Keisha is an opportunist, not a victim. There are too many Keisha stories out there. Keishas terrorizing classrooms and -- dare I say it -- white people who are just doing their damned jobs. Indeed, one must stand up to Keisha and tell her to sit down. This is not something a white person can do without suffering unjust consequences. I have a few Keisha attacks under my belt; was just doing my job, got called the dreaded R word, and on and on it goes until people stop enabling this malignant narcissism. This nasty, hateful religion.
The piece Lloyd published on this is tragic. This toxic personality shut down all discussion, cowed her classmates into submission, and ran everyone out screaming. It was touching that some students contacted Lloyd online to say they did want to do the readings and discuss them. But of course they could not exhibit this desire in front of the toxic Keisha.
And in cities across this country, the Keishas are ruining education for everyone.
An anecdote from the mid 90's: the mentor for our teaching assistantship was a black woman. There were two white female TA's who fawned all over her, licking her boots, practically. Everything was black literature this, black literature that. I just sat there nodding at the spectacle of this obsequious bullshit. Then the black mentor came after me, in a high school roughing it up in the hall kind of way. Who the hell did I think I was for NOT worshipping her?
Ah, the 90s. I filed a complaint and she was reprimanded. Those were the last days of Rome.
would have been nice. I think a nasty fallout of this “empowerment by race” is the empowerment of abusive people like keisha the hun. We need to start teaching kids again to challenge this sort of thing. We’ve subjected too many generations to being gentle, deferential and afraid to challenge these narratives. Anyway - why these courses??? Grievance seminars pit whites against blacks. What’s wrong with teaching kids to be productive members of society?
I have a friend who teaches at a community college, he tells me about one student, a Keisha from the sounds of it who files formal complaints of racism when he tries to get her to turn in papers and work on time. Same when he doesn’t give her high marks for shoddy work. She probably would be successful in getting him fired from his job except he is of chinese heritage and has an additional layer of inter-sectionality on her as he’s gay. I honestly despair that affirmative action and diversity hiring is going to make people avoid anyone who is black in any position where they could possibly do damage.
Keisha is an opportunist, not a victim. There are too many Keisha stories out there. Keishas terrorizing classrooms and -- dare I say it -- white people who are just doing their damned jobs. Indeed, one must stand up to Keisha and tell her to sit down. This is not something a white person can do without suffering unjust consequences. I have a few Keisha attacks under my belt; was just doing my job, got called the dreaded R word, and on and on it goes until people stop enabling this malignant narcissism. This nasty, hateful religion.
The piece Lloyd published on this is tragic. This toxic personality shut down all discussion, cowed her classmates into submission, and ran everyone out screaming. It was touching that some students contacted Lloyd online to say they did want to do the readings and discuss them. But of course they could not exhibit this desire in front of the toxic Keisha.
And in cities across this country, the Keishas are ruining education for everyone.
An anecdote from the mid 90's: the mentor for our teaching assistantship was a black woman. There were two white female TA's who fawned all over her, licking her boots, practically. Everything was black literature this, black literature that. I just sat there nodding at the spectacle of this obsequious bullshit. Then the black mentor came after me, in a high school roughing it up in the hall kind of way. Who the hell did I think I was for NOT worshipping her?
Ah, the 90s. I filed a complaint and she was reprimanded. Those were the last days of Rome.
I wonder what might have happened if several classmates had told Keisha to sit down and shut up.
would have been nice. I think a nasty fallout of this “empowerment by race” is the empowerment of abusive people like keisha the hun. We need to start teaching kids again to challenge this sort of thing. We’ve subjected too many generations to being gentle, deferential and afraid to challenge these narratives. Anyway - why these courses??? Grievance seminars pit whites against blacks. What’s wrong with teaching kids to be productive members of society?
I have a friend who teaches at a community college, he tells me about one student, a Keisha from the sounds of it who files formal complaints of racism when he tries to get her to turn in papers and work on time. Same when he doesn’t give her high marks for shoddy work. She probably would be successful in getting him fired from his job except he is of chinese heritage and has an additional layer of inter-sectionality on her as he’s gay. I honestly despair that affirmative action and diversity hiring is going to make people avoid anyone who is black in any position where they could possibly do damage.