Posted on 04/30/2014 2:43:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono
REDMOND , Wash. A mother in Washington is upset after a teacher at her daughter’s middle school allegedly gave students an assignment that required them to pick cotton so that they could "see what it was like to be a slave."
Carolyn Walker called Redmond Middle School to inform them that her daughter would not be doing the assignment and later found out the teacher gave her daughter an F.
"My daughter is African American and for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton, is not OK, it's not OK at all," Walker told KIRO 7. "It's not just about my daughter, all races should not have to participate in this. It's wrong, it's absolutely wrong."
According to the Lake Washington School District, the lesson was about “the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on the Industrial Revolution."
Walker has scheduled a meeting with the teacher and the principal where she will request that the cotton lesson be dropped from the school’s curriculum.
2014-1865= 149 years
So, that family must have their children in thei 70's.
Washington State grows cotton? I kind of doubt it.
My grandmother and grandfather picked Cotten, hoed it too. When I was young and stayed home from school I went to work with them. I’d help Grandpa til I was tired and then ride on his sack.
I must be a racist!!!
She doesn’t have to pick cotton to experience slavery. We are all experiencing the incremental descent into slavery under the kenyan and his National Socialist Democrat Party.
In a few years we’ll all be lucky to have a job picking cotton with FUBO’s destruction of the economy; and it will be government cotton grown on government land by a government collective of the peasants.
I wake every morning hoping that a collective 1776 moment has arrived.
I went to a lot of sites and not one said cotton was grown in WA. So, where was the student going or was it a made up story?
“Is that like the airing of grievances during Festivus?”
No, the bitter herbs is a reminder of my people’s slavery in Eqypt.
The airing of grievances traditionally occurs after the fourth cup of wine in the Seder.
> According to the Lake Washington School District, the lesson was about “the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on the Industrial Revolution.”
Thanks JoeProBono.
Also I have been a mile deep in a coal mine interviewing miners. It came as a huge surprise to learn that they loved and enjoyed their job. One miner told me of how he was laid off once and went looking for another job. He found one, but finally realized that he was happy being a miner and went back to get rehired. He was really a happy man and he was not acting. He tried to explain why he loved it. Compared it to being in the service where the men become "brothers" and watch each others' back.
There is nothing demeaning about labor regardless of the conditions. I believe that many more Americans are going to experience what it's like to work to live.
“A conservative teacher should hold a class to show what it’s like for Christians to live in a mooselimb country.”
Or they could show them what is it like to be Jewish and just kill most of the class.
My wife as a child lived in East Tennessee and in Desha County, Arkansas in a town called McGehee. While in grade school in Arkansas the class took a day long Field Trip to a cotton field and picked cotton. The farmer paid them for what they picked. The idea was to show the kids what hard work it was. BTW that was in the 1950’s.
It was the daughter’s grand parents. The complaining mother’s parents. Someone needs to pull the young daughter aside, and tell her, “Young lady, your mother’s a dumazz.”
The nearest place from Washington State for cotton farms would likely be in some portions of California that had both the warm climate most of the year and plenty of water.
Interesting. The date of that photo (ie. in the 1970s and beyond)? And we’re those workers born and raised on that plantation?
We went barefoot from the time the snow melted till after frost. Your feet get tough. We only got one pair of shoes a year. Usually just before school started and they had to last till the next fall.
This is the best the teacher could come up with?
IF BLACKS HAD GUNS
SLAVERY WOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED
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Actually, if the Blacks had guns in AFRICA,
the only ones here would have come voluntarily - IF at all.
Was your Uncle Buck John Candy?
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