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During a medical emergency on a Delta flight, a Black doctor volunteered to help, but she was told, “Oh no sweetie put your hand down.’” The flight attendant told her they were looking for “actual physicians or nurses.”
Recently, some Black journalists have repeatedly been referred to as “stupid” or “dumb,” despite strong credentials and awards.
Years ago, one lay church leader “corrected” me when I said the book of “Lamentations” was poetic. Somehow, two degrees in English, the editorship of the university literary journal, and years of teaching left me unequipped to identify poetry.
Expectations matter. In student teaching at a suburban high school, I heard teachers complain that they could not “expect” the same levels of excellence from the now Black student population. But if we read Mike Rose and his Lives on the Boundary, we find people rise to the levels we expect. It is one thing to require Shakespeare as a staple. Part of the canon. But ins