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Three Los Angeles school teachers have been suspended for giving children pictures of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade.

Los Angeles school district spokeswoman Gayle Pollard-Terry said Wednesday the teachers were removed from their classrooms at Wadsworth Elementary School. She says the teachers, who are white, could have made a more appropriate choice, such as Oprah Winfrey.

She says the school held the parade Friday, with children from other classes carrying photos of black heroes such as Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman and President Barack Obama.

The three teachers have been placed on administrative leave until an investigation is complete.
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I'm pretty sure these teachers were just doing this:
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Three Los Angeles school teachers have been suspended for giving children pictures of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade.
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A couple of things come to mind.

First thing is, of all the influential blacks folks there are, this is the best they can come up with? OJ instead of Walter Payton? Dennis Rodman instead of Jackie Robinson? And why is Rupaul a significant figure at all? Even in the world of entertainment he is a minor celebrity at best. I'm half surprised they didn't trot out Biggie and Tupac with that ridiculous list.

Second thing is that I think Black History Month or any other month has been rendered moot most places. Even the poorest of schools or communities have internet access at libraries. When the information age didn't exist I could understand how it was harder to find historical references to different groups of people, but that just isn't the case anymore. Anyone that wants to find information can. You don't need a biased textbook anymore.

[quote name='Feeding the Abscess']That's a thick Ice Queen.[/QUOTE]

Yes. Yes it is.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']A couple of things come to mind.

First thing is, of all the influential blacks folks there are, this is the best they can come up with? OJ instead of Walter Payton? Dennis Rodman instead of Jackie Robinson? And why is Rupaul a significant figure at all? Even in the world of entertainment he is a minor celebrity at best. I'm half surprised they didn't trot out Biggie and Tupac with that ridiculous list.

Second thing is that I think Black History Month or any other month has been rendered moot most places. Even the poorest of schools or communities have internet access at libraries. When the information age didn't exist I could understand how it was harder to find historical references to different groups of people, but that just isn't the case anymore. Anyone that wants to find information can. You don't need a biased textbook anymore.



Yes. Yes it is.[/QUOTE]

That's way better then Nickelodean. Do you remember how bad THAT was? For black histroy month, the ONLY man they could talk about was George Washington Carver and how he invented PEANUT BUTTER. For an ENTIRE month that was the BEST they could come up with for black history month. Would you rather be known as the race where the zenith of your creative talent was the creation of peanut butter?
 
[quote name='Paco']That's way better then Nickelodean. Do you remember how bad THAT was? For black histroy month, the ONLY man they could talk about was George Washington Carver and how he invented PEANUT BUTTER. For an ENTIRE month that was the BEST they could come up with for black history month. Would you rather be known as the race where the zenith of your creative talent was the creation of peanut butter?[/QUOTE]
That depends. Did he make crunchy or creamy?
 
[quote name='Paco']That's way better then Nickelodean. Do you remember how bad THAT was? For black histroy month, the ONLY man they could talk about was George Washington Carver and how he invented PEANUT BUTTER. For an ENTIRE month that was the BEST they could come up with for black history month. Would you rather be known as the race where the zenith of your creative talent was the creation of peanut butter?[/QUOTE]

And what's worse, the whole thing was a lie.
 
[quote name='Paco']That's way better then Nickelodean. Do you remember how bad THAT was? For black histroy month, the ONLY man they could talk about was George Washington Carver and how he invented PEANUT BUTTER. For an ENTIRE month that was the BEST they could come up with for black history month. Would you rather be known as the race where the zenith of your creative talent was the creation of peanut butter?[/QUOTE]


All I know is that they could have chosen someone besides a criminal behind bars (OJ) and two attention whores (Rodman and RuPaul).
 
[quote name='militantatheistaphob']Tiger Woods!

Magic Johnson

Micheal Jordan

I recommend these scum for the next melanin parade[/QUOTE]

Stay classy, Tennessee.
 
Black history month is a crock to begin with.

I mean black people are just people. They arent special, unique or different and black history month is just a PC sham. If I made a white history month I would be hung from a tall tree, or if I made a asian history month Id be laughed at.

I mean I thought black people wanted to be treated the same and equal to everyone else and as a society shouldnt that what we be pushing for? But I cant for the life of me understand how black history month along with affirmative action, black college funds, prefferential college admissions based on being black, black entertainment channel and insistant society call them african americans (which is bullshit. If your born in africa then your african, if your born in america then your american, if your born in ireland then your fucking irish and so on). Black people want to be treated as equals but yet at the same time be treated special, and being treated special is not equal last time I checked.

Why not just have a great people in history month where we look back at all important people regardless of color.

Being overly PC in our society is exactly what drives a wedge between it. Because everyone likes the idea of being equal, but what they really want is to be treated special and better so they look for lame excuses like skin color. Blacks arent special, neither are whites or anything else because were all the same bags of meat and bone.

Just once Id like to see a black guy get on tv and say "I believe in equality and want all of mankind to live together without racism so I am calling for an end to black college funds, black history month, etc. Because if were ever going to be treated as equals and live as human being then we need to start acting like it. We need to learn to live as americans and human beings and not as individuals groups trying to be seperate and force our individuality onto others" or something to that effect.

And they should have been suspended if those are the fucking examples of what a person should aspire to because they obviously are not mentally sound enough to teach children. None of them have done anything except show that by being black and acting like a fucking idiot you can get alot of attention you have no business getting because its for the wrong reasons.
 
[quote name='gargus']Black history month is a crock to begin with.

I mean black people are just people. They arent special, unique or different and black history month is just a PC sham. If I made a white history month I would be hung from a tall tree, or if I made a asian history month Id be laughed at.

I mean I thought black people wanted to be treated the same and equal to everyone else and as a society shouldnt that what we be pushing for? But I cant for the life of me understand how black history month along with affirmative action, black college funds, prefferential college admissions based on being black, black entertainment channel and insistant society call them african americans (which is bullshit. If your born in africa then your african, if your born in america then your american, if your born in ireland then your fucking irish and so on). Black people want to be treated as equals but yet at the same time be treated special, and being treated special is not equal last time I checked.

Why not just have a great people in history month where we look back at all important people regardless of color.

Being overly PC in our society is exactly what drives a wedge between it. Because everyone likes the idea of being equal, but what they really want is to be treated special and better so they look for lame excuses like skin color. Blacks arent special, neither are whites or anything else because were all the same bags of meat and bone.

Just once Id like to see a black guy get on tv and say "I believe in equality and want all of mankind to live together without racism so I am calling for an end to black college funds, black history month, etc. Because if were ever going to be treated as equals and live as human being then we need to start acting like it. We need to learn to live as americans and human beings and not as individuals groups trying to be seperate and force our individuality onto others" or something to that effect.

And they should have been suspended if those are the fucking examples of what a person should aspire to because they obviously are not mentally sound enough to teach children. None of them have done anything except show that by being black and acting like a fucking idiot you can get alot of attention you have no business getting because its for the wrong reasons.[/QUOTE]

http://www.amazon.com/Racism-withou...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269183456&sr=8-1

This book should be required reading of everyone who lives in Cincinnati. What part of town you live in? OTR? Price Hill? Walnut Hills? Downtown?
 
[quote name='Brak']I was perplexed by, and disappointed in, society when the OJ Simpson not guilty verdict became a racial victory, as opposed to the judicial embarrassment that it was.[/QUOTE]

My best guess on that is the local feeling (LAPD & LA courts were racist and corrupt - see Rodney King and the officers' acquittals in the courts, to say the very least) was extrapolated incorrectly to be a national feeling.
 
I think when they did jury selection they didn't think the race part would be a big play, but rather, the gender element of it would be more important.
 
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