In response to Color-Related (Longshot Kick Da Bucket)

Not speaking for all Black teachers, but I know a lot of us have had to put up with the racial B.S. Everything from not being hired to being hired and treated like dog s--t. Just because we are Black, went to America to be slaves and don't know how to speak English (Chinese opinions). Not to forget that we all look alike, all of us can sing and dance and are a constant barrel of laughs who should not mind being disrespected - (they didn't mean it) (don't be so sensitive) etc etc.. (the rest of the bunch)

But, and there is always a but... the times they are a changin'. More schools are now turning to their BLACK teachers to repair damage, as in bad reputations, caused by that other group. As they bleed red ink all over the balance sheets, they come to us with a plea to remove the rusty blade so deeply imbedded in their entrails by the trusted white foreign "friends."

How many of you Black male teachers got that slap up side the head for not holding a door for a woman? And if you were lucky it was a slap, and not a wet dish cloth. Now that hurts!! But we learned our lesson (I only needed one - my brother took three) and we do hold doors and show other kinds of respect - to everyone.

These schools now need us to open the door for "good teachers", tell the interested ones that all is right within, and hold their little hands after we show them where to sign the contract. Every time I hear this story I want to rewrite some lines - "I want you, I need you but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you. Now don't be sad, 'cause two out of three ain't bad." Should be, "I want you, I need you and I'm gonna pay you a lot more money." The reader can add the appropriate rhyming line. May be stretching it a bit, but it IS possible this a positive Barack side effect.

Seems that some of those white chickens have come home to roost and the Chinese are finding they look better in the soup pot (heads, feet and all) instead of in the class room. I once told my employer that we (Blacks and Chinese) had a lot in common. (meaning the crap we had to put up with from SOME white teachers). Not true Li Bai, not true!! But when thay had to call me in on my day off to teach a kindy demo class because the chosen one wanted to "kill the little (profanity) it was the best class of my life. They had no idea what I was laughing at (him sitting outside staring off into space), but they laughed right along with me. Kiddies happy, parents happy, school gets contract so they are happy and I'm the best teacher in the world. (Yes, I got paid for it too, so I was happy(ier).

Until the next time .....