After a teacher told students they could dress as 'slaves and hobos' for an event, the Spokane NAACP cried foul.
Children bike past Wilson Elementary in Spokane. A teacher's job is on the line after she encouraging students to attend a jazz event dressed as"slaves and hobos." after encouraging students to attend a jazz event dressed as “slaves and hobos.” The response has been disproportionate to the incident.
While the “slaves and hobos” newsletter was the impetus for the meeting, it was barely mentioned throughout the town hall, which lasted longer than 90 minutes. A white dad, Mike Dix, defended the teacher, whom teaches one of his kids. He said she was wrong to write the “slaves and hobos” newsletter, but termination goes too far.
When he told one of the women yelling at him about the newsletter that “maybe it was misinterpreted,” the moderator of the event, Spokane NAACP president Lisa Gardner, scolded him. “I understand why you don’t have that position,” she told him. “But I feel like there should be a space where we are looking to educate and not belittle people for having those things. Because, realistically, you don’t have that education and that’s alright.”
Despite what community activists believe, intent does actually matter. It’s how we judge everyday interactions. Did that person ignore me, or did that person just not see me? Did my spouse snap at me because of something I did or because my spouse had a bad day? People’s passions or sensitives toward an issue, even when they’re right to be passionate and sensitive, shouldn’t mean we completely dismiss extending common courtesy to others who didn’t intend to cause offense.
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