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wtf? 4th graders asked to list “good reasons” for slavery in assignement

January 11, 2018
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Only a white supremacist can come up with 3 good reasons for slavery, and so its worth asking whether a fourth grade teacher in Wisconsin’s Our Redeemer Lutheran School is a white supremacist.

According to a Facebook post by Trameka Brown-Berry, the teacher sent her nine year old child home with an assignment asking fourth-graders at the Wauwatosa private school to argue why slavery was a good thing. In the post that Brown-Berry captioned with ” you can see that the child could not come up with an answer.

 

“It’s highly offensive and insensitive. I was in shock. I couldn’t believe they sent something like that home,” Brown-Berry told the local Fox News affiliate. “Not only was my son in an awful position, but the students who weren’t Black — that’s what keeps racism going.”

According to Fox, Principal Jim Van Dellen declined to speak on camera, but admitted later that the assignment was out of line. In a letter to parents, he said “the purpose of the assignment was not, in any way, to have students argue that slavery is acceptable.” He never did say what the purpose of the assignment truly was, however. Nor would he say whether the teacher was disciplined.

It also seems that the school’s website and Facebook pages are done. Looks like someone doesn’t want anti-Blackness to be held accountable.

But their number is here: (414) 258-4558

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