Mom: Teacher Made Black Kids Act As Slaves For History Lesson

[sheshe2]

A Virginia mother said a teacher at her son’s middle school asked African-American students to pretend to be slaves during a history lesson while white children played the part of noblemen.


For a skit on the Louisiana Purchase at Shelburne Middle School in Staunton last week, black students were asked to pretend to pick cotton and dig coal, Tamika Derozen’s son told her.


“He said, ‘Mom, I didn’t know what to do. I wanted to walk out of the class, but I didn’t want to get in trouble,’” Derozen told WHSV, the local ABC station.


She said the principal apologized after hearing her complaint. But the teacher later showed the children a clip from the miniseries “Roots,” which was about slavery, and said it wouldn’t make sense for white actors to play the slaves, Derozen told the station.

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[Doreen]

1. Sure it would make sense lady! It's called ACTING!!!

Should not have done that anyway.

[Solly Mack]

2. Sometimes I want to smack people.

[mainer]

3. Would've been more educational if teacher had switched the roles

Made the white kids slaves and the black kids noblemen. Give everyone a taste of the other side.

[alphafemale]

4. Yep, empathy.

Except most black kids already have ample amounts of empathy and probably would have emancipated their classmates before the day was out.

I have almost no doubt at least some of the white students took advantage of this "lesson" to be cruel.

[alphafemale]

5. "...and said it wouldnt make sense for white actors to play the slaves," Derozen told the station.

But it makes sense that it is nearly always white actors playing Jesus and other biblical characters?