"Viva La Revolución!"

Let me tell you about another 'only in America' situation which I encountered today..

I have this class called Social Inequality, its discussion-based so we just talk for an hour and a half and there's this dude Demarcus (we call him Che) who's like a political activist; he's always really vocal and argumentative and he's reeeeally hung up on racial inequality.

So there was this test today where 6 people from the class make a panel and raise various topics and then put questions to the floor…
5 mins into the lesson Demarcus walks in and the panel asks: 'Does anyone have any questions?'.. Demarcus raises his hand.

Now, this white girl cuts in and starts speaking and then realises and goes: "Sorry Demarcus, did you have something to say" and he replied: "Yeah, don't worry, its only been 400 years"

(since slavery, for those of you who missed that..)

He continued to say: "ANYWAY. The point I was trying to make is this is all bullshit. None of you know what you're talking about. Fuck your opinion, fuck yours, fuck yours and fuck yours" (Pointing at all of them)
"Cos this aint gonna change anything... the white man is still the richest, the top 5%, they hold all the power"

And a boy on the panel was like "What about Obama?"

Demarcus: "Obama don't mean nothing, black employment has not changed since the 1980s" etc etc 
He was getting really loud and telling everyone they didn't have a clue etc


The teacher stood up and was fuming. He was like listen, I let you lot talk freely but you're disrespecting people. Get out."
Demarcus: "No. It's bullshit. You don't have any power either"


So the teacher left. He came back with two campus police officers and they escorted Demarcus out
.
On the way out he was like: "If I have to get arrested, if I have to get shot. Do it. I'm starting a revolution. Get up. Stand up for your rights"


Now only 20 mins into the lesson the teacher looks like he's about to kill someone. He said to us all: "I really can't deal with the rest of the day. I'm fed up. Just go home."

It was extremely entertaining... I enjoyed it anyway. I doubt we'll see Demarcus in class again and we're all anxious about our teacher going militant on us to re-assert his classroom authority.

But this brings me nicely onto the next post I wanted to write.. about issues of race which I have noticed day-to-day so…stay tuned!

Love y'all!