[HPFGU-OTChatter] Sex, Race, America, and Disney (response to Susan's post)

[Amber]

--- Ebony Elizabeth Thomas <ebonyink at hotmail.com> wrote:
> When your lessons are interrupted time and again because of
complaints
> that "my tummy hurts", when children are left at school past 6 p.m.
by
> parents who simply did not make provisions for them to be picked up
> (we're a magnet school and take in kids from all over the city), and
> when elementary students nod off in class because "my mama don't care
> when I go to bed... she falls asleep before I do", it makes me
> *angry*.

I can't say anything more except that I agree with you most
emphatically. While I am not a teacher, my mom is. She teaches kids in
a catholic school, the kids who are very barely scraping through
classes. When I am home, I like to accompany her to school, to help out
during her classes, just to see her work. I hear about the stories from
her of some of the horrific parenting just at her school but its
nothing like seeing it. In particular, she teaches one little girl who
you just *know* hasn't been hugged by her parents in her life just by
looking at her. <sighs> She has a brother and instead of winter coats,
they got ten Korn CD's for Christmas. <double sigh> I could go on, but
I won't. I don't know how my mom goes on without wanting to kidnap most
of the kids she teaches...

> So as much as I'd love to see Disney finally make an animated feature
> film with an African-American protagonist, I'm not holding my breath
> until it happens.

Well, I know that in the upcoming Atlantis movie, there's an African
American doctor called Dr. Joshua Sweet who goes along on the journey.
He appears to be a protagonist. Granted, he's not the main character
but it's a start isn't it? 

I know I snipped the hell out of that longish post, but the two above
points were the only ones I had comments on. I just want to say that I
found it a wonderfully informative. Thanks for posting it Ebony.

~Amber


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