Posted on 05/24/2013 10:17:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A day after a European PGA Tour official was forced to apologize for referring African-Americans as “colored” in the ongoing Tiger Woods/Sergio Garcia flap, a Bronx school teacher has now been fired for calling a student “negro” in one of her classes.
Petrona Smith, 65, has now filed suit, claiming at the time she was simply “using the Spanish word for the color black,” according to The New York Post. A seventh-grader from the bilingual school PS 211 later reported the March 2012 incident and Smith, who is black and a native of the West Indies, was dismissed. In her suit, she claims she hasn’t worked since.
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Who benefits from the United Negro College Fund then?
I thought it was nearly impossible to fire these teachers.
So a NYC teacher can be fired? Interesting.
All it takes is a ludicrously stupid charge of racism.
Good question. And who comprises the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
“Who benefits from the United Negro College Fund then?”
You win. That nailed it.
Petrona Smith, 65, ...who is black and a native of the West Indies, was dismissed. In her suit, she claims she hasn’t worked since.
They don't mind ruining someone's life over it, though.
She should know that ‘negro’ is denigrated these days.
Black holes, black boards, and other “black” words are going to get more people fired!
So, the teacher is black? Surely no racist intent can be implied here.
And who runs in the miss black america contest?
dang, that was fast
now I have nothing to bump this thread with
This teacher is black, and I thought blacks were allowed to use the “n” word. They do it all the time.
Maybe you also have to be a rapper—then you get invited to the White House.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if "denigrated" is eventually banned, because it comes from the Latin word "niger," which means "black."
Okay. Can I describe someone as black, or is that offensive in some way too?
Good grief.
PERSON 1: “Okay, I will meet John Jackson in the lobby of the hotel for you. What does he look like?”
PERSON 2: “Well...eh...uh...he is about my height, kind of slender, has dark, curly hair, is...uh...”
PERSON 1: “Gee, there are a lot of people in that lobby!”
PERSON 2: “Well...um...he...uh...is of a skin color that is not yellow, red, white or green!”
Reductio ad absurdium.
Samuel L. Jackson used it in “Pulp Fiction.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paw_2EJBzFs
(bad language)
I hope the NAACP (National Association for the Advancment of COLORED People) goes after him and forces him to make a charitable contribution to...oh, I dunno... the UNCF (United Negro College Fund)
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Do you realize the large task ahead for the PC police to sanitize Latin and the other Romance languages of that word and where it is used to name geographic locations?
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