(Name-mce) ListServ Name-mce Digest, Vol 384, Issue 1

[Cindy Lutenbacher]

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>    1. Re:  N-word response to Bill's response (Bill Howe)
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>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:43:14 -0500
>From: "Bill Howe" <bill at billhowe.org>
>Subject: Re: (Name-mce) ListServ N-word response to Bill's response
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>Teja - your last sentence is a key point:
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>:What I would like to see is a conscious effort for us to teach the next
>generation that this language is NOT necessary in order to be funny or
>profound. Bad language is too easy. Good stories are difficult. "
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>The Anti-Defamation League puts out some of  THE BEST teaching and training
>materials and conduct great workshops on the issue of name-calling and other
>forms of bias. Here in Connecticut the local ADL branch has an outstanding
>cadre of full and part-time trainers. They have had great success with their
>program - Names Can Really Hurt Us
>http://www.adl.org/education/edu_awod/awod_pilot.asp. In fact, we (CT State
>Dept of Education) have just awarded them a fairly large grant to do their
>workshops for teachers and students in the state.
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>In my job - handling civil rights complaints, conducting prof Dev workshops
>and visiting schools - the issue of racist language is constantly evident.
>As a proud teacher for over 30 years, I find it obscene that a small number
>of educators (at all levels) use racist and derogatory language. It gives
>the rest of us a really bad reputation and adds fuel to the teacher-bashing
>that goes on. It galls me too that so few people stand up to these bigots.
>Dear Bill,

You've been a great voice for so many things.  But here, I worry less 
about the rep of teachers and more about the harm that the teachers 
to whom you refer are doing to students.  For me, anti-racism work 
must always put the lives of people of color at the center.


>How bad is it in higher education?
>I teach at the college level, and I see more open gay-bashing by 
>professors than anything else.

Cindy L.