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Teacher suspended for remark "nappy"
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| 07/31/07
| THOMAS C. TOBIN
Posted on 08/01/2007 4:47:17 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3
They call it that. So what’s the problem? She should just say she was communicating in Ebonics.
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:49:00 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: TornadoAlley3
pinellas-county-is-the-devil’s-winter-home alert.
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:49:33 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(Life is an episode of Green Acres. THEN you die.)
To: TornadoAlley3
I think this is one of those words that only African Americans are allowed to use.
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:50:22 PM PDT
by
Menehune56
(Oderint Dum Metuant (Let them hate, so long as they fear - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)))
To: TornadoAlley3
Being unfamiliar with the term, the first encounter with it (personally) could have been from the BBC: nappy in British English is diaper. So basically the term is ‘diaper-head.’
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:50:40 PM PDT
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: TornadoAlley3
More tripe from the
WORD POLICE.
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:52:42 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
To: TornadoAlley3
Be careful freepers. Bill O’Crapbrain O’Reilly is watching and he might report on your posts tonight. He is trying to up his ratings on the backs of those who read Free Republic.
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:54:59 PM PDT
by
cquiggy
To: TornadoAlley3
Mary Brown, the board's only black member, said the term has been used in a negative way to describe black people. Ban the English language! Oh wait ¿no trabajará, si prohibimos inglés qué lengua nosotros utiliza?
....
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posted on
08/01/2007 4:59:40 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
To: TornadoAlley3
This is so ridiculous. Diversity training? So now this teacher will learn what a humiliating, degrading racist she is, taught by a professional racist.
I am sick of the whole diversity thing. Sick of it. People are different; that's OK. People should feel able to express themselves; that's OK too.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:00:02 PM PDT
by
Sender
(A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.)
To: TornadoAlley3
Imus was fired for making a racial slur. Imus was fired for the "ho" part, not the "nappy" part. Had he called them "nappy-headed beauties" he'd still be employed.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:01:21 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
(There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
To: TornadoAlley3
Another teacher reported the remark to an administrator. Oh, I see. That's how these incidents get started. Mee-ow!
To: TornadoAlley3
I hope the school board doesn’t take away the teacher’s pension just to save a few pennies. That’d be niggardly!
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:04:14 PM PDT
by
pogo101
To: Still Thinking
Hmmm...looks like a new N-word alert to me.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:06:03 PM PDT
by
Czar
( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
To: TornadoAlley3
“The Pinellas School Board on Tuesday approved a one-day suspension for a white teacher who referred to the hair of an African American girl as “nappy.””
I wonder, if two black teachers were walking down the hallway conversing and referring to one another as “nigga” wouldn’t they have to be suspended?
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:08:07 PM PDT
by
Grunthor
To: TornadoAlley3
nap·py 1 Pronunciation (np)
adj. nap·pi·er, nap·pi·est
1. Having a nap; fuzzy.
2. Kinky; frizzy.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:13:53 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Grunthor
Why is this news in America?
Hell, I’ve been called every name in the book.
If she’s nappy, she must be happy.
Like Jesse, I love a good rhyme.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:14:19 PM PDT
by
Hilltop
(?)
To: SamuraiScot
yea, you are right.
If a person is not offended, don’t worry, there’s always someone out there that will be offended FOR YOU.
That’s where most of these cases start. It’s not a person involved, it’s the people who interject themselves into the story by being offended for someones else and filing a complaint.
To: TornadoAlley3
I would love to be her lawyer right about now.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:17:02 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: Menehune56
In the “Nappy-headed Ho’s” statement, I thought that the reference to the women’s moral character was the issue at hand.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:19:00 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
To: TornadoAlley3
That’s a descriptive term used by African-Americans. This is beyond ridiculous.
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posted on
08/01/2007 5:27:58 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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