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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 06:00 AM Sep 2021

Elementary school staffer protested vax mandate by wearing Blackface to portray herself as Rosa

Parks: report

A staff member at an elementary school in Newberg, Oregan has been suspended after she wore Blackface to class in an attempt to protest against her school's vaccination mandate.

Ryan Clarke, a reporter at the Newberg Graphic, explained that the teacher in question wore Blackface to try to portray herself as legendary civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who famously refused to obey racist laws that forced Black people to sit in the back of public busses.

Clarke noted that the vaccine mandate in schools extends to both teachers and staff members, although "staff can seek exemptions but those are granted in very rare circumstances (medical, religious)."

A statement posted by Newberg Public Schools condemned the staffer's actions and said that the staffer was placed on administrative leave following the incident.

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vaxxer-racism/|]
Emphasis mine

Because being denied equality is exactly the same thing as being asked to do what everyone else is being asked to do... 👀 Classic example of one thing that is not anything like the other thing. With a bucket load of racism thrown in, because of course it is. Peak First World White Privilege. Future generations will study this period of history and shake their heads at the pure and utter stupidity and hate filled hysteria of people like this. Rosa Parks? Seriously? Do one Karen...
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Elementary school staffer protested vax mandate by wearing Blackface to portray herself as Rosa (Original Post) Soph0571 Sep 2021 OP
Wowser.... OnDoutside Sep 2021 #1
This is the same city where white high school kids participated in a "Slave Trade" Solly Mack Sep 2021 #2
This story Dorian Gray Sep 2021 #3
This idiot needs to be fired LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #4

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
2. This is the same city where white high school kids participated in a "Slave Trade"
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 06:23 AM
Sep 2021

Snapchat to talk about how much to auction off their black classmates.

NEWBERG, Ore. — Hours before the Newberg school board is set to discuss a controversial ban on the display of "controversial political symbols" in schools, parents at Newberg High School found out some of their kids were either participating in -- or targeted by -- a social media group chat called "Slave Trade," which joked about how much participants would pay for their Black classmates in a slave auction.



https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/nerberg-high-school-virtual-slave-trade/283-56462efe-4f35-47b1-a4ee-6670b2754dec?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot





Dorian Gray

(13,479 posts)
3. This story
Tue Sep 21, 2021, 06:46 AM
Sep 2021

is so over the top ridiculous I had to check twice to make sure it wasn't The Onion. Holy mother of God....

Who would ever hire this woman again?

And I read she used real iodine to blacken her face? For real?????

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