Webb Chapter 4

Although I disagree that things have been worse with the youth of the country recently, it's true that it's important to address the violence that some students have to deal with, and important that your more privileged students know about that world and how privileged they really are. It did seem that the majority of the chapter was dedicated towards rationalizing why the subject is needed, but the books Webb suggest and the different lessons mentioned to interest me.

I think the first thing I'm going to need to do before I become an English teacher is to read some more of the books mentioned in these books, I mean, I've never even heard of Native Son and there are so many High School oriented books I've simply never read. From the description of it, I think it would be a good book to teach in a High School classroom. I'm also intrigued by the idea of teaching the works of Martin Luther King Jr. There are so many things that King wrote that simply aren't taught in schools, and most of his work actually isn't about race at all but is about war and how war functions mainly as a way to sabotage the upward mobility of the lowest and the poorest.

It's also interesting to note that Webb ties MultiCulturalism so closely into his chapter about gang violence, and it's no coincidence. Because of the ways that the government and people have screwed minorities in the past their Socio-Economic status' to this day are completely borked for the most part, and I think that's where books like Native Son come in to talk about those kinds of things.