Comments on: New Blog: Anti-Racist Parent http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_427 Because we care about stuff Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jen chau http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_427/comment-page-1#comment-3620 jen chau Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:15:38 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_427#comment-3620 Donna, it definitely does sound like he is a pistol! Hope that you and others will come on over to ARP to contribute to the parenting discussions we have over there! Thanks Andrea for helping to spread the word about Anti-Racist Parent! The more voices, the better! Best, Jen New Demographic an anti-racism training company www.newdemographic.com Addicted to Race a podcast about America’s obsession with race www.addictedtorace.com Donna, it definitely does sound like he is a pistol! Hope that you and others will come on over to ARP to contribute to the parenting discussions we have over there!

Thanks Andrea for helping to spread the word about Anti-Racist Parent! The more voices, the better!

Best,
Jen

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an anti-racism training company
http://www.newdemographic.com

Addicted to Race
a podcast about America’s obsession with race
http://www.addictedtorace.com

]]> By: Donna http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_427/comment-page-1#comment-3517 Donna Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:44:15 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji/2006-10-13_427#comment-3517 I've been talking about racism, sexism, etc to my children since they were very young and wondered if I got through to them until my oldest son's teacher told me a story during one of the parent/teacher meetings. This was when he was back in third grade he's a freshman in high school now. Anyway, he was playing with a bunch of boys and a girl asked if she could play too. One of the boys said she couldn't since she's a girl. My son immediately said, "I can't play either since you're sexist." and walked away with the girl! This son is also mildly autistic. There are alot of reasons to be proud of him, since he was able to break through the silence to make friends and be a friend to others among many other things. Which reminds me, he got into trouble one time and was sent to the principals office for protesting his "civil rights". During a class where they had a substitute teacher, a couple of the kids were disruptive and the teacher couldn't finish the lecture, so she gave them a writing assignment. My son sat there doing nothing. She asked him why and he said it was against his civil rights to be punished for someone else's crime and refused to write the essay. Once he said that about 4 other students said they also would not do the assignment and they all got sent to the principals office. He's a pistol! I’ve been talking about racism, sexism, etc to my children since they were very young and wondered if I got through to them until my oldest son’s teacher told me a story during one of the parent/teacher meetings. This was when he was back in third grade he’s a freshman in high school now. Anyway, he was playing with a bunch of boys and a girl asked if she could play too. One of the boys said she couldn’t since she’s a girl. My son immediately said, “I can’t play either since you’re sexist.” and walked away with the girl! This son is also mildly autistic. There are alot of reasons to be proud of him, since he was able to break through the silence to make friends and be a friend to others among many other things.

Which reminds me, he got into trouble one time and was sent to the principals office for protesting his “civil rights”. During a class where they had a substitute teacher, a couple of the kids were disruptive and the teacher couldn’t finish the lecture, so she gave them a writing assignment. My son sat there doing nothing. She asked him why and he said it was against his civil rights to be punished for someone else’s crime and refused to write the essay. Once he said that about 4 other students said they also would not do the assignment and they all got sent to the principals office.

He’s a pistol!

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