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 hasnt worked since.
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Presumably the word “negro” is not prohibited in most Spanish language countries as it is in ours.
Negro, Negro ,Negro, Negro, Negro, Negro, Negro, Negro,.... I guess I am in trouble now.
“This teacher is black, and I thought blacks were allowed to use the n word.”
She used the wrong “n” word, and besides, she’s from the West Indies. Everyone in the ghetto knows those folks from the Caribbean ain’t real blacks; they be too uppity with their willingness to learn and to work.
What is bad about the words black or negro...or white for that matter? Only bigots,etc. find fault with color of ppl’s skin.
I have taken to referring to myself as “honky”. Love it when people get uncomfy when I do so.
I thought black people could use the term. I mean, liberal blacks call conservative blacks “house negro” all the time.
Source: andrewestrada.com
What is the correct way to refer to Vinny Del Negro?
Have a good one and thanks again for the laugh.
It also was a time when Mexico had been legitimizing the use of Negro to describe blacks/African-Americans in Mexico.
If she is teaching Spanish, it would be appropriate to use the word so they learned the culture.
It is now appropriate and legal in Mexico to use the term Negro in describing race.
Was it on the list of forbidden words?
Niggardly reason to fire someone....
I’m good with that. I’ll use it
The very same people who will switch sides of the street to avoid
two Black Negro African Americans walking to buy Skittles and Tea.
The very same people people who fear guns, which is the reason they
want guns banned. We can't have Guns being angry and chasing those who fear them.
Evil Black American Automatic Guns.
I hope this woman soon becomes very rich at the expense of NY Taxpayers.
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