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Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:13 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:13 am
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A Dominican-American Bronx educator, one year away from retirement, says she was fired after refusing to participate in the cross-arm, "Wakanda forever" salute to Black power.
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Rafaela Espinal, who identifies as Afro-Latina, says she was chastised for repeatedly refusing to mimic the gesture popularized in the 2018 Marvel Comic’s "Black Panther," during superintendent meetings, reported the New York Post Saturday.
According to a Manhattan Supreme Court suit against the city’s Department of Education Chancellor Richard Carranza and other top officials earlier this month, Espinal was "admonished and told that it was inappropriate for her not to participate" in the salute by the then-Bronx superintendent Meisha Ross Porter.
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But some have questioned the directorial decision to cast a Black only cast and Espinal’s lawyers said she felt the arm gesture "introduced a racial divide where there should be none," reported the Post.
Porter, who has since been promoted to "executive superintendent," allegedly referred to the 1960’s Black Panther Party for Self Defense, when encouraging staff members to make the motion – telling them about her father’s involvement in the group.
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The $40 million suit also alleges that Espinal was told she wasn’t "Black enough," and should "just learn to be quiet and look pretty."
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Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:14 am to High C
Racist arse crackers at the top of that educational system
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:14 am to High C
Add this to the list of things that just don’t happen in the south
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 10:15 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:15 am to High C
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mimic the gesture popularized in the 2018 Marvel Comic’s "Black Panther," during superintendent meetings,
What the frick? These people twelve years old or something?
If they had done the Three Amigos salute, at least that would have been funny.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 10:37 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:15 am to High C
She related to leguerta from dexter?
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:16 am to High C
Weird how leftists consistently do things like this, yet at the same time call those they hate "Nazis".
Hmmmm.
Don't want to throw your hand up and solute our made up causes? Well, that makes you just like.....Hitler!
Hmmmm.
Don't want to throw your hand up and solute our made up causes? Well, that makes you just like.....Hitler!
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:24 am to High C
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one year away from retirement,
Another example of black doesn’t crack
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:31 am to High C
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she was fired after refusing to participate in the cross-arm, "Wakanda forever" salute to Black power.
It’s so strange that a fictional account has become a source of racial pride.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:31 am to EZE Tiger Fan
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:36 am to High C
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Porter, who has since been promoted to "executive superintendent," allegedly referred to the 1960’s Black Panther Party for Self Defense, when encouraging staff members to make the motion – telling them about her father’s involvement in the group.
Odd that it has become okay to openly support a known domestic terrorist group that has carried out violence and is responsible for voter intimidation in multiple cities.....and I'm not talking about the 2020 election.
ETA: Two downvoters living in denial about what the Black Panther "Party" really is.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 11:14 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:42 am to High C
White progressives know more about being black than she does to be fair.
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 10:45 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:44 am to High C
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Porter, who has since been promoted to "executive superintendent," allegedly referred to the 1960’s Black Panther Party for Self Defense, when encouraging staff members to make the motion – telling them about her father’s involvement in the group.
How does this make it any better?
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:48 am to Antonio Moss
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Porter, who has since been promoted to "frau superintendent,"
Fixed
Posted on 2/21/21 at 10:59 am to EZE Tiger Fan
DOE: We are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive work environment
Also DOE: You won’t do our racially divisive salute? You’re fired.
Also DOE: You won’t do our racially divisive salute? You’re fired.
Posted on 2/21/21 at 11:01 am to Weekend Warrior79
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Another example of black doesn’t crack
Actually this might be a picture of Rafaela Espinal who is also alleging she was fired over refusing to give the Wakanda salute.
So this happened to two people?
Another NY Post story
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At official gatherings of high-level Department of Education bosses, then-Bronx superintendent Meisha Ross Porter often asked the group to do the arms-across-the-chest gesture of solidarity from the mythical African nation of Wakanda. The salute is considered a symbol of empowerment.
When Rafaela Espinal — a Dominican-American who describes herself as Afro-Latina — declined to join in, she “was admonished and told that it was inappropriate for her not to participate,” according to a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Feb. 3 against the city DOE, Chancellor Richard Carranza and some of his top-ranking lieutenants.
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The DOE insists the famous cross-arm gesture doesn’t refer to “Black power,” but is instead “a symbol used to represent the Bronx.”
Fellow DOE administrators also allegedly told Espinal she wasn’t “Black enough” and she should “just learn to be quiet and look pretty,” she claims in the $40 million suit.
This is Karen Ames:
NY Post story
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At an implicit-bias workshop where superintendents were asked to tell their personal stories, Ames talked about her grandparents’ loss of two children during the Holocaust — only to have colleague Rasheda Amon tell her, “you better check yourself,” the lawsuit alleges.
“That is not about being Jewish! It’s about black and brown boys of color only,” court papers quote Amon as scolding.
WTF is happening at the NY DOE?
This post was edited on 2/21/21 at 11:03 am
Posted on 2/21/21 at 11:08 am to bbrownso
If this were a case of teachers having sex with students the first would be Not Guilty and the second Guilty.
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