Black Spanish teacher claims she was fired for using the word ‘negro’ in class

[Dangerous_J]

http://news.yahoo.com/black-spanish-teacher-claims-she-fired-using-word-141803930.html

The non-tenured teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith, maintains that she was instructing her class about how to say the various basic colors in Spanish, reports the New York Post. The word “negro” naturally came up because “negro” is the Spanish word for “black.”
A seventh-grade student in the class took offense at the term, however, believing the word to be a racial slur. It’s not clear if Smith directed the term at the student. Whatever the case, he reported the incident to school officials.
But, wait. It gets better. Smith, a native of the West Indies, is black. And to top it all off, P.S. 211 is bilingual.

Round up the PC police…

[goodm0urning]

It naturally came up in the sentence “Next, I’ll teach you a word that the pinko commie liberals won’t let us use anymore.”

[maxx]

lmfao…i remember when i was in spanish class and my spanish teacher brought up the word for the first time…everryyyone looked a me. putos.

[Unreallystic]

facepalm
I’d sue SO HORDE…

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[RagingDemonStorm]

Wait until geography class studies countries in Africa

[pedoviejo]

what a fucking failure.

Took offense??

NIgga needs to get slapped across the face with a 30 day old dead fish.

[Matriarch]

You guys say crap about white people whenever they do dumb stuff, so I expect to see some good jokes directed at black people in this thread.

[NickRocks]

situations like this are bred from ignorance.

parents taught their kids that negro only had one connotation, a teacher uses it in another way, kid freaks out.

smh

[chadouken]

lmfao…i remember when i was in spanish class and my spanish teacher brought up the word for the first time…everryyyone looked a me. putos.

Are you black?

Also, isn’t negro the Spanish word for black? I remember a color song we sang in high school Spanish class. It went like this:

Azul, blanco, rojo, violeta, armarillo, anaranjado, verde, y rosa!"

It means, blue, white, red, violet (purple), yellow, orange, green, and pink!

[Matriarch]

situations like this are bred from ignorance.

parents taught their kids that negro only had one connotation, a teacher uses it in another way, kid freaks out.

smh

What’s the school’s excuse?

[maxx]

lmfao…i remember when i was in spanish class and my spanish teacher brought up the word for the first time…everryyyone looked a me. putos.

Are you black?

Also, isn’t negro the Spanish word for black? I remember a color song we sang in high school Spanish class. It went like this:

Azul, blanco, rojo, violeta, armarillo, anaranjado, verde, y rosa!"

It means, blue, white, red, violet (purple), yellow, orange, green, and pink!

did you read the article? yes negro is the word for black.

[chadouken]

Yeah, I know it is. What a stupid fucking ridiculous situation that is.

[FaceMeAndBeBroken]

It’s not even pronounced the same, so I don’t see how the person could mistake it. Unless the teacher ‘Americanizes’ it, which if you do that, you prob shouldn’t be teaching.

It’s almost said like “nay-rrho” The G isnt clearly pronounced, or very lightly pronounced. Same with my name. Everyone says Diego “Dee aye Go” And the G is mostly silent, and there isnt even supposed to be an emphasis. Just a quick one syllable.

[Hecatom]

Lol USA

[maxx]

It’s not even pronounced the same, so I don’t see how the person could mistake it. Unless the teacher ‘Americanizes’ it, which if you do that, you prob shouldn’t be teaching.

It’s almost said like “nay-rrho” The G isnt clearly pronounced, or very lightly pronounced. Same with my name. Everyone says Diego “Dee aye Go” And the G is mostly silent, and there isnt even supposed to be an emphasis. Just a quick one syllable.

ehhh ive seen spanish speakers say the g.

[orochizoolander]

“Dee aye Go”

Just a quick one syllable.

Canadian grammar attack!..it isn’t very effective!

[Zero]

It’s not even pronounced the same, so I don’t see how the person could mistake it. Unless the teacher ‘Americanizes’ it, which if you do that, you prob shouldn’t be teaching.

It’s almost said like “nay-rrho” The G isnt clearly pronounced, or very lightly pronounced. Same with my name. Everyone says Diego “Dee aye Go” And the G is mostly silent, and there isnt even supposed to be an emphasis. Just a quick one syllable.

ehhh ive seen spanish speakers say the g.

True, but it still doesn’t sound the same.

I chalk this up as another case of dumb-kids-doing-dumb-things. The fact is, all kids do stupid things, including us (when we were kids).

It’s up to the adults to straighten them out. And if this story is true, then it’s the school administration and involved parents that deserves 100% of the blame.

[dab00g]

Wait. Was the kid offended that a black lady said black?

[Mr.Unbrockable]

This can’t be a real story. Nobody is that thin-skinned and stupid.

You guys say crap about white people whenever they do dumb stuff, so I expect to see some good jokes directed at black people in this thread.

Herpa Derpa. What did the little black kid get for Christmas? My bike.

[Wasted]

Stay free, USA.