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Bronx educator claims she was fired after sharing Holocaust story, refusing ‘Wakanda’ salute
New York Post ^ | 02/20/2021 | Susan Edelman

Posted on 02/20/2021 7:43:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A veteran Bronx superintendent once praised by Chancellor Richard Carranza for her successes in the classroom claims her career was derailed by his “equity” agenda — forcing her to take a demotion in a desperate bid to preserve her pension, according to a $150 million lawsuit.

Karen Ames, a 30-year Department of Education employee, says she was targeted by Carranza’s “Disrupt and Dismantle” campaign to oust or marginalize longtime employees because she is over 40, and Jewish.

“The agenda of Chancellor Carranza and his senior leadership team was euphemistically touted as an ‘equity platform’ but in reality, it was a platform used to create gender, age, racial and ethnic divisions in the NYC School system,” she contends in her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Friday.

Ames was grilled about her “ethnic background,” chastised by a colleague at a training session when she shared her grandparents’ experience during the Holocaust in Poland, and “admonished” when she declined requests at superintendents meetings to take part in the comic book movie-inspired “Wakanda Forever” salute to “black power,” she charges in the legal filing.

Early in his tenure, Carranza visited Ames at PS 69 in District 8, where she had served as superintendent since 2014.

Carranza heralded Ames’ success in raising math scores at struggling schools, vowing to replicate her methods elsewhere, she says in court papers.

But instead of celebrating Ames’ work, Cheryl Watson-Harris, Carranza’s top deputy — who left last year to become schools chief in DeKalb County, Ga. — interrogated Ames during a chauffeured car ride about her DOE history, her family, residency and “improperly inquired” about her ethnicity, she claims.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: New York
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1 posted on 02/20/2021 7:43:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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At an implicit-bias workshop where superintendents were asked to tell their personal stories, Ames talked about her grandparents’ loss of two children during the Holocaust — only to have colleague Rasheda Amon tell her, “you better check yourself,” the lawsuit alleges.

“That is not about being Jewish! It’s about black and brown boys of color only,” court papers quote Amon as scolding.

In August 2018, Ames was summoned to DOE headquarters, where Watson-Harris handed her a termination letter, telling her the department “was moving in a new direction,” she says in the lawsuit. Colleagues were prohibited from communicating with her, and Watson-Harris ordered staff to “eradicate” any reference to Ames, down to the district’s purple color scheme she had designed, she charges.


2 posted on 02/20/2021 7:44:37 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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See also:

Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute



3 posted on 02/20/2021 7:47:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

So wasn’t Kyle Rittenhouse castigated for what was believed to be a white hand signal?

These people are hypocrites.


4 posted on 02/20/2021 7:49:41 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: SeekAndFind

Unpersoned her

/1984


5 posted on 02/20/2021 7:51:51 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Carranza is a punk with an attitude and a big mouth.


6 posted on 02/20/2021 7:52:06 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not “woke” enuff for the inquisition.


7 posted on 02/20/2021 7:53:24 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: SeekAndFind

This kind of stuff is the cancer that will kill us.


8 posted on 02/20/2021 7:58:03 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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I watched that hilarious black panther piece of dog squeeze because it was reviewed so well and it was a marvel comic book movie that somehow got a nomination for best picture. It might have been the worst marvel movie I’ve seen, so bad it was actually funny to the point of laughing out loud. Black Panther the movie has to be the most glaring example of emperor’s new clothes in recent years.

Freegards


9 posted on 02/20/2021 7:58:41 PM PST by Ransomed
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She should have used the Vulcan salute.


10 posted on 02/20/2021 8:03:40 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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The new black national anthem is “Carry Me Back to Ol’ Wakanda”.


11 posted on 02/20/2021 8:05:19 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (In a free world, nobody is equal. In an equal world, nobody is free. )
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Colleagues were prohibited from communicating with her, and Watson-Harris ordered staff to “eradicate” any reference to Ames, down to the district’s purple color scheme she had designed, she charges.

Let's see, African removing all references to a Jew. Very Ten Commandments of them:

Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet, stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men for all time.

12 posted on 02/20/2021 8:06:43 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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I saw that same salute on Babylon 5 . It was a Narn salute !
Who knew the Wakandans are Narn ?


13 posted on 02/20/2021 8:07:05 PM PST by Reily
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Carranza heralded Ames’ success in raising math scores at struggling schools...

Math is RACIST.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/why-math-is-racist.php

14 posted on 02/20/2021 8:09:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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Indeed. The whole Black Panther thing makes me angry. The most advanced society in the world? In Africa? Their dignity! Their sophistication! Uh huh. Western Civilization cannot approach such levels of awesomeness. Of course, they run around in feathers and furs and chuck spears are stuff — but still, way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaay more advanced than White people.


15 posted on 02/20/2021 8:11:53 PM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Reily

I saw the same salute in the movie 1984. Not kidding,


16 posted on 02/20/2021 8:14:36 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Pining_4_TX

I’m wondering if black dems realize WAKANDA isn’t real??? Or do they need something to boost their self esteem??AGAIN?????


17 posted on 02/20/2021 8:19:41 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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I’m wondering if black dems realize WAKANDA isn’t real??? Or do they need something to boost their self esteem??AGAIN?????


18 posted on 02/20/2021 8:19:42 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Except they don;t know how to use the computer...President Joey says so...


19 posted on 02/20/2021 8:20:37 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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The whole premise of Wakanda would seem to be pretty insulting by today’s standards. A hidden super science benevolent kingdom hidden in darkest Africa...who presents to the outside world (including other African countries) as famine ridden and destitute through holographic projections.

I probably laughed out loud every few minutes, which would be awesome for me if it was actually being billed as a comedy.

Freegards


20 posted on 02/20/2021 8:20:50 PM PST by Ransomed
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