What every black American knows, and whites should try to imagine, is how it feels to have unfavorable – and unfair – identity imposed on you every waking hour. --Unknown
White teachers brought their white values into the school—values that negated my world entirely. The message was subtle, but it was clear to me: everyone I respected and loved was considered ignorant, irresponsible, and good-for-nothing.
--Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the Womb.
Survival = Anger x Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
. . . education is essential to any movement toward freedom. Even in our most desperate hours – during slavery – we understood one fundamental truth: that we must become educated to make progress in this culture.
Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the Womb
We saw that in the working-class families about half of all feedback was affirmative among family members when the child was 13 to 18 months old. . . . In the professional families. . . more than 80% of the feedback to the 13 to 18 month old child was affirmative . . . .Almost 80% of the welfare parents’ feedback to their 13 to 18 month old children was negative. . . . A consistent and pervasive negative Feedback Tone was the model for the children of how families work together. Given the strong relationship shown in the longitudinal data between the prevalence of prohibitions in the first years of life and lowered child accomplishments, lasting still at age 9, the prespects for the next generation of welfare children seem bleak.
Betty Hart and Todd Risley (1995). Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. (p. 204) Baltimore: Paul H Brookes
If someone were to devise a machine that could measure hatred – a Hatenometer – I’d bet all my wooden nickels that more hatred exists between bosses and employees than between blacks and whites. . . Of all the hating I’ve done in my life – and I’ve done my share – ninety-nine percent of it was directed at rich white people, most of them my bosses . . . I had been born into a class where I was on the RECEIVING end of decisions. I flippin’ had no CONTROL over anyone else’s life and master of my own was compromised by the need to work a full-time job.
Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto
. . . in order to move from poverty to middle class . . . one must trade off some relationships for achievement at least for a period of time. To do this, one needs emotional resources and stamina. . . . Emotional resources and stamina allow the individual to live with feelings other than those in the emotional memory bank. This allowance provides the individual the opportunity to seek options and examine other possiblilities.
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith
The wise . . . mentor knows that being aware of what is not known is important in order to begin to learn. To attain true knowledge and wisdom, we must remain open and empty, allowing ideas from other people to rush in. To be empty, to recognize how little we know, is to be abundant.
Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch, Mentoring: The TAO of Giving and Receiving Wisdom.
Crank is to coffee what sexual homicide is to a goodnight kiss. It’s the black sheep of the speed family. Also called crystal meth, zip, or monster, crank is the rocket fuel for sputtering workers. Although supposedly a recreational drug—a fun thing—crank’s usually taken to facilitate work performance. It treats your bloodstream as an assembly line and pushes up the production quota. . . Crank is a homemade biohazardous brain-scalder produced by white outlaw chemists acting in the entrepreneurial tradition of their moonshining ancestors. . . They disseminated illicit vitality to millions of (biker gangs and long-haul truckers) who couldn’t afford to be tired.
--Jim Goad, The redneck Manifesto
The importance of entertainment, humor, and personality: When one can only survive, then any respite from the survival struggle is important. Entertainment brings respite. Individual personality is what one brings to the setting because money is not brought. The ability to entertain, tell stories, and be funny are valued.
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith
Self-image, episodic memory, fatalistic attitude, and lack of motivation make it difficult to see the need to change.
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith
White teachers brought their white values into the school—values that negated my world entirely. The message was subtle, but it was clear to me: everyone I respected and loved was considered ignorant, irresponsible, and good-for-nothing.
--Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the Womb.
Survival = Anger x Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
. . . education is essential to any movement toward freedom. Even in our most desperate hours – during slavery – we understood one fundamental truth: that we must become educated to make progress in this culture.
Carl Upchurch, Convicted in the Womb
We saw that in the working-class families about half of all feedback was affirmative among family members when the child was 13 to 18 months old. . . . In the professional families. . . more than 80% of the feedback to the 13 to 18 month old child was affirmative . . . .Almost 80% of the welfare parents’ feedback to their 13 to 18 month old children was negative. . . . A consistent and pervasive negative Feedback Tone was the model for the children of how families work together. Given the strong relationship shown in the longitudinal data between the prevalence of prohibitions in the first years of life and lowered child accomplishments, lasting still at age 9, the prespects for the next generation of welfare children seem bleak.
Betty Hart and Todd Risley (1995). Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children. (p. 204) Baltimore: Paul H Brookes
If someone were to devise a machine that could measure hatred – a Hatenometer – I’d bet all my wooden nickels that more hatred exists between bosses and employees than between blacks and whites. . . Of all the hating I’ve done in my life – and I’ve done my share – ninety-nine percent of it was directed at rich white people, most of them my bosses . . . I had been born into a class where I was on the RECEIVING end of decisions. I flippin’ had no CONTROL over anyone else’s life and master of my own was compromised by the need to work a full-time job.
Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto
. . . in order to move from poverty to middle class . . . one must trade off some relationships for achievement at least for a period of time. To do this, one needs emotional resources and stamina. . . . Emotional resources and stamina allow the individual to live with feelings other than those in the emotional memory bank. This allowance provides the individual the opportunity to seek options and examine other possiblilities.
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith
The wise . . . mentor knows that being aware of what is not known is important in order to begin to learn. To attain true knowledge and wisdom, we must remain open and empty, allowing ideas from other people to rush in. To be empty, to recognize how little we know, is to be abundant.
Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch, Mentoring: The TAO of Giving and Receiving Wisdom.
Crank is to coffee what sexual homicide is to a goodnight kiss. It’s the black sheep of the speed family. Also called crystal meth, zip, or monster, crank is the rocket fuel for sputtering workers. Although supposedly a recreational drug—a fun thing—crank’s usually taken to facilitate work performance. It treats your bloodstream as an assembly line and pushes up the production quota. . . Crank is a homemade biohazardous brain-scalder produced by white outlaw chemists acting in the entrepreneurial tradition of their moonshining ancestors. . . They disseminated illicit vitality to millions of (biker gangs and long-haul truckers) who couldn’t afford to be tired.
--Jim Goad, The redneck Manifesto
The importance of entertainment, humor, and personality: When one can only survive, then any respite from the survival struggle is important. Entertainment brings respite. Individual personality is what one brings to the setting because money is not brought. The ability to entertain, tell stories, and be funny are valued.
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith
Self-image, episodic memory, fatalistic attitude, and lack of motivation make it difficult to see the need to change.
Bridges out of Poverty by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith
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