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Boy, 7, branded a racist for asking schoolmate: 'Are you brown because you come from Africa?'
Mail Online ^ | 2/19/2012

Posted on 02/20/2012 4:25:14 AM PST by Altura Ct.

The mother of a seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist after he asked another pupil about the colour of his skin.

Elliott Dearlove had asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because he was from Africa’.

His mother, Hayley White, 29, said she received a phone call last month to say her son had been at the centre of a ‘racist incident’.

She was then summoned to a meeting with Elliott, his teacher and the deputy head of Griffin Primary School in Hull.

Ms White, an NHS healthcare assistant, said: ‘When I arrived at the school and asked Elliott what had happened, he became extremely upset.

'He kept saying to me, “I was just asking a question. I didn’t mean it to be nasty” and he was extremely distressed by it all.’

Ms White claimed she was asked at the meeting to read a copy of the school rules and in particular its zero-tolerance policy on racism.

‘I was told I would have to sign a form acknowledging my son had made a racist remark which would be submitted to the local education authority for further investigation,’ she said.

‘I refused to sign it and I told the teacher in no way did I agree the comment was racist. My son is inquisitive. He always likes to ask questions, but that doesn’t make him a racist.’

The school had launched an investigation after the younger boy told his mother about Elliott’s comment and she complained.

...Last year, it was revealed that teachers are branding thousands of children racist or homophobic following playground squabbles.

More than 20,000 pupils aged 11 or younger were put on record for so-called hate crimes such as using the word ‘gaylord’.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: zerotolerance
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To: Hot Tabasco
Hee haws own, Gailard(gay-lard)Sartain...


21 posted on 02/20/2012 5:19:04 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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22 posted on 02/20/2012 5:22:28 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons)
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To: Altura Ct.

Sign a paper!!!???....


23 posted on 02/20/2012 5:25:02 AM PST by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: Altura Ct.

And the answer to the kid’s question is possibly: Yes. His classmate’s skin would be brown because his ancestors lived in Africa, or some other tropical area, for thousands of years, while the white kid’s ancestors lived in colder climates: adaptation to climatic conditions over thousands of years.


24 posted on 02/20/2012 5:25:55 AM PST by Will88
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To: Altura Ct.

And the indoctrination continues.............until someone stands up and doesnt allow it to continue.


25 posted on 02/20/2012 5:26:06 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo; wolfcreek

>>This incident was in the Ubnited Kingdom, not the USA.

While that is certainly true, if anyone thinks our Leftists aren’t taking us down the same road at every opportunity, they haven’t been paying attention.


26 posted on 02/20/2012 5:30:15 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Hot Tabasco

>>What’s wrong with Gaylord, there’s a city in Michigan by that name....?

It it also the name of the hotel group that owns Opryland.

http://www.gaylordhotels.com/


27 posted on 02/20/2012 5:31:52 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Altura Ct.

Teachers are branding thousands of children racist or homophobic following inquisitive questions.
PC re-education in action.Looks like a lawyer is going to make Hayley White a rich woman.


28 posted on 02/20/2012 5:32:23 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Altura Ct.

‘Ms. White’

There is your problem right there. That racist ‘White’ woman.


29 posted on 02/20/2012 5:35:09 AM PST by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: ronnie raygun

I wonder what they would have said if they would have overheard what I said to my mother while we were sitting at a lunch counter in the late 50’s? I asked her if the black man sitting next to us needed to wash his face to get the dirt off of it. My mother was horrified and apologized profusely to the man but it was hard to get her apology in between all of his laughter.


30 posted on 02/20/2012 5:35:59 AM PST by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12-XXX= Now what? Cain?XX Guess not. I GIVE UP)
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To: Altura Ct.
I have one daughter who has a dark Caucasian color and one daughter that is a redhead and very fair. We had been discussing how people come in different colors with our girls and joking that our youngest was a brown little coconut.

Going to pick up my girls from dance class, I was accosted by a mother (white lady with Peurto Rican husband), who wanted me to know that my daughter had asked her daughter is she was white or brown. Of course, she was quite upset about it.

All I did was call me daughter over to where I stood with the accusing woman and asked, “Tell me dear, what color are you?” to which she instantly replied, “Brown”.

I then turned to the woman and asked, “Anything else?” She looked very befuddled and left.

31 posted on 02/20/2012 5:36:43 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Will88

That’s the nuts and bolts of it, alright.

Only someone looking to “make somethin’ of it” would think that any such observation/question was “racist”.

The question he was asking was - “why is some people’s skin darker than others”, and this could have been easily answered with your explanation. Instead, since it was a “white” child that asked it, the question was “racist”.


32 posted on 02/20/2012 5:36:52 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Altura Ct.
The age of legal responsibility in the UK is 10 years , therefore this action is illegal.

If natural childhood curiosity is to be suppressed the result will be a generation of Drones.

Regards

33 posted on 02/20/2012 5:43:50 AM PST by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: Vaquero
LOL! How about these?


34 posted on 02/20/2012 5:49:17 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’ve posted one of those before, and they tend to get pulled. Personally, I think they are funny, much more than racist.


35 posted on 02/20/2012 5:51:51 AM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 ! We should take off and Newt washington from orbit.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The Brits have lost it.

They are in the end game of cultural marxism and are what the “liberals” are working toward in the USA.


36 posted on 02/20/2012 5:53:48 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Funniest gifs I have ever seen. LOL


37 posted on 02/20/2012 5:55:52 AM PST by Lazamataz (If you only think about a diet, only your brain loses weight.)
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To: Altura Ct.
My father many years ago had to apologize to a woman at work, he was working for GM, for he told her that the Egyptian Pharaohs were not all black. He was correct of course but she took offense since that was her cultural pride tangent she was off on as a black woman. Common sense and reality have nothing to do with political correctness. I got in trouble once for telling a black co-worker that black culture is sometimes responsible for it's own problems in America. He was a horrible racist but since he was black it was okay for him to slam white people constantly but I couldn't comment on black culture. This incident with these children shows how far this has gone, you can't have a dialog about race if only one side can speak.
38 posted on 02/20/2012 6:00:01 AM PST by dog breath
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To: ZX12R; GrandJediMasterYoda

How could anyone interpret those as racist? They are a celebration of cultural diversity.


39 posted on 02/20/2012 6:22:27 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: originalbuckeye

The food nazis are in the UK, also. They are the ones who started it first.


40 posted on 02/20/2012 6:33:16 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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