Posted on 08/21/2022 8:47:04 AM PDT by Angelino97
A Black parent filed a civil rights lawsuit last week against the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Board of Education, saying that a cotton field was set up at an elementary school in 2017 that was intended to teach students about the experiences of slaves.
Rashunda Pitts said her 14-year-old daughter, who is referred to as "S.W." in the lawsuit, experienced emotional distress as a result of the project at Laurel Span School that her social justice teacher said was to help students "gain a real-life experience as to what the African American slaves had endured."
The suit also names the school's then-principal and social justice teacher as defendants. Since the project, Laurel Span School was closed, and a new school — Laurel Cinematic Arts Creative Tech Magnet — was created in its place.
Pitts said that in September 2017, she noticed her daughter had become "very quiet and reserved" when she used to "vibrantly share her day with her mother," the lawsuit states.
One day, as Pitts was dropping off her daughter on campus, she saw a cotton field in front of the school and called the office to speak with the school's principal, Amy Diaz, who was unavailable, according to the lawsuit. Pitts spoke with Assistant Principal Brian Wisniewski, who explained that S.W.'s class was reading Frederick Douglass' autobiography and that the cotton field was created so students could have a "real life experience" of slavery, the lawsuit says.
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I expect she'll come away with a nice cash settlement, while the white kids only come away with blisters.
Didn’t some blacks try to sue over cotton in medicine bottles claiming that to force blacks to pick the cotton out of the bottles was traumatizing?
Rashunda Pitts said her 14-year-old daughter, who is referred to as “S.W.” in the lawsuit, experienced emotional distress as a result of the project at Laurel Span School that her social justice teacher said was to help students “gain a real-life experience as to what the African American slaves had endured.”
I hate it when that happens to these cotton-pickin’ projects.
HOW MANY cotton garments do these families wear???
Should’ve picked our own damned cotton.
I remember that-—don’t know the outcome.
I Wonder what they think about tampons???
Hey slaveholders, thanks a lot!
There is nothing demeaning about it. Any job that has to be done is a worthy job. Picking cotton bought many a pair of new shoes for the school kids.
They all got a souvenir boll of cotton that they will cherish forever.
Black fragility is real.
a cotton field was set up at an elementary school in 2017 that was intended to teach students about the experiences of slaves....
What moron thought that up?
What a country where you can sue for millions for getting your feelings hurt.
Money Grab du Jour.
If your precious daughter becomes too triggered to do the assignement, fine. Whatever. Then she should simply ask the teacher for another assignement she can do for the same credit. Nothing to get up about.
Sometimes in these situations a good negotiation tool is:
Exactly what would make you happy here?
It catches them off guard and gets to the heart of the matter.
IF they say $5,000, you can say so it is about money? IF they say yes, you got them, if they say no, you can redirect.
That was one of my dear old dad’s favorite sayings. “Cotton picking” this and “cotton picking” that. I always found it endearing. I don’t think I ever heard him swear once in his entire life...and he was in the Marines in WW II.
So Abraham Lincoln purchased Liberia to send all of the blacks back to africa, what happened to that plan? Just asking for a friend.
SND Rashunda would sue the school if her precious daughter didn’t learn about cotton picking. What does Rashunda think about all the whites that picked cotton as well? It was not an exclusively black career path back in the day. Rashunda probably would have complained about mechanized cotton picking because it took jobs away from poor blacks. Just another ghetto lottery attempt.
Cotton was picked by hand. So was corn, melons and tomatoes.
Cotton was politicized by the left a long time ago.
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