Shameless Sperg - August 10, 2025


Reddit Teacher： their issues are their own fault

Topics
crab bucket mentality
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Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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38

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4

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In this episode, The Shameless Berg talks about his experience as a white teacher in a predominantly black inner-city school, and why he's tired of pretending not to notice his black students. He also talks about a recent story that went viral on Reddit, about a white high school teacher who discovers some things about his Black students and decides to do something about it.

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00:00:00.000 Hey folks, I'm The Shameless Berg. Hope you're doing well today.
00:00:05.000 I had a funny little story going around.
00:00:08.000 It comes from Reddit, from a subreddit called True Off My Chest.
00:00:15.000 And it's just about a white teacher who came to realize some things about his black students
00:00:22.000 and he's tired of pretending not to notice them. You know what I mean?
00:00:26.000 Real quick, shameless plug. This is the first time I'm wearing this particular shirt and I'm pretty excited about it.
00:00:35.000 The design is inspired by, you know, 90s aesthetic. I grew up in the 90s. You know, that was my childhood.
00:00:43.000 But I figured, hey, I may as well, like, be The Shameless Berg on camera, right?
00:00:48.000 And then my Shameless Berg mug. It's actually pretty cool. I'm surprised by the quality of it, frankly.
00:00:55.000 That all being said, I'm just excited about it, you know?
00:00:59.000 Because it makes it tangible. Like, you take an idea and you materialize it to that level and it just makes it more real.
00:01:05.000 It gives it some skin.
00:01:08.000 So on to the story. It's titled,
00:01:11.000 I used to teach in a black inner-city school. Their issues are their own fault and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. 1.00
00:01:17.000 Aren't you? I sure am. I've been a high school science teacher for a little under 10 years.
00:01:27.000 I've primarily worked at poor urban schools with high Hispanic immigrant populations and I've loved most of my career.
00:01:33.000 Yeah, some low points and difficult times, but that's everyone, right?
00:01:37.000 The year I taught at a black inner-city school almost made me leave the profession entirely.
00:01:41.000 I was entering my fifth year teaching and I decided to take on a new challenge.
00:01:45.000 Yeah.
00:01:47.000 Local inner-city schools had been advertising turnaround initiatives and I decided to give it a go as the school I was at had successfully completed a turnaround initiative started when I had first arrived.
00:01:59.000 The two schools were very similar with one major difference.
00:02:05.000 The proportion of students who were listed as economically disadvantaged parenthetical poverty was the same at both schools, but I was leaving primarily Hispanic to go to primarily black.
00:02:22.000 The entire year was a complete disaster from beginning to end. 0.94
00:02:26.000 I could probably write an entire book about the shit I saw there, but I'm just going to give you the highlights starting from least to most serious. 0.98
00:02:36.000 Class was basically optional. 0.99
00:02:38.000 Kids would walk in or out constantly.
00:02:42.000 You'd walk in or out constantly.
00:02:46.000 I've seen this before. I'm sure some of you have too, like in real life.
00:02:51.000 Um, if they showed up at all. 1.00
00:02:54.000 Any attempts to enforce any kind of rules about tardiness and truancy was usually met with, fuck you. 1.00
00:03:00.000 You know, I can't say it. 0.99
00:03:03.000 Um, and even if they did show up, they were rowdy and off task constantly.
00:03:08.000 Very little education took place in that room or any of them, any of the rooms, really.
00:03:14.000 For example, one girl pulled out her phone.
00:03:18.000 Yeah.
00:03:19.000 Pulled out her phone.
00:03:20.000 Turned on some music.
00:03:21.000 Jumped.
00:03:22.000 Sorry.
00:03:23.000 I just can't.
00:03:24.000 I mean, I just can't with these people.
00:03:25.000 Jumped on her desk and started dancing on top of the desk. 1.00
00:03:27.000 You can see it in your mind.
00:03:28.000 Yeah.
00:03:29.000 I know you can.
00:03:30.000 Like, I know you can.
00:03:31.000 Don't even lie to me.
00:03:32.000 Don't even lie to me.
00:03:33.000 You definitely can see it in your mind.
00:03:34.000 Just dancing on the desk. 1.00
00:03:35.000 I tried to get her down, but she kept telling me, fuck you over and over. 1.00
00:03:39.000 This was at least weekly for her. 1.00
00:03:41.000 The same little bitch also have a speech to the school board or gave a speech to. 1.00
00:03:42.000 There are some typos in this person's story. 1.00
00:03:43.000 Gave a speech to the school board about the institutional forces that keep black people down.
00:03:48.000 Before you accuse me of having shitty classroom management, I tried talking to my AP and my principal about what to do because I had never experienced anything like this. 0.94
00:04:01.000 And some of us are, you know, have. We've known about it for a while, but you know, it's nice for one of you to find out every now and then.
00:04:25.000 And they told me something I was going to hear repeatedly throughout the year.
00:04:29.000 It's just their culture.
00:04:33.000 You have to respect that.
00:04:36.000 Oh, boy.
00:04:39.000 You know, it's always funny.
00:04:40.000 People say that to you and I'm like, but in my culture, this is unacceptable.
00:04:43.000 But in my culture, we do this.
00:04:45.000 But in my culture, we don't do that.
00:04:47.000 Stop telling me I have to care about their culture and excuse their culture when their culture comes up against my culture.
00:04:54.000 OK, don't tell me to prioritize everybody else's culture.
00:04:58.000 This is culture to the detriment of my own.
00:05:00.000 That's what you're always doing.
00:05:02.000 You prop it up like it.
00:05:04.000 Like by implication, it matters far more how they're feeling than how I'm feeling about anything. 0.98
00:05:09.000 Let them, you know, impose upon me completely, impose upon my environment, impose upon my culture, you know, but I better tolerate all of that shit because wouldn't want to upset them and their culture. 0.82
00:05:22.000 Nobody justifies why we should be putting up with any of this stuff. 0.98
00:05:26.000 Nobody can explain you have to respect.
00:05:30.000 According to whom?
00:05:31.000 University Jew.
00:05:33.000 According to whom?
00:05:35.000 I don't have to respect it.
00:05:36.000 I don't.
00:05:37.000 It's not respectable. 0.98
00:05:38.000 It's ridiculous. 0.99
00:05:39.000 OK, it's a freak show. 0.98
00:05:41.000 I only laugh to keep from crying kind of a thing.
00:05:44.000 So, yeah, it's just their culture.
00:05:48.000 You have to respect that.
00:05:50.000 It's important to note that I was literally the only white male in the building.
00:05:54.000 OK, so white male here.
00:05:55.000 Almost every other adult was black with a few Hispanic men and another white woman.
00:06:00.000 You know, that's really interesting.
00:06:03.000 So here this white person, they find themselves in an overwhelming minority.
00:06:07.000 And now, you know, in that context, they're not going to bend over backwards to accommodate the minority.
00:06:13.000 OK.
00:06:15.000 Now, you know, the white man has to accommodate all of them and just be like, yep, yep, totally normal, totally on par with the way that we think and behave as white people.
00:06:23.000 Yep, yep, yep. 0.91
00:06:24.000 Exactly the same should get the exact same results and output because we have to keep playing, playing along, playing pretend for this nonsense. 0.98
00:06:33.000 The black female principal with a Ph.D. in education told me it's just their culture. 1.00
00:06:39.000 And I have to respect that.
00:06:41.000 You hear that?
00:06:42.000 You have to.
00:06:44.000 Because.
00:06:45.000 Because.
00:06:46.000 Right.
00:06:47.000 Wow.
00:06:48.000 I wish it ended there, but it doesn't.
00:06:51.000 It never ends.
00:06:52.000 It never ends.
00:06:53.000 There is no ending.
00:06:54.000 The crab bucket mentality is real.
00:06:56.000 I had a handful of good kids and coincidentally, I'm sure they were almost all African immigrants.
00:07:03.000 Now, I mean, you know, you'll commonly hear that some of the fresh off the boat Africans from certain parts of Africa, I think in particular, Somalia, not Somalia, God forbid, sorry.
00:07:13.000 Um, Ethiopia, like you, you will have some come here and to be honest with you will live kind of peaceable, normal lives and work pretty hard.
00:07:22.000 I can't actually completely deny that because I've seen it.
00:07:25.000 Okay.
00:07:26.000 I've lived around some that were like that.
00:07:28.000 Um, and they tend to not like African Americans all too much.
00:07:33.000 They're not, they're not too impressed with what they see and they hate feeling lumped in with them.
00:07:37.000 And I mean, that's understandable, right?
00:07:39.000 Would you want to be lumped in with them?
00:07:41.000 I wouldn't.
00:07:42.000 Unfortunately, we're sort of all lumped into one country with them. 0.99
00:07:46.000 That sucks. 0.96
00:07:47.000 Um, yeah, so African immigrants, he's saying, you know, they were doing pretty well. 0.98
00:07:55.000 And, you know, compared to African Americans, one boy from Rwanda was accepted to Stanford.
00:08:02.000 Um, now I've got to say there, of course, still going to have been given some advantages, like under the racial dynamic, the affirmative action, all of these policies, they will still have been given some, some favor.
00:08:16.000 Um, over the native white population.
00:08:19.000 That's for sure.
00:08:20.000 But I do understand the point they're making.
00:08:22.000 There is something of a difference. 0.99
00:08:24.000 Um, holy shit. 0.98
00:08:27.000 I was so proud of him, you know, for getting into Stanford and so happy for him. 0.99
00:08:31.000 No, who wasn't? 0.73
00:08:32.000 Uh, the college counselor trying to pressure him to change his mind and go to fucking grambling instead said he was turning his back on his community by going to Stanford. 0.90
00:08:41.000 Awesome. 0.92
00:08:44.000 Awesome.
00:08:46.000 Awesome.
00:08:47.000 Awesome.
00:08:48.000 You know, what do you even say?
00:08:53.000 I mean, and I've seen this before, you know, I've seen plenty of examples and you can hear lots of stories from some of the more successful, educated black people that will tell of some of the hardship that they dealt with when they had ambitions a little bit too high for, uh, for the ghetto.
00:09:11.000 You know, a little bit too high for their homies in the struggle.
00:09:16.000 They're brothers.
00:09:17.000 You know what I'm saying?
00:09:18.000 Yeah.
00:09:19.000 Yeah. 0.99
00:09:20.000 You know, if they want to reach a little bit higher than their brothers in the struggle are able to reach to, then they just shit on them. 0.98
00:09:26.000 You an Oreo, you a race trader, you an uncle Tom, you know, whatever you're gonna, you're trying to turn white and all this stuff. 0.99
00:09:32.000 You guys do it to yourselves.
00:09:33.000 You do it to each other.
00:09:34.000 I mean, you know, even when you have exceptions, you just, you know, when you have exceptionally intelligent ones, exceptionally hardworking, exceptionally resourceful, you, you know, pick them to pieces and expect them to kind of lower themselves to the level of your tribe.
00:10:01.000 So, but I'm sure that like differences in outcomes can still, in the end, be blamed on white people.
00:10:10.000 Like that person could go to Stanford, but like, you know, their community wants them to go over here instead.
00:10:16.000 Their life outcome would have been different if they'd gone to Stanford.
00:10:21.000 And since it will be a less prosperous outcome with grambling, it, it then leaves them the opportunity to just blame, blame it on white people. 0.75
00:10:33.000 I ramble on.
00:10:34.000 I'm just so tired of it. 0.99
00:10:35.000 I'm so tired of listening to all their pissing and moaning and whining and complaining that when I see something like this, my mind starts to go, I wonder what kind of bullshit sort of logic they could come up with. 1.00
00:10:47.000 What sort of mental gymnastics could they use to blame this on white people somehow? 0.99
00:10:51.000 Cause I'm always waiting for it. 0.94
00:10:53.000 Like, you know, sometimes I think I'm joking to myself, like, haha, wouldn't that be funny?
00:10:57.000 But it's not funny because it ends up happening.
00:10:59.000 And it usually ends up worse than like what I was thinking at the time.
00:11:04.000 Um, yeah, so I just found that very interesting and not very surprising.
00:11:09.000 Are you surprised?
00:11:10.000 Like I'm not, um, they're, they're tired of pretending otherwise.
00:11:15.000 Are you?
00:11:16.000 I mean, I was tired of pretending otherwise a very, very long time ago.
00:11:21.000 So, hey, well, there you have it.
00:11:25.000 I hope you folks have a great weekend.
00:11:27.000 Thanks for all your support.
00:11:28.000 Take care.