Now this is the worst

[littleeva]

White teacher kicks out black student over hair care product.

I hope the teacher is fired and has to walk the streets, giving blow jobs for a living for the rest of her life. The end.

Comments

[kisha]

Well, like Allison Woolfe once said, "Giving a blow job is better than no job." Hahaha.

But seriously, this is so so fucked up. Hopefully that child will not be traumatized over this incident in the long run. And I use the same products, they don't smell THAT strong unless the teacher has a super sensitive nose, or has been inhaling that child's hair.

[mahasin]

Yeah, I think she's just being a bitch because the kids been in her class for nearly the entire school year and it's just now becoming a problem.

Yeah my bullshit detector is going off with red glaring lights.

[kisha]

Exactly. Unless the girl just started using the hair product. But regardless, YOU DON'T PUT A LITTLE GIRL IN A HALLWAY BECAUSE OF IT. And then put her in a lower class (where there were other Black students).

This just disgusts me. So many Black girls/women are ashamed of their hair, and when shit like this happens...it just kills me.

[chivalry_pony]

ugh. just...ugh.

[alicel]

first of all, how ignorant do you have to be to even SAY something like that? people of every race put smelly shit on their hair, this teacher should have been aware of the implications of what s/he was doing..you know..the implications that come with acting like a total douchebag idiot. poor little girl. someone should high five her and her parents for at least knowing how to take care of her hair with good products at that age. one of my hangups is children with either bleached hair, or relaxed hair. if someone here is the parent of a little boy or girl whose hair they relax, i don't mean any offense, this is simply a personal irk of mine coming from a stylist's point of view. this little girl..i hope she understands, regardless of what some idiot did, that natural is beautiful and to keep on doing whatever SHE wants to do with her hair

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[parissenflamme]

true. but then again, white people get the "ignorant" pass. It's not about race because the teacher didn't explicitly say it was about race. Just the child's hair products. Because black hair isn't related to black culture and the products she uses has nothing to do with her race. bullshittttttt. this stuff makes me soooo angry. I feel bad for the little girl too.

ps- i like your icon

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[alicel]

..no, they don't. i'm half white. i have said and done ignorant things and didn't get, nor did i expect to get a free pass. i've said this in several racism-related posts, but i was raised in an environment where it was would never have occurred to anyone to judge anyone by their skin color, hair color, religious background, anything, that i grew up sort of clueless as to what the big deal was. that ideal has obviously been shattered now that i've been exposed to racism a lot more than i ever wanted to be - the fact that such thoughts are alive and kicking not only saddens, but disgusts me. even if he didn't intend for it to be about race, he should have thought. i feel like two seconds of thought would have prevented this

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[parissenflamme]

I feel that, but I also think because you're only half white do you not get a pass. Sometimes I feel like some people expect that any drop of color in the dna should make you automatically educated in race, and that's not always the case. I went to college at a place that was just unbelievably ridiculous in what white students could get away with and they got a pass because they explicitly expressed themselves as "liberal" and always made students of color who were arguing for a cause to be "too hyper-conscious". That's kind of what I meant by a "ignorant" pass. Although it's not always applicable

[churel]

There is no arguement what-so-ever for the teacher's case at all. You just don't belittle a child like that. You call a teacher conference meeting. My whole thing is, why is she so close to the child that the ordor of the conditioner makes her "sick"? As a teacher, she is suppose to go above and beyond to make her ownself comfortable! Put some cream under your nose! But she could have nipped it in the bud and just had the teacher/parent conference with her student's parents. Who ignorant to demote the child's abilities. That is where the race issue comes from. That no one took the time to contact the parents, just kicked her out of the class! How terrible, and so saddening to read about something like this. As America, we've come a lonnng way. But damn! We really still have a loonng way to go for racial tolerance.

[alicel]

this. i'm beginning to understand the saying 'when your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed'. i was originally extremely offended hearing that, because i assumed better of the general population. that was my mistake.

[churel]

Wow, I completely understand that statement. And those little words mean so much, and it just brings on a lot of mixed emotions. Sadness. Anger. As Black people, we have to jump through so many loops in the corporate world...

[kisha]

I've never heard that statement before, but wow. It's sad but completely true.

[miribai]

Even if the teacher had some crazy super sensitive condition, the way she handled the situation was NOT good. At best she'll probably damage the poor girl's already fragile self esteem because as most of us could testify to, being the only black in a class full of smart kids is highly, HIGHLY intimidating.