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re: Lafayette Parish parent calling for action after daughter’s English teacher reads ‘n-word’
Posted on 12/8/21 at 9:53 am to bhtigerfan
Posted on 12/8/21 at 9:53 am to bhtigerfan
Maybe 5th or 6th. Granny would say the hard r for us in To Kill a Mockingbird so no student had to. Oh how times have changed
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Posted on 12/8/21 at 9:56 am to bhtigerfan
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She says her 13-year-old daughter had been called a racial slur several times in her young life.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 9:58 am to bhtigerfan
So much for “words will never hurt me”
The sensitivity level of some people needs to be tamed.
Someone needs to explain to them that they’re literally in charge of what offends them
The sensitivity level of some people needs to be tamed.
Someone needs to explain to them that they’re literally in charge of what offends them
Posted on 12/8/21 at 9:59 am to SlidellCajun
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So much for “words will never hurt me”
The sensitivity level of some people needs to be tamed.
Everyone needs to be a victim these days. Being constantly offended is just another form of the narcissism crisis we have that social media has created.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:00 am to bhtigerfan
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The book was ‘A Lesson Before Dying.’ I know nothing about the book. What grade would this be appropriate for?
7-8th grade is probably fine. It's a book about a guy in the Jim Crow era being wrongfully sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, and the lessons he learns before he's executed. It's also by a legendary Louisiana author, who is black. It's totally acceptable.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:02 am to bhtigerfan
Did the teacher say, "this is MAGA country, N-word!"?
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:02 am to bhtigerfan
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The book was ‘A Lesson Before Dying.’ I know nothing about the book. What grade would this be appropriate for?
Depending on the class, I'd expect this book to be read between 7th-9th grade.
It's a phenomenal book written by Ernest Gaines. A part of the Wikipedia description:
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In the late 1940s backdrop of a small Cajun community, Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of a murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred unwittingly, Jefferson is sentenced to the capital punishment of death. The story unfolds his search for justice as within his trial, Jefferson's attorney explains to the jury "What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this." Jefferson's godmother, Miss Emma Glenn, and Tante (Aunt) Lou, the aunt of local school teacher Grant Wiggins, ask Lou's nephew Wiggins to turn Jefferson from a "hog" to a "man."
Grant Wiggins, an African American teacher and the only educated African American in the community is asked to teach Jefferson "a lesson before dying" so that he feels more than subhuman. There are multiple times where Jefferson refers to himself as just a hog or an animal, or as just another "n****r" as Grant tries to teach him value in his own life.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:03 am to bhtigerfan
I doubt she wouldn've had a problem if the teacher was black.
This post was edited on 12/8/21 at 10:08 am
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:05 am to bhtigerfan
quote:..well, if it represents who and what you are?
How the frick do you have a personal relationship with a word?
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:06 am to Ingeniero
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It's a book about a guy in the Jim Crow era being wrongfully sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit, and the lessons he learns before he's executed. It's also by a legendary Louisiana author, who is black. It's totally acceptable.
Sounds like a book that folks, particularly in Louisiana, should want read in school.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:07 am to Sasquatch Smash
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Sounds like a book that folks, particularly in Louisiana, should want read in school.
This.
The Mom should be glad the white kids are hearing how poorly treated blacks were in the Jim Crow era and the full effect that Gaines illustrates that it had on the African American population.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:08 am to whoisnickdoobs
quote:Of course not. They can use the word with impunity.
Would this have been a problem if the teacher was black?
If any other race uses the word, it’s legal to beat them senseless, have them fired from their job, and possibly prosecuted for a hate crime.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:16 am to bhtigerfan
Can't wait for the apology tape to be played on Stern
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:24 am to Keep Stirring
Had a black woman upset about a black joke I made on stage in Lafayette. She wasn't upset about the white jokes, Mexican jokes, midget jokes, women jokes, asian jokes at all however. Might be this woman.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:27 am to Giantkiller
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But really, at the same time... what did this woman expect to happen? If it's in the lesson plan and you know it's coming up - what do you think happens when you say it in a classroom with one black kid in it?
ETA: The teacher, when she knows this is coming up in the lesson plan:
"Well I know it but I don't think I should say it..."
When we were reading Mark Twain (can't remember which book it was), our teacher allowed the black student to leave the room when the passage with that word was going to be read. He later told us that he left the room just because he didn't want to be in class, not that he was actually offended by the word in the book.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:30 am to Epic Cajun
quote:Well no shite. If he was offended by the word, he wouldn’t be able to listen to rap music or watch any Worldstar videos.
He later told us that he left the room just because he didn't want to be in class, not that he was actually offended by the word in the book.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:31 am to bhtigerfan
Maybe they should read what the kids really listen too like Cardiac B, Megan The Horse, & Old Boy NFL.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:32 am to bhtigerfan
Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson would give that mom a stroke. I swear the n-word is in there like 1000 times.
And like modern times, it is mostly thrown around by the black folks in the story.
And like modern times, it is mostly thrown around by the black folks in the story.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:41 am to bhtigerfan
Read it in middle school.
Good book.
Good book.
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In the late 1940s backdrop of a small Cajun community, Jefferson, a young black man, is accused and convicted of a murder for perpetrating a shoot-out in a liquor store which left three men killed. Being the sole survivor of a crime that occurred unwittingly, Jefferson is sentenced to the capital punishment of death. The story unfolds his search for justice as within his trial, Jefferson's attorney explains to the jury "What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this." Jefferson's godmother, Miss Emma Glenn, and Tante (Aunt) Lou, the aunt of local school teacher Grant Wiggins, ask Lou's nephew Wiggins to turn Jefferson from a "hog" to a "man." However, in order to accomplish this they must first get permission from Sheriff Sam Guidry. They successfully ask Sheriff Guidry's brother-in-law Henri Pichot, whose family Miss Emma served for years, for assistance. Wiggins, who left his hometown for tertiary education, has returned from university to teach locally. Whilst Wiggins takes the job in contemplation of whether to maintain his position or to completely move away from the place of his childhood, both Jefferson's godmother and his aunt successfully persuades him to go on a prison-visit and impart wisdom to Jefferson before his death. Over the course of the novel, Grant and Jefferson unexpectedly form a close friendship as the two men both come to comprehend the importance of resistance and defying conformity. As they understand compassion, human struggles and existential revelations through their newfound brotherhood, Grant also forms a bond with the white Deputy Paul Bonin. In early February, it is announced that Jefferson will be executed soon, on April 8. Around then, Reverend Ambrose becomes concerned that Grant, an agnostic, is not teaching Jefferson about God and thus begins to visit him regularly to reverse Grant's spiritual impartments. The conflict reaches a head when Grant buys Jefferson a radio, which the seniors in the black community, or "quarter," see as sinful. The novel ends with the anti-climax of Jefferson's death by execution and, much to Grant's surprise, a visit from Paul in which he tells Grant that "Jefferson was the strongest man in that crowded room
Posted on 12/8/21 at 10:41 am to Ash Williams
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The Mom should be glad the white kids are hearing how poorly treated blacks were in the Jim Crow era and the full effect that Gaines illustrates that it had on the African American population.
What I was coming here to say. This is an important work and wonderful that the school is really teaching what went on around the Jim Crow era. The teacher is reading words written by a black man whose family endured most of what he writes about.
On a similar note, one of my children is currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird. The teacher gave a big speech about the offending word, and said she would read those sections anyway because it's what the author wrote, and she would not paraphrase Harper Lee.
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