Teacher Suspended For Showing Blackface Video In Class

Teacher Suspended For Showing Blackface Video In Class

via Fox News

A Michigan middle school teacher was suspended two weeks before his intended retirement after showing his class a video of white people in blackface during a lesson on Jim Crow racial segregation laws.

According to the Monroe News, Monroe Middle School teacher Alan Barron, who has been an educator for 36 years, was put on administrative leave last month after an assistant principal sat in on a history class where Barron discussed segregation laws.

The instruction reportedly included a video about how white people used blackface to intimidate African-Americans during entertainment in the 1800s.

Parents whose children are in Barron’s eighth-grade class told the paper that the administrator thought the lesson plan was offensive and racist.

One parent, Adrienne Aaron, whose husband is African-American, said Barron was simply showing her child and others in class what actually happened in history. Aaron said her daughter was not offended.

“She was more offended that they stopped the video,” Aaron said, according to the Monroe News. “It had nothing to do with racism. History is history. We need to educate our kids to see how far we’ve come in America. How is that racism?”