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NYC Teacher Fired For Calling Students "Negro"
Sports World News ^ | 5/24/13 | Glenn Minnis

Posted on 05/24/2013 10:17:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

A day after a European PGA Tour official was forced to apologize for referring African-Americans as “colored” in the ongoing Tiger Woods/Sergio Garcia flap, a Bronx school teacher has now been fired for calling a student “negro” in one of her classes.

Petrona Smith, 65, has now filed suit, claiming at the time she was simply “using the Spanish word for the color black,” according to The New York Post. A seventh-grader from the bilingual school PS 211 later reported the March 2012 incident and Smith, who is black and a native of the West Indies, was dismissed. In her suit, she claims she hasn’t worked since.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: language; race
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is all too much.

A BLACK women who works as a teacher calls BLACK children NEGRO, which is BLACK IN SPANISH and a perfectly legitimate description of Black People, is fired for that, but a teacher who can’t teach and is drunk on the job is put on paid leave for YEARS.

A BRITHISH official calls a black golfer colored and is forced to apologize? What is the British guy supposed to call a Nigerian Black? African African? African American from Nigeria, Africa? Dark Continent inhabitant? An African who had ancestors that could run faster than the Africans who sold other Africans to the slave trade?

Please, we all could use a decoder ring or manual on proper names for Negro’s, I mean Colored, I mean Black, oops African Americans.....Perhaps the HNIC O’Bumbler could get his Butt Boy Eric Holder to write a new language that is acceptable to keep us nasty tax paying White Devils in line.


41 posted on 05/24/2013 10:46:34 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Iron Munro

You are think tank material - but don’t try to get any license or put it on a resume - you will be targeted and audited!


42 posted on 05/24/2013 10:48:17 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: SoFloFreeper; a fool in paradise

These ever changing monikers for colored people are confusing. Let’s use a neutral happy word from now on to describe them, like, say, “gay”. What say you?


43 posted on 05/24/2013 10:49:21 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!
These ever changing monikers for colored people are confusing. Let’s use a neutral happy word from now on to describe them, like, say, “gay”. What say you?

"Fabulous!!!"

44 posted on 05/24/2013 10:51:45 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Jim from C-Town

When I was a little kid in the 60s, negro was the polite and proper term to use. That’s what Dihann Carroll was on “Julia”. Her kid Corey was negro, too.

Now, I was a little kid then, but a 65 year old teacher would have been in the prime of her life. Probably meant nothing different than calling the sport footwear sneakers or tennis shows, etc.


45 posted on 05/24/2013 10:53:48 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
has now filed suit, claiming at the time she was simply “using the Spanish word for the color black,”

LOL! So, the New York Public Schools discriminate against people who speak Spanish! She is one sharp lady.


46 posted on 05/24/2013 10:54:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoFloFreeper

Black is out, Colored is out, are we back to Nigger now?

This is silly beyond measure.


47 posted on 05/24/2013 10:54:39 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
“Potentially offensive”...and just why is that again? Sorry, but that one flew over my head.

Perhaps, they feel blacks don't want to be reminded they are black? Or they assume blacks hate being black? OR they say it's “Potentially offensive” simply because 'they can'?

I didn't see what flew over your head - so I'm not sure. Perhaps, this is where taxpayers money can be used for a gov't grant to find the answer. Hey, I just created a job for this teacher! Send all you 'don't knows' to me - I think I can get America off the unemployment lines!

48 posted on 05/24/2013 10:58:46 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: SoFloFreeper

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. These negroes are wasted.


49 posted on 05/24/2013 11:06:37 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Fiji Hill
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if "denigrated" is eventually banned, because it comes from the Latin word "niger," which means "black."

Try using the word "niggardly" sometime and see what happens.

Niggardly isn't even derived from the Latin word for black. It is derived from the Scandanavian word for miserly. But it sounds too much like "nigger" so it must be racist.

50 posted on 05/24/2013 11:23:45 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: a fool in paradise

Lots of folks benefit from UNCF as illustrated at the 4:21 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BerJdS2VJhA


51 posted on 05/24/2013 11:26:21 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Black holes, black boards, and other “black” words are going to get more people fired!

Does blackballed mean gang banged?
52 posted on 05/24/2013 11:29:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: SoFloFreeper

The story I read was that she was a Spanish teacher, teaching the colors, and negro is the Spanish word for black. When she said that, students complained.


53 posted on 05/24/2013 11:30:07 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Whoa stop! You offended me! I am extremely offended! I prefer the term “Caucasoid”.

The scientific term is "honky".

54 posted on 05/24/2013 11:30:32 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Old Yeller

It all racist. Where’s the “That’s racist!” kid been lately?


55 posted on 05/24/2013 11:31:10 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: trebb

Before my daughters were all out of school the school decided to crack down on swearing. I thought that was a good thing until they included “any other word said as a substitute for a swear word” as part of the language that was not allowed. Say what?


56 posted on 05/24/2013 11:34:44 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: trebb
"I bet that even as I write, some adolescent boys, in the stairwell of some high school somewhere in America, are accusing each other of being niggardly, and sniggering at their own outrageous wit. I bet ... Wait a minute. 'Sniggering'? Oh, my God...."

- John Derbyshire, Niggling Doubts, PC Kills Words

57 posted on 05/24/2013 11:43:25 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

58 posted on 05/24/2013 11:44:34 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
...The then-head of the Washington, D.C., Office of Public Advocate, while talking to colleagues about budgetary matters, used the word "niggardly."

Now, we all say stupid things. No doubt Howard, who is white, felt like a dope at that instant because he used a term that was a near homonym with the "N"-word...Before long, a retinue of hot dogs and race-baiters took to the street corners, demanding swift justice. On Jan. 27, they won. Howard apologized for his language and then resigned.

If I were in Howard's place, I would not have felt like a dope for saying "niggardly," would not have apologized, and would not have resigned. And if they had fired me, I would have responded with a lawsuit.

59 posted on 05/24/2013 11:53:47 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Paine in the Neck

But isn’t “Negro” the actual name of the race?


60 posted on 05/24/2013 11:57:49 AM PDT by uncitizen (Brown skin is not a get away with treason free card!)
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