Racist Interest Rates?

A short conversation with an Obama-bot educator:

@LakiaMScott @BarackObama Make everybody else pay for your bad borrowing decisions? How is that fair?

— RightKlik (@RightKlik) April 25, 2012

@LakiaMScott That's a nice sentiment, but there's no such thing as a free lunch

— RightKlik (@RightKlik) April 25, 2012

I did my very best to ignore and deflect a racialist implication...

@LakiaMScott Eurocentric thought? How did Europe work its way into this topic?

— RightKlik (@RightKlik) April 25, 2012

@LakiaMScott No, you can explain what you mean by "Eurocentrism" & how Eurocentrism has anything to do with interest on student loans in USA

— RightKlik (@RightKlik) April 25, 2012

Could she give me a straight answer?

No she could not!

Speaking of "Eurocentric thinking," here's an endorsement of some dead white Europeans:

I'm so inspired by President Obama's address. I also see social theories at work! @CHANGEducation did you notice Marxism, Durkheim, & Weber?

— Lakia Scott (@LakiaMScott) January 25, 2012

So much irony, so little hope for Lakia's students...

Lakia Scott

Graduate Assistant

Department: Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education

lscott33@uncc.edu

Lakia M. Scott is an urban education doctoral student in the Department of Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Education in the College of Education at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Lakia serves the Urban Education Collaborative by assisting with the procurement and implementation of grant funding and serving as a point of contact for the Scholarly Lecture Series. Having obtained her Bachelor’s (Texas Southern University) in Journalism, she continued on to receive her Master’s (Prairie View A&M University) in Curriculum & Instruction with special emphasis in Reading. Lakia also serves as the Editor for the Urban Education Research & Policy Annuals, a graduate student journal that seeks to elaborate on relevant issues and implications in the field of Urban Education. Her current research interests include: urban literacy, technology and accessibility for urban student populations, and charter school environments as an educational equalizer for vulnerable populations.