Monday, September 15, 2014

Light Skins and the Demons Within

In a few weeks my kids have a big project due.  They have to interview a person of their choice and write a narrative from the interview.  Naturally we've been practicing this in class with their classmates and I must say that I've been impressed with their work.  My kids can write!  I made them interview a classmate that they wouldn't normally talk to.  I wanted them to step outside of their comfort zones and possibly form new friendships.  In some classes, it's difficult to do that because the classes are small or everybody in the class knows everybody.  When that happens, the interview usually goes south.  Here's an excerpt from one such interview.

"I decided to ask her some questions so she could express her thoughts on certain topics, which brings us to our first question.  I asked her what are her thoughts on being a light skinned in today's world.  Well, what she said is that she doesn't like the stereotypes people put on her breed.  Like they don't text back, or they think their all that.  Judging by how she spoke on this, she isn't team light skin not team dark skin.  She's just team skinned.  I think asked her what is her favorite TV show?  Fortunately, it wasn't something stupid and feminine like most girls watch, she said it was Adventure Time."  She like it because it is weird and random.  So this shows that Miss Light Skin has a good sense of humor and doesn't embrace the light skin demon inside of her."

Uuuuhhh... What?!  And that wasn't even all of his interview!  The sad part about it is that he was so serious.  When I was telling the next class what not to do in the interview, they knew exactly who wrote the interview.  Apparently he got his little heart broken by a light skin and he never recovered.  Bless him.  This is the same kid that said that said cute teachers aren't mean, unless they're light skinned.  Then they're evil.  Then he said that I don't count and I must be a mutant.  I'm not a typical light skin.  I mean, who raised this kid?!

I'm beginning to think my kids do stuff just so I can blog about them.  Whenever one of them does/says something totally ridiculous, they ask if I'm going to blog about it.  I ain't mad though.  It makes for interesting classes.

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