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DONKEY: Elementary School Assignment Instructs Students To Portray White Slave Masters · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The execution on the Donkey of the day is something
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  Speaker 1: you could hold for you.
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  Speaker 3: Well donkey today for Thursday, March twenty. First goes to
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  Speaker 3: an elementary school named Connamhara Township. Cornamara Township is in
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  Speaker 3: Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and they recently had to apologize for
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  Speaker 3: an assignment bought home by a fifth grade student last week.
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  Speaker 3: Would you like to hear what that assignment was? Let's
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  Speaker 3: go to ABC seven News for the report.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Township parents Kenneth and Sharon Poole tell us their daughter
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  Speaker 4: brought home an assignment last week instructing students to pretend
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  Speaker 4: to be a white master looking to buy a slave.
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  Speaker 1: So we got an assignment and our daughter's school workfolder
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  Speaker 1: slaves like a colored worksheet that indicated that it was
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  Speaker 1: titled Auctions Winnings to the highest bidder, and it was
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  Speaker 1: an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray
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  Speaker 1: slave masters and identify, you know what qualifications they wanted
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  Speaker 1: in their slaves.
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  Speaker 5: The Pools say the assignment asked the students to draw
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  Speaker 5: and describe the living quarters as well as various scenarios
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  Speaker 5: that would occur on a plantation. They say their daughter
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  Speaker 5: lost points when she wrote she would treat the slaves nicely.
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  Speaker 5: In a statement to six News, the superintendent of Conowell
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  Speaker 5: Township Elementary School says the assignment was intended to help
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  Speaker 5: students to comprehend slavery, but a different approach should have
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  Speaker 5: been taken.
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  Speaker 4: The couple says they're relieved to hear the assignment has
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  Speaker 4: been pulled from the class, and they hope that other
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  Speaker 4: schools can learn from this reporting. Somerset County Bailey WOJIC
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  Speaker 4: six News.
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  Speaker 3: Let the record show that the Pools were white, and
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  Speaker 3: it warns my cold heart to see that they were
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  Speaker 3: discussed about this. I mean, you know, listen, the notion
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  Speaker 3: that all people are racist as asanine, but every now
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  Speaker 3: and then we have to be reminded that all white
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  Speaker 3: people aren't created equal equal, Okay, But that reminder goes
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  Speaker 3: out the window when you think to yourself, there was
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  Speaker 3: a fifth grade teacher out there who thought to themselves
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  Speaker 3: that it was okay to have an assignment where the
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  Speaker 3: fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify
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  Speaker 3: what qualifications they wanted in their slave.
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  Speaker 2: Also, how many kids completed.
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  Speaker 3: This assignment, how many parents sat at home with their kids,
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  Speaker 3: and when their kids said, Mommy, Daddy, what qualifications should
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  Speaker 3: I want in the slave?
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  Speaker 2: The parents helped them with it.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus, can you imagine, let's not get it twisted. Though
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  Speaker 3: many of the enslave were skilled laborers, and those skills
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  Speaker 3: were a vital part of the American economy. You have
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  Speaker 3: to think a lot of them arrived here with a
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  Speaker 3: wide range of traditional African crafts. So you had something
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  Speaker 3: that did weaving, wood carving, pottery making. You had somebody
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  Speaker 3: enslave that was skilled in rice cultivation.
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  Speaker 2: They had, you know, many a skill.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that a little fifth grader potentially could
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  Speaker 3: be sitting around the table discussing with his parents the
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  Speaker 3: qualifications they are looking for in a slave in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four, Jesus, I wish you bothers even more that
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  Speaker 3: the zoo said they contacted the teacher and principal, but
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  Speaker 3: they said that the school officials were initially unwilling to
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  Speaker 3: even remove the assignment.
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  Speaker 2: Are apologize.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, in a statement to six News, the superintendent
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  Speaker 3: of Collomar Township School District says the assignment was intended
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  Speaker 3: that helps students to comprehend slavery.
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  Speaker 2: What a different approach should have been taken?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how about the approach the freedom, the approach to emancipation.
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  Speaker 3: They would never be an assignment in the school where
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  Speaker 3: someone said, hey, we wanted to help students comprehend the Holocaust,
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  Speaker 3: so we decided to do an assignment that tauch students how.
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  Speaker 2: To be Nazi's. Huh, wouldn't happen? Wouldn't be tolerated?
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  Speaker 3: Teach your superintendent, principal, janitors, all the princil shoppingers in.
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  Speaker 2: The classroom would be gone if that happened.
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  Speaker 3: Not to mention, we in an era where these kids
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  Speaker 3: might grow up and be cancelled for an assignment they
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  Speaker 3: participated in when they was ten.
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  Speaker 2: And these kids don't know no better, okay.
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  Speaker 3: In your adults clearly don't know any better, okay, So
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  Speaker 3: you're just simply teaching white supremacy. And why this is
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  Speaker 3: why the whole notion of waiting for racists to die
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  Speaker 3: isn't gonna work, because I read a quote once and
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  Speaker 3: that quote is real.
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  Speaker 2: They said, premacy, it's not a shark, it is the water.
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  Speaker 3: It took a while for them to get there. It
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  Speaker 3: took a while for them to get there. And so
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  Speaker 3: when we come back, they will be here. That's right
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  Speaker 3: to discuss how they co parents, how it started, how
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