thank you all I want to get three things
up front one two things happen on this
campus and off campus and between the
time we’re at this talk anytime I’m
giving this talk the first thing was
Robyn D’Angelo came to campus the second
thing was also want to give any
apologies to these social scientists in
the room our each social scientists
watching I missed our rhetoric but your
work on class and race and gender has
informed me over time and I’m going to
dabble just a little bit in your daily
work and the third thing is this is not
a story about those girls just going to
sound it Tom’s like that there’s going
to be a story about my grandpa it’s a
story about my past but it’s going to
tell you why those things don’t add up
what can you tell me about this person
in the picture you can tell me one thing
or two things three things I bet you can
tell me a lot that’s my grandpa
– wedding day when he was in fifth grade
he left his home in Tennessee and walked
out of the mountains and got on a train
rode that train to Mehcad Hill North
Carolina we got a job in Mills Reese
wept he swept floors for a long time and
became the manager we realized they
didn’t work that hard
he started its own tailoring business
and I can still remember the stories
that my sister spent time sewing buttons
on those polyester leisure suits the de
just about the time he was going to
retire he figured out he didn’t have
health insurance I don’t know I figure
that out but he did and he conned a job
the local Technical College he worked
there for 20 years until he invested and
ended up living the rest of his life in
insurance
he was a complex man and we’ll talk more
in kindergarten I love that shirt like
really long after so much my mother had
to wash it twice a week sorry we’re
plumbers everyday underneath that shag
carpet are some shorts that are made out
of denim and some boots that was my
outfit every day possible at that time
we were living in Belmont North Carolina
a mill town
we did our home appearance the wage
workers that share their rights to work
will live with us at a time and I had no
idea they were just about what I
shouldn’t have
I was hot but then not knowing is a
privilege in sixth grade we moved to
Memphis Tennessee it’s when I was six
months but I was sick to move to Memphis
Tennessee I went to a 65% black school I
was taught by black women African women
and white women that’s where I learned
to read it’s where I learned a lot of
words in sixth grade I had my first sip
of alcohol I should say it’s the first
time I got drunk playing quarters with
alcohol that someone had stolen in a
corner store I came home on a Saturday
went to sleep and I was awakened by the
sense that I had to be somewhere so my
parents took me to the basketball game I
had to play and that was a hazy I could
tell you thirty stories like that from
my life choices I made they were not the
but I’m here today in this position in
spite of those choices and I’m mostly
going to believe that the fact that that
we moved from mr. chair North Carolina
and that’s saved my life
my grandfather bought two trailers
really on 29 acres of land my parents
owned their first house that double-wide
trailer still on it
my grandfather gave me a copy of the
concise light on yoga and wallet as if
my long hair did the strange me enough
to rob deer’s carry around the book of
yoga poses an attack 3,000 people in
Iran did a lot more and so when I think
back to Cherry bill I think about as the
place where I first learned that people
of different colors lived in different
places I lived in the country all of the
african-american people in that town
lived in a small area tucked to the west
and they called it freedom without any
iron so I think that’s where I began to
understand my own privilege and it’s
also where I began to interrogate the
fact that there are system to play that
do this for my first teaching job was it
eastling in high school I’m talking a
single-wide trailer those kids didn’t
care anymore about that art where I was
trying to
keeps them then I did about the NASCAR
they walk some women’s what bothered me
most is they were living the life that
was prescribed and I didn’t know how to
help them and so I was coward I left I’m
going to talk somewhere I finished out
my teaching career and now here and
again I’ll say I’m here mostly because
I’m white and male that I am a feminist
I’m married to a feminist and I’m racing
to fitness my daughter’s favorite phrase
right now is dad now to get this right
stop enforcing the patriarchy here at
all we spent our dinner time talking
about what it means in my face what it
means to fight a sexist dress code by
wearing a shirt just short enough that
you don’t get sent home what you’re
resisting but if you didn’t know any of
that was going on inside my house I
would fit just exactly and
was at a conference with a series of
colleagues two years ago and there was a
discussion about privilege and one of my
colleagues looked at me and said John
you’re white and male do you know about
privilege that’s it
yes but it took me back the next day I
asked us I asked that person did you
know that I did you know I didn’t live
on a college campus like you did and I
said something that I regret now but
still bill is true is that I want to
have conversations about people who know
poverty not to the lens of Marxist
ideology but from lived experience and I
think it’s to the benefit of the status
quo that we fight each other
I listened to on beating my packs from
my name PR and last year I traveled to
and from Coker College University on
Sunday nights and one of them sorry one
of the episodes was about two people
working in two very different lessons
one doing inner-city work with students
and one working in rural Tennessee
midway through the hall they realized
they were working on the same problem
they’ve heard have had the same issues
and they said in that talk what if those
two groups of people got together
wouldn’t that be a revolution wouldn’t
that change our current political
climate
it wouldn’t it changed the way we
I was driving to work listening to store
before on anymore
I had to confess I don’t always listen
to you most of the time I’m listening to
a playlist that my son 30 is made music
I haven’t know why or I’m getting my
daily dose of new younger but this
morning a new StoryCorps caught my ear
it’s a conversation of two people a man
and woman who both attended an anti
Trump rally in Texas the woman’s telling
a story of watching this man wearing the
make America great in half make America
t-shirt holiness I’ve been watching
people thought alike tied to his shirt
to his sign but when they tried to take
off his hat she jumped and what struck
me was the fact that she said the reason
why she jumped she were the key gesture
she knew what it was like that something
ripped off your head and he didn’t want
to come to find out a young man was
home-schooled he had never been a Muslim
she was from Baghdad Iraq and had to
move to America at 10 years old and they
get coffee really it’s that kind of
talking across the difference that kind
of talking in bridging boundaries that
will allow us to fight against privilege
want to thank you for letting me share
my story I want to thank my wife for
letting me do this
I’m gonna thank my son and my daughter
or listening to this all the time Bobby
I’m gonna take my students who listen to
me and talk to me and interrogate these
out gives almost a thank you
you [Applause]
up front one two things happen on this
campus and off campus and between the
time we’re at this talk anytime I’m
giving this talk the first thing was
Robyn D’Angelo came to campus the second
thing was also want to give any
apologies to these social scientists in
the room our each social scientists
watching I missed our rhetoric but your
work on class and race and gender has
informed me over time and I’m going to
dabble just a little bit in your daily
work and the third thing is this is not
a story about those girls just going to
sound it Tom’s like that there’s going
to be a story about my grandpa it’s a
story about my past but it’s going to
tell you why those things don’t add up
what can you tell me about this person
in the picture you can tell me one thing
or two things three things I bet you can
tell me a lot that’s my grandpa
– wedding day when he was in fifth grade
he left his home in Tennessee and walked
out of the mountains and got on a train
rode that train to Mehcad Hill North
Carolina we got a job in Mills Reese
wept he swept floors for a long time and
became the manager we realized they
didn’t work that hard
he started its own tailoring business
and I can still remember the stories
that my sister spent time sewing buttons
on those polyester leisure suits the de
just about the time he was going to
retire he figured out he didn’t have
health insurance I don’t know I figure
that out but he did and he conned a job
the local Technical College he worked
there for 20 years until he invested and
ended up living the rest of his life in
insurance
he was a complex man and we’ll talk more
in kindergarten I love that shirt like
really long after so much my mother had
to wash it twice a week sorry we’re
plumbers everyday underneath that shag
carpet are some shorts that are made out
of denim and some boots that was my
outfit every day possible at that time
we were living in Belmont North Carolina
a mill town
we did our home appearance the wage
workers that share their rights to work
will live with us at a time and I had no
idea they were just about what I
shouldn’t have
I was hot but then not knowing is a
privilege in sixth grade we moved to
Memphis Tennessee it’s when I was six
months but I was sick to move to Memphis
Tennessee I went to a 65% black school I
was taught by black women African women
and white women that’s where I learned
to read it’s where I learned a lot of
words in sixth grade I had my first sip
of alcohol I should say it’s the first
time I got drunk playing quarters with
alcohol that someone had stolen in a
corner store I came home on a Saturday
went to sleep and I was awakened by the
sense that I had to be somewhere so my
parents took me to the basketball game I
had to play and that was a hazy I could
tell you thirty stories like that from
my life choices I made they were not the
but I’m here today in this position in
spite of those choices and I’m mostly
going to believe that the fact that that
we moved from mr. chair North Carolina
and that’s saved my life
my grandfather bought two trailers
really on 29 acres of land my parents
owned their first house that double-wide
trailer still on it
my grandfather gave me a copy of the
concise light on yoga and wallet as if
my long hair did the strange me enough
to rob deer’s carry around the book of
yoga poses an attack 3,000 people in
Iran did a lot more and so when I think
back to Cherry bill I think about as the
place where I first learned that people
of different colors lived in different
places I lived in the country all of the
african-american people in that town
lived in a small area tucked to the west
and they called it freedom without any
iron so I think that’s where I began to
understand my own privilege and it’s
also where I began to interrogate the
fact that there are system to play that
do this for my first teaching job was it
eastling in high school I’m talking a
single-wide trailer those kids didn’t
care anymore about that art where I was
trying to
keeps them then I did about the NASCAR
they walk some women’s what bothered me
most is they were living the life that
was prescribed and I didn’t know how to
help them and so I was coward I left I’m
going to talk somewhere I finished out
my teaching career and now here and
again I’ll say I’m here mostly because
I’m white and male that I am a feminist
I’m married to a feminist and I’m racing
to fitness my daughter’s favorite phrase
right now is dad now to get this right
stop enforcing the patriarchy here at
all we spent our dinner time talking
about what it means in my face what it
means to fight a sexist dress code by
wearing a shirt just short enough that
you don’t get sent home what you’re
resisting but if you didn’t know any of
that was going on inside my house I
would fit just exactly and
was at a conference with a series of
colleagues two years ago and there was a
discussion about privilege and one of my
colleagues looked at me and said John
you’re white and male do you know about
privilege that’s it
yes but it took me back the next day I
asked us I asked that person did you
know that I did you know I didn’t live
on a college campus like you did and I
said something that I regret now but
still bill is true is that I want to
have conversations about people who know
poverty not to the lens of Marxist
ideology but from lived experience and I
think it’s to the benefit of the status
quo that we fight each other
I listened to on beating my packs from
my name PR and last year I traveled to
and from Coker College University on
Sunday nights and one of them sorry one
of the episodes was about two people
working in two very different lessons
one doing inner-city work with students
and one working in rural Tennessee
midway through the hall they realized
they were working on the same problem
they’ve heard have had the same issues
and they said in that talk what if those
two groups of people got together
wouldn’t that be a revolution wouldn’t
that change our current political
climate
it wouldn’t it changed the way we
I was driving to work listening to store
before on anymore
I had to confess I don’t always listen
to you most of the time I’m listening to
a playlist that my son 30 is made music
I haven’t know why or I’m getting my
daily dose of new younger but this
morning a new StoryCorps caught my ear
it’s a conversation of two people a man
and woman who both attended an anti
Trump rally in Texas the woman’s telling
a story of watching this man wearing the
make America great in half make America
t-shirt holiness I’ve been watching
people thought alike tied to his shirt
to his sign but when they tried to take
off his hat she jumped and what struck
me was the fact that she said the reason
why she jumped she were the key gesture
she knew what it was like that something
ripped off your head and he didn’t want
to come to find out a young man was
home-schooled he had never been a Muslim
she was from Baghdad Iraq and had to
move to America at 10 years old and they
get coffee really it’s that kind of
talking across the difference that kind
of talking in bridging boundaries that
will allow us to fight against privilege
want to thank you for letting me share
my story I want to thank my wife for
letting me do this
I’m gonna thank my son and my daughter
or listening to this all the time Bobby
I’m gonna take my students who listen to
me and talk to me and interrogate these
out gives almost a thank you
you [Applause]
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