It was in the late Seventies. I must have been the first real black person they had ever encountered. They cursed me for being black, FOR BEING "UPPITY", FOR NOT KNOWING MY PLACE, I cursed them for being stupid and racist.
The school was in Lilly white-all white- in- white Sandy Springs. Our faculty consisted of One-hundred-all-white-descendants of the muthafucking klan! There were four other individuals of color hired before I arrived. Yes, they were soul-less coons, they went a long to get along.
Any way this old sly "principal" of mine persuaded me to represent the entire faculty and engage the Eighth grade TAG (Talented and Gifted ) students in a Social studies Quiz Bowl. I consented.
I was seated in the packed auditorium facing ten snooty"white" and "Jewish" eight graders before I smelled the rat. "This whore has set me up! " These crackers plan to humiliate me, to prove little white children are smarter than a black teacher, any black teacher, ALL black teachers.
I went off! ANSWERED EVERY MUTHAFUCKING QUESTION before the moderator could finish asking the question. Yes! I beat the pure dog shit out of those kids. Tough shit! There was no way I would ever let those white people think for one minute , I was a dummy.
If I had to humiliate snooty, snotty, little future racists, I was willing to flat humiliate them, to not even let them FUCKING score. That is how evil racism has affected me. I was Michael Jordan playing on the playground with three year olds. Stealing the ball! Scoring repeatedly, mercilessly, because racism finally made me snap.
"You white MUTHAFUKERS won't let me in the game! I'll show you!"
If those people, if one faculty member in that school had ever shown me any kindness … perhaps I would have at least let them score.
REVERSE THE CURSE!
"COME YE OUT FROM AMONG THEM!"
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