SIGH...
This is the actual, un-editied version of a card that was on the shelves for three years before any stink was raised about it:
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Here is a news report about the card:
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One Youtube poster apparently needed to point out what others may not have seen or heard without assistance after prefacing it with an inflammatory introduction:
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I was moved to comment on the last post:
When I first saw the footage of news reports related to this, I had to double check to see if there was a brand mark in the corner for "The Onion News".Sadly, there was none.As a science teacher in a predominantly African American school I am deeply troubled that those who are supposed to be leaders and role models for my students would show their own intolerance and hostility in a manner that either shows a lack of education or a disdain for learning and science literacy.Your disingenuous use of a purposefully misleading subtitle of the content is also, at best, disturbing.
A response was sent minutes later:
1 hour ago
@radconPU83 Well, before you started teaching maybe you should’ve taken courses in advertising, too and the history of advertisers using images and words to degrade blacks. Advertisers have been doing this for decades. Destroying the images of black people. A study showed black girls would choose a white doll over a black doll because of years of destroying the beauty and image of black people. It’s time we stop it.
My response:
I am fully aware of the studies,some of which were cited in the Brown v Board of Ed. by Thurgood Marshall's team,that showed underlying attitudinal predispositions in individuals of various races.My motivation for becoming a teacher of science was to educate young people, particularly about science, not to nurture such misbegotten attitudes past their natural life.With all the REAL things we need to be concerned about,searching for or manufacturing confrontational non-issues is counterproductive.
His well thought out and reasoned counter to my observations and opinions indicated that I had about as much of a chance to reason with him as I would with Red Sarah, Glen Beck or someone else from FOXNEWS
There is, indeed, too much that really needs to be addressed and spoken out against without lowering ourselves to the strident and paranoid level of FOXNEWS and the Tea Baggers Partiers...or even those from the supposed other side of the isle like the gentleman above...
www.youtube.com/watch
Here is a news report about the card:
www.youtube.com/watch
One Youtube poster apparently needed to point out what others may not have seen or heard without assistance after prefacing it with an inflammatory introduction:
www.youtube.com/watch
I was moved to comment on the last post:
When I first saw the footage of news reports related to this, I had to double check to see if there was a brand mark in the corner for "The Onion News".Sadly, there was none.As a science teacher in a predominantly African American school I am deeply troubled that those who are supposed to be leaders and role models for my students would show their own intolerance and hostility in a manner that either shows a lack of education or a disdain for learning and science literacy.Your disingenuous use of a purposefully misleading subtitle of the content is also, at best, disturbing.
A response was sent minutes later:
1 hour ago
@radconPU83 Well, before you started teaching maybe you should’ve taken courses in advertising, too and the history of advertisers using images and words to degrade blacks. Advertisers have been doing this for decades. Destroying the images of black people. A study showed black girls would choose a white doll over a black doll because of years of destroying the beauty and image of black people. It’s time we stop it.
My response:
I am fully aware of the studies,some of which were cited in the Brown v Board of Ed. by Thurgood Marshall's team,that showed underlying attitudinal predispositions in individuals of various races.My motivation for becoming a teacher of science was to educate young people, particularly about science, not to nurture such misbegotten attitudes past their natural life.With all the REAL things we need to be concerned about,searching for or manufacturing confrontational non-issues is counterproductive.
His well thought out and reasoned counter to my observations and opinions indicated that I had about as much of a chance to reason with him as I would with Red Sarah, Glen Beck or someone else from FOXNEWS
There is, indeed, too much that really needs to be addressed and spoken out against without lowering ourselves to the strident and paranoid level of FOXNEWS and the Tea Baggers Partiers...or even those from the supposed other side of the isle like the gentleman above...