Yup. Agree. Once the kid tells you how to pronounce it, practice until you get it right. That shit is on you. Maybe you screw it up a few times at first, but get. it. right.

Nah, it’s not even just the names, it’s this implication that, because we are black kids, our names are “weird” and it’s okay to mess them up. I had to deal with substitute teachers fucking up my name ALL THE TIME… and my name is actually pretty typical, honestly. Not common, but typical. I’d have them pronouncing it every way EXCEPT for how it’s actually pronounced because these teachers ASSUMED it would be pronounced weirdly because I’m black and even back then I knew that. Even after telling them how it’s pronounced and being able to point it out in a very famous book, where it’s pronounced exactly like that, they’d STILL be calling me something else. You won’t ever convince me that a lot of teachers don’t put much care into names if you’re not white. Because if they can figure out how to pronounce something like Daenerys Targaryen or Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, they can figure out how to pronounce our names. They just don’t respect us enough to do it.

“You can’t expect educators to be able to pronounce (enter name that’s easy to sound out when read, that I’m saying without a hitch as an example, that has English language phonetics here) because it’s just sooo ghetto!”

essentials

them: “yOu STiLl uSe TuMblR”

me:

fuck you

If she still on tumblr in 2023 she got psych ward pussy

eevee line from pokémon conquest

Wild, wild kingdom..💋🦁

Haha, well dinner has to wait now. You started it boy, now you better do it right.

frachella . out-andabout