Black Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using the word 'negro' in class

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Black Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using
the word �negro� in class

The Daily Caller
Friday, May 24, 2013

In the annals of political correctness run amok in
American schools, this story � if true � is easily an
all-timer.

A junior-high school Spanish teacher has filed a lawsuit
alleging that she was fired from P.S. 211 in the Bronx in
March 2012 because of a misunderstanding over the word
�negro.�

The non-tenured teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith,
maintains that she was instructing her class about how to
say the various basic colors in Spanish, reports the New
York Post. The word �negro� naturally came up because
�negro� is the Spanish word for �black.�

A seventh-grade student in the class took offense at the
term, however, believing the word to be a racial slur.
It�s not clear if Smith directed the term at the student.
Whatever the case, he reported the incident to school
officials.

But, wait. It gets better. Smith, a native of the West
Indies, is black. And to top it all off, P.S. 211 is
bilingual.

Continues at:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/black-spanish-teacher-claims-she-was-fired-for-using-the-word-negro-in-class/

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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[Tony Cooper]

Yes, that's what the teacher "claims" was done. However, the full
article points out that there were other problems with the teacher.
Whether or not she was fired for this incident, or fired for other
reasons, is unknown. Naturally, she will claim she was fired for this
incident because it gives her basis for a lawsuit and the other
reasons might not.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando FL

[BCD]

On 5/25/2013 6:33 AM, Tony Cooper wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2013 04:31:29 GMT, use...@mantra.com and/or
> www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>
>> Black Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using

>> the word �negro� in class

>>
>> The Daily Caller
>> Friday, May 24, 2013
>>
>> In the annals of political correctness run amok in

>> American schools, this story � if true � is easily an

>> all-timer.
>>
>> A junior-high school Spanish teacher has filed a lawsuit
>> alleging that she was fired from P.S. 211 in the Bronx in
>> March 2012 because of a misunderstanding over the word

>> �negro.�

>>
>> The non-tenured teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith,
>> maintains that she was instructing her class about how to
>> say the various basic colors in Spanish, reports the New

>> York Post. The word �negro� naturally came up because
>> �negro� is the Spanish word for �black.�

>>
>> A seventh-grade student in the class took offense at the
>> term, however, believing the word to be a racial slur.

>> It�s not clear if Smith directed the term at the student.

>> Whatever the case, he reported the incident to school
>> officials.
>>
>> But, wait. It gets better. Smith, a native of the West
>> Indies, is black. And to top it all off, P.S. 211 is
>> bilingual.
>>
>> Continues at:
>>
>> http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/black-spanish-teacher-claims-she-was-fired-for-using-the-word-negro-in-class/
>
> Yes, that's what the teacher "claims" was done. However, the full
> article points out that there were other problems with the teacher.
> Whether or not she was fired for this incident, or fired for other
> reasons, is unknown. Naturally, she will claim she was fired for this
> incident because it gives her basis for a lawsuit and the other
> reasons might not.

***Of related interest: There was a short street in 1800s Los Angeles
known as "Calle de los Negros." Its name allegedly arose from the
remark of a Don (of the Spanish kind of Dons, not the academic ones) who
lived on the corner of the street about either the morally dark nature
of the street's habitu�s (much gambling, drinking, fighting, and
whoring) and/or the predominantly mixed
(quebrado/cholo/mestizo/mulatto/coyote/indio etc. etc.) racial heritage
of said habitu�s. When the Yankee takeover occurred, anglicization of
the name yielded "N*gger Alley," which represented minutely if at all
the original intention of the name. (The street in question was
swallowed up in the widening of the part of present-day Los Angeles St.
between Aliso St. and the Plaza).

Best Wishes,

--BCD

[Answering only in a.u.e.]

[Don Phillipson]

<use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)> wrote in
message news:201305023Ni2MuKy80c@WeVB...

> http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/black-spanish-teacher-claims-she-was-fired-for-using-the-word-negro-in-class/

This is normal so far as some communities are paranoid about
the word negro. The critical test was a book called The Book of
Negroes, published in 2007 by Canadian author Lawrence Hill
(brother of the singer Dan Hill.) The title is the name of the
official British record (of people relocated from the American
colonies into Nova Scotia after the US Revolutionary War) and
Hill's book narrates this community and their descendants. In
some countries people who had not yet seen the book complained
that its title was in ipse libelous or prejudiced.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[Harold Burton]

In article <knqt7d$qef$1...@speranza.aioe.org>,

Then there's


http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-11-07/news/fl-niggardly-mayocol-b11
0811-20111107_1_n-word-barc-offensive-comments


and


http://www.adversity.net/special/niggardly.htm

and


http://www.webpronews.com/senator-says-niggardly-2012-03



PC types and their leftard supporters are dumb beyond belief.