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Posted on 11/12/2010 3:16:16 PM PST by Altura Ct.
When a child named Curtis Bowen was slapped by his teacher at Martin Luther King Jr., Elementary School, no one really heard about it. Except for President Obama, Vice President Biden, their wives, three senators, and more than 20 other officials.
They all were CC'ed on the whopping 40-page letter that Curtis' mother, Lisa Henry Bowen, sent to school district superintendent John Covington. In it, Bowen makes mind-boggling demands for reparations. One recipient called the letter "one of the craziest things I've ever seen" and leaked it to the Internet. And Lisa Henry Bowen even created her own web site for the occasion: www.CurtisGotSlapped.com.
Lisa Henry Bowen, who copyrights her name and her son's name throughout the letter, kicks it off by identifying herself as the "intellectual property owner" of fourth grader Curtis Bowen (C). She alleges that Curtis was caught horse playing and was slapped by a teacher named Ms. Curry. Lisa Henry tried to report the teacher to social services for child abuse, but was denied as Curtis' skin wasn't broken.
That sent Lisa Henry into a spiral of outrage. She calls Ms. Curry "one audacious white bitch with 'balls'", and then conducts some informal gonad comparisons. "I happen to have some big 'balls' too. And I ain't afraid to use them." (All emphasis hers, throughout.)
Mrs. Bowen uses her balls-to-the-wall logic to devise a way for the school district to repay her. She claims that Curry slapped 1/4 of Curtis' "million dollar face." Therefore, Lisa Henry encloses a homemade bill for a quarter of a million dollars. The $250K bill is issued to five educational entities, so she's really demanding more than $1 million.
And that's just page eight!
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.pitch.com ...
“Should any of the recipients of the letter wish to meet with Curtis or Lisa Henry ... well, they couldn’t afford it. Lisa Henry’s personal appearance fee is $3,000 for 45 minutes, and she will not appear without her husband (an additional $3,000.) Don’t even think about getting an audience with Lisa Henry’s property, Curtis. He costs $11,000 for 30 minutes.”
Unquote.
Maybe Curtis’ Mother should slap the silliness out of the kid herself. If she is good enough, he won’t end up as another jailbird statistic like his “brothers”.
Victimhood culture on steroids.
I predict Curtis will be gunned down in a gang related shooting before he is 25. Much of the responsibility for his death will be with his momma.
I have to admit her letter shows a lot a creativity and took a certain amount of effort. Too bad she doesn’t choose to apply those talents on something besides trying to rip off taxpayers...like a real job.
The letter is so over the top, I had to laugh.
I can’t seem to find the 40pager at her website but she’s certainly got herself in gear for “Speaking Engagements”.
I’ve been in insurance claims for 25 years. This type letter is common in my field.
“Because nothing screams “hire me” like a maniacal 40-page threat.”
Well, at least she can “think outside the box”!/s;)
“’der Apfel fellt nicht gerne weit vom Baume”
” free psychological, dental, and medical care for the next nine years,”
Well, you got THAT one, lady- Obamacare!/s
That poor kid. Curtis obviously has some interest in music and could perhaps take it somewhere. But with his crazy mother screaming racism at every turn no one who can help him will want anything to do with child.
"But she reserves the real meat of reparations for Curtis and herself.Curtis shall receive, among many other things: $13,500 worth of Wal-Mart gift cards, a free college education, two trips to Disney World, nine years of private tennis lessons on the Plaza, season tickets to the opera, theater, and ballet, almost a decade's worth of psychological counseling by "the best black child psychologist in the country," a whole orchestra's worth of new musical instruments, a three-week trip to Africa at a five-star hotel, and a personal audience with President Obama.
Lisa Henry's demands are just as WTF-worthy. She demands the full payment of her mortgage, a new car, home remodeling, free psychological, dental, and medical care for the next nine years, and the cherry on the sundae:
Independent consulting contract position with the Kansas City Missouri School district, for the next nine years. My consulting fee begins at $15,000 per month, minimum 6 months contract.Because nothing screams "hire me" like a maniacal 40-page threat."
Page 31 has me convinced she has to be a DU member.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3364241
(as if the rest didn’t convince me, that page has that extra sprinkle of nuttiness you can only find at DU)
She is no different than most others in the black society
The copyright symbols next to the names, and the signature marked “Without prejudice- UCC 1-308” are things you usually see from tax protestors and other “sovereign citizen” loonies. I wonder where she picked that stuff up.
Great! It's a badge of honor. At least the teacher cares. I personally got slammed thru a chalkboard(the slate kind). My dad told me that whatever I did to get that kind of response meant for sure that I deserved it. He was right.
I still have a relationship with that teacher thirty years later. His classes meant everything to me after adjusting to the gaping hole in the slate blackboard for about a month until it got fixed over Xmas break.
My best friend taught in tidewater Virginia for several years before taking another job.
He once described an incident in which he nearly hit a student. He caught himself at the last instant. After hearing the story, I would have been tempted to do the same thing but the fact is he would have been fired if he had indeed hit the student.
Every now and then a student does something so irritating that just about anyone would lose it. I don’t know that is the situation here tho.
We don’t know the state of her mind,perhaps she’s thinking like the rest of this country with it’s unemployment&home loss & the precarious nationwide & global position that pos in the WH has put everyone in. She’s probably thinking like a white person.
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