For the students at Middle School 118 in New York City’s Bronx borough, it was an immersive lesson gone way too far.
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There’s one burned into my mind, Kuumba (12/31/2017 this year). Sesame Street used to run these interstitial short films between segments sometimes. When I was six, there was a piece about Kwaanza I saw. It’s my first memory of abstract animation. And then a voice said, with an accent I’d never heard before, “In…
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I totally co-sign the Kwanzaa parade.
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I went to middle school in Houston, Texas. We have 2 pledges, The pledge of allegiance and the Texas Pledge. I can tell you that doing 2 every single day, close to the end of the year most kids didn’t stand and the teachers were fine with. Never reprimanded any students for it. I can’t say it’s the same situation…
These people have been wanting call these babies the nword for so long they can’t contain it anymore. She was arrested for being black , doubt anyone noticed nonblack students sitting for the pledge.
A 17-year-old Houston student is suing her high school after she was kicked out for not standing for the daily…