Report: Historical Tour Guide Told Black Students To Act Like Slaves
From UPI.com:
WAXHAW, N.C., Nov. 6 (UPI) — Parents and teachers at a North Carolina school are protesting a history lesson that involved African-American students pretending to be slaves.
Teachers at Rea View Elementary in Waxhaw said they are planning to write leaders at the Latta Plantation about a lesson during a Wednesday field trip that involved an African-American tour guide instructing black students to pretend to be slaves while their white classmates looked on, WSOC-TV, Charlotte, reported Friday.
Parents said the three students chosen by tour guide Ian Campbell wore bags used to gather cotton while mimicking cotton picking.
“I am very enthusiastic about getting kids to think about how people did things in 1860, 1861 — even before that period,” said Campbell, who added he has been a historian for 15 years.
“I was trying to be historically correct not politically correct,” he said.
Kojo Nantambu, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg National Asssociation for the Advancement of Colored People, criticized the lesson.
“There is a lingering pain, a lingering bitterness, a lingering insecurity and a lingering sense of inhumanity since slavery. Because that’s still there, you want to be more sensitive than politically correct or historically correct,” he said.
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You are the clueless one, first you are using two different scenarios, second you most certainly can base right or wrong on children’s reactions, they are born as innocent human beings without prejudice or discrimination in them and it is not until some idiot adult starts talking garbage to them that become bigots.
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Bj24681357 – You can’t be this clueless, can you??? What if the historian told the white kids to chase the black kids and pretend to whip them? The kids would have had a ball cause they ARE KIDS and love games but the implications run much deeper. You cannot base whether something is right or wrong on the reaction of children, that is why ADULTS are around to monitor them. Geesh, what an idiot!!!
It seems the only ones who are upset about this are the so called adults, the kids could not care less. COME ON PEOPLE GROW UP
wow, this shocked me, although i guess it shouldn’t but it does show the ignorance that still exists today. Really? Historically correct. I think it would do a lot more good to show every child of all races exactly what type of work slaves had to endure to give them a better understanding. I also agree with doraindeville, if you are going to have people actually participate hire someone to do it, or ask for volunteers.
aaronaroc Dude, Jesus was not Black! you really think any one other than blacks are gonna worship a black guy?????? Especially in the ancient times. your right about Arabs and Africans capturing Africans for slavery, you left out the Spanish though. But that has absolutely nothing to do with religion stop trying to prove that fairy tales go along with life. Blacks and Indians didn’t know jack sh*t about Christianity/catholic or Islam at the time.It was forced and raped into them! Mexicans didn’t exist at the time until the Spanish mingled with the Aztecs. It was forced and raped into them also! Just look how easy it is to manipulate people today that there is a messiah existing alive today. Imagine back then Jesus Christ could have been some ordinary guy saying he is god in human form and raped and molested there children with no problems, or he was made up. come on people you really believe someone had the power to heal people with there bare hands and no medicines. We have been waiting for some Magical fantasy resurrection for a awful long time now.
Well, he could have hired people to play the part instead of asking the students. thats pretty stupid on his part. as far as nat turner goes, what he did caused alot more problems for black people than good.
so who played as whites being slaughter by nat turner,
I first felt outraged about the black children being forced to perform as slaves.. but on the other hand… I betcha those kids are going to be grateful for what they have… cuz pickin’ cotton was NO Joke… that stuff is hard and hurts… back breaking labor…
But I agree… white kids should have had the experiance as well, so that they can understand why abolition and the civil rights movememtn were so important.
*Lots*
You should have been politically correct and had the white students pretend to be slaves so that they would know what it felt like for black people to be humiliated. Historically correct my azz.
TELL YOUR TEACHERS TO TEACH THIS.
THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL
REUBEN – SEMINOLE INDIANS & ABORIGINES IN AUSTRALIA Gen 49:3-4 (KJV)
SIMEON –DOMINICANS Gen 49:5-7 (KJV) Mal 2:1-9 (KJV)
LEVI- HAITIANS Gen 49:5-7 (KJV) Mal 2:1-9 (KJV)
JUDAH- AFRICAN AMERICANS USA Gen 49:8-12 (KJV) Heb 7:14 (KJV) Gen 49:9-12(KJV)
BENJAMIN- JAMAICANS ,WEST INDIANS, & CARIBBEAN Gen 49:27 (KJV) Deut 33:12 (KJV)
ZEBULUN- PANAMA & GUATEMALA Gen 49:13 (KJV)
ISSACHAR- MEXICANS Gen 49:14-15 (KJV) Deut 33:18-19 (KJV)
GAD- NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS Deut 33:20 (KJV) Psalms 55:20-21 (KJV)
ASHER-VENEZUELA, ARGENTINA, & BRAZIL Gen 49:20 (KJV) Deut 33:24 (KJV) Job 29:6-8
EPHRAIM (EFRAYIM)-PUERTO RICANS Gen 49:22-24 (KJV) Deut 33:13-17 (KJV) Hosea 7:8-10
MANASSEH-CUBENS Gen 48:1-6 (KJV) Gen 48:1-20 (KJV) Hosea 1:10-11 (KJV) Ezek 9:4
NAPHTALI-HAWAIIANS & SAMOANS- Gen 49:21 (KJV), Deut 33:23 (KJV)west is yam=sea #3220
DEUTERONOMY 28:15-68 Slavery in the Americas, REVELATION 2:9, 3:9 the fake Jews in Israel today, Psalm 83 why we didn’t know this, and many nations took part in the slave trade not just whites, the Arabs and Africans captured and sole us to the whites.
Cesare Borgia is the man on the Jesus pictures a fake. Christ was Black- 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. Rev 1:14-15 (KJV)
By the resurrection of dry bones
1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. 8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. 12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.Ezek 37:1-14 (KJV)
they should be watchin movies like…
Roots
Sankofa
Bamboozled
Drop Squad
Goodbye Uncle Tom
i am in agreement with menyelek_ it should have been a more mixed event i don’t see any direct racism. But some people would see different.
Sounds as though there’s more to the story. The lesson itself has value but a little intelligence, sensitivity and yes, common sense should have prevailed here. Selecting either all white children or a mix would have been more acceptable and would have eliminated the potential humiliation and backlash.
Teachers at Rea View Elementary in Waxhaw said they are planning to write leaders at the Latta Plantation about a lesson during a Wednesday field trip that involved an African-American tour guide instructing black students to pretend to be slaves while their white classmates looked on, WSOC-TV, Charlotte, reported Friday.
Really is there anything they will not b!tch about?