Today is MLK Day. I don’t feel the need to address this any more than to acknowledge it. I have been doing the work all year and to focus solely on social justice today and then forget about it until next year seems disingenuous.
Next. I read a fantastic blog written by Dr. Angela Dye titled Pissing on My Pee. What’s ironic about this piece is that commenting on it or discussing it decenters the author. That is the entire point of the blog in my opinion. Tell me what you think.
I tried to articulate in the piece but thinking it got trimmed down in the editing process … 1) when steps are taken to make the piece about a subjective experience and then someone “adds” to offer accuracy, completeness, legitimacy– that is pissing on someone’s pee.
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
2) When the response is public as opposed to private (w/in the context of friendship) then the public sphere is an important part of the exchange. The public sphere becomes an agent –adding an essential dynamic between the two actors.
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
2 Continued) Pissing on someone’s pee is public. Posting publicly (online) does not mandate deconstructing/correcting/adding publicly (online). It is not the online piece that necessarily makes this about POSP. It is about the DECISION to do so.
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
3). Adding points 1 and 2 together… I want to clean this up/clarify. Someone’s timeline is not completely an open forum–even if it is online. There are open forums where people post for engagement of ANY kind. But Twitter (and Facebook) offers a personal-public space. +
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
4). Twitter (and Facebook) is public so it is ok to be public in your response. Just acknowledge that when you do, it is about territory, legitimacy and authority. It is NOT just about engagement.
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
4 Continued). It is a willful decision to add your expertise to her conversation… an an assumption that your expertise is welcomed … or an irreverence for the territory that SHE is marking.
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
The bottom is that Pissing on Someone’s Pee is about the territory and the marking of that territory. No one’s stopping you from doing it. Hell, I am going to do it– but I do so knowing and accepting what I am doing. And owning the ripples that it creates.
— Angela Dye, PhD (@ejuc8or) January 14, 2018
My next contact with pee was with my son’s Pee Wee basketball team. I coach the team and we played horribly. I don’t care about losing but our skills were really low especially compared to the other team. I left the game frustrated. I was wondering how I could make a better impact with only having a half hour before the game to practice. Suddenly the light bulb went off. It is time to use Teaching Games for Understanding pedagogy and combine it with the natural Sports Education Model that is recreation basketball.
Our next practice will consist of 2 v 1 and 3 v 2. This will allow the players to have more time being in real time game situations. A lot of what we lacked was game sense. What do we do in different situations? TGFU will be a crash course in decision making and also increase the amount of game time the kids will have. That increase in time will allow them to understand what is happening much quicker.
As always I appreciate you reading my blog. Have a good week!
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