Lesson to be learned: Never apologize. For anything. Ever.
BTW, the origin of the word that “cannot be said by non-black people but is used over and over again by blacks” is the Spanish word for black - negro.
Do we have to rename all the black crayons?
If youre a Spanish teacher, you may want to be careful when teaching colors to your students.
Petrona Smith, 65,was fired from New York Citys PS 211 in March 2012 after a seventh-grader reported the alleged insult. According to Smiths lawsuit, she was using the word negro for the color black, since she was teaching a lesson on colors. She is now suing the city.
They havent even accounted for how absurd it is for someone whos black to be using a racial slur to a student, said Shaun Reid, Smiths attorney. Talk about context! Theres a lot of things wrong here.