Heartbreak Hotel
One of my top students turned this in as the beginning to her answer to a question on a take-home essay quiz:
Question #2:
How have African responded to their treatment by European nations?
Response:
Africans have responded to their treatment by European Nations. They came up with a system. The system was called apartheid. Apartheid was a system of legal racial segregation in South Africa. It restricted the lives of Blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
The system dealt with slavery. It was to stop the whites and blacks from being treated differently. They should be treated equally. The apartheid system was there to help.
Thus my subsequent facial expression.
Ouch.
OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!
That hurts.
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this is similar to my perpetual struggle to convince kids that martin luther king did not free the slaves. in a literal sense at least.
I have a big problem getting my students to understand that although I was born in Trenton, New Jersey my PARENTS were born in Africa. Thus, I don't share my parents' nationality. Neither do I share their accent. Sadly, many of my students think my accent is an "African" one (I don't even breach the conversation about how accents are based on language and region--not necessarily nationality--and how people from Mississippi to Trenton to London to Lagos to Bombay to Sydney to Kingston ALL SPEAK ENGLISH JUST WITH DIFFERENT ACCENTS!!!) as oppose to a Delaware Valley/Tri-State Area accent. Oh, children....