Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Super gooey student goodness

Someone wrote a note and left it on my board:

*picture of panda* black, white, and Asian...Racial harmony at its best!
 A student objected later. Dr. A! How can you leave that up there? It's racist!

What's racist about it?

It's saying black, white...okay, it's black and white. But then it says pandas are Asian. That's racist!

Um, dude? It's not racist to say someone is Asian if they are Asian.

Pandas aren't Asian!

They're Chinese!

What? No! There are pandas other places!

Another student chimed in at this point: In zoos.

That's true, is aid. But they come from China, man.

They totally have pandas in Africa!

This ended, as most of our conversations do, with someone suggesting we write that one on the board. So yeah, African pandas, ya'll.