i was told that folks would forget about Northam…
… oo well, least she didn’t pass around her cat o nine tails.
It’s hard to fathom how stupidly insensitive people can be.
Stupid wi-pippo tricks. Again. Please cancel this show now.
Reminds me of the teachers who cosplay “slave auction” with their students…
Good Lord. And she was supposed to be the sensitive one.
Did you ask the kids to do a buck-and-wing while eating watermelon, too, you batter-fried ignoramus?
Assuming that black children were not segregated out for this, I don’t see the problem. When we were studying slavery in grade school, I had a teacher bring in raw cotton to show us to demonstrate how difficult it was to pick. There wasn’t anything racist or racially insensitive about this. The point was that it was horrible to pick cotton and doing so would cut up your hands because the cotton buds have sharp leaves.
We have to be able to talk about slavery and what it meant to be a slave and how do we do this if everything is an affront?
A few months ago I toured the Whitney plantation the outside of New Orleans. It was powerful and educational without being so obtuse. That is the way to educate people about the horrors of slavery.
Committed to telling the story of the Historic Kitchen? Did people cook with cotton at one time? I’m confused.
Um, wow. In my view, this headline:
Northam’s Wife Handed Out Cotton To Black Students As Lesson On Slavery
dramatically misrepresents the actual story, which is:
she handed out raw cotton to students—including African Americans—and asked them to imagine picking it all day in the fields.
The headline suggests actions which are astonishingly tone-deaf, if not outright reprehensible. The actual story suggests, most likely, a potential carelessness or lack of nuance.
What would the Jewish kids get? An recreation of Anne Frank’s attic ?
FIFY 
I was told what and whom should offend me and that I was being manipulated by the GOP, but what do we know?
Why not?
I remember making bars of soap in elementary school. Little did I realize my teacher was anti-Amish. We also made clay pots, so I guess she was anti-Pueblo. And when we viewed photos of Aushwitz to better understand the horror of the Holocaust little did I realize she was stoking our voyeuristic nature and cultivating anti-Semitism in our little hearts.
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Really? You’re kidding, right?