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Fired for word 'negro': Bronx teacher claims misunderstanding, not racial slur
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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 69785" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><strong><a href="http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/05/24/Fired-for-word-negro-Bronx-teacher-claims-misunderstanding-not-racial-slur/1651369410213/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px">Fired for word 'negro': Bronx teacher claims misunderstanding, not racial slur</span></a></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">A Bronx teacher fired after a student complained about her use of a racial slur says the whole thing is just a ridiculous case of meaning lost -- literally -- in translation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Petrona Smith, 65, was a non-tenured teacher at the bilingual school PS 211 until March 2012, when she was fired after a student complained of being called "negro" and "a failure."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">But Smith, who is black and a native of the West Indies, said the student misunderstood her meaning: she was using the word "negro," the word for the color black in Spanish, not an outmoded reference to an person of African descent.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">“They haven’t even accounted for how absurd it is for someone who’s black to be using a racial slur to a student,” Shaun Reid, Smith’s attorney, told the New York Post. “Talk about context! There’s a lot of things wrong here.”</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">In court papers, Smith said she was teaching students how to say different colors, and even explained that the a black person in Spanish is called "moreno," not "negro." She also said she asked students who had failed a test to move to the back of the class, but had never called them failures.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Smith detailed the abuse she claims she often suffered at the hands of her students, who, according to her claims filed in court, called her "f***ing monkey," "cockroach" and "n****r." Smith said she had always risen above their insults.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The investigation leading to her termination relied on the word of four 7th-grade students, even though one of the student's parents admitted he had lied.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Smith, who has been unable to to find work since she was fired, has sued for wrongful termination. The school district has so far refused to comment on the case.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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