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August 22, 2021, 3:50 am*
When you think about the stuff people have gotten away with because they weren’t recorded, it’s overwhelming, because even when it is recorded, it’s pretty unbelievable. A clip posted to Reddit by u/The-Brixon to r/PublicFreakout shows a white substitute teacher who The Daily Dot reports removed a classroom sign that read ‘Black Lives Matter,’ and then wrote “all lives matter” on the whiteboard. That in itself is pretty outrageous, but she really starting flipping out after a Black student got up and erased it.
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The video starts with a student telling the substitute, “Oh, ‘white lives matter?’ Nothing has happened to them, nothing bad has happened to them.”
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“Nothing bad has happened to a white person, ever?” the teacher responds.
“We’re not talking about that. I’m just saying straight up—were you a slave?” the student asked her, which prompted the teacher to add some wild misinformation about slavery that pretty much proves she shouldn’t be teaching.
“Who sold who into slavery?” the teacher says. “Did you know African-Americans sold African-Americans into slavery? So I’d encourage you to check with your history and get that all straightened out. So you can learn history and how it truly unfolded. ‘Cause, that is true history.”
I’m pretty sure that anyone living in Africa before the U.S. Civil War was not considered an “African-American.”
There were Africans in some parts of the continent who sold other Africans to white slavers, usually prisoners from tribal conflicts. This is still an extremely ahistorical view of slavery since white Europeans and U.S. slave owners were benefiting from the enslavement of these people and their descendants at a far greater scale, building entire industries and enormous wealth with enforced labor.
But she probably read that on a Facebook page meme somewhere.
The Black student eventually gets up and wipes the board clean to put an end to her ridiculous grandstanding. It also seems as though a few students gathered their belongings and simply left the room, while obviously there was at least one secretly recording. But after the erasure, the teacher gets up and tells the student to go to the office, but it’s not clear if the student was reprimanded— or the teacher.
*First Published: August 22, 2021, 3:49 am
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