Too my blind, white, rich teacher,
I call you a blind teacher not because you can't see because from what i can tell you can see me very well.
Maybe not too well in a dark room though, right ? Does my skin blend in with the darkness?
No i promise i'm not sleeping right now, and yes my eyes are open.
You are a young white male teacher maybe mid twenties. I thought you'd have grown out from your chilidsh ways.
I guess they only get worse when you grow up.
Trust me we can all see the way you treat the colored.
You can put me in corners, you can call me out, and you can do and say anything you want.
Why ?
Because i have opened my mind and saw that you can't open your's. You can only open your mouth.
I hope and i hope that you will soon see the colored as people just like you are.
Because everyone else can sure as hell see you're an asshole.
As a teacher you haven't taught me anything in the subjects i should or need to be learning, but you have taught me important life things.
Not everyone will be able to accept who i am or what i look like. You might be a history teacher and you might say that racism is over.
But you taught me that racism is alive and well, and i thank you for teaching me something.
- something i wish i would have been able to say.
