Blacks Should Not Act As Monkeys?

Yea, I thought about the same. As if being black means you are entitled to some special privileges.

 

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This is rather disturbing, in my opinion. So it's unacceptable for the black children to have a role as a monkey in the play, yet it's perfectly fine for the white children to have the role? Is the role not good enough for a black person? It seems to me that the mother is racist in her own right, as she has made it perfectly clear that, in her paradigm, black people should not be allowed to be portrayed as animals, but white people should instead take the role that black people are too good for. I don't think that the children being apes is racist. I think that if the children didn't get a role at all, it would have been racist. I think that if only black children were in the play, it would be racist. But a racially mixed cast where the child, regardless of if he's black or white, was not allowed to play the role of the hunter, just sounds like life to me, not racism. I'm sure for every black child in the play that wanted to be the hunter, there were two other white children who were equally disappointed when they didn't get the lead role. After all, there's only one spot.

AmishRakeFight

 

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How does that justify the crass generalization that "many blacks view themselves as monkey like people."?

 

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what a racist statement. terrible- get a moderator to cusure this miscreant.

 

Because it is always blacks who go ape shit over this issue.

 

this is a direct result of affimative action.'black' has nothing to do with it.
if the situation was reversed it would be whites "going ape shit".

 

"Three other white students are to play monkeys in the play, which will be performed next month".

 

Very well said.
I agree.


I have to say that my first response was, "The kid is a toddler. Not only is it a silly children's play, but what kid would NOT want to play a monkey in a play? I would have absoluttely LOVED it."

Then I read the article.
I find it curious that D'ster copied and pasted nearly the entire article, but left out the part that the kid was upset about it. And how her complaint to the school went ignored.
But he left in the part about how the teacher said an investigation would take place and how white children are playing the monkey parts now.
Not that it makes a difference, I still agree with what AmishRakeFight said, but Just thought it was interesting how D'ster appears to have cherry picked the article and posted the most damning parts.

I think the point in the article was that they replaced the black kids with white ones. In other words, there are 3 monkey parts, not five.

 

There were only two black pupils that played as monkeys. So, I don't think it was an all-black role. Just to toss something in the pot to think about.


[Renrue]

 

Or maybe it was 4 monkeys - this kid, the other black kid and two whites - but now it is three white kids and the other black kid?

It's not very clear.

Regardless, she should not be playing the race card because her kid wanted the lead role and didn't get it.
If the kid did think it was racist (which it did not say, it just said he was upset that he got the monkey role instead of the lead role) he likely learned that from his parents.

 

you misunderstood.
if whites were disadvantaged like blacks used to be and made slaves the way blacks used to be.

blacks can play the race card because of affirmative action.
believe me, if whites could they would.
thats why i said what i did. it's human nature to weasel out of things you do not like.

 

Spot the 'groid?

 

this is an interesting point
children pick on differences but that doesn't make them racists.
putting myself in a childs shoes i would probably be more curious than anything else

 

Are you trying to suggest that some how these children are like the monkey "curious" George?

Thats so racist!

 

you misunderstood. . . again.

 

I'm fairly sure he was joking, leopold.

AmishRakeFight

 

You just got punked

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oh man

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We're all African, brother.

'Groid as in negroid? I'm not black if that's what you mean. I'm Caucasian. But what fucking difference does it make?

Far from 'playing the race card', Mrs Rees is pointing out that, in a racist society, it's wrong to force black children into playing these roles because it serves to reinforce racist perceptions. What is so hard to understand about this?

 

Funny how the so called anti-racists inhere are the only racists in this thread.