WEBVTT - DONKEY: Elementary School Assignment Instructs Students To Portray White Slave Masters

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<v Speaker 1>The execution on the Donkey of the day is something

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<v Speaker 1>you could hold for you.

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<v Speaker 2>The reason they gave me donkey other day and I

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<v Speaker 2>deserve that.

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<v Speaker 1>You need to know.

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<v Speaker 2>You need to tell them, I am you have the boy.

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<v Speaker 2>Tell them it's time for Donkey of the day.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a read.

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<v Speaker 2>But you're so good at charlamage. You know what you

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<v Speaker 2>want charlamage? Yeah, solo man who he's a dusk the

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<v Speaker 2>other day? Soon then.

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<v Speaker 3>Well donkey today for Thursday, March twenty. First goes to

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<v Speaker 3>an elementary school named Connamhara Township. Cornamara Township is in

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<v Speaker 3>Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and they recently had to apologize for

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<v Speaker 3>an assignment bought home by a fifth grade student last week.

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<v Speaker 3>Would you like to hear what that assignment was? Let's

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<v Speaker 3>go to ABC seven News for the report.

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<v Speaker 2>Please.

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<v Speaker 4>Township parents Kenneth and Sharon Poole tell us their daughter

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<v Speaker 4>brought home an assignment last week instructing students to pretend

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<v Speaker 4>to be a white master looking to buy a slave.

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<v Speaker 1>So we got an assignment and our daughter's school workfolder

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<v Speaker 1>slaves like a colored worksheet that indicated that it was

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<v Speaker 1>titled Auctions Winnings to the highest bidder, and it was

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<v Speaker 1>an assignment wherein the fifth graders were supposed to portray

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<v Speaker 1>slave masters and identify, you know what qualifications they wanted

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<v Speaker 1>in their slaves.

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<v Speaker 5>The Pools say the assignment asked the students to draw

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<v Speaker 5>and describe the living quarters as well as various scenarios

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<v Speaker 5>that would occur on a plantation. They say their daughter

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<v Speaker 5>lost points when she wrote she would treat the slaves nicely.

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<v Speaker 5>In a statement to six News, the superintendent of Conowell

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<v Speaker 5>Township Elementary School says the assignment was intended to help

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<v Speaker 5>students to comprehend slavery, but a different approach should have

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<v Speaker 5>been taken.

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<v Speaker 4>The couple says they're relieved to hear the assignment has

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<v Speaker 4>been pulled from the class, and they hope that other

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<v Speaker 4>schools can learn from this reporting. Somerset County Bailey WOJIC

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<v Speaker 4>six News.

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<v Speaker 3>Let the record show that the Pools were white, and

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<v Speaker 3>it warns my cold heart to see that they were

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<v Speaker 3>discussed about this. I mean, you know, listen, the notion

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<v Speaker 3>that all people are racist as asanine, but every now

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<v Speaker 3>and then we have to be reminded that all white

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<v Speaker 3>people aren't created equal equal, Okay, But that reminder goes

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<v Speaker 3>out the window when you think to yourself, there was

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<v Speaker 3>a fifth grade teacher out there who thought to themselves

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<v Speaker 3>that it was okay to have an assignment where the

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<v Speaker 3>fifth graders were supposed to portray slave masters and identify

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<v Speaker 3>what qualifications they wanted in their slave.

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<v Speaker 2>Also, how many kids completed.

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<v Speaker 3>This assignment, how many parents sat at home with their kids,

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<v Speaker 3>and when their kids said, Mommy, Daddy, what qualifications should

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<v Speaker 3>I want in the slave?

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<v Speaker 2>The parents helped them with it.

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<v Speaker 3>Jesus, can you imagine, let's not get it twisted. Though

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<v Speaker 3>many of the enslave were skilled laborers, and those skills

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<v Speaker 3>were a vital part of the American economy. You have

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<v Speaker 3>to think a lot of them arrived here with a

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<v Speaker 3>wide range of traditional African crafts. So you had something

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<v Speaker 3>that did weaving, wood carving, pottery making. You had somebody

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<v Speaker 3>enslave that was skilled in rice cultivation.

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<v Speaker 2>They had, you know, many a skill.

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<v Speaker 3>But the fact that a little fifth grader potentially could

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<v Speaker 3>be sitting around the table discussing with his parents the

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<v Speaker 3>qualifications they are looking for in a slave in twenty

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<v Speaker 3>twenty four, Jesus, I wish you bothers even more that

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<v Speaker 3>the zoo said they contacted the teacher and principal, but

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<v Speaker 3>they said that the school officials were initially unwilling to

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<v Speaker 3>even remove the assignment.

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<v Speaker 2>Are apologize.

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<v Speaker 3>In fact, in a statement to six News, the superintendent

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<v Speaker 3>of Collomar Township School District says the assignment was intended

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<v Speaker 3>that helps students to comprehend slavery.

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<v Speaker 2>What a different approach should have been taken?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, how about the approach the freedom, the approach to emancipation.

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<v Speaker 3>They would never be an assignment in the school where

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<v Speaker 3>someone said, hey, we wanted to help students comprehend the Holocaust,

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<v Speaker 3>so we decided to do an assignment that tauch students how.

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<v Speaker 2>To be Nazi's. Huh, wouldn't happen? Wouldn't be tolerated?

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<v Speaker 3>Teach your superintendent, principal, janitors, all the princil shoppingers in.

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<v Speaker 2>The classroom would be gone if that happened.

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<v Speaker 3>Not to mention, we in an era where these kids

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<v Speaker 3>might grow up and be cancelled for an assignment they

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<v Speaker 3>participated in when they was ten.

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<v Speaker 2>And these kids don't know no better, okay.

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<v Speaker 3>In your adults clearly don't know any better, okay, So

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<v Speaker 3>you're just simply teaching white supremacy. And why this is

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<v Speaker 3>why the whole notion of waiting for racists to die

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<v Speaker 3>isn't gonna work, because I read a quote once and

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<v Speaker 3>that quote is real.

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<v Speaker 2>They said, premacy, it's not a shark, it is the water.

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<v Speaker 3>Please give Connamar Township in Somerset, Pennsylvania the biggest e hull. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>But it took a while to get there.

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<v Speaker 3>It took a while for them to get there. It

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<v Speaker 3>in the best way, and.

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