same thing i did on september 19th, 2001 when the nycboe in its infinite wisdom tranferred into my 7th grade homeroom - in spanish harlem - a child with the name abdullah islam who arrived in the classroom wearing salwar kamaeez. strongly reprimand the first child who made a disparaging remark and then lecture for a while about cultural differences and how hurtful language can be with examples from the way african americans and other ethnic minorities in america have been treated. then engage the students in a discussion where they shared stories about times that they themselves had been discriminated against. finally asked abdullah to share some of his history with us and allowed the students to ask him questions. once they found out he was a yankees fan and a huge knicks fan the racial and religious talk was replaced by arguments over baseball and basketball.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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Updated On: 6/25/08 at 02:41 PM
