Saturday Link Love: White Teachers, Timeout Alternatives, and Abigail Fishers

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Note: Inclusion does not imply full agreement. 

Pokémon Go Could Be A Death Sentence For A Black Man, on Kotaku—“The premise of Pokémon Go asks me to put my life in danger if I choose to play it as it is intended and with enthusiasm.”

10 Books I Wish My White Teachers Had Read, on Bustle—“I can only remember having two nonwhite teachers during my time in school.”

The Near Certainty of Anti-Police Violence, by Ta-Nehisi Coates—“A community consistently subjected to violent discrimination under the law will lose respect for it, and act beyond it.”

12 alternatives to timeouts when kids are at their worst, on PBS Newshour—“It’s been almost six years since my husband and I went cold-turkey on punishments.”

I Was Meant to Be an Arrow, on Bridging the Gap—“I lived and breathed political activism from the time I was 13 until I was just shy of 18 when the burnout set in.”

All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me, on Jezebel—“Years ago, I helped Abigail Fishers get into college in Texas. That was my job: I ‘tutored’ entitled teenagers through the application process.”