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To: bluecollarman
The assumption, though, is that he does, or he should, go around thinking about this one black kid in everything he does.

Does race have to color every single thing we do?

Isn't it possible that the guy saw a picture and thought it applied to his situation, and didn't think about race in the slightest?

I was guilty of the same thing a few months back - in a thread on Michelle O'bama, I posted a celebrity-morph picture where the pic was morphed into a chimp face. The cry of racism was immediate and I asked to have it pulled. It didn't dawn on me that anyone would interpret it that way, but that's what happened.

The fact is that people don't think about race nearly as much as the victims imagine. The idea that it's not "safe to go back to school" is just ridiculous.

I think this was clumsiness, not malice.

79 posted on 11/19/2009 6:09:55 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
"The idea that it's not "safe to go back to school" is just ridiculous."

Yes I agree with that. The mother is also "acting stupidly".

It is possible the teacher made an error but I doubt it. The teacher should have known it was insensitive. She is a teacher, they deal with this stuff all of the time. This picture fits the stereotypical mold of an uneducated black man with poor hygiene. Add to that a facial expression pretty close to an ape and tack on a caption ridiculing black speech.

To me it's obvious, and I am not one of those racially sensitive folks but I am sensitive to the feelings of a young child.

101 posted on 11/19/2009 6:39:51 AM PST by bluecollarman (Obama's amazing! One beer summit and he wins a Nobel Peace Prize.)
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