Another case where some people just have to change history, no matter how correct it is!
Black Students Asked To Act As Slaves In Civil War Lesson
Reporter, by Mark Becker.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Some parents from Union County say a history lesson at Mecklenburg County’s Latta Plantation went too far when black children were picked out to play the roles of slaves.
The students from Rea View Elementary in Waxhaw were touring the plantation Wednesday when Ian Campbell, who is a historian at the site, chose the three children from a group of mostly white children to portray slaves in the 1850s.
The children were given shoulder bags to carry the cotton they would have picked.
Campbell, who is black, told Eyewitness News he was simply trying to make the presentation as realistic as possible, but the mother of one of the children called the selection outrageous.
A spokeswoman for the Union County school district said administrators were “surprised by the lack of sensitivity” of the presentation. Parents plan to meet with school administrators Friday morning to address their concerns.
Campbell said he will ask for volunteers in future presentations. He suggested he’s surprised by the uproar.
“I chose to be historically correct instead of politically correct,” he said Thursday.
Once again we are not allowed to reenact history as it really happened. We have to be Oh So Politically Correct! It makes my stomach turn. This is similar to the case where ONE person objected to historic newspapers hanging in a V.A. Hospital declaring the end of World War II with the words “Japs Surrender”! That was the terminology of the time. Get with it people, you can’t change history because you object to historical facts! Live with it. It is called history. I’m sure Mr. Campbell is not a racist. He is a gentleman who knows history. I don’t think I have a ever seen a picture of a White, Native American, Chinese or any other race than Blacks as slave. Yes it was wrong, yes it was a terrible chapter of American history, but it happened. LIVE WITH IT!
