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In reply to the discussion: White Iowa Teacher Tells Black Student To Respond To Him Saying, “Yes sir, master” [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)10. No, but everybody knows abouta Mississippi, God Damn!
Last edited Tue Jun 10, 2014, 07:18 AM - Edit history (3)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ninasimone/mississippigoddam.htmlRightly or wrongly, the states whose economy depended on slavery, who fought a civil war over extending slavery to the territories, who gave us the KKK, who adopted Jim Crow laws and who changed in voting from the Solid Democratic South to the Solid Republican South after Truman and LBJ--and who to this day nostalgically celebrate the days of slavery in their glorification of "antebellum" days--those states are better known for racism, even though racism probably existed, and still exists, among some inhabitants of every state and some inhabitants of the South were, and still are, opposed to both slavery and racism.
ETA: I did not misspell "about." I have heard a version in which Ms. Simone went very slowly on the line and added an "uh" sound between "about" and "Mississippi" for emphasis.
Also, from the Maddow show, a celebration of what Northerners somewhat impartially refer to as the Civil War and what some in the South still refer to as "the War of Northern Aggression."
(If anyone wants to celebrates the start of a war, as opposed to the end of one, who you'd think it would be the victors, not the losers--that's, of course assuming wars have any winners).
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White Iowa Teacher Tells Black Student To Respond To Him Saying, “Yes sir, master” [View all]
doxydad
Jun 2014
OP
And, even if you are pining to be called "Master," for some reason (and a teacher is not even a
merrily
Jun 2014
#11
I didn't care much for that show when I was a kid. I was more a fan of Samantha Stevens!
ieoeja
Jun 2014
#69
i don't think he should be teaching at all, how does one end up a teacher and not know
JI7
Jun 2014
#72
I agree, but if they are not going to fire him, let him teach 12th grade and say it to a black
Dustlawyer
Jun 2014
#39
I understood the bit about alerts (and hides). But that does not answer my question.
merrily
Jun 2014
#36
Cussing? LOL! Should I not have called the Taliban shits on another thread this
merrily
Jun 2014
#46
I have zero filter, but I am not ready to be banned or silenced. Besides, I respect that this
merrily
Jun 2014
#64
I should go back to school and become a psycologist, i think it may be my calling.
bravenak
Jun 2014
#58
I really don't think my answer did all that. I simply said that I did not understand.
merrily
Jun 2014
#59
If "racially-tinged" remarks (to use the modern euphemism) or homophobic remarks
merrily
Jun 2014
#27
I see your point, but my suggestion is that the young student may have initiated the incident by
hedgehog
Jun 2014
#42