WAXHAW, N.C., -- 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 planned 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. 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." Kojo Nantambu, president of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP, criticized the lesson. "There is a lingering pain, a lingering bitterness, a lingering insecurity and a lingering sense of inhumanity since slavery," he said. "Because that's still there, you want to be more sensitive than politically correct or historically correct." Source
thats seems pretty insensitive but that's [some] white people for ya, maybe one day they will do the true thanksgiving story too if they can find a bunch of natives to play dead while the white people celebrate it eating turkey and cranberry pie >.<
this incident is even worse cus it happened in N.C, a southern state lol, no wonder its quite sensitive o___O;
^ it does carry a resounding bite since it took place in a southern state. such sensitivity is expected all through out the nation; not just in the southern states alone.
