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Teacher disciplined: Told students to write 'fun' slave song [MD]
Associated Press ^
| Dec 14, 2016 11:57 AM EST
Posted on 12/14/2016 11:29:36 AM PST by Olog-hai
A Maryland high school teacher has been disciplined after encouraging students to have fun writing a slave song for an assignment as part of a lesson on abolitionist Frederick Douglass. [
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Principal Andrew Cockley wrote in an email to parents Dec. 7 that the assignment was linked to a lesson on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Cockley says the activity was culturally insensitive.
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TOPICS: Education; History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: endicottcity; freakstate; frederickdouglass; howardcounty; maryland; slavery
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To: Preston Manning
How ‘bout “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”?
Or, maybe, “De Camptown Ladies”?
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:10:42 PM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: Olog-hai
I guess Leadbelly was culturally insensitive as well. The
Blue Tail Fly was fun. Especially the part about "master's gone away".
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:11:33 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: Fiji Hill
Being pro-slavery isn’t necessarily racist.
But it is 100% evil.
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:13:56 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:17:57 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:18:07 PM PST
by
mykroar
(Congratulations President-Elect Trump)
To: Migraine
"Or, maybe, De Camptown Ladies?"
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:26:58 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
To: BenLurkin
Slave music is an inspiration coming from people beaten down by their condition in life. The blues came largely from slaves and partly from whites in difficult circumstances.
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:28:18 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: joethedrummer
To: I want the USA back
"...In a sane world, this would not have been a problem. A well-intentioned teacher would not have been raked over the coals for this..."In sane world the subject of slave songs would never exist, because children would be studying subjects with actual value.
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:49:22 PM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(Normal people do not play dominoes on pizza.)
To: Olog-hai
Don’t forget to write your check DOO DAH DOO DAH
Send it in by April fifteenth OH DEE DOO DAH DAY
Thirty Percent right off the top DOO DAH DOO DAH
Pay your fair share right away OH DEE DOO DAH DAY
Going to work all night
Going to work all day
Gubmint man taking all my cash
Givin my money away
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posted on
12/14/2016 12:55:32 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: Olog-hai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQC4uL6WTw
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posted on
12/14/2016 1:00:35 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/14/2016 1:04:12 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Migraine
I sing slave songs in the outfield in my church two-pitch league.
People look at me like I’m on crack.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot is a favorite.
I even make up my own verses as I go.
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posted on
12/14/2016 1:15:28 PM PST
by
Preston Manning
(When standing on the edge of a cliff, a "giant step forward" is NOT progress!)
To: BlueLancer
I get no kicks from champagne . . .
To: BlueLancer
“I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!”
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posted on
12/14/2016 2:06:52 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
Just write a song about the democrat party plantation. Blacks are already familiar with it.
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posted on
12/14/2016 2:53:05 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
To: JimSEA
Since many slave songs were spirituals, I doubt the assignment would have passed the separation clause* of the 1st Amendment.
*The one that was pulled out of some justice's orifice lo those many years ago.
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posted on
12/14/2016 2:59:36 PM PST
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: Preston Manning
Whenever I don’t know the words to a song, I make them up, too — ensuring that I will NEVER know what the real words are, the fake ones get so ingrained.
So — have you ever collided head-first with one of your other outfielders? I still have a scar-tissued ear from it. It was a line drive we were both circus-catching, all-in. The hitter got an inside-the-park on it, or so they tell me.
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posted on
12/14/2016 4:25:45 PM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: Olog-hai
This article (if you want to call it that) has so little factual information that it’s impossible to know what actually happened. Mt. Hebron High is in Howard County, MD — more specifically, Ellicott City — not exactly a bastion of conservative thinking. The entire “incident” could be nothing more than a legitimate misunderstanding of the assignment, or a student with an axe to grind.
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posted on
12/14/2016 4:35:18 PM PST
by
workerbee
(The President of the United States is public enemy #1)
To: Olog-hai; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
When I was in the boy scouts, one of the songs we sang was “Pick a Bale of Cotton.” One of the black scouts, aware of the racial implications, reworded it to be a WASP/White song: “Gonna jump down, turn around, go to the country club”, etc. He was a pretty funny guy.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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posted on
12/14/2016 6:44:40 PM PST
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
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