• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Do we need to send in the national guard to integrate our playgrounds now? How do people see the concept of friendship as a threat to their way of life? That’s your fellow American and a human being, not your enemy.

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      They started by slaughtering a whole race, then enslaving another.

      They can’t back down now.

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        1 year ago

        Seems like we need explicit notes in history class for which things are being taught in order to try and prevent them from continuing or happening again. These “mama bears” obviously missed the point.

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    … you, uh, new here? They never thought interracial friendships should be tolerated. And yes. They’ve thrown tantrums about it. (see… the whole civil rights movement era…)

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      1 year ago

      While claiming the Democrats are the party of slavery while holding the Confederate flag and holding propaganda associated with being party of slavery.

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    1 year ago

    My kids best friend in kindergarten was a black kid. Unfortunately they didnt end up on the same school.

    Ive seen no black kids around my sons age at his current school

    (We live in Denmark. Black population is only 2% or something)

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    From the person complaining:

    When asked for an example of what was concerning parents, Dungan replied: “A poster that shows ‘All Belong Here’ with racially colored hands. This was an example that was first brought to me early this year.”

    She continued: “I think the intention of the poster was good and the parent thought that the intention of the poster was good. However, the unintended consequences of that poster made the first grader feel like ‘why wouldn’t I be accepted here?’ It had a reverse effect on the first grader because it was in the classroom.”

    Source

    Not a good argument at all- but she clearly didn’t say kids of different races couldn’t be friends.

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        However, the unintended consequences of that poster made the first grader feel like ‘why wouldn’t I be accepted here?’

        According to the official

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            1 year ago

            That could be why, idk. But I don’t think that would be the child’s motive. But the story could also just be manufactured by the official.

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              I was not assigning a motive to the child. I was figuring out why the school could not defend the poster.

              The child asked why they might have not felt included, which leads to the followup questions about who was excluded and why.

              And the answers are slavery, racism, and segregation.