This teacher tells the story of how she finally gained the courage to stand up and speak out against oppression. She invited a National Guard sergeant to speak to her class, only to hear him say, "Join the Guard if you want to kill towel-heads!" Being of Arab descent, she was offended by this comment, but she had grown up hearing worse, so she remained silent.
The next day, she realized that she must address her students concerning racism and prejudice. After her lecture, a JROTC student approached her and claimed that although she was planning to join the military, she was not joining in order to fulfill some sick fantasy of killing anyone who was different from her. This teacher realized that she could no longer remain silent when it came to injustices that had and would continue to occur around her, because her students were always watching, and in order to change the attitude of the world, she would first have to start with those in her classroom.
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