Teacher fired for using the Spanish word for "black"A Bronx teacher has filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired for using the word 'negro' in class. 'Negro' is the Spanish word for the color black.
One of the first lessons one learns in English class is that context is everything. The same holds true in Spanish.
Take the case of Petrona Smith. She says in a lawsuit that she was fired from teaching at Bronx PS 211 in March 2012 after a seventh-grader reported that she'd used the "N" word, according to The New York Post: 'Negro.'
Smith doesn't deny using the word. But she argues that everyone uses it, when speaking Spanish. She was teaching the Spanish words for different colors, and the color "black" in Spanish is "negro." She also taught the junior high school students, in this bilingual school, that the Spanish term for black people is "moreno." And by the way, Smith, who is from the West Indies, is black.
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"Political correctness is a far greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..." -- Spider
ReplyDelete"Never give a sucker an even break..." -- WC Fields
ReplyDeleteMist in German means dung or sh1t, call the FCC and complain next time you see a Sierra Mist commercial on TV.
ReplyDeleteWhy do children go to school if they know better than the teacher?! (And why are they free to sue the teacher for anything their ignorant opinions disagree with?)
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteThe term "Negro" is still used in some historical contexts, such as in the name of the United Negro College Fund and the Negro league in sports.
The United States Census Bureau announced that "Negro" would be included on the 2010 United States Census, alongside "Black" and "African-American" because some older black Americans still self-identify with the term
How dare they call anyone "white"!
ReplyDeleteStupidity really knows no bounds
ReplyDeleteBoth the terms "black" and "white" to refer to people's race or ethnicity is childishly simplistic, and equivalent to myopically seeing things in terms of only "black and white". The scienctific terms "negroid" and "caucasian" were more meaningful. Or at least it would be more accurate to say "afric" or "euric", or some such derived term from african and european.
ReplyDeletethe left has a lot of phobias, a lot.
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