One should know that hanging a black doll from a string might conjure up images of lynching.

[SmallFry]

I'm not sure this teacher didn't know the visual implications.

If you do something so stupid, your whole past might be gone through with a fine toothed comb.

A Social Science teacher, no less.

White Chicago Teacher Under Fire For Hanging Black Doll From String In Front Of Classroom

It’s become exhausting to keep up with the acts of racism happening in classrooms lately, from cotton being thrown at a Black student in Louisiana to a whole mock slave auction a few weeks ago in Chatham County.

The latest involves a teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago that got himself suspended after an altercation with another teacher over a Black doll that appeared to be hanging from a string in his classroom for all students to see.

Black America Web

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Only an idiot would not understand this

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. I couldn't decide

whether it was stupidity or outright malice, but either way, this person has no business teaching, and especially not in a majority Black high school. JFC, what is wrong with some people?

[mopinko]

4. the crown jewel of the system.

supposedly.

[mopinko]

3. ffs. at whitney young.

i just cant w these people.

in case anyone doesnt know, this is where michele obama went to hs.
it was the 1st school DESIGNED to address the inequality in the chicago system, which is ongoing. obviously.

[Midnight Writer]

5. There is a picture in the Chicago Suntimes. It is pretty blatant, worse than I expected.

[Bucky]

8. thanks for the link

[Midnight Writer]

10. The link is in the OP.

[Sympthsical]

6. Why would any doll be hanging like that in a classroom?

Mix in the racial aspect at Whitney Young, what was this person thinking?

I absolutely want to hear this idiot's thinking. I'm so curious to know what was going through his mind.

Even if it was a white doll, just . . . why would you have that there?

For those unfamiliar, Whitney Young is a highly diverse crown jewel of the Chicago system. Well, supposedly.

[SmallFry]

7. Some more details here...

https://www.yahoo.com/video/chicago-teacher-claims-hung-lost-150000572.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHrhoP2kfutKcmdcCbTuf7CMF2iJdsi6LHEZ_fd9nY-dCdS-RC7PNvRvr9uaqWDjf6pXdFldR9oKqZHkj48ww-Yy44VNxn4zSjSHTqQwPSUNnV-3NNyMSuY3QSs4hjGbizduYKN6Dkx1a3WhfMNolWTCbL15ihTp9mI003x0gvH6

[Bucky]

9. Oh my God, the great debate that took place! It's like Webster and Clay were back in the Senate

One teacher calls the other, “Stupid.”

“You[’re] f- – – – n’ stupid,” the other snaps back. “And you’re even more stupid [inaudible].”

He then says, “Shut up! Shut up!” and turned to the students and said, “He’s wrong.”

“You[’re] wrong!” the other teacher shouts in return.

Such eloquence gives me hope for the future.