An American Lion

Don’t be a fool—have your Father get you out of having to go to Skool

I don’t remember anything about my teachers, simply because I don’t remember actually having teachers. I don’t think I was forced to sit down in a class room until I was well into my teens, if at all. I remember a few months of struggling, of having to be handcuffed to desks, to having to wear an adult diaper. I really, really hated school. I hated it like I hate being told I can’t have real butter.

I do know that most teachers are absolute morons. Most teachers are flaming idiots. Most teachers are so stupid they couldn’t find it with both hands.

In other words, most teachers are like this clown:

During a lesson on the Civil War, tour guide Ian Campbell, who is himself black, made black students pretend to be slaves in front of their white classmates.

Campbell said he’s been a historian for more than 15 years.

“I am very enthusiastic about getting kids to think about how people did things in 1860, 1861 — even before that period,” he said.

One parent said Campbell took his enthusiasm too far when he picked three black elementary school children out of a group of mostly white students to play the role of cotton picking slaves during a his hands-on history lesson. The parent said the students were also made to wear bags used to gather cotton around their necks.

Campbell said, “I was trying to be historically correct not politically correct.”

Charlotte-Mecklenburg National Asssociation for the Advancement of Colored People President Kojo Nantambu disagrees.

He said, “There is a lingering pain, a lingering bitterness, a lingering insecurity and a lingering sense of inhumanity since slavery. Because that’s still there, you want to be more sensitive than politically correct or historically correct.”  

Although Campbell defends his decision, he said in the future he will take a different approach.

And the reason why he still has his job is what, exactly? I don’t think that what he did was inherently racist. I think what he did showed a tremendous lack of judgement and common sense. How you comport yourself is important. He comported himself like a complete and total jackass. That he would “defend” himself indicates to me that he doesn’t understand the implications of what he did, and that he is getting a pass for his behavior. That’s wrong.