Same

Elementary school music teacher. Middle school substitute. Then nothing until African American Theatre Studies in college, but then again, those were my Vermont years. I didn’t know many black male _people_ let alone teachers.

I didn’t even have a male teacher until I was a sophomore in high school.

I had a black male teacher in high school. I enjoyed him. But that’s why I laughed when they said racism was dead and Obama brought it back. My school at 1000 kids in it and 5 were black. My point is people let their feeling known about the black teacher. I graduated in ‘92

I moved away from Cincinnati three-quarters of the way through my 7th grade year. Not long after, race riots there hit national news, and I was so confused. Most of my friends were black and I had _no clue_ how racist the city was.

Kids are usually pretty stupid like that. Cant help it, really.

I wouldn’t say “stupid.” I would probably say ignorant or uninformed. It just never came up, so why would I think about it?

Growing up where and when I did I would say ignorant. My exposure to anything not white was on the news. And you know news only shows bad even back then. I guess I was just lucky that once I turned 16 I would drive to my friends house and he lived Dayton. Next to UD campus so I was exposed to

Everyone and you realize that we are basically the same. But I still had friends that after I graduated they never changed

Woah. I can’t remember how many I’d had by that point.

I had one male teacher in 8th grade. My high school was majority make teachers, but it was an all-boys school.

Me neither.

I had one in the 5th grade. He was a great guy. Gym / social studies teacher.

My first was my seventh grade homeroom teacher who also taught me world history.

To be more transparent, I grew up in Mississippi in the 1970s so the whole state was about 50% African-American so not that unusual to have such teachers. In 8th grade, 3 out of 4 teachers were so.

Hmmmmm....Never really thought about that sadly. I'm with you Joel. I went to Northwest High School in Cincy and UC and I don't think I had any.

Pretty sure mine was in grad school.

We had several in the business school at Wright State in the 90's. Econ and Finance courses. Dr. Brempong is the one I remember the most. Even has his own Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwabena...

had a very gay one for "music" in jr high (we listened to hit records in a trailer)

I had one (single-session) piano master class taught by a black male. That’s it. 😕

My 10th grade calculus teacher (circa 1979). He said he also worked as a night janitor to make ends meet