The teacher — with the fateful name Karen Savage — was fired.
We're told Savage "snatched the [black] doll from a student and, when 'nobody was paying attention,' hanged it from the television."
My question: Why was there a doll in a middle school class? And: Was she hanging it up to put it out of reach or hanging it as symbolic lynching?
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As always with these types of incidents, without pictures of the accused infraction, we will never know the truth. Remember the "noose" in Bubba Watson's garage?
We have found a witch! May we burn her?
To me, the photograph is kind of funny, because it's so incongruous. Kind of like the old Mr. Bill episodes.
We're told Savage "snatched the [black] doll from a student and, when 'nobody was paying attention,' hanged it from the television."
To me, she's mad at the doll for distracting the students and keeping them from paying attention. If she had simply ripped the doll's head off, she probably wouldn't have been fired. Maybe forced to take an anger management class.
It's got to be tough to be a teacher and control your class. I remember the first day of 5th grade, my teacher, Mr. Staton, punished two kids for talking/laughing in the back of the class. He had a paddle that was a few rulers taped together with black electrical tape. He called it the Black Mamba. And he spanked their hands hard. That made an impression on us. He didn't spank anybody the whole rest of the year.
Subconsciously I'm sure she wanted to impress the kids with her authority. And she failed to recognize the racial/lynching aspects. My assumption is that she's not a racist, and she's being punished for doing something that might be perceived as racist.
Technically, it wasn't a lynching. The doll was guilty as hell.
You people need to learn history.
Start with the 1948 Mrs. Beasley lynching in Hoboken, NJ.
People are "hanged"; everything else is "hung." The choice of language is intended to influence people to see this as tantamount to a lynching and to lose their shit over it. Firing the teacher is excessive. Just say "bad dog" and suspend her for a week.
If it had been a cattle rustler or a horse thief doll, nobody would have batted an eye.
The mom of the kid who ratted the teacher out to the school's leadership "told WTSP that she is considering taking legal action against the district."
Not satisfied with getting the teacher fired, apparently.
Looks like it's time to call attorney Ben Crump! Time to cash in.
Funny how it's known as the Mrs. Beasley lynching and not the George Armwood lynching.
Why was there a doll in a middle school class?
That whole clip is weird with all the panic and fear. The left is dominated by a fear of being racist. You see this in the UK with that white kid -- stabbed and bleeding out in the street -- getting handcuffed for the alleged crime of saying something racist. The left talks about racism like it's the worst crime ever committed by anybody. "We can't talk about Huck Finn because there's a bad word in it." The repression is amazing.
Meanwhile, we live in a society where parents routinely terminate unwanted children. And we are castrating healthy boys and giving health girls steroids like they are M&Ms.
The left is fixated on the 19th century and obsessed with all the evils from a century ago. Has anybody been lynched, anywhere, in the USA, in the 21st century? To be hyper-vigilant on last century's crimes while you are completely oblivious to this century's crimes is astounding.
Q: How many black Christians have been murdered in Nigeria by Muslims?
A: We can't talk about this, we're investigating a doll lynching. Protect the children!
"Was she hanging it up to put it out of reach or hanging it as symbolic lynching?"
Well, the former isn't racist so the latter.
@Yukon Cornelius -- Some humans can be hung. Men in particular.
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Joke? What if the doll was "crucified" in the vein of "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano? It'd likely be exhibited in a NYC art gallery along with Banksy. It'd sell for $8.9M. She'd be 'empowering' black babies per their 'sacrifices' to society.
She should've placed the doll in a gangland neighborhood to be shot to pieces in a drive-by, but that wouldn't have gotten anyone's attention.
LOL. I feel sorry for the teacher. Didn't she know that hanging dolls is a "hanging offense" - if they're black? If the doll had been white - that's OK. Asian/Hispanic dolls? I little iffy. We'll need a study by a board of experts.
The insanity involved in "Lynchings" - that haven't occured for 70 years is only exceeded by tabboo involved in anything that is antisemitic.
This reminds me of my favorite "Lynching hoax insanity" the "noose" found in the black NASCAR driver's garage. This resulted in 50 FBI agents flying down to investigate, apologies by the President of NASCAR, and white racing drivers pushing the black drivers car to "Show solidarity against racism". Of course it found to be a "loop" not a "Noose". but fun was had by all.
I have a dream. That one day, a doll will be judged by the content of their character, and ability to talk, and not the color of their skin. Or their price tag.
That should a lesson to every teacher. Practice segregation and never let the black dolls in class.
What the teacher did was stupid... real stupid.
The absurdity of firing a teacher over a doll... damn people are stupid.
"Why was there a doll in a middle school class?"
- and a television?
I’m just so glad they blurred that hateful image.
A good way to prevent copycat crimes similar to this one would be to just ban black dolls. Or I suppose white teachers?
No matter the motivation, you would have to be really stupid to do something like that. The picture of the doll hanging from the TV.... COME ON!!! Wow.
I don’t think this story actually happened.
But I am all for shutting down the public school system.
How many black Christians have been murdered in Nigeria by Muslims?
Black Lives Matter #BabyLivesMatter
It's not Diversitist, it's transhumane, it's Pro-Choice. It's Capitol punishment in the field.
Well, it's 6 months to go before mid-term elections. Potential pandemics are starting to be test-marketed around the globe and the crazy news machine is getting warmed up.
Buckle up, folks, the Progressives have lost most of their gravy train because the adults started paying attention, and now they have very little left to spend, few ideas to offer, but much to lose.
When I briefly encountered this story yesterday and saw that her name was "Karen Savage", I figured it was all a made-up story.
The simulation is laughing at us.
What the teacher did was stupid... real stupid.
Granted, but to ruin her life over it? The kids are not that fragile. An apology was sufficient. What are they teaching the kids with how this was handled?
There's plenty of stupid to go around.
It was wrong and insensitive, not racist.
I have a neighbor who collects dolls that have been subjected to either capital punishment or extremely long periods of incarceration.
She won't show them to anyone who she thinks might be judgmental. I've seen them, of course, because I'm...well...me.
Why was there a television?
Imagine a black teacher stabbing a Barbie doll in the neck with her pen. (Assume it's the WASPy blonde model. There is a "black" Barbie, but I've learned it's a unpopular toy that many retailers return unsold.) Would she be fired? Would we ever read a news report of her racist abuse of plastic?
One strike is similar to one sex but no babies are aborted.
1000 word essay. Administrative leave without cookies.
Mrs. Beasley was a doll on a TV show as well
stlcdr writes, "It was wrong and insensitive, not racist."
Explain your reasoning, if you can.
My perspective, this doll business has no moral dimension whatsoever, though it is evidently valuable to wind inheritors.
the dem-o-maos have made it so exciting to have the opportunity to call out the racists!
"Why was there a television?"
Oh, come on, Leora. Most teacher these days are so professionally inept and desolate that they can't conduct a class without one.
Is it a Hutu or Tutsi doll? Zulu or Xhosa?
@Leora -- Many classrooms have had TVs since the 1980s. They show video training, news, etc. I trust canned material more than many teachers, but it also facilitates mediocre and bad cooke-cutter content.
"I have a neighbor who collects dolls that have been subjected to either capital punishment or extremely long periods of incarceration."
Wednesday Addams?
Teachers, damn it. I need better proofreading skills.
serious question:
if the teacher was an African American (or person of color (or negress (or what ever it is that we are supposed to label now)))
and hung a white doll in effigy with a sign that said:
Death to ALL WHITES!
would she receive the teacher of the year award? or just her regular raise?
or how about if the white doll had orange hair?
All "Karens" are savage.
Was she hanging it up to put it out of reach or hanging it as symbolic lynching?
Karen Murphy's Law: Anything that can be a symbolic lynching will be a symbolic lynching.
Saint Croix writes, "The left is dominated by a fear of being racist."
Your thesis makes about as much sense as the image of a grizzled 49er fainting in terror the moment his pan shows color. The leftist attitude toward racism is the opposite of fear. The American left delights in finding racism wherever it chooses to look. Dogma demands this. It cannot be systemic racism unless it's everywhere and always.
so, to all you all folks; that are ALL OUTRAGED about a tv in class..
Please tell me? did YOUR class have a pulldown screen for movies, filmstrips, and transparencies?
Sorryl i don't mean to imply that y'all are old fuddies..
i'm explicitly stating it
"Williams told WTSP that she is considering taking legal action against the district."
Can you say "reh-pah-RAY-shuns-zes"?
Just put it on the desk but i dont think there was any malice
"But I am all for shutting down the public school system."
Yeah, or just fire all the white teachers. That should make everyone happy.
The leftist attitude toward racism is the opposite of fear. The American left delights in finding racism
What they delight in is finding a racist. They used to be antiracism, but now they pointedly say antiracist.
Being antiracism meant we should all try to do better. Being antiracist means labeling an individual and making them pay.
It's the difference between preaching that we be on guard against the devil's temptations and hunting witches.
The witch hunter always finds a witch.
Is the message of condemnation "There are images and words so terrifying to black people that any exhibition of them must receive the harshest punishment", or "there are things that white people aren't allowed to go anywhere near, because black people have special status and will make you pay dearly if you go near it?"
Given the general run of nasty, mean, horrific and obscene imagery and words that pervade current discourse, I think the latter. Was anyone really terrified by this?
George Costanza defense: Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of schools and I tell you people do that all the time.
--- One of her students.... recorded the tail-end of the jarring ordeal.
Ordeal.
If only they were never here in the first place.
OK, I've seen the picture. That WAS a bit insensitive and not very smart. She should have known better.
Since there is a picture, I am certain there was enough outrage to get her fired. Did she deserve it? I dunno. I don't recall anything a middle school art teacher taught me.
I don't think you should be suggesting the subject of lynching to a class of little kids.
If the doll were white or the teacher black, there would have been no firing.
She could have taken a tire from a toy truck and made a real impression by giving the doll a Soweto necklace
Quaestor @ 12:12 - oooh, very well said
"I don't think you should be suggesting the subject of lynching to a class of little kids."
I don't either. As well, I don't think you should be suggesting sexual topics to a class of little kids. How many teachers have been fired for *that*?
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