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School Sued for Teaching that Blacks Were Once Slaves in America
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 13 November 2010 | John Semmens

Posted on 11/13/2010 4:33:49 PM PST by John Semmens

The Margaret Black Elementary School in Sterling Heights Michigan is being sued by one of the parents of a fifth-grade student. The parent, Jamey Petree, alleges that his daughter Jala was permanently damaged both mentally and emotionally by being taught that her ancestors might have been slaves.

“Every girl likes to dream that she might be a princess,” Petree said. “By being told and shown that Black people like her were slaves in the past destroys that dream. For this my daughter deserves compensation.”

Scott E. Combs, the lawyer hired by Petree, dismissed the school’s contention that the lessons were based on factual events as irrelevant. “Just because something may be true doesn’t mean that is right,” Combs argued. “There are many more true facts than the school has time to mention. That they chose these particular facts shows a wanton disregard for the feelings of my client. They have damaged her self-esteem and stunted her life. For this they must be made to pay just compensation.”

The suit names a price of $50,000 as the amount needed to offset the damage to Jala Petree’s self-esteem.

(Excerpt) Read more at azconserv1.wordpress.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: esteem; lawsuit; race; satire; stupid; wasteoftime
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To: CARTOUCHE

You think that you’ve got problems,my ancestors are German.


41 posted on 11/13/2010 7:25:33 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: kalee
Kalee wrote: "It's satire"

Not really.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20101110/SCHOOLS/11100370/1026/Family-suing-Warren-school-district-over-slavery-lesson

It appears infliction of emotional distress is being paired with a civil rights violation.
42 posted on 11/13/2010 7:26:22 PM PST by stevenl77
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To: John Semmens
There is just as much likelihood that the girl's ancestors were the Blacks that sold other Blacks into Slavery.

Never let facts get in the way of a good education, or lawsuit.

43 posted on 11/13/2010 7:27:44 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: neocon1984

“Lawyers are people too.They need to make a living...just like sharks gotta feed.”
Or buzzards.


44 posted on 11/13/2010 7:29:27 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Kickass Conservative
This morning I railed about the Semi news satire postings, and now I fall victim to the same. LOL

When all else fails, read the directions.

Either way, my previous post is factually correct. Blacks in Africa sold other Blacks into slavery.

45 posted on 11/13/2010 7:30:49 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now...)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

got me again... ;-)


46 posted on 11/13/2010 9:46:04 PM PST by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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