M. Griffin
Tampa, FL
As a public high school teacher I hear this word thrown around often and generally it is applied to brown skinned students. The exception is when your white and you’re “acting” like one of the brown-skinned students. I use the term “brown skinned” because many of the white students equate brown skin with “ghetto behavior”; loud, disrespectful, ready to fight, rap music, poverty…The list goes on and on. I challenge the students to remove it from their vocabulary or to just be honest about their prejudicial beliefs.
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