In White Plains, New York a white teacher has apologized for attempting to teach about the horrors of slavery by binding the hands and feet of two black girls. One of the girls had volunteered for the misguided experiment, one had not. Truth is stranger and, at times like this, dumber than fiction. According to WCBS:
Christine Shand says it was a terrible experience for her daughter, Gaby, descended, like most Jamaicans, from slaves.
"She burst into tears, she was crying and she was horrified," Shand told CBS 2 HD.
In a social …

More information about Michelle Obama’s slave ancestry has been released to the public. Indeed it is an emblematic fact of our nation’s promise that some of our future first lady’s forefathers and foremothers spent their lives in bondage . But to me, what is most important about Michelle Obama’s family trajectory is that there was a strong emphasis on liberation through education:
Their documented passage begins with Jim Robinson, Michelle Obama’s great-great-grandfather, who was born about 1850 and lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling …