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Mother says school work sheet is racist
The Intelligencer ^ | October 27, 2009 | CHRISTINA KRISTOFIC

Posted on 11/19/2009 5:32:28 AM PST by SolidWood

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To: waiyu
I agree with you to a point, but it is still sheer stupidity to put something like this on a school assignment regardless

Sheer stupidity because we've been conditioned to think about race all the time. Hey, maybe seniors should file charges too... the guy looks old enough for AARP.

81 posted on 11/19/2009 6:10:55 AM PST by rhombus
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To: xsmommy
It is a very insensitive photo, and would be regardless of the race of the individual. Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering.)
82 posted on 11/19/2009 6:13:18 AM PST by wintertime
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To: rhombus
Is that your father, whitie!

Don't dis my momma, rhombus!

83 posted on 11/19/2009 6:17:35 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: Doogle
Leopard seals are cool...I posted a pic of one just the other day!
84 posted on 11/19/2009 6:17:45 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: rhombus
"And wouldn’t it be a GOOD thing if it didn’t cross the teacher’s mind that someone would flip out and deem a picture of an ignorant toothless person who happens to be black as racist?"

Yes it would, but we aren't quite there yet.

85 posted on 11/19/2009 6:20:14 AM PST by bluecollarman (Obama's amazing! One beer summit and he wins a Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: rhombus

It’s sheer stupidity because it is a predictable outcome. If you put something like that out you can’t be surprised when someone throws the race card. Not in today’s PC society. I understand what you are saying, but common sense says that if you put out a pic that has even the slightest chance of offending some group, not matter which group it is, you get what you ask for.


86 posted on 11/19/2009 6:21:49 AM PST by waiyu (Republicans: We're like Democrats, just spelled different.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

I’m with you. That is extremely offensive. It would be offensive no matter the gender or skin color of the person in the photo. And what’s with that stupid caption?


87 posted on 11/19/2009 6:22:05 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: squarebarb
Somebody needs to ask the teacher what he/she thought she was doing. It’s offensive and it is meant to offend black people. That was its purpose. And it did. Mission accomplished.

Apparently somebody already did, as documented a few posts above yours.

Curran reported, through Smith, that he found the image by doing a Google Images search for the phrase "multiply and divide."

Sure enough, th 4th page of GOogle i mages sends you here - about 12 or so posts down. "I chose it because it said 'no way,' which is a comment my students make when I require them to show each calculation," he wrote in an e-mail. "I had no idea that I might offend anyone. I am very sorry for any distress that this has caused my students and the community."

The pic may have nothing to do with "algegra", but it did apparently come up under a google search on "multiply and divide" (for whatever reason), and the teacher found the "No Wai" phrase amusing since it is a phrase his students use. To assume and assert that the teacher's purpose and intent in using the pic was to offend without even the benefit of looking into the background of the teacher and students demonstrates a tendency to jump to conclusions and make accusations completely devoid of any factual basis to support them.

You aren't a reporter for the drive-by media, are you?

88 posted on 11/19/2009 6:22:32 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: rhombus

If all students were black, and there was one white student, and the picture was of a white toothless man, I would say the teacher intended to send a message to the black students and one message to the single white student. Yes, it would be racist.


89 posted on 11/19/2009 6:22:43 AM PST by healy61
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To: SolidWood

I really don’t understand what the person who put the picture on the sheet hoped to accomplish? It’s too out of place to be funny. I can understand the mother’s feelings of racism. I’d be irate if I saw a similar picture of an Eastern Kentucky/Southern/”redneck” person. Just my two cents worth.


90 posted on 11/19/2009 6:22:51 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan (ATTENTION RINOS: IT'S NOT THAT I'M TOO FAR RIGHT; IT'S THAT YOU'RE TOO FAR WRONG! fubo funp)
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To: Doogle
How did you get a picture of my Labrador?

This is usually the last thing I see before I'm turned into the household chew-toy! LMAO!

91 posted on 11/19/2009 6:24:47 AM PST by scoobysnak71
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To: SolidWood

It’s not racist, and was most likely put on the cover to represent the teenage mind in relation to things like schoolwork and homework. In other words, an over-dramatized facial expression actually meant to poke fun at all students, not just students of a particular race.

Now, that being said, appearances can carry weight, especially if misinterpreted, so I can see why this particular picture, as opposed to using say a goofy kid of any race doing the same thing, was a poor choice...


92 posted on 11/19/2009 6:24:53 AM PST by cliniclinical (space for rent)
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To: SolidWood

If that’s really from her son’s work sheet, it is so bad I gotta wonder if this is a set up.


93 posted on 11/19/2009 6:25:35 AM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: icwhatudo

This is the ugliest thing I have ever ever seen in or out of a school setting.


94 posted on 11/19/2009 6:27:13 AM PST by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: jtal

She can live anywhere she wants. She is an American. Let the teacher move to someone else’s neighborhood. I am not offering my area. Is anyone else?


95 posted on 11/19/2009 6:27:34 AM PST by healy61
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To: scoobysnak71

good thing the lab’s only playing


96 posted on 11/19/2009 6:27:44 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SolidWood

Wow. Obnoxious. I have little sympathy for the PC police and race whiners, but they got it right on this one — this is racist garbage. Whose genius idea was this?

SnakeDoc


97 posted on 11/19/2009 6:32:18 AM PST by SnakeDoctor ("Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne)
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To: SolidWood

I have to agree... That’s Racist!

Get it out of the book and move on to trig.


98 posted on 11/19/2009 6:32:20 AM PST by Poser (Enjoying Prime Rib for 58 Years!)
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To: icwhatudo

I gotta agree with you.


99 posted on 11/19/2009 6:34:00 AM PST by Rider on the Rain
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To: humblegunner

All apologies. Posting from phone, even proofreading, i didn’t pick up on the typo.

furthermore, i do agree that the image doesn’t belong on a test. but the word “inappropriate” was glossed over, and “racist” was easily chosen.


100 posted on 11/19/2009 6:35:16 AM PST by Celerity
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