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Student Praises Slavery on Test and Turns it Into an Antigay Pro Trump Declaration

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Answering questions on a slavery-anticipation-guide quiz, a student at a post elementary Midwest school responded to the questions with a level of disdain and indifference that may rattle anyone with the smallest hint of decency and conscience.

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The student is of the position that slavery was no big deal. Outlining what he knows about slavery, the student replied that slavery was when ‘blacks worked for us whites. Like it should be.”

Replying to where in the world slavery is still experienced, the student replied:
“China? Korea? Hell if I know.”

How or why do people become enslaved? The student replied nonchalantly, “because that is how history works!” to further highlight that point, the student rhetorically asked, “How do people become gay? That is how their mind works! So let me ask; why is the fags flag ok but the confederate flags not! It’s unfair and the entire world is going to hell because of it! #Trump2016.”

It is troubling that students of this age have such an ignorant and incapacious view of the world. Laced with pride and privilege, it is evident that this student has an established outlook of this world that he/she has been brainwashed into by his/her subculture. This begs the question: is racism and bigotry taught? If so, by whom?

Georgia Teacher Develops Dive Game About Slavery, Parent Fumes.

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A local Atlanta area teacher’s interactive slavery lesson activity ran into prickly bushes when a student went home, apparently distraught, after playing the slave-runaway, Under Ground Railroad, game. Slavery is a challenging and abstract topic to teach and one that is hard for 10 and 11 year olds to wrap their minds around. Many students cannot understand how such an oppressive system evolved into what we have today as a representative democracy.

Chattel slavery is a part of America’s history that many teachers are unwilling to touch at the elementary level, if the curriculum does not explicitly require deep exploration. Some tread very lightly, and others just make mention of slavery and keep their students stepping through the standards. Most students, on the other hand, think that slavery is something from another lifetime.

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The game went so wrong that the teacher is now facing possible disciplinary action by the Cobb County school district after leaving the lone African American girl in the class distraught.
The game required 5th grade students at the Cheatham Elementary School in Cobb County to play the role of slaves trying to escape the plantation to freedom by traveling along the Underground Railroad. The rolling of the dice directed their path. They either escaped into the woods or wound up back on the plantation. The teacher taught the students that slaves faced grave consequences, if they were caught and brought back to the plantation. Some of these punishments included beatings.

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Instruction for the game, where students either escape to freedom or get sent back to a plantation. (WSB-TV)

The 5th grader went home sad, and the grandmother, Delores Bunch-Keemer, determined that something was not right. After further examination, she discovered that the root cause was the slave game. She decided to go up to the school to investigate, as her granddaughter felt demeaned by the slave game.

Bunch-Keemer felt as though the teacher did not see the gravity of the consequences of the game and decided to escalate the situation. Now the administrators at Cheatham Elementary School have decided to take disciplinary actions against the teacher citing that the lesson was not approved.

 

 

 

Blow the Face Off of Stone Mountain and the Confederacy?

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Credit: Stone Mountain Park

Stone Mountain Park, in Stone Mountain, GA, is a big tourist attraction which is also frequented by locals. There are a number of activities to behold here from riding the Skyride to taking a train around the mountain. Another big draw is the history and the magnificent sculpture in the side of the mountain. The sheer size of this sculpture is a reason to go check it out.

According to the Stone Mountain Park website:

The largest high relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving, depicts three Confederate heroes of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson.  In 1912 the carving existed only in the imagination of Mrs. C. Helen Plane, charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).

According the Atlanta Journal Constitution, McCartney Forde, from Dekalb County, GA, has filed a petition to remove the carving from Stone Mountain because of the underlying confederate meaning. He suggests that in place of this carving should be carvings honoring veterans who died in all wars since WWI.

According to 11 Alive News, the mountain was also the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, and this organization held cross burnings on the mountain until the 1980’s. This story has created much buzz on 11 Alive’s facebook page. I won’t even begin to describe the utter ignorance and racism I witnessed reading through the comments. Because of people like those who left comments on this facebook page, Mr. Forde has filed this petition.


One person commented on the subject saying: If you remove history just because you don’t like what happened it will inevitably be repeated.

I have to strongly disagree with this comment. Although I do not care one way or another if this monument is removed, it is not displayed as a part of history that should not be repeated. As stated in the above description from Stone Mountain Park, the monument depicts “heroes” of the confederacy. This is the largest relief sculpture in the world. It is glorifying those men and what they did, not condemning their views, values, and actions. The only way that a monument will serve to ensure that history will not be repeated is if that monument reinforces a negative view of what happened at that point in history. This monument will not prevent history from repeating itself. If anything it will lead people to continue to hold that hatred in their hearts and pass it on from generation to generation. I think the comments on 11 Alive’s facebook page have proven this without a doubt, SADLY.