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Wednesday • October 8,19|
Experts label worksheet
assault on racial identi
HOUSTON (AP) — A school as
signment asking fourth-graders to
determine which one of four sisters
was “beautiful, blond and intelli
gent” did not make much sense to
9-year-old Dennis Campbell, Jr.
When Dennis, who is black,
showed the worksheet to his moth
er, she asked him what he thought
about it.
“Well, no one in our family is
blond,” Tammie Campbell recalls
him saying. “Does that mean we’re
not intelligent and beautiful?
“At that time I was so upset, I did
n’t know what I would do,” she said.
Campbell discussed the matter
with the teacher, who apologized.
Experts say the heart of the issue
is the assault on children’s racial and
cultural identities in schools.
“It makes this child feel like, T
don’t belong to a group that’s re
garded as successful,”’ said Larue
Allen, chair of the department of
applied psychology at New York
University’s school of education.
Allen, who has researched the
development of racial and ethnic
identity, said although one episode
will not unravel everything a child is
taught at home about his self-
worth, several episodes could harm
serr
im
“It makes this child feel
like, ‘I don’t belong to a
group that’s regarded as
successful.’”
LARUE ALLEN
CHAIR, NYU’S DEPARTMENT OF
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
, blonds
a child’s self-esteem and make
them less likely to try in school.
“Imagine that you collect a series
of those insensitivities and you start
to get other indications that this
teacher thinks that people who be
long to a certain group are somehow
a bit better off than ar e members of,
say, a black kid’s group,” she sail
“It’s the kind of thing that’s
to tick you off.”
Dennis’ assignment was a
dard logic problem with a
premises and a chart. Children
supposed to use the premisesio
termine the hair color of foursi
and whether they were Intel
or beautiful. The goal was to
sister who was beautiful,
intelligent. A bonus questionv
determine which sisterwasm
beautiful, blond nor intelligent
"Every child in the class
not blond now gets to identify
not being beautiful and noti
gent, which is the underlying
sage being given to children
that kind of lesson is used,
Caiyl Stern-LaRosa, directorof:
ucation for the New York-bi
Anti-Defamation League’sAW
of Difference Institute.
Campbell agrees
“It’s a form of brainwashtoi
told you’re not beautiful becai
your hair color,” she said.
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New book rips Republicans, Democrat
AUSTIN (AP) — And now, from
the politician who made wisecracks
a pivotal part of public policy, comes
a new book: There’s Nothing in the
Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes
and Dead Armadillos.
With one of his best-remem
bered lines for a title, former Texas
agriculture commissioner Jim
Hightower’s latest book takes a poke
at just about everybody.
He skewers corporate fat cats
(“They get the gold mine, we get the
shaft”); the media (“like cats watch
ing the wrong mousehole”); and the
fondness of both Republicans and
his own Democratic Party for well-
heeled campaign contributors.
“The two-party system has be
come a one-party system. It’s become
a money party system,” he says.
“My own party is no longer a de
fender of the workaday majority. It’s
no longer a defender of the middle
class. It has, instead, run off with the
same Gucci-and-Pucci set that the
Republicans dance with, abandon
ing the Kmart crowd. Some people
say we need a third party. I wish we
had a second party.”
After wrapping up another in
stallment of his syndicated talk
show — “Hightower Radio, coming
to you live from the Chat and Chew
Cafe” — the author talked Tuesday
about the new book and an old fa
vorite, politics.
The Chat and Chew is really a
round, red-checkered table in the
corner of a popular Austin restau
rant, where Hightower says his syn
dicated program broadcasts “from
Maine to Maui.”
The radio gives Hightower an
other platform for his populist
message. But the messenger has
n’t changed since his days as a
U.S. Senate aide, Texas Observer
NC
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in tl
editor, or two-term agriculr;
commissioner.
“There’s an effort to cast me
liberal, when in fact I’m a pope
The real (political) spectrumtli
talk about is not right-to-left
top-to-bottom.”
With this, his third bookjj
tower says he hopes to rilepeo;
up, give them hope and give! 11111
a laugh. 1 h 010
“My opening quote on thisbo ^ °| 11(
is, ‘Speak the truth but ridea:: ^Bot
horse,’ which is an old West log
cowboy saying.
-The truth that Imtryiiij hna|
speak in this book is the greati st ° r
speakable in American poli l |evconti
today — that we’re in the rniiLp anc j ^
of a class war. It’s being wageilkwami
the powerful, by the wealth!j^i[-, eeX j
the most elite, privileged foikf
our country against themidq
class.” Univer
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