Black Teen Run Off the Liberal Plantation

American Thinker ^ | May 2, 2012 | Matthew May

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Ms. Williams struggled with the initial part of the assignment. She found it difficult to encounter some of the vocabulary used by Douglass. Exasperated at being unprepared to confront the text, she sought definition to that which she did not comprehend. Once she became satisfied that she grasped Douglass's use of the language, she understood what Douglass was describing. She was struck by comparisons between her life and Douglass's characterizations of the plantation overseers and masters and mistresses who denied him knowledge for fear of his becoming aware of his humanity.

In her essay, Ms. Williams drew a parallel between what she saw as a group of self-satisfied "white teachers" overseeing dysfunctional students (characterized by Ms. Williams as "so-called 'unteachable'" students) who were not being properly taught, illiterate and perpetually ignorant. This she considers a form of slavery. Ms. Williams quoted an arresting passage from Douglass's description of one of his masters, a Mr. Auld, happening upon his wife instructing Douglass in basic reading:

If you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

I've read both "Narrative" and Booker Taliaferro Washington's "Up From Slavery" and I can say with confidence my belief that both of those remarkable men would be horrified at the bondage of dependency and the "bigotry of low expectations" that has been laid down as a silken snare upon blacks in America.

[JCBreckenridge]

Excellent article. Please post more.

[Jacquerie]

Glenn Beck devoted a couple segments of his TV News show to this outrage.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Glenn Beck devoted a couple segments of his TV News show to this outrage."

I wasn't aware of that. If you've a link convenient, that would be great. Otherwise, thanks for bringing it up, and I'll find it.

[thesearethetimes...]

Frederick Douglass Republican Bump

FDR.... it’s not who you think ; )

http://frederickdouglassrepublican.com/

May God guide our course.
Tatt

[lowbridge]

Bump

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[No One Special]

More on this story:

Jada Williams Essay and Video
They Kicked her off the Plantation
A Follow Up on the Persecuted Miss Williams
They Kicked her off the Plantation Part III
They Kicked her off the Plantation Part IV

[W. W. SMITH]

I have maintained for years that those who have attained a good education, in public schools, did so despite the best efforts of the public school system.

[Excellence]

Excellent find.

[SaraJohnson]

Teachers should be ashamed for focusing children’s mind on the terrors of history and not permitting them to form their hopes and dreams in the time they are living. It’s like trying to drive the car while looking out the back window. No wonder they crash and burn.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Excellent find."

Thanks! You would know, of course. ;)

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"Excellent article. Please post more."

Okay.

American Thinker produces some top-notch editorials.

[FreedomPoster]

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