tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post4831774882071565292..comments2024-03-28T02:38:10.854-07:00Comments on The Turner Report: Racism is thriving in AmericaRandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05760019501046060231noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-14326430943210151332010-04-02T16:53:59.211-07:002010-04-02T16:53:59.211-07:00Turner abuses his teaching position in order to ad...Turner abuses his teaching position in order to advance his own liberal agenda. <br /><br />Not as big a problem back when Turner was simply writing lies in the liepapers. Then, if you didn't like what self-serving lies Turner wrote and the idiot publishers published, the solution was simple: simply don't buy and read Turner's garbage or sue Turner for libel and slander. Something The Gimlet Eyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-18709843648648788022010-03-28T11:35:54.542-07:002010-03-28T11:35:54.542-07:00I have said it time and again and I repeat....I wo...I have said it time and again and I repeat....I would not allow my child in this man's classroom....I have a great appreciation for public education and come from a long line of teachers (including myself) but it becoming more and more easy to understand home schooling...something I have long opposed...even if home schooling parents have their own agenda...that is no worse than a public Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-90811104279076376682010-03-28T10:25:51.193-07:002010-03-28T10:25:51.193-07:00Racism is wrong. The most important thing that has...Racism is wrong. The most important thing that has not been mentioned is that the racism comes from all races, not just the white americans. Randy, you talk about the alleged spitting and racial slurs. I may have missed it during the elections if you spoke out, but what about the black thugs that were outside of election places with sticks. Think that isn't a form of racist threats against Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-90137990685179420582010-03-28T10:24:24.647-07:002010-03-28T10:24:24.647-07:00Racism is wrong. The most important thing that has...Racism is wrong. The most important thing that has not been mentioned is that the racism comes from all races, not just the white americans. Randy, you talk about the alleged spitting and racial slurs. I may have missed it during the elections if you spoke out, but what about the black thugs that were outside of election places with sticks. Think that isn't a form of racist threats against Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-64890251851848470922010-03-27T01:07:20.788-07:002010-03-27T01:07:20.788-07:00Randy Turner is the typical liberal school teacher...Randy Turner is the typical liberal school teacher trying to make children into liberal drones like he is through a process of educational assimilation. Call him Goofballus of Borg. <br /><br />For example, Turner admits to forcing his students into writing some lauditory silliness about the civil rights movement. It would be a foolhardy student who wrote up a hagiography about General Nathan Gimlet Eyenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-16387739233623677902010-03-26T07:56:38.636-07:002010-03-26T07:56:38.636-07:00Randy, I wasn't criticizing your choice of res...Randy, I wasn't criticizing your choice of research projects. I WAS criticizing the latent racism I've seen in the midwest--which is so often combined with a denial that the speaker/community is really racist.<br /><br />My point was that, when you listen to all the talk about "us" and "them," and when you hear all the talk about "the blacks" or "the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-72897738802256201332010-03-26T07:35:07.805-07:002010-03-26T07:35:07.805-07:00Jim Durbin: You're being silly, reporting bour...Jim Durbin: You're being silly, reporting bourgeois truth when only revolutionary truth matters to people like Randy.<br /><br />One only hopes his students figure out someday the difference between the two and which is most important to them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-69935915453605039422010-03-26T06:28:38.357-07:002010-03-26T06:28:38.357-07:00Randy- this would br a good post if the slurs or s...Randy- this would br a good post if the slurs or spitting had happened. <br /><br />Neither did, and there's a $10,000 bounty on any video showing a single mention of the n-word. <br /><br />Are you going to be honest enough to write about it once you've studied up? <br /><br />And the real question- what do you teach your students about how politicians use race to divide white and black Jim DurbinHttp://www.24thstate.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-66255248499231388102010-03-26T05:28:01.523-07:002010-03-26T05:28:01.523-07:00The students in my class are given 15 topics conce...The students in my class are given 15 topics concerning the civil rights movement. They also are allowed to select a related topic of their own, as long as I can be convinced there is enough material available for the topic. We also have a large collection of civil rights books in the East Middle School Library, which, when added to my own collection, offers the students the ability to employ Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05760019501046060231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-79068014559509848132010-03-26T05:14:44.008-07:002010-03-26T05:14:44.008-07:00Having grown up in the Deep South and then moving ...Having grown up in the Deep South and then moving to Joplin, I was always amazed at how little difference I saw in terms of racism.<br /><br />The only real difference is that people in the midwest THINK they aren't racist because there are so few minorities for them to actively discriminate against. But all you really have to do is listen to how they talk about other races. Then it's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-78140145648949750902010-03-26T05:11:34.827-07:002010-03-26T05:11:34.827-07:00If I understand correctly, you spend that much tim...If I understand correctly, you spend that much time on a research paper each year and each year the topic is the same for every student. No wonder you are brainwashed if you read that many papers each year on the same subject which I suspect is slanted to your opinion because of what you tell the kids to begin with. Why are you ignoring all the other great movements and events in history and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-40935330602600330562010-03-26T04:52:35.394-07:002010-03-26T04:52:35.394-07:00Jim, you are quite correct. I was still thinking m...Jim, you are quite correct. I was still thinking more about the way John Lewis was treated over the weekend.<br /><br />As for anonymous at 3:54, teaching students how to write a research paper is much a part of teaching English as providing instruction on how to conjugate verbs or the meaning of a short story. While they are researching the civil rights movement, they not only are writing papersRandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05760019501046060231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-5177162214578553672010-03-26T04:24:08.415-07:002010-03-26T04:24:08.415-07:00You mention the "sacrifices of so many during...You mention the "sacrifices of so many during the 1950s and 1960s" as if it is the blacks who were sacrificing, then. African Americans had been making sacrifices for hundreds of years. The 1950's and 60's were when they said "no more". <br />No, they didn't sacrifice anything except 'the back of the bus'...what they did was fight for the equality they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985022.post-3446687980898434512010-03-26T03:54:16.228-07:002010-03-26T03:54:16.228-07:00Might be a good idea to rethink that, Randy. Why ...Might be a good idea to rethink that, Randy. Why don't you teach them -- ENGLISH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com