tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post4139600468033584163..comments2023-08-06T05:52:29.692-04:00Comments on Keep It Trill: When Tears Are Like Rain & The Sun Feels So GoodKit (Keep It Trill)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03027769872237001801noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post-48731544729878889442008-06-14T01:45:00.000-04:002008-06-14T01:45:00.000-04:00Thank you Claudia. I appreciate your feedback.Thank you Claudia. I appreciate your feedback.Kit (Keep It Trill)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03027769872237001801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post-11166997771288160292008-06-14T01:12:00.000-04:002008-06-14T01:12:00.000-04:00beautiful blog.thank you for your words, thoughts ...beautiful blog.<BR/>thank you for your words, thoughts and time. they are all much appreciated. never in vain.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06952924120661105058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post-4503493663361340792008-06-12T19:14:00.000-04:002008-06-12T19:14:00.000-04:00Hi knowgoodwhitepeople,You and your daughter's sto...Hi knowgoodwhitepeople,<BR/><BR/>You and your daughter's story really moved me. Been thru something similar with my own daughter and I think I'll about it. <BR/><BR/>I also checked out your blog. I love the sub-heading of your blog name, <I>Wrestling the term White Pride out of the hands of the Klan</I>. I'll read your posts this evening, and I hope you write about your own experience which you discussed here. <BR/><BR/>Your daughter is fortunate that you got her academic needs met. Some schools will back off when you fight with them, but others will not. She was lucky... and really lucky to learn that she's as gifted and smart as her white college classmates. Too bad we have to go thru so much pain and struggle to learn what should be a given, that all races, as a group, have equal abilities.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comment.Kit (Keep It Trill)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03027769872237001801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post-49392917321220873522008-06-12T18:42:00.000-04:002008-06-12T18:42:00.000-04:00I love the way you write -- it feels like a really...I love the way you write -- it feels like a really good late night conversation at the kitchen table with family. :-)<BR/><BR/>Your story reminded me of the INTENSE fight I had to wage to get my daughter "educated" in our local public schools.<BR/><BR/>I had just relocated to Southern California and my (then 8th grade) daughter's middle school had not yet received her file.<BR/><BR/>I don't know how they determined her class schedule, but I suspect they eyeballed her and saw brown skin, and looked at her home address and saw "hood," so they put her in all "remedial" classes without even saying boo to me about it.<BR/><BR/>At the end of the first week, my baby came home complaining that her classes were all too easy for her, and that the kids were "bad" (bored, I suspect) She told me her math class was learning how to count to a hundred by twos!<BR/><BR/>The following Monday I sat in the counseling office for nearly three hours arguing with a white woman who refused to place my 8th grade child in an Algebra class. <BR/><BR/>I was told Melody had to be recognized by the state of California as "Talented and Gifted" to gain access to what the school referred to as the "Honors Path". <BR/><BR/>After a ridiculously long and heated verbal battle, (I finally threatened a lawsuit) the counselor pulled some strings and Melody was placed on their "Honors Path." <BR/><BR/>The next day she was moved from all of her mostly black and brown-populated classes into classes where she was one of only a handful of children of color.<BR/><BR/>In high school, we faced the same uphill battle trying to make sure she got into the right classes so she'd be eligible for college entrance. Again, she was always one of a few black or brown students in the room. <BR/><BR/>In her senior year, my daughter really (I mean REALLY) wanted to go to a HBCU (she was tired of being the "only"), but I couldn't pay for it. She ended up at UC Santa Barbara (3% black population). <BR/><BR/>In the first few weeks she often called me crying -- threatening to quit. She said her classmates seemed so much smarter. "Mommy these kids know things I've never even heard of." I explained that many of those kids had attended private schools their entire lives, and that she should not compare herself to them, but just do her best, and do her work.<BR/><BR/>In her second semester she found her strength -- in classroom discussions she could relate lessons to the real world in ways none of her classmates could. Her teachers began calling on her for her opinions, because Melody could dissect an argument and introduce unique perspectives due to her unique (that is, "hood") upbringing.<BR/><BR/>When she graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2004, I couldn't help but wonder what might be happening with the black and brown children she left behind in those "bad" classes when she was granted entrance to the "Honors Path." <BR/><BR/>I wonder what paths they have ended up on...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post-67610325503006152612008-06-11T14:01:00.000-04:002008-06-11T14:01:00.000-04:00I'm not the only one impressed with your efforts t...I'm not the only one impressed with your efforts to bridge racial relations, Macon. Check over at Siddity's blog. ~ Hugs, KitKit (Keep It Trill)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03027769872237001801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6325219138869173743.post-14813023881499026012008-06-11T13:21:00.000-04:002008-06-11T13:21:00.000-04:00Thanks for the reference in this post, Kit, I'm ho...Thanks for the reference in this post, Kit, I'm honored! Coincidentally, I also recommended a post of yours in my most recent post. Same wavelength? Seems that way.<BR/><BR/>I look forward to reading this more thoroughly when I can settle down for it, busy week for me . . .macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.com