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History Lesson Used Black Students as Slaves
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 5:25 am
By: EURweb.com
Parents and teachers at a North Carolina school are protesting a history lesson in which African-American students visiting a plantation with their class were told to pretend they were slaves as their white classmates looked on.
Teachers at Rea View Elementary in Waxhaw said they are planning to write officials at the Latta Plantation about a lesson during a Wednesday field trip in which an African-American tour guide chose three black students to wear bags used to gather cotton while mimicking cotton picking, WSOC-TV Charlotte, reported Friday.
"I am very enthusiastic about getting kids to think about how people did things in 1860, 1861 - even before that period," said tour guide Ian Campbell, who added he has been a historian for 15 years. "I was trying to be historically correct, not politically correct," he said.
Kojo Nantambu, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, criticized the lesson.
"There is a lingering pain, a lingering bitterness, a lingering insecurity and a lingering sense of inhumanity since slavery. Because that's still there, you want to be more sensitive than politically correct or historically correct," he said.
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Lighten up peeps.
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Jiggy5
November 16, 2009, 11:42 am
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Do your research on the Channon Christian and Chris Newsom murders..
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JoseHowan
November 12, 2009, 8:07 am
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This story just gave me some old UGLY reprised memories--being the ONLY 'BLACK' child in my elementary class:EVERY DING-DANG time the teacher would use the word 'Black',(and she could be describing ROCKS),those ding-dang brats would swivel around in their chairs,& STARE at me !!! THIS HAPPENED- EVERY- TIME-SHE USED THE WORD BLACK!!!!
NO--CHILD(REN) SHOULD EVER BE PUT ON THE SPOT--WHAT--- IF they were visiting the Halocaust musesem,(sp)would they feel justified in choosing the German children and the Jewish children,to ACT OUT the gasings of those internment camps?????
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Rubinisk
November 11, 2009, 11:57 am
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what the heck was she thinking! Let her try picking cotton for 16 hours a day
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Hershey Kiss
November 10, 2009, 7:06 pm
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Navi12
The role reversal would have been a better learning experience for all.
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RaaSaa
November 10, 2009, 2:33 pm
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Black students visiting a plantation with their class were told to pretend they were slaves as their white classmates looked on.
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