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The Racial Discrimination in the Classroom The day my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Buzzeli, assigned my class "To Kill a
The Racial Discrimination in the Classroom The day my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Buzzeli, assigned my class "To Kill a
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2013-05-04
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The Racial Discrimination in the Classroom
The day my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Buzzeli, assigned my class "To Kill a Mockingbird" still sticks in my mind, mainly because I remember being the only one in the room excited to tackle the Harper Lee classic. Unlike most of my classmates, I’d already read the book about a white lawyer representing a black man accused of rape during the Great Depression. I’d also seen the movie twice (my mother loved Gregory Peck). Mr. Buzzell was a British-born white teacher attempting to explain the complexities of racism and injustice at a mixed-race school in Augusta, Ga. , so the class discussions were pretty lively.
Maybe it was because we were in the Deep South that most of my classmates weren’t much offended by Tom Robinson, the black field hand accused of raping a white woman. (1)______.
But that was more than 20 years ago, in the 80s, when rap was just beginning on the streets of New York, Ronald Reagan was president and African-Americans were struggling to land significant positions within government. It is indeed a very different world today, a place where hip-hop dominates popular culture around the world and the president of the United States just happens to be an African-American man named Barack Obama.
In early January, just before Obama’s inauguration, John Foley, a white high-school teacher in Ridgefield, Wash. , penned a guest editorial in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that suggested it was time to stop teaching books that readily use the "N word." (2) ______. Foley identified " The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men" as three books that needed to be reconsidered immediately.
(3)______. While these arguments are hardly new, they’re all the more important now given our rapidly changing attitudes on race, Foley argues. "I think at the time when we have this very articulate, smart and intelligent black man running the country, we don’t need to reinforce the same negative stereotypes to young minds," says Foley, 48, who’s received hundreds of angry letters from people across the country. (4)______
Fole’s argument may sound simplistic and wrongheaded. But it does raise deeper questions about our comfort level around race, especially now. (5)______. Throw in not just the "N word" , but also, in the case of "Huck Finn", a portrayal of a childlike black man who seems to lack self-respect and dignity, and it’s easier to see why it might make some—especially sensitive white teachers—squirm with discomfort or even embarrassment right now.
[A] Stories that portray African-Americans as inarticulate and unintelligent souls in need of white America often offended both his black and white students.
[B] Though Obama himself called for more open dialogue during his campaign, most of us still struggle to speak frankly on the subject.
[C] The debate hasn’t been limited to literature either: in the past few weeks alone, National Public Radio, Many African-American blogs and talk-show host Michael Baisden all led discussions questioning whether we still need Black History Month.
[D] That editorial set off a fierce debate on blogs, radio shows and in classrooms across the country. Now that there’s a black man in the White House, what message does it send our kids to read aloud a classic that uses the "N word" more than 200 times? [E] His slurred speech, substandard English and deference to the white people around him weren’t exactly foreign to many of us who knew elders who’d employed some of those same tactics in an effort to simply survive.
[F] "I’m very tired of having to explain to black parents and white kids as to why these books say the ’N word’ again and again or having to watch my black students totally shut down as they read about black characters so far removed from the people they know."
[G] "I think there is a certain sector of the country that now feels racism is over, let’s move on," says Todd Boyd, who teaches race and popular culture at the University of Southern California.
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答案
A
解析
上下文的衔接。该段开头提到中学教师约翰·福利提出停止使用含大量贬低黑人语言的教科书。空格后是该教师指明的三部应叫停的含有明显贬低黑人语言的教课书。既然该教师呼吁停止使用那些教科书而且还指明一些应马上叫停的书,那么他至少应该提供一点这么做的理由,让读者感觉到这么做的合理性,由此,可以找出答案[A]。
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