• Black New York teacher claims in suit she endured racial taunts and insults
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-teacher-claims-suit-she-endured-racial-jeers-insults-taunts-n953091 A black educator alleges in a lawsuit that she was subjected to racial discrimination in her job as an English teacher in a New York school district where she says she has been the only black teacher for 17 years. Bryan, identified in court documents as a black female of Caribbean descent, alleges that the lead teacher, who is white, had made "racially derogatory" comments, according to the lawsuit filed Dec. 19 in federal court for the Eastern District of New York. In one instance, when Bryan asked the lead teacher about a bag of peanuts on a table in the English office, he told her the food was "for whites only," the lawsuit states. In connection with the English Department's teaching of the play "The Crucible," which features the character of a black slave who travels to the U.S. from Barbados, the same lead teacher allegedly asked Bryan in front of colleagues, “Andrea, can you translate slave talk for me?” Bryan was "humiliated, degraded and embarrassed" by the remark, the lawsuit says. After this incident in 2015, she made an official complaint about the teacher's remark, after which he was demoted. Afterward, Bryan alleges she “was ostracized and made a pariah within the department,” according to the suit. She also claims that despite her rank as a senior teacher in the English Department, she was denied a dedicated classroom, "a privilege that had been afforded many white junior teachers." And, in December 2017, Bryan claims a colleague presented her with a bottle of hand sanitizer at a Secret Santa gift exchange where the spending limit was $50 and at which other teachers received gifts of "appropriate value."
This is why we can't have nice things.
I'm wondering how the fuck this school district is as racist as it is to begin with. The fact that she's been putting up with this shit for 17 years tells me that the district, or at least the area that it's in, has had a history of being really racist. Does Long Island have a reputation of being heavily segregated or what?
a lot of places in long island are fucked up racist, not all obv, not even most, but definitely a factor
There was a lot of segregated communities and racial tension in suffolk county. Though the lines were often anglo-american vs everyone else. There was even a large KKK presence back in the day. There were even a few cross burnings, i think a few lynchings as well. There was a whole lotta this shit around the hamptons. Source: my mixed race family from the sag harbor hills.
yeah not surprised about this in suffolk county. this place is the south of new england
This is why so many pop punk/hardcore come out of here talking about how much they hate this town.
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