White Teacher Under Fire For Singing 'Monkey' Song On Black Boy's Birthday

[HikerGuy83]

As usual the racist right attempts to defend the indefensible.

Can you do us all a favor and find a high cliff and then.........

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The teacher should have realized the song was inappropriate. Tell her not to do it again.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Well folks here is the first one.

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LOL!!!

I got that sung to me every birthday, by my little brother, after they sang the real Happy Birthday.

It didn't traumatize me at all.







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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

A white teacher in Florida is under fire after she sang a "monkey" birthday song to a six-year-old Black boy at school.

In a video shared on TikTok, the boy's classmates and teacher first sang the traditional "Happy Birthday" song to celebrate the occasion. The teacher then delivered what the boy's mother believes was a racially charged version of the birthday song.

"Happy birthday to you. You live in the zoo. You look like a monkey, and you smell like one too," the teacher recited, leaving several children visibly uncomfortable and confused.

The mother of the boy, identified as six-year-old Legend, called the teacher's song a racial insult.

“I’m sharing this so people understand what my son experienced in his classroom. A birthday should be celebrated with kindness, not racial jokes from an adult in a position of authority," the mother said.

MSN

Let's see how many of the right wingers make excuses for this.

What a disgrace.

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Prove to us that it has never been sung to a black person, by a black person.

Nope.






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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Did anything else happen concerning the boy's birthday? Since he had to be at school for his special day, maybe the class had food and drinks to celebrate the day and if that much was done for him, I wouldn't get too worked up over the song.

God bless you and him and his classmates and the teacher always!!!

Holly

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Like they didn't lock the child up in a closet all day.

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[Billiejeens]

A white teacher in Florida is under fire after she sang a "monkey" birthday song to a six-year-old Black boy at school.

In a video shared on TikTok, the boy's classmates and teacher first sang the traditional "Happy Birthday" song to celebrate the occasion. The teacher then delivered what the boy's mother believes was a racially charged version of the birthday song.

"Happy birthday to you. You live in the zoo. You look like a monkey, and you smell like one too," the teacher recited, leaving several children visibly uncomfortable and confused.

The mother of the boy, identified as six-year-old Legend, called the teacher's song a racial insult.

“I’m sharing this so people understand what my son experienced in his classroom. A birthday should be celebrated with kindness, not racial jokes from an adult in a position of authority," the mother said.

MSN

Let's see how many of the right wingers make excuses for this.

What a disgrace.

What an insult.

To monkeys

 

[Billiejeens]

my dad sang that to me all the time,,

You probably dont have a boulder on your shoulder keeping you down.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

As usual the racist right attempts to defend the indefensible.

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Says the board's favorite professional victim.





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[blackhawk]

It was a stupid tasteless thing to do and I won’t defend it or make excuses for it. I would like to see the lefties do the same when a non white teacher does something stupid and tasteless but I won’t be holding breath waiting.

 

[Billiejeens]

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Says the board's favorite professional victim.





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Favorite?

 

[Carl in Michigan]

You probably dont have a boulder on your shoulder keeping you down.

Blacks willingly put that boulder there because without being offended, they'd have to take on personal responsibility

 

[Billiejeens]

It was a stupid tasteless thing to do and I won’t defend it or make excuses for it. I would like to see the lefties do the same when a non white teacher does something stupid and tasteless but I won’t be holding breath waiting.

Most normal people dont equate blacks with monkeys.

Its just a cute song to normal people.

 

[Billiejeens]

Blacks willingly put that boulder there because without being offended, they'd have to take on personal responsibility

Correct
Of course.

 

[progressive hunter]

You probably dont have a boulder on your shoulder keeping you down.

who has a boulder on their shoulder holding them down??

 

[Billiejeens]

who has a boulder on their shoulder holding them down??

Colored folk

Its a self installed boulder

 

[blackhawk]

Most normal people dont equate blacks with monkeys.

Its just a cute song to normal people.

Maybe not today but there was time when it was and this teacher really should have known better. Lots of people wouldn’t be upset or offended by the song but they still should have known some would and there would be backlash over it.

 

[citygator]

If racists didnt try to make racist statements and images about black folks and monkeys you could sing any song you wanted about monkeys to anyone.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Maybe not today but there was time when it was and this teacher really should have known better. Lots of people wouldn’t be upset or offended by the song but they still should have known some would and there would be backlash over it.

Yeah, I would never make a monkey reference to any black person, child or not. A teacher should know the backlash she'd get. But like someone else pointed out, you can hear by the time of her voice, no I'll will was intended. won't stop the black mob though. Gotta have a reason to be offended

 

[Billiejeens]

The teacher should have realized the song was inappropriate. Tell her not to do it again.

Wouldn't it better all-around if colored folk stopped seeing themselves as monkeys?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Wouldn't it better all-around if colored folk stopped seeing themselves as monkeys?

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Or victims.

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