Friday, June 06, 2014


Now blackface must not even be mentioned

A middle school history teacher in small-town southeastern Michigan has been placed on paid administrative leave because he informed students that white entertainers used to paint their faces black to imitate black people and showed kids a video about it.

The teacher is Alan Barron, reports the Monroe News. The 59-year-old teacher has taught in the local school district for well over three decades and is retiring in just two weeks.

The suspension occurred after an assistant principal observed Barron teaching an eighth-grade class. Barron’s topic for the day was racial segregation laws during the Jim Crow era. The lesson included a video which showed how white actors commonly used theatrical makeup known as blackface — a practice which began in the nineteenth century and lasted over 100 years.

The unidentified assistant principal concluded that Barron’s lesson about how entertainers used to be racist was itself racist, according to the local paper. The assistant principal also apparently ordered that Barron stop the video as it was being played.

Parents with kids at the school have overwhelmingly opposed the suspension.

As a result of the suspension, Barron cannot attend any school functions including an annual banquet during which he and other retiring teachers will be honored.

SOURCE


13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana

Anonymous said...

The assistant principal's logic is simply Orwellian.

Anonymous said...

The US is way more PC-crazy than the EU/UK !

Anonymous said...

How ridiculous! How can you fight racism without talking about it. The vice principal needs to be suspended and then go back to school to learn how to teach.

Anonymous said...

There is more to the story here, the AP obviously used this as a pretense to slam the teacher for another issue they had. Looks like it backfired and may cost the AP and the school some money.

MDH

Bird of Paradise said...

Time to take back the schools from the leftists NEA

Anonymous said...

He has been reinstated. http://www.monroenews.com/news/2014/jun/01/al-barron-reinstated-mps-teacher/

Anonymous said...

There sure a lot of dumb-ass obnoxious mouth-breathers here. How you can determine who they are?

stinky said...



It's on your driver's license.

Anonymous said...

We have an odoriferous winner!

Anonymous said...

As Anon 6:36 has said, the teacher has been reinstated.

These types of incidents raise all sorts of questions. For example, the school district said that the paper's reporting was "slanted,” “ irresponsible” and a “misrepresentation” of the facts and did not follow “good principles of journalism.”

No one knows what she means by that, because there is no clarification or statement of what the paper got wrong.

In a way, you can blame the Teacher's Union and the School district for that. Both agreed to a contract where public employees are shielded from information on investigations and discipline contrary to other public records which can be seen by the public.

This is another case where everyone is covering their butt, and no one is accountable for anything that they do.

Anonymous said...

Let this be the lesson: Don't talk to blacks, don't talk about blacks, don't discuss black history or culture (unless you're black). Keep interactions with them as brief and professional as absolutely possible. Sooner or later human beings will say something that can be taken the wrong way and the PC Nazis will end your career. It's very sad that PCness is probably going to segregate culture even more effectively than Jim Crow Laws.

Go Away Bird said...

I see a lot of knuckle draggers at these collages and universities