Posted on 07/16/2012 10:04:42 AM PDT by onlylewis
A teaching associate at a private school in Iowa has reportedly been fired for allegedly telling students that “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a “racist” novel.
Naiya Galloway, 31, was fired by Hillcrest Family Services, a privately run K-12 school that caters to students who have mental health issues or behavioral problems, The Des Moines Register reports.
Galloway has denied allegations that she questioned the school’s use of the book, but acknowledged she disrupted a classroom discussion of the Ku Klux Klan because it had triggered “flashbacks,” noting that she’s both black and Japanese, the newspaper reports.
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bingo.
And writing accurate dialogue is not the same as racism.
An author can depict a conversation between racists, and not, himself, be racist.
Just ask Mark Fuhrman
Fortunately, we lived in Corpus Christi at the time, and it just wasn’t a big thing for Mexicans.
“People under 60 in this country have never witnessed racism and don’t know what they are talking about if they think they have.”
BullSquat. You don’t live in the Southern USA then. There’s still plenty of “real” racism, and I know it when I see it. I’ll be 60 in 2 years, Skippy.
There’s one MAJOR thing that all these alarmists are doing: Whenever one claims something that’s not or is only barely marginally racist [substitute another word, such as discriminatory, harassing, etc.], it debases and trivializes those actual cases of racism such that the public becomes much less sensitive, and less supportive of the victim, in those instances. And that’s a shame.
Yup, and racism was on the decline until about 3 1/2 years ago.
It will take this country a decade to a generation to overcome the racism that was begun when the mighty zero and his lap dog holder came into office.
Yep...to her it was the outrageous constant referral to Jim by the dreaded N word. In my paper I pointed out that Jim is the strongest and most level-headed character in the novel, and *gasp*, the N word wasn’t considered as horrific an insult in those days as today.
Well I knew that would burn her up...but that’s liberals for you. Constantly living to be offended and outraged, no interest in logic or reasoning.
As far as I know, she got her degree, a pay raise, and is still teaching this nation's children today.
Maybe my definition of "racism" is different than yours?
Yea, I'd bet on that.
She remembers the KKK putting her in an internment canp
“She remembers the KKK putting her in an internment canp”
Good one!
The Confederate Battle Flag has already been lumped in with the Swastika, so I'll assume the Democrat Party's role in Slavery will be revamped and they'll claim Lincoln was a Progressive Democrat all along.
I'll be really pissed when they forbid viewing “The Outlaw Josie Wales”.
The topic assigned by her Professor was “Social Justice In The Classroom”. After throwing up a little in my mouth when I saw the title, I dived in hoping to avoid Projectile Vomiting.
She actually did a good job with it and didn't fall into the trap the Professor had set. She concentrated on the Student's viewpoints being encouraged rather than defending what I would consider the Liberal viewpoint of forcing the Teacher's perceptions of Social Justice on the class.
I'm sure she was lucky to get a passing grade on it, but I never plan to ask her what happened.
And even if it was, it's the term that the characters in that setting would have used.
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