Delpit Argument

 Honestly,
   I found Delpit hard to read and hard to understand. What i did get out of it and correct me if im wrong, was a very narrow minded point of view. What i read and very simply stated was that Delpit feels that our white teachers are not culturally sensitive to colored culture and that we are not sensitive to their language either. I was actually offended when the author depicted black language with a southern accent, i'm sorry but really? I have never heard of a colored person in Rhode Island speak in such a way. I understood clearly the relevance in the tiny village in Alaska those people are for the most part secluded and have developed their own common language makes sense. To say, however, that in all of America we should teach in two different languages one with a southern accent apparently is just nonsense. I am pretty confident in saying that very few Americans speak fluent and correct formal English. English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, and its variations depend I believe more on where in the country or what country you live. Americans living in the southern part tend to have a more what we call southern accent that is not based on color. Northerners well we have are own twist on the language and have our own fun words like "Wicked" and "Bubbler". I also disagree with her way of using the teacher and Joeys conversation as if white people were the only people to make a language. colored people have created and abundance of complex intelligent languages and i wouldn't attempt to change them i wouldn't learn them and then accuse them of not being culturally sensitive if i didn't learn them correctly. If you wanted to be even broader than just America how about the 6,500 http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/many-spoken-languages.html other spoken languages around the world, do we alter all of them based on color do we say there should be a black Japanese? How far do you go with that argument?
 On the way to adress your students I agree with Delpit that the way you instruct can be confusing to children depending on rules with in the home. I however disagree with again what i saw as her being narrow minded; that colored children on learn in a direct way. I think that all children listen and follow instruction diffrently based on how they are talked to within the home i don't think this just applies to colored children. What i do believe is that the best way to handle and correct this is to educate teacher's, and then educate them some more. I think awareness and understanding will allow for teachers to instruct in a way that is best for her audience. I jsut don't agree with these writing's maybe it's me...I see things so much broader than that. If we are learning to be accepting and diverse don't write about how white people don't know how teach colered children because than someone can easily write about how colored teachers don't know how to teach whit kids and honestly what makes one argument better than the other? Write instead an article about how to better educate our teachers on diversity, how to make them more culturally aware. Please comment however you feel because maybe im reading into this wrong and it's just me i honestly am not sure.

Kozol

When i was reading the chapter from Amazing Grace it reminded me a lot of the first few chapters in this book Kozol wrote too.

 Slums of America  

Although most Americans remain willfully ignorant to it there are slums in America. Recently i took a business trip to Philadelphia it was my first time to a big city. I remember admiring how every building looked like art, there was city sweepers, and everything was so clean. I had wanted to visit Philly's main DCYF building to get a sense of the programs they had for youth in care and how they implemented them so i jumped on the subway. Somewhere along the lines i took a wrong turn and when i got off the subway and walked up to ground level i was stunned. It was like the people here didn't exist as if, they had been completely forgotten about. I mean just a few blocks away i was beautiful, well kept, and bustling...what makes that side more important than this side? I was still in Philadelphia. The reading reminded me of this trip how one side of the city seemed so worthy and the other worthy of nothing. Honestly im still incredibly confused by the whole thing because when you have a city that is flourishing as well as Philly which holds hundreds of   massive conferences and brings in millions of dollars you would think some of that money would overflow and help the lesser fortunate parts of the state grow. I would love to meet the man who made the decision on where the street sweepers can go I'd love to ask him how he decided at what parts of Philly are worthy of being clean and which parts are not. 

This reading also reminded me of the days i lived with my best friend in Manton projects, RI. Bianca and I had become the best of friends after sharing a room in a local children's shelter and often we would run away and stay at her home in the projects. As a young white girl from Exeter i was definitely out of my comfort zone. When i was reading the chapter last night the feelings i felt i realized were not coming primarily from the reading but from my lived experience. Living in Manton i had grew accustomed to a whole new culture and although i first felt so afraid i left feeling like i belonged everything became "normal". There was cockroaches literally everywhere, trash on the streets, babies crying, and the violence....I can't even begin. When i was reading and the mother kept saying " What else can i say?" there is something that living in those condition does to people like they feel trapped. I get very angry when people mantain the attitude "Well why don't they just move out?" if only it was that easy. The youth that i was surrounded by literally lived in survival mode constantly there was fear of being "jumped", fear of the men, the dark. Those youth knew so much more about things they should have never had too. I could go on for days so.....

Anyways, in my personal opinion there is absolutely no need for "ghettos". To me they just emphasize how bad America segregates class and that's despicable. I feel like when a city has met it its needs the extra funding should go to the other cities. For example  Newport has successfully financially supported its city after a yearly  income of  1.2 million but it made 2.1 million take some of that overhead and help fix up providence. Why couldn't that work??.. Think of the benefits to that, Having "Ghettos benefits NOBODY. It's a fact that it generates high drug use, illness, and disease..and of course it does. You live in those conditions and tell me how you feel, how much hope you have, 

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Hey Guys!!,
   My name is Tanya i am a transfer student from CCRI and this is actually my first semester at RIC! Also this is my first blog. Im really excited to work through this class i definitely feel that it has alot to offer and that i could apply it to my current job right away. See you all in the morning,

Tanya