final majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford, which said that all people of African descent, free or slave, were not United States citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. In addition, he wrote that the Fifth Amendment protected slave owner rights because slaves were their legal property.1857, in the infamous Dred Scott decision,
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal” The decision legitimized the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877).
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is credited as the establishment of equality in rights.
If individuals refuse to adopt behavior that demonstrate they are equal, the entire group suffers.
Tom White, so the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law but who was going to enforce the law in the south. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict in Brown v. Board of Education, ruling unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction. Oliver Brown, the lead plaintiff in the case, was one of almost 200 people from five different states who had joined related NAACP cases brought before the Supreme Court since 1938.
Tom White, after the Brown decision the entire South changed rom being Democrats to Dixiecrat to Republicans along with whites not going to pubic schools but instead they setup private schools in order not to go to public schools with blacks.
In August 1955, a 14–year–old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till had recently arrived in Money, Mississippi to visit relatives. While in a grocery store, he allegedly whistled and made a flirtatious remark to the white woman behind the counter, violating the strict racial codes of the Jim Crow South. Three days later, two white men—the woman’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half–brother, J.W. Milam—dragged Till from his great uncle’s house in the middle of the night. After beating the boy, they shot him to death and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River. The two men confessed to kidnapping Till but were acquitted of murder charges by an all–white, all–male jury after barely an hour of deliberations. Never brought to justice, Bryant and Milam later shared vivid details of how they killed Till with a journalist for Look magazine, which published their confessions under the headline “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi.”
n August 1955, a 14–year–old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till had recently arrived in Money, Mississippi to visit relatives. While in a grocery store, he allegedly whistled and made a flirtatious remark to the white woman behind the counter, violating the strict racial codes of the Jim Crow South. Three days later, two white men—the woman’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half–brother, J.W. Milam—dragged Till from his great uncle’s house in the middle of the night. After beating the boy, they shot him to death and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River. The two men confessed to kidnapping Till but were acquitted of murder charges by an all–white, all–male jury after barely an hour of deliberations. Never brought to justice, Bryant and Milam later shared vivid details of how they killed Till with a journalist for Look magazine, which published their confessions under the headline
“The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi.” The summer had barely begun, however, when three volunteers—Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, both white New Yorkers, and James Chaney, a black Mississippian—disappeared on their way back from investigating the burning of an African American church by the Ku Klux Klan. After a massive FBI investigation (code–named “Mississippi Burning”) their bodies were discovered on August 4 buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
On April 4, 1968, the world was stunned and saddened by the news that the civil rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had gone to support a sanitation workers’ strike. King’s death opened a huge rift between white and black Americans, as many blacks saw the killing as a rejection of their vigorous pursuit of equality through the nonviolent resistance he had championed. In more than 100 cities, several days of riots, burning and looting followed his death.
Tom (being) White it’s a matter of CAUSE & EFFECT. In essence, cause is the thing that makes other things happen.(White people running the educational system for Black’s) Effect refers to what results.(substandard education for Black’s.) To put it concisely, cause is the why something happened and effect is the what happened.
Studies, that come from everywhere, from major universities to private research institutions to civil rights organizations, all say the same thing: that race is still very much prevalent in American society, whether we talk about it or not. So since race differences never went away, can we also assume that racism never went away? Of course, we can. America is not colorblind. It’s so blinded by color that it just can’t see racism.
Tom (being) White do you see yourself in that paragraph? That’s merely rhetorical because I know you don’t.
Donald Day suggests that “White people running the educational system for Black’s” causes “substandard education for Black’s”. (note that I did not correct his grammar)
Donald Day does not understand the difference between racism and racial bias.
There is racial bias in the United States.
To use Day’s attempt to argue ’cause and affect’, the cause is bad behavior. The effect is racial bias.
Tom (being) White, are you suggesting or insinuating that RACISM doesn’t exists in this America. RACISM has been a part of this America from the time white people first step their Racist feet on this America. You’re a perfect example of a RACIST with RACIAL BIAS.
Tom (being) White, the problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Tom (being) White, you’re so RACIST, I bet you think this post is about you!
Donald Day, I admit to being conscious of racial bias.
It is ignoramuses like you who fuel this bias.
Bias is reinforced by observed bad behavior and will not end until bad behavior and the forever-victim status ends.
Don, Tom White being white said this, like you who fuel this bias, “bias is reinforced by observed bad behavior and will not end until bad behavior and the forever-victim status ends. Tom White is correct but he fails to mention the bad behavior in history of a complex system of social and political Racism. Don here is a little American history that Tom White being white knows nothing about, here is a little American history or white.
History has shown us that the consequences of contagion are not equally felt by all communities.
Almost 100 years ago, a 1926 syphilis survey conducted in the US state of Alabama showed that 36 percent of the people in Macon County had syphilis. Only 60 years after the legal abolition of slavery, Black Americans made up the majority of that county, barely keeping a living through sharecropping.
In 1932, the county was chosen to become a living laboratory in which for the next few decades, Black men would be tested and examined to track the development of syphilis. The study was led by what was then known as the Tuskegee Institute, which recruited hundreds of residents, misleading them that they were receiving treatment.
In the late 1940s, effective treatments became available for the disease, but the unwilling participants in the study were not given access to it. They did not become aware that they were being lied to until local media uncovered the truth in 1972.
This story was not an isolated accident but was rather part of the systematic disregard for
African American lives by public and private institutions during the Jim Crow era. At that time, medical professionals openly espoused anti-Black racist beliefs and were convinced treatment for some diseases, like syphilis, was not possible among Black communities.
For instance, Thomas W Murrell, a doctor at the University College of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia, wrote in 1906:
“Those that are treated are only half cured, and the effort to assimilate a complex civilization drives their diseased minds until the results are criminal records. Perhaps here, in conjunction with tuberculosis, will be the end of the negro problem. Disease will accomplish what man cannot do.”
the responsibility entirely on minority communities to protect themselves against health inequities they are not responsible for.
“Racism: The most dangerous ‘pre-existing condition'”
by Edna Bonhomme
There you go, that’s the Tom (being) White that I abominate and loathe. Tom (being) White you are suffering from the Trump virus, a dumb bastard that thinks he’s smarter than everyone else! Tom (being) White you can’t help it because the white men has a God complex. Don’t blame yourself, that’s my job. Like Trump you think you are more intelligent than ALL BLACK’S and Women, but the reality is you’re a dumb bastard, just like ya boy! Why, because the white man has a God complex.
Tom (being) White, I pity you and those young kids that had to put up with you while trying to learn from a teacher that was a dumb bastard. We wonder why the children in Bridgeport are behind academically and all we have to do us to look at the dumb bastard’s that are supposedly their teachers! The White Man Has A God Complex!
“Tim Wise: On White Privilege”
https://youtu.be/J3Xe1kX7Wsc
I see I see you and Day used the term Tom White being White excessively in your recent comments. Do you tell why?
Tim Wise has some interesting points on “white privilege” about the Elitist giving them carrots, land, property, jobs, as a means of controlling blacks slaves/indentured servants. Yet still being looked down upon by the Elitist.
I have a quick question for you and Day. Did those same Elitist give “black privilege” to black slaves/indentured servants to keep the whites, slaves/indentured servants in control, to not try to overthrow them with the power (privilege) that was given to them?
I mean, since before America “there was no such thing as a white race, They spent most of the time killed each other” according to Tim Wise? Considering you and Day received many carrots, city job, homeownership, pension. So when you say Tom White who is always being (white) your comments seems like what Tim Wise saying “you have to convince them that their skin is more important than their economic interest, divide and conquer”
Tim’s take was interesting about New Orleans 9th Ward 95% Black with a 40% poverty rate and St Bernard Parish 95% White with a “high” poverty rate (probably lower the 9th ward) but similar. both lost everything when the levees breached. But if you would have asked those white across the river prior to the Katrina who was to blame for their troubles? The would have said the blacks. But what if you asked the blacks to the cause of their economic condition as to who was the blame? HMM
I guess my point is with you repeatedly calling Tom White and his “white privilege” as being white you are continuing the divide and conquer that Tim Wise has expanded. Which I think is unfair to Jeff. 🙂
Can that be the “black privilege” those Elitsit had given you as a means of control both blacks and white who they still look down upon? Considering you drive two Mercedes’s (I believe) and drawing a fat pension from a “privilege” job Like those privileged whites who tells those non-privilege poorer white that blacks are the cause of their economic state. You as a privileged, Mercedes’ driving, homeowner, pension recipient black blaming whites for their non-privilege, public transportation, housing, blacks for their economic state. That control pendulum swings both ways, Ron.
P.S Day, keep God out of you privilege ass bullshit, please. Also which all the hating you have been doing om Maria you might have issues with women too. 🙂 BAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHEQX7P9R44