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May 8 • 2014
ews are all rich and obsessed
with money. Chaldeans don't
value education and only care
about their stores. African Americans
are lazy and expect everything to be
handed to them.
Those were some of the stereotypes
held up for discussion at the April 2
Building Community Teen Forum.
Held at Walled Lake Western High
School, the event brought together stu-
dents and clergy from the Chaldean,
Jewish and black communities for a
frank dialogue about misconceptions
and preconceived notions.
"Today is about learning, being open
and breaking open stereotypes:' said
Walled Lake Schools Superintendent
Kenneth Gutman.
"The only way to make this truly
successful is to ask what you've always
wanted to about anything — race,
color, creed, religious beliefs and sex-
ual orientation:' said radio personality
Mojo, who moderated the event for the
third year in a row.
He was joined by student panelists
Semaj Davis, Samantha Cohen, Kevin
Robinson, Valentena Hannawa, Iven
Ayyar and Louis Grodman. Clergy was
represented by Fr. Andrew Seba of St.
Thomas, Rabbi Jen Lader of Temple
Israel and Rev. D. Alexander Bullock
of the Greater St. Matthew Baptist
Church.
The event was presented by Building
Community, the joint initiative of the
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Iven Ayyar
Walled Lake Western High School
Jewish News and Chaldean News.
Mojo started things off by asking the
students about the stereotypes they've
heard.
"When you're African American
they say you're ignorant and act ghet-
to:' said Robinson, a black 11th-grader
at Walled Lake Central.
"We always get the penny jokes:'
said Grodman, a Jewish junior at
Walled Lake Northern.
Speaking for Chaldeans, Walled
Lake Western 11th-grader Hannawa
said, "People think we don't care about
anything but money. That's not true.
It's not all about the liquor store or the
money:'
"None of my uncles or aunts owns
any party stores:' said Ayyar, a senior
at Walled Lake Western.
Fr. Andrew briefly explained
how Chaldeans brought their store-
owning heritage to the United States.
"Stereotypes are sometimes based on
reality, and many Chaldeans do own
their own stores:' he said. "There's
nothing wrong with staying in the
family business:'
Rev. Bullock noted that when people
lump a group together, they tend to
focus on their worst traits. "It's just
easy to stereotype people and some-
times we do the easy thine he said.
"There are ignorant people in my
culture but that's a small population:'
said Davis. A junior at Walled Lake
Northern, she co-founded an African
American awareness club that has
more white members than black ones,
she said.