Here's some real
classroom racism for ya, boh...and it's substantiated.
A Virginia high school English teacher is under investigation for allegedly asking the only black student in the class to read a poem in a "blacker" manner.
Jordan Shumate, a ninth-grader at George C. Marshall High Schol in Falls Church, Va. says he was reading aloud Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Landlord" when teacher Marilyn Bart interrupted him.
"She told me, 'Blacker, Jordan -- c'mon, blacker. I thought you were black,'" Shumate told The Washington Post.
When the 14-year-old student declined to continue reading the poem, Bart read it herself to demonstrate what she meant.
"She read the poem like a slave, basically," Shumate told the Post. When he asked whether she thinks all black people speak that way, he was reportedly told to take his seat and reprimanded for speaking out of turn.
