Finally school districts need to stop purchasing textbooks
That introduce blacks in terms of slavery
All that does when that teacher gets to that particular unit is increase the animosity on campus
students start using those slur terms
And it's a part of the problem
African americans did not begin with slavery
So textbooks that only want to discus discuss us in terms of slavery
Should not be used that is a part of the problem
Thank you for listening to me
You heard me talk about things that impassion me
things that disturb me
So you heard a level of anger that I don't normally feel but this topic
It hits home
I truly hope that
Despite all the animosity that I felt
I feel
That you can still hear the message and that it encourages you to do your part in helping to create
sustained change
Hi, it's priscilla, it has been a long time since i've made a video
I decided to make a video today
because
I just decided I feel like we all have a part to play in helping to create change for our world
And I want to do my part and I want to call out some people
And encourage them to do their part and they may be doing their part and hopefully they can join the conversation if they are
By sharing what they are doing towards their part
So this morning?
I was included in a text thread with some co-workers
They wanted to organize
A bunch of teachers to go out and protest at the organized rallies
and
I felt
Numb
But angry at the same time and it wasn't about them wanting to
Protest because I applaud that they want to support the black lives matter. My school is not
We have a very low percentage of african-american teachers. So I knew that the people on the text thread were predominantly
Caucasian or let me say non-black.  but at the same time
I was bothered because I knew that I would not feel comfortable going out
to protest
One I just heard.  I was listening to dish nation yesterday
And listening to portia williams
Talk about how they had this peaceful protest in atlanta, georgia
And they were just singing songs to encourage one another and then the police just began
Shooting out tear gas into the crowd
to which forced them to disperse
they hadn't committed any violent act. They weren't breaking anything
but they were so bothered or irritated by this group,  meeting together that they had to just
Try to intimidate and harm them.  and that was so
disturbing because it's so hurtful and it's so
unnecessary
We are just trying to use our voices and she trying to use her platform to encourage change
I just feel like it's time for everybody to step up and do their part. I feel like police officers
Need to be retrained. It's a shame that
in this day and age that they would
not know how to
Just simply protect
And serve the community, you know
The fact that the racism is still persisting and they would take on the role of a bully
at a time when they needed to just simply
protect the crowd and
Show solidarity show support, you know,
instead of continuing to reinforce
That they are a part of the problem, you know, so I feel like way up high policy needs to be created
To retrain them. I feel like the doctors the lawyers
They all need to get together in a think tank and come up with solutions
Think about it
When slavery was created
The doctors and lawyers of that time they got together to come up with all this
crazy propaganda
About how saying that our brains were too small for us to think for ourselves
Saying that we we didn't have the capacity
to behave as normal humans
So that same level of energy needs to be
Put together today in order to debunk
this
Propaganda that's been able to persist
For so long, you know, so
That got me to thinking michelle obama barack obama
You know put together a think tank or encourage a think tank of people who can sit down
And come up with policy changes that are going to make this world
a better place
It also got me to thinking about doctors, you know, we need doctors to sit down and eradicate
There are problems within the hospital, you know
Personally my daughter she had sickle cell anemia and that's a disease.
African-american people are predominantly affected by sickle cell disease and they had this
Disgusting thing going on suggesting that sickle cell patients are drug seekers
They do not understand
The degree to which the pain
Inflicts sickle cell patients
Any time they would come up with this ludicrous notion
That they are drug seekers
They are in extreme pain and they need to be brought out of it. I can't tell you how many
nurses
enraged me
Ignoring my daughter when she would say she was at a level 10, but because she wasn't welling at the top of her lungs
They just assumed that she wasn't being honest. So we need
doctors to come together and create policy change
to protect and take care of these patients in your hospital that
Parents like me were trusting you to take care of
We need the rappers and singers to stop creating music that continually
encourages the idea that all we are only  good for is sex, fried chicken, and
Just  violence
You know, there are too many words in the world for you not to be able to come up with
fantastic music that doesn't
continuously
feed at this negative thing about black americans so people
outside of the world in other countries
They believe that stuff to be true because you've created it and they listen to it over and over so it's embedded
In their mind, so they believe it to be true. So you are a part of the problem
teachers i'm a teacher
And I can't tell you how many times i've had to tell a student to not use the n-word
I don't appreciate it. I understand that they believe
That because they're using it in the context of oh my homie, my friend that they believe it's all right
But there's too many other synonyms that one can use for the words my homie, my friend
so no using the n word is not okay, and it's disturbing that there are artists out there who are like
Oh i'm fine with it. It's cool
Clearly you don't know your history
Clearly you don't understand how it affects other people. So just because you're fine with it
You should not ignore the fact that people who look similar to you
are
experiencing
Negative effects of you being fine with it. what else did I want to talk about?
So my issue back to the protests and like I said, I applaud my co-workers for going out there
But i'm having issues with the police. I don't trust them. I don't feel safe
I want to trust them. I want to feel safe but less than a year ago.
A cop came to my house actually two of them and I saw the lights flashing through the window
But I was half asleep,  but because they kept knocking I guess with their baton because it was a pretty aggressive knock
I just went ahead and woke up
On my door. I have something of a keyhole window that you can open and so I went to the door
Answered it. The cop said that they had received a call that a woman within my house was being abused
And they wanted to see me to see if I was okay
So I said to the officer I said i'm fine
Clearly that was a prank call.  I didn't call you
I don't know who called you but you have the wrong address and i'm fine
He said ma'am. I'm not leaving. I need to see your wrists. I need to see that you're okay
I said sir. I just told you clearly it was a prank
Thank you for looking out for me
But you're clearly at the wrong address and there's some woman out there that needs you who must have a similar address
So he was still insisting that I opened the door and at this point I was bothered by it
And, so then I was like, okay, maybe I should open the door
And so when I began to open the door
I saw he backed up and he put his hand
On his gun. So his finger was even on the dog-on trigger
And I said what the heck if you were here to protect me
You would not have your hand on the trigger
And so he then adjusted his body he calmed down
I opened the door. I don't know why the hell I opened the door even after that exchange. I think for a moment
I let my guard down because he had taken his hand off the gun
But I even was enraged in myself that I even freaking opened the door, but nevertheless I opened it up
showing him my wrist
And he looked at me and he was angry with me and he went ahead and left
But that stays with me
I should feel protected by the law
I'm a taxpayer I pay my taxes on time
I follow the laws
I do what i'm supposed to do and i'm doing my part
As a teacher i'm doing my part. I do not allow students to use to use the n-word in my class
And when they persist at it, I begin to give them a history lesson
Because it's not okay
So in any case my point is we all have a part to play
Figure out what your part is and just do it
It is time for this world to change. It is time for people to be seen as more than their race
This has to end and it should end today
Thank you, and I hope you come back again to the channel. Bye
