Black Culture Discussion Thread

[Nouss]

I mean if a dude owes me 100
And needs more money
I might not give him the whole amount either

"Imagined/expected debt"

 

[nawghtyhare]

Martin just posted this
Sooo he forced her to do this too
she a damn liar

 

[trueprada]

 

[hand2handking]

Bronx Teacher Sparks Outrage for Using Black Students in Cruel Slavery Lesson

Patricia Cummings, a social studies teacher, leaves MS 118 in the Bronx on Thursday. (Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News) Kerry Burke Esha Ray Ben Chapman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 1, 2018, 9:00 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...utrage-cruel-slavery-lesson-article-1.3793930

Kids and parents say this Bronx teacher needs a lesson — in racism.

Middle School 118 teacher Patricia Cummings shocked and traumatized children in her social studies classes when she singled out black students and told them to lie on the floor for a lesson on U.S. slavery — and then stepped on their backs to show them what slavery felt like, students and a staffer said.

Students said Cummings, who is white, pulled the insensitive stunt in multiple seventh-grade classes as part of a unit on the infamous Middle Passage, in which Africans were kidnapped and brought to America as part of the slave trade.

Kids and adults in Cummings’ school, where the student body is 81% black and Hispanic and just 3% white, were horrified by the offensive lessons they said occurred roughly two weeks ago.

“It was a lesson about slavery and the Triangle Trade,” said one of Cummings’ students, who asked to remain anonymous.

“She picked three of the black kids,” the boy said, and instructed them to get on the floor in front of the class. “She said, ‘You see how it was to be a slave?’ She said, ‘How does it feel?’ ”

When a girl on the floor made an uncomfortable joke and said she felt fine, Cummings stepped on her back, the student said.

“She put her foot on her back and said ‘How does it feel?’” the student said. “ ‘See how it feels to be a slave?’ ”

Teacher Patricia Cummings was reassigned after lesson at Bronx Middle School 118 in which kids say she had black students lie on the floor as she stepped on them. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News)

Cummings was removed from her post for a couple of days following the incident but then returned to class and was in school Thursday.

However, the $68,934-a-year teacher was reassigned away from children later Thursday, after the Daily News contacted the city Education Department about her slavery lesson.

“While the investigation has not been completed, these are deeply disturbing allegations, and the alleged behavior has no place in our schools or in society,” said Education Department spokeswoman Toya Holness.

MS 118 Principal Giulia Cox declined to comment.

Cummings’ students said the lesson followed a showing of a video of slaves being beaten, tortured and thrown over the side of a ship.

“She had students lie on the floor,” said another kid who was in one of the lessons. “She was measuring the length and width to show how little space slaves had in the ship. It was strange.”

Cummings has worked in city schools since 2016 and is also a school cheerleading coach, according to her LinkedIn profile.

The web page for Cummings, who teaches social studies. (www.misscummingspage.weebly.com)

She refused to discuss her lessons when a reporter approached her after school Thursday.

“Excuse me, I’m not talking to anyone, no,” she said, when asked if she stepped on black students in her class.

Cummings quotes Nelson Mandela and Walt Disney on her class web page, which also bears the image of a bald eagle and an American flag.

“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again,” reads the Disney quote.

Cummings’ ill-conceived lesson isn’t the first time a city teacher has grabbed headlines for giving offensive instruction involving slavery.

In 2013, two teachers from Manhattan Public School 59 taught a lesson that used killing and whipping slaves to teach subtraction and multiplication.

Those teachers weren’t disciplined, but they did receive training in cultural sensitivity, Education officials said.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Martin just posted this
Sooo he forced her to do this too
she a damn liar

Never thought I would see Tisha showing Martin love again

 

[hand2handking]

giving the luscious

 

[hand2handking]

 

[...So]

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[trueprada]

 

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[hand2handking]

 

[RustyShackleford]

As a black man and immigrant I support Dreamers of all kinds. What Trump is doing to them is vile.

But FDB

 

[danikerhino]

As a black man and immigrant I support Dreamers of all kinds. What Trump is doing to them is vile.

But FDB

Yeah, how are you going stand up for something righteous yet perpetuates bigotry?

That part of her verse that says, "...going to east Atlanta, oh, no, no...." had me suspicious already.

 

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[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[hand2handking]

Search Twitter - #BlackMenSmiling

 

[trueprada]

This is the white supremacist terrorist who carried out the drive by shootings of several innocent Black people in Macerata Italy

 

[Mark Antony]

Martin just posted this
Sooo he forced her to do this too
she a damn liar

Tryna figure out why y'all acting like a ***** towards this woman when no one knows what happened. It's also entirely possible she told the truth, and in the 20+ years since Martin apologized and they have a better relationship.

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

 

[hand2handking]

Facebook Removes Alt-Right Anti-Black Panther Film Page



http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2...-black-panther-film-page-180203104048193.html

Social media site disables page calling for viewers to give first black-centric superhero film low ratings.

Facebook has disabled a page connected to an alt-right group that had called for viewers to give the upcoming and much-anticipated Black Panther film a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The group, which calls itself "Down with Disney's Treatment of Franchises and Its Fanboys", sought to drive down ratings on the movie review website for Black Panther.

The page, whose moderator described himself as "alt-right", had attracted support from almost 4,000 user accounts. The alt-right is a loosely knit coalition of white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis.

But by Saturday, the page was inaccessible.

The same group had taken credit sabotaging the Rotten Tomatoes rating for another Disney movie, The Last Jedi. Then, the moderator took issue with Star Wars producers introducing more female characters, saying one of the main male characters was "in danger of being turned gay".

Featuring an all-star cast, Black Panther is the first black-centric superhero film from Marvel Studios, which in the last year has released box-office hits such as Thor: Ragnarok and Spider-Man: Homecoming.

The film's director, Ryan Coogler, told the Huffington Post that he is looking forward to everyone seeing the film.

"For me, I'm looking forward to sharing the film with audiences regardless of what their political views are … that's kind of where I [stand on that]."

In a statement, a spokesperson for Rotten Tomatoes said: "While we respect our fans' diverse opinions, we do not condone hate speech."

Black Panther has already broken a record by outselling every other superhero movie in advance ticket sales.

The film will be in cinemas across the US on February 16.

Chadwick Boseman, Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya, Sterling K Brown, Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett are among the film's stars.

Here are some reactions to the film on social media:

This video, shared by several people including the rapper and actor Common, showed a group of children celebrating news they were going to see the film.

@TailTheNerd was apparently shocked by the far-right attempt to discredit Black Panther, simply tweeting: "Wow ok."

Clint Smith, a writer and teacher, said it was important that children of diverse backgrounds see themselves represented on screen.

"I still don't think folks understand what the Black Panther movie will mean to young kids. That a kid will look on screen & see themselves as the hero (hell almost the whole cast!) of a superhero movie is such an incredibly powerful thing," he said.

User @SeyiAyorinde replied to Smith, saying the film also had great meaning for adults.

Mars Blackmon said: "I want everyone who was a part of Black Panther to prosper. From the actors, cameramen, editor, costume designer, grips, etc. I want all of them to win after this movie shatters every record in history."

 

[DCAllAfrican]

28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month https://nyti.ms/2FBN4JI

 

[trueprada]