when the racist bully is the principal and the teachers - NYC PS 34

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/jg04132005.html


"They Will Treat You Like Animals"
The Abuse of Haitian Kids at PS 34

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As a seasoned and rather proud cynic, there are few displays of barbarism that tweak the nerves, bring about a spat of fury, a vitriolic spasm, and what have you. Forget that last bit of deceit. In reality, all too often, I do succumb to the sexy red temptress of rage. The latest chapter of rancor and virulence proliferated by New York Public School 34's Assistant Principle Nancy Miller and Principle Pauline Shakespeare has my bowels in fits.

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Thirteen fourth grade students on public trial. The jury ­ PS34 populace. The courtroom ­ school cafeteria. The crime ­ being Haitian. In response to a classroom conflict involving two students, educational hack Nancy Miller, as white-cloaked-judge in de facto robe, sentenced the youths to public humiliation and ethnic degradation. As punishment for acting in the universal vein of childhood, she sat the children on the cafeteria floor before the student-jury, forced them to eat their lunch of rice and chicken with bare hands, subjecting them to a primary-educational-stoning, equipped with demeaning glances and ridicule per their peers. According to the "guilty" parties, Miller's articulation was as such: "In Haiti, they treat you like animals, and I will treat you the same way here." Yes Ms. Miller, in Haiti, they, Blancs yo (Whites / foreigners / outsiders, aka UN, U$, France, Canada, USAID, OAS, CIA, 184, Haitian Elite) do treat us as inferior peoples, acting as only savages can. We expect no less from you, you studious apprentice. Only through the lens of a dysfunctional clique of negrophobes could such a valiant people be "considered inferior." If time travel were possible, now would be an excellent time to send message to General Le Clerc and Napoleon Bonaparte. The query: How humiliating was the serving, guerilla style in 1804?

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Mucho Kudos to Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News for breaking a story, previously solely known to the listener ship of New York and East Coast Haitian Radio. I'll go on the offensive here. Those who are morally outraged and shocked require a crash-course in Jim Crow history. For extra credit, do rent Jerry Bruckheimer's amateurish, over-budgeted, over-hyped, vituperative, virulent Hollywood concoction, Bad Boys II, from your neighborhood dope dealer (Hollyhood Video ­ the pointy cap, sorcerer type of hood of "lynch a nigga by his toe", as opposed to "Boys in tha Hood"). Will Smith's gloves are as white as bleach, lips as red as Porsche during the many scenes in which Haitian's are demeaned, vilified, dehumanized and slandered with a belligerence not bettered by Jesse Helms. Or, find a copy of Rockstar's video-gaming filth, Vice City. Deconstruct the argumentation of genocide: "I hate those Haitians. We'll take them out, we'll take these Haitians down," uncannily similar logic permeating the above shoot-em-up pornography (that's how Bruckheimer does it, PS2's fo real!). Arsenio and Whoopi cooning to Middle America circa 1990's with limericks about AIDS and Haitians; Abner Louima, toilet plunger, need I say more? And the savages are?
That the latest colonization, pillage and genocide of the Haitian People (presidential kidnapping and coup d'etat, February 29th 2004, 10,000+ murdered since, countless internally and externally exiled, Apartheid on the rise) be ample ammunition to spark the carbines of dissent is understood. Yeah, the PS34 investigation ensues, bureaucratic double-speak tight-lipped replies to independent media intrigues. This drama was authored centuries past by an ancestor by way of slave-ownership of school Principal Ms. Pauline, The Shakespeare, William precisely. Moral outrage is the director's cue. Appealing to the collective conscience of that class history has proven have none, is no more than propagating a lineage of perfunctory reforms increasingly insulting to the victims of injustice. Revolution or Reform? Revolution in the Revolution? My peoples Rosa and Regis, where tha hell you at?
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about the writer:

JG is of the best-known and most recognizable Independent Hip Hop artists nationally. His music deals exclusively with the plight of disenfranchised communities, most specifically, that of the Haitian Global Village. His most recent release, Boomerang Politick, which protests the most recent occupation of Haiti, is available for purchase at his website: www.insurgentjg.com and at IMIX Bookstore in Los Angeles California.

[kwassa]

1. (such overblown prose) Is there a more objective account of this incidnt?

[donsu]

3. this is america and all kinds of prose is acceptable

well, this used to be america

now america is surrounded by yellow crime scene tape

I liked his prose

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Acceptable, yes

Appropriate, no.

In this case, unreadable, overblown sludge, weighed down with metaphor supra ridiculous metaphor. Oui.

[CBGLuthier]

7. Yes, several

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/education/nyc-skul0412,0,643880.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-education

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/13/nyregion/13school.html

[prodigal_green]

2. This is so sick

I taught English as a Second Language in NYC several years ago. I could always count on my Haitian students to be well-prepared, studious and courteous at all times. They also have one of the lowest crime rates of any immigrant (or native) population in the city. Yes, I realize I am generalizing here, but that was my experience.

[donsu]

4. even here in Key West racists mouth-on about Haitians

sigh

[SemperEadem]

6. what did all of that say?

his message is obfuscated by his inability to be succinct.

[donsu]

8. maybe it's your own inability?

the object of this post is the children. the mistreatment of children by teachers.

these women are not teachers. a real teacher would not do such a thing to children. these women are frauds. the parents of children at this school should fight back.