Posted on 12/23/2024 11:39:36 AM PST by Red Badger
Loudoun County has been the center of DEI clown world for quite a while now, and stories range from the horrible to ones like this that are just plain dumb.
Yes, a teacher at Riverside High School is under investigation because he distributed a piece of raw cotton for students to examine, while giving a lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery.
I had a history teacher who conducted this exact exercise, and the tactile reinforcement has helped me remember the lesson he taught that day, even all these years later.
(But I went to school back in the days when folks still thought racism was wrong and that skin color didn't matter.)
Today, some students in the teacher's class felt that cotton is evil, and they reported the teacher for racism.
(I'm guessing they would all be horrified if they read the tags on their T-shirts).
In a letter sent to parents Friday, Principal Doug Anderson said 'lessons of this nature may cause students to feel any number of emotions,' adding 'some students in the class may have used the situation as a way to act in an insensitive manner.'
'This is not what we are trying to accomplish in our classrooms and we will endeavor to do better,' Andersen wrote in the letter. 'Every individual is valued in Loudoun County Public Schools.'
The Loudoun County Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department was called in to revise the history courses indoctrination to avoid future trauma.
Going forward, they also intend to notify parents ahead of time of any lessons that might contain sensitive topics like cotton, which will likely include all topics except gender transitions.
How much longer must we endure this nonsense?
Whadda bunch of pure unadulterated BS!!
We need to become totally “unburdened” by this BS.
“Me too!.
I was raised in Mississippi!..................”
Me too. NE Texas.
Was about 9-10 years old.
1st day got paid 35cents. Fist money I ever earned.
Also: Oriental,noose,boy,master bedroom....
Hemp...
Not only that, but you can't eat at a Sambo's anymore. (And that's how we got stuck with Denny's...)
I did the same thing with a tobacco leaf.
Zippedy Doo Dah.
I’ve picked cotton and I’ve handed tobacco. The latter is the harder work.
(Clevon Little) "I don't get kicks from champagne..."
(Slim Pickens) "No, no - I mean a REAL negro song. Like "Camptown Races""
(Clevon Little) ""Camptown Races"? Never heard of it - how does it go"?
(Slim Pickens) "Oh camptown racetrack five miles long, dooh dah, dooh da...."
And if you were a tobacco slave you knew it could be worse, you could be picking cotton. And if you were a cotton slave you knew it could be worse, it could be rice.
I know a family whose last name is Lynch. Look out!
Good one!
Cotton is not a sensitive topic. I can bet every damn person in that class is wearing some.
My mom was white; she picked cotton in Arkansas.
My grandmother’s maiden name was Lynch.
The only cotton modern negroes pick is from an aspirin bottle.
They mean it.
I’ve known smart people that fall for the hemp argument. It’s fine tor boutique clothing and rope, I suppose. But then they get off into the x thousands of acres of trees grown just to supply toilet paper, so we need hemp toilet paper. Wrong.
True.
Cotton
Corn
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Turpentine
and many others.
But “cotton” somehow became a “trigger word”.
Probably because it became connected to the wealth of the South; and was referenced often in that context - the ‘Cotton Economy’, ‘The Land of Cotton’, etc.
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