Teacher disciplined: Told students to write 'fun' slave song [MD]

Associated Press ^ | Dec 14, 2016 11:57 AM EST

[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. […]

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. …

[Migraine]

How ‘bout “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”?

Or, maybe, “De Camptown Ladies”?

[JimSEA]

I guess Leadbelly was culturally insensitive as well. The Blue Tail Fly was fun. Especially the part about "master's gone away".

[BenLurkin]

Being pro-slavery isn’t necessarily racist.

But it is 100% evil.

[Albion Wilde]

Oh, brother — ping.

[mykroar]

Blazing Saddles - Work Song

[BlueLancer]

"Or, maybe, “De Camptown Ladies”?"

[JimSEA]

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.

[rhoda_penmark]

A true classic!

[T-Bone Texan]

"...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.

[Organic Panic]

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

[Organic Panic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dQC4uL6WTw

[Yo-Yo]

De Camp Town Ladies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H2W1lK7P-I

[Preston Manning]

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.

[colorado tanker]

I get no kicks from champagne . . .

[dfwgator]

“I hired you people to try to get a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!”

[CodeToad]

Just write a song about the democrat party plantation. Blacks are already familiar with it.

[Bratch]

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.

[Migraine]

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.

[workerbee]

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.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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!