Sorry, don't agree. A homeless guy is a homeless guy. A crack whore is a crack whore. Injecting color into it is irrelevant whether it is a mostly white school or a black school... or at least it should be unless we are going to dive deep into the prejudice of lowered expectations.
It may be racist if there was racist INTENT on the part
of the teacher. Otherwise it shows startling bad taste.
Or, perhaps the teacher and her class is so integrated
in diversity that the thought never crossed her mind
and was just a funny picture, I seem to remember
Joe E. Brown doing that wide mouth bit and no one
even said it was in bad taste much less racist,
but of course anything tasteless about “white” folk
can’t BE racist because only “whites” are racists.
I side with the mother, but playing the drama queen
was not the way to deal with this. Maybe she was trying
for a spot on “Drama Queen for a Day”.
I know you don’t agree. I stand by my perception.