Indeed, sometimes the native peoples are shown to be better in some way than European society and the white man begins to despise his old home. Sometimes the foreign societies are shown to be realistic, three-dimensional and actually rather pleasant places to live. Extra points if he woos The Chief's Daughter along the way an unfortunately common variation that perpetuates into present-day media is that she will continue to love our hero even if he is directly responsible for the death of her husband, brother, or father. In cases of the first and second, this trope can heavily overlap with Led by the Outsider. But all of the District officials who turned a blind eye for so long are still on staff and getting their paychecks.A common trope in 18th and 19th century adventure fiction, when Europeans were visiting and documenting vast swathes of the world for the first time, Mighty Whitey is usually a displaced white European, who ends up living with native tribespeople and not only learns their ways but also becomes their greatest warrior/leader/representative. Yet the school district has been happy to scapegoat Ms. This racist well runs much deeper than a single math instructor. The teacher herself is to blame for her own actions, of course, but her superiors are to blame for not intervening.
The real problem here, according to the Indigenous community of Riverside, California, is that this behavior was allowed to go on for so long. The yearbook praised how the teacher "wears an Indian headdress to emphasize geometry basics." It's that school officials KNEW ABOUT IT for nine years.īack in 2012, the teacher's racist ways were even featured in the school yearbook as an inspiring example of how a teacher could really connect with her students. The biggest issue, though, isn't that this teacher did what she did.
It happened in a classroom, where dozens of young people were apparently taught that this is normal behavior. How would this teacher - or any one of us - feel if someone made fun of our spiritual or religious beliefs (or lack thereof) like this? If they pretended to pray to a deity we believed in, then breaking off and peeling into laughter about how "ridiculous" it is? And of course, this racist intolerance didn't just happen anywhere. Giggling, she made a dramatic display of mock-praying to a water goddess, asking her to "tell me the secret Indian chant." Then she burst into laughter saying: "Obviously this is ridiculous." The math teacher also laughed and made fun of Native religious beliefs. Reed's superiors at the school and at the District level be suspended at once! And her supervisors didn't intervene until footage of one such "lesson" went viral on social media and public pressure made it impossible to continue turning a blind eye. She mocked his people right in front of his face. Supposedly this was supposed to help the students learn trigonometry, because all the while she was screaming math terms.Īnd, to make this horrible story even worse, the teacher did this in front of an Indigenous student in her class. Candice Reed, as part of her math class, routinely donned a fake, homemade Native American headdress - and then paired it with jumping and exaggerated dancing around the classroom, making "tomahawk chop" gestures. Even though they knew about it, no officials at the school seemed to care. Keep signing and sharing the petition.įor upwards of 9 years, a white high school teacher in Riverside, California had been mocking Indigenous peoples, laughing and making fun of Native American heritage during her classes. The kids at this school and the community members at large deserve that. Until Reed's superiors - every single one that could have done something, but didn't - are suspended and make clear that they ackowledge their toxic and dangerous negligence, we cannot stop fighting. But this offensive, harmful behavior was allowed to continue for nearly a decade without superior intervention, leading us to believe that this is not just an issue of one person, but a systemic and deeply rooted one.
TEACHER MOCKS NATIVE AMERICAN UPDATE
*CARE2 UPDATE * Candice Reed has been terminated from her position at John W.
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