Ku Klux Kontroversy

Youth for Western Civilization ^ | May 26, 2010 | William L. Houston

[WilliamHouston]

A teacher at Lumpkin County High School in North Georgia has been suspended after she let a group of White students in her AP History class dress up in Ku Klux Klan garb for a film project. The video the students were shooting was about the "history of racism." The students were escorted through the cafeteria during lunch and black and mixed race students were offended by their attire.

A small tempest in a teacup about "racism" has followed in the wake. The NAACP has gotten involved and expressed their usual shock and outrage. The teacher has apologized for the incident, but could still possibly be fired. Locals have called it a "a big to-do about nothing" and "political correctness gone crazy."

Clearly, there was no malicious intent here. The students involved were not celebrating the Ku Ku Klan. They were trying to depict its atrocities. Their AP History teacher obviously thought it would be a good exercise in white guilt over racism and slavery. The KKK was topical to Georgia history and the project would have been an opportune time to initiate Attorney General Eric Holder's much desired "conversation about race."

Catherine Ariemma was trying to improve race relations, not poison them, but even that level of humility no longer cuts the mustard with the PC Left. Whites + KKK - Indispensable Context = Racism = Recipe for National Controversy.

In other news, 1 out of 5 Georgia public schools has been accused of tampering with student test scores on standardized tests. 58 of the 191 schools under investigation are in the predominantly black Atlanta metropolitan area. 69% of Atlanta elementary and middle schools are being probed for possible tampering. The credibility of the state education system is in shambles and black students are the worst off because of it.

But no ... the real story in America is a well intentioned, highly talented Georgia teacher who made a racial faux pas in an AP History class, not the fraud and incompetence going on in Atlanta's failing public schools, which will likely have severe long term consequences for the state. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can't so easily beat their chests, organize boycotts, and march about that one.

It is just another day in American under multiculturalism.

[thulldud]

You wanna wear a sheet to school, you gotta put it on the right way.

[Genoa]

A film project? Not allowed to dress the part because it's not PC? Come ON!

[DonaldC]

“The students were escorted through the cafeteria during lunch and black and mixed race students were offended by their attire.”

Offended. What a bunch of wimps schools are churning out.

[Tzimisce]

Meanwhile, Az schools are requiring students to read books about killing whitey.

Mi schools are excluding white students from talking to black professionals.

PC means whites get to sit at the back of the equality bus....

[ETL]

Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[4]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0

[SengirV]

And the teacher had them marching around cafeteria during lunchtime why again?

[ETL]

"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

[OB1kNOb]

she stepped into that steaming pile.

[silverleaf]

kids dressed as KKK “escorted through the cafeteria”?

Something is not right here. I was in many a school play and never walked through the cafeteria in costume

[kevkrom]

And the teacher had them marching around cafeteria during lunchtime why again?

My guess would be so that they could get lunch.

[Dacula]

It gets better. A black teacher in the Gwinnett County school system (not far from Lumpkin County) did the same thing last week.

Let’s see what punishment she gets.

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/gwinnett-schools-investigate-after-535560.html

[Genoa]

Creative publicity for the play? Shock value? I can see it. But I would say it shows, well, questionable judgment.

[Little Pig]

I have several of the Looney Toons Golden collection, and each disc begins with a disclaimer that many of the cartoons contain stereotypes that could be offensive to some people. The key phrase, though, comes next, and should be passed around often, especially in situations like the one here in GA. They say something to the effect that editing out the racist depictions (and therefore effectively denying that the racism of the era ever happened) is worse than actually showing them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

All across America school kids have to dress up in muslim garb including burqas for “Let’s Play Jihad!” day. Does anybody complain about that?

[Gator113]

Lunch..... at lunchtime.... in a lunchroom???

How preposterous!

Next week, the teacher should have the kids dress in Black Muslim uniforms.

The following week, all the girls could wear Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama Monster Belts and the boys could wear bright colored Rev. Wright costumes.

There, that should sensitize them.

[kevkrom]

They say something to the effect that editing out the racist depictions (and therefore effectively denying that the racism of the era ever happened) is worse than actually showing them.

Exactly correct. It's like those who would ban Huckleberry Finn -- pretending it didn't exist doesn't do anyone any good.

[SengirV]

Right, because the 5 seconds to take the hoods and outfits off after filming would have been too much.

[Little Pig]

The main problem is that this warning, and others like it, all boil down to that old saw: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. That is something a liberal can never accept, because it means accepting that socialism was, is, and always will be nonviable. By not accepting that maxim, they can move forward with all kinds of nonsense that anyone with a modicum of understanding of history would instantly recognize as idiocy.

[TBP]

You can’t dress like a Klansman. You can’t embarrass teh plantation-mentality Democrats like that.