George C. Marshall High School Student Told To Read Langston Hughes Poem ‘Blacker’

March 18, 2012

A Virginia high college English teacher is under investigation for allegedly asking the only black student in the class to glance at 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 Advertise.Glance at More…
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