Ms. Riley can read and understand. She said what she believes and feels that African Americans are inferior, which means African American culture is inferior. The only education African Americans need is the form of this white supremist society has already given and only way we as African Americans can learn is…

Post it? Bitch got it published in a newspaper. Admittedly, it’s not a paper fit to wrap fish but it’s a newspaper nonetheless.

I remember her getting canned from the Chronicle. They run plenty of right-wing hate speech in the name of “intellectual diversity,” but she managed to cross that line too. The NY Post is probably about right for her. At least now she’ll be easier to avoid.

Yeah, The other thing which I think is where this connects to The origonal article is a lot of people are not fully able to grasp Ideas like generational poverty, or how a culture can be victimized and then un-able to heal even though in modern times things are much better, because the wounds of one generation are…

I am a year younger than your mother and in the early 70's was a social worker for the Vancouver Childrens Aid Society. It was nearly ten years before we got training on sexual abuse and symptoms. Suddenly it became very clear why I felt I was spinning my wheels working with native children; I didn’t have a clue…

That’s an interesting piece. I am wondering though can you explain what did you mean by this:

Like Water for Chocolate is on my “to read” list, so I’ll move it up to next! I had my students read the Marquez story last fall, although I’m not sure they fully appreciated it. Thanks for the recommendations!

I’m a sucker for Isabelle Allende’s whole Eva Luna series. I really liked Abel Sanchez by Miguel de Unamuno and of course it goes without saying Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. One Hundred Years of Solitude was really good, but Marquez’ short story, The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings was also pretty…

Must be nice not having to engage with shit outside the goddamned bubble.

Her name was familiar, I thought she was the one who wrote that anti-Indian book last year. Sure enough, Naomi Schaeffer Riley is the one who caused a stir 5 years ago when she wrote an article advocating that universities should do away with black studies departments. Then she decided to pick on Native Americans…

What are some of your favorites? I’ll admit that literature in Spanish isn’t my strongest area, so I would love some recommendations that I can track down in an English translation.

I agree with everything you wrote, although I have a special place in my heart for literature written in Spanish.

Wow. What an asshole.

I can’t even with her. She’s the epitome of WYPIPO. She refuses to acknowledge systematic disadvantages among minorities. And every time a minority fails it’s because of their culture.

“I have had parents tell me it is stupid to push for minorities to take up teaching.”

What really impresses me about white people who talk about ‘fixing’ education for black kids is that they essentially take everything that makes white, suburban schools successful and argue poor black schools do the opposite. The idiocy is truly spectacular.

My mom is 74 now but Taught art for years in public school here in British Columbia. When she first graduated she got a job working in the Interior, the idea was to be far enough away from her parents they couldnt expect her home on weekends.

Thanks for the rec, but I’ll have to read it next weekend.

As a Latina teaching math I agree with you 100%. People who have never taught need to STFU. And let us not forget the shitty treatment teachers of color get. I have had students ask me why I don’t teach Spanish. I have had parents tell me it is stupid to push for minorities to take up teaching.

I always find it so rich when white people feign a sense of concern about the education of minority children. Those same idiots, like this Riley person, will attack black PhD students for their subject material when she says: “How could we overlook the nonwhite experience in “natural birth literature,” whatever the…