While he's engaging with the students and engagement is good, it motivates them, builds rapport.
This pandering is the type of shyt we don't need. It's always a teacher or policeman rapping, playing basketball, dancing. People can't always rap, play basketball and dance, yet these are the examples they showcase to engage with the black community.
That and the focus isn't on their relationships, their rapport, how they handle or discuss current events, opinions, lifestyles, it's strictly on the act of dancing/rapping/ shooting a basketball with a "we like him" "he's cool" "he motivates us" thrown in.
The entire purpose of building rapport isn't to showcase skills and talents and to show off. Being able to dance/rap/play basketball doesn't even mean he respects them as people or individuals. It's like a parent that only wants to parent when it's good, birthdays, holidays, having fun....But when the real work, the real necessity is there, the tough times. Then they are unavailable.
