re: Lafayette Parish parent calling for action after daughter’s English teacher reads ‘n-word’

Oh boo fricking hoo. If it is prescribed reading and it was read out loud than so what? Spare me this non sense it is a word and black fragility is at an all time high.

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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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I teach this novel to my 8th graders. I always explain before we begin that the novel was set during segregation and includes incidents of racism. I also explain that racists of that time used that word to demean blacks and that the book would not be realistic if it did not include that word. When I read aloud, I do not say it, mainly because I do not feel comfortable using that word myself, but I would not fault someone for reading it aloud themselves. It depicts that time and place in our history. To date, no parents have complained, and I teach a diverse group of students.

I think most of the parents who object to these novels are just ignorant. Anyone who has read Ernest Gaines’s or Harper Lee’s works knows that they are not racist. Indeed, both authors confront and criticize a racist society.

There are certain words I do not say. That is one of them. I have no problem hearing others speak those words when appropriate, but I do not use them myself. It’s a personal decision for me.

ETA: I also teach a government class. In that class, we study several first amendment cases, many of which include offensive language. I do not speak those words either. Again, my personal preference.

The other 17 kid’s parents must not care about their children by sending them to school with blacks

I'm your Mama, I'm your Daddy, I'm that N!gger in the Alley. I'm your doctor when you need. Want some coke? Want some weed?

-Curtis Mayfield

They need a movie day to get over the shock.

I recommend Blazing Saddles.

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I recommend Blazing Saddles.

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Why? Is the sheriff near?

“Dey told me you was hung!”

“Dey was right..”

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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.

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Sounds like a solid read imo. I may have to bookmark this to check it out sometime.

Should be “Attention whore parent wants payoff for teacher using word thrown around by rappers like Kamala Harris at a key party.”