Education consultant says white paper may cause racism in young children

examiner.com ^ | September 11, 2011 | Joe Newby

[ilovesarah2012]

Will white paper make your child racist?

According to Anne O'Connor, an "early years consultant who advises local authorities on equality and diversity," it may, reports the UK Telegraph.

Julie Henry writes:

“ Children should be provided with paper other than white to drawn on and paints and crayons should come in "the full range of flesh tones", reflecting the diversity of the human race, according to the former teacher.

Not only that, O'Connor says witches' traditional black pointy hats should be replaced with pink ones while fairies should be dressed in darker colors.

[dfwgator]

[Jewbacca]

She'd have a coronary if she saw this, I suppose.

FWIW, we wrote on "big chief" tablets in Israel when I was a kid. I have fond memories of them.

[Bryanw92]

I use Green Staedtler engineering paper for just about everything. Does that make me a Martian Supremacist?

[Fiji Hill]

Anne O'Connor makes a good point. We should also be concerned about food items that might make children racist.

• White pasta should be replaced with brown pasta made from brown rice or whole wheat, yellow pasta made from corn, green pasta made with spinach, or black pasta made from durum semolina flour mixed with squid ink, available in some Italian delis.

• Brown eggs should be used instead of white eggs.

• Children should be fed those South American purple potatoes found in upscale stores and gourmet eateries instead of white potatoes.

• They should be served chocolate milk instead of white milk.

• They should never be served white rice--only brown or black rice.

• For dessert, they should never be served vanilla ice cream, and if they are served cake, it should only be devil's food, and absolutely never angel food--that could make them racist.

[cumbo78]

I teach High School where there is an 84% minority population. I often get that type of question; the “why does everything bad have to be black” My answer is simple. “You all want to be economically successful, right?” “In the world of money, you always want to be IN THE BLACK, never the RED.” Makes my students real happy. (except the Native American ones, sarc)

[savedbygrace]

Here’s the series it comes from, I guess:

http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/go/equality/

You have to subscribe to read the articles, but just the titles alone should arch some eyebrows.

[Rusty0604]

The first time I saw a black man, my dad said I kept staring at him, and then asked. “how did he get so rotton?”. I was thinking about rotton bananas turning black LOL.

[ilovesarah2012]

Ebony and Ivory

[Rusty0604]

I heard complaints about calling “black friday”. I explain to them that’s the day a lot of retailers finally go into the black for profit and that is a good thing.
I’ve also heard that the “black hole” is racist.

[dfwgator]

Ebony and Ivory

Yeah, but ain't it just like "The Man" to make the black keys shorter than the white ones.

[SkyDancer]

Black paper with white crayons? Yellow paper using red crayons?

[manc]

I;ve just come on here and seen this and about 30 minutes ago I had a call from a cop .

A house in my neighborhood is for sale, I;m looking to get a cheap price and fix it up.
I parked outside the house and called the real estate agent.

Just as I was talking on the phone a guy came out , no top on big fat boobs hanging out and my daughter said she goes to the same school as his daughter.
He;s black moved down here from NY about 8 months ago, rents the house etc welfare, lay about and he and his wife are weird I;m told.

Anyway, I;m parked outside the house talking on the phone when the guy came out and just stood there staring and so I put my window down and said I;m just looking to buy the house to which he told me to F off and get out of here.

He then went back in and got his pit bull and so I rolled the window up.
I carried on talking and then drove off.

Half hour later I have a cop at my house saying that I was harassing him and his white wife, and he thinks this is racial harassment because he now lives in the south married to a white woman.

I told the cop I;m looking to buy the house, he can check the phone for the phone call to the estate agent and the cop told me that he;s had other calls from this NY black guy about him being harassed because he;s black.

It’s B/S that the race card can be thrown about for anything by some blacks today.
Those accusations can put people into jail, arrested, sued and ruin lives and yet these people get away with it all the time.

So much for me buying that house because I found out that the black guy has not paid rent and they won’t leave.

[manc]

see my post at 52.
This racist card crap has to stop .
I;ve just got a call from a cop at my house accusing me of racism by a black neighbor, the only one in the neighborhood and all because I want to buy the house he;s renting so I can fix it up

[Jyotishi]

Children have red blood; does that create a communist bias in them?

[ilovesarah2012]

And Black History Month in the shortest month of the year! I see a conspiracy!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I insist on white paper. It makes drawing pictures of Klansmen a lot easier. /s

[BobL]

Funny, I have yet to meet anyone as white as even #84 printer paper. NOT EVEN CLOSE. So how is this demeaning to the 100% of people that don’t match the color.

[Ray76]

This person is mentally ill.

[Pan_Yan]

BMFL

[Dallas59]

Old? Sounds like something out of the Whitey Hut...