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  • Wisconsin Teacher Reportedly Asks 7th Graders to Create 'Slave Games'

    A Wisconsin physical education teacher has been suspended for suggesting that black students come up with some negro-centric games that slaves might have played because everyone knows cotton picking didn’t burn many calories and the cardio was usually limited to running away to freedom. According to Fox 6 News, Jan Zehren, a middle school PE…

  • Why Armed Teachers Means Dead Black Students, Explained

    I’m sorry. I was keeping an eye on Florida’s House of Representatives all day. House members passed a school-safety/gun control bill and sent it to the governor for his signature. I hear you, but this bill will probably mean more dead black kids. This is Florida, man. You can buy a boa constrictor at a…

  • Dear, Teacher: How Does It Feel to Be an Oppressor?

    The New York Daily News reported Feb. 1—the start of Black History Month—that a teacher in a majority-minority school in the Bronx, N.Y., instructed three black children in her seventh-grade class to lie on the floor during a lesson on slavery. Then she stepped on the students’ backs, allegedly to show them “how it feels…