You see this is a black vs. a white issue, and once again it is black people that have been humiliated and terrorized so to speak. Unfortunately, it is two young black girls that have been taped and made to carry out an act by their white teacher.
For those of you who ask why is it or why does it always have to be a black vs. white issue? Well it should be crystal clear; it was white America who started slavery in the United States; it was Africans, Black Africans that were enslaved and made to serve white folks, made to harvest this land, made to build this country; it was the Black African American ancestry that was bound, their hands and feet tied to keep them in place, not white, so you made it black vs. white a long time ago.
Now that this issue has become a focal point, it is high time that American history became complete. The whole ugly story which is very real needs to be taught to everyone, and published in the history books of our students so that all children know that what this country did was a disgrace. Records need to be set right in telling the story that lets everyone know that this new history is the unabridged version of what really happened in this country.
If America is going to rise up to the top again, the entire American history must be told, not just the history of convenience, and not the history that involved a kind of amnesia. We don't need the United States of Amnesia; we need the United States of America standing for truth and equality. It was white America that chose Black Africans for slavery; we did not volunteer to be bound, beaten, enslaved or murdered.
One might wonder how I got to this point by speaking of two little Black girls; I wanted this story to be powerfully told in a way that would not be forgotten or pushed under the rug. There are so many things that have happened to the Black Americans that have been dismissed. I wanted to help publicize an injustice, a scandal and a crime so that it is not pushed to the back of the burner. I believe that every time that there is an injustice, that we the American people should blow our horns just as drivers do when someone gets on their nerves when driving, like when someone cuts them off. If you can get enraged and blow your horn about something like that, then why not get enraged and blow your horns loudly against injustices of the children?
Two little black girls, what have their lives taught them; do you know? Do you think they were ready to be bound by a white woman or by anyone, especially their own teacher, and then forced to crawl under a desk? Do you think that their bodies, minds and their spirits were ready for this ordeal, this rape?
How can New York allow this teacher to continue teaching or this superintendent to continue to head a school, when it seems as if he condoned such behavior by his arrogant answer, "If a student was upset, then it was a bad idea?"?
How can New York allow or condone this kind of behavior from any teacher? What is this state, this country and the NAACP going to do to make sure that this kind of action never takes place again? This haphazard teaching stunt should never be tolerated.
A stunt like this which seems to have been done without any forethought is unacceptable. When a teacher overlooks what the repercussions of something like this could cause, or the harm that it could possibly do, then they should rethink their profession.
Now that this incident has been brought out into the open, it is my hope that school systems all over start talking seriously about what roll their teachers play in child development. Parents and children need to know what to expect from their teachers, and when their children can say no to their teachers. Teachers are not above the law, and if they cannot follow instruction of how to teach without bringing harm to children, then they should resign.
The school systems should make sure that they incorporate African American History into the history that they are teaching all over America; this country would have never been built if it were not for the back of Black slaves. This dark and ugly period of American history should be taught to everyone, so that they could learn to appreciate what the African American People of Color contributed to this country of ours long before any Civil Rights Movement was started.
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