Teacher Accused of Writing Racist Blog
- Thursday, April 1, 2010, 17:28
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Fifteen-year-old Sojourner James, a smart and bubbly sophomore At The High School of Graphic Communication Arts (HSGCA) has many friends. But she refuses to go to her science class after reading a nasty blog in March mentioning her on the adult lurkingglass.com.
High school is a place where students should feel safe, welcomed and most of all respected. Some students at HSGCA said they don’t feel respected because a teacher at the school allegedly wrote racist remarks about her students.
“Don’t forget- THE Sojourner <B>SO BLACK<P> attends my school!” the blog said. “And the crazy bitch is in my class.”
Fatoumata Toure, 15 wasn’t expecting to read a blog with her name in it referring to her as “a ghetto bitch.” It wasn’t until she was told by a friend, Tanazurae Rivera, 14, who discovered the blog by searching her own name on Google.
The blog listed a bunch of students’ names identifying their race and making critical analysis about them. According to the students’ names in the blog, it became obvious to them that the blogger had to be their science teacher Kristine Sakariasen.
“It’s not a coincidence [that all these students' names are in the blog]. All of these kids are on her roster,” James said.
In fact, Rivera said she saw photos of Sakariasen on the blog’s profile.
“There were pictures of her and her friends, a picture of her pushing a rock,” Rivera said. “She even had the same Northface [jacket] on that she wears to school.”
After the blog was discovered, a group of students confronted Sakariasen asking her about the blog. A student who was part of that group said she denied all allegations and even called the principal to make complaints about the students because she felt threatened As a result, a meeting was conducted with the principal, the assistant principals, Sakariasen and a few students.
The meeting was dismissed and the principal told students the matter would be investigated. When Principal Jerod Resnick was asked about the investigation, he refused to comment.
The Department of Education verified that the situation is under investigation. ”
“We take this matter very seriously.” Margie Seinberg of the Communications Department said. “The allegation was brought to the principal’s attention; he referred the matter to the special commissioners’ office.”
Investigators questioned some of the students and the teacher. But, Sakariasen wouldn’t use the word investigation but that it’s merely being “looked at.”
Some of the students said there’s been no talk about the investigation, which gives them the impression that situation is being “swept under the rug,” said LaiElle Whitaker, 15.
A teacher in the school said the language in the blog suggests that the writer is an adult. The blogger mentioned a student named Adonis saying, “Adonis NOT BLACK AND NOT AN ADONIS.” The average New York City high school student might not know that Adonis is a Greek God who is known for his good looks. That’s why they think that only a well-rounded, college educated individual would be more likely to know about Greek mythology.
Juanita Gatling, 18, along with a math teacher don’t believe that Sakariasen wrote the comments. They said they don’t think that she would put her job at risk by writing a public blog displaying racism.
“We shouldn’t have to go on a scavenger hunt looking for [the blogger],” said Liza Marie Polanco, 14. “They should just come forward.”
Sakariasen didn’t admit that she wrote the blog, but she didn’t deny it either.
“The idea of me being a racist made me sick,” Sakariasen said.
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Only in America can you be given free speech and still punished for what you say.
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She’s pretending she didn’t write those blogs? HA!
Swonkenon, you’ve been caught.
Come clean, swonkenon. You are really an idiot for doing this to your students. It is a disgrace what you did and now what you are doing getting lurkingglass to hide you horrible actions.
But don’t worry, although racism and lying about being married is okay on LurkingGlass, posting things like this article will result in a swift ban.
Send me an email. Lurkingglass.com is filled with hateful and racist remarks. Contact me for details.
I’m sure swonkenon didn’t mean to call her black students porch monkeys. She was having a stressful day.
Silly subversion!
And the moderators on the website have erased all traces of her comments and made it impossible for new members to join, all to protect a teacher who is too stupid to know what the internet is all about.
Lurkingglass.com (formerly helldot.com) is a web community for worshipers of the Church of Satan to meet virtually and discuss topics. It is not an “adult” website, and we welcome people of all ages.
I hear DF and her roommate have a great lawyer Swonk can use.
The Jews got bought off for their greed, but the lurkingglass gestapo looked the other way like Abraham did to Issac. Beware the infiltrator in your school, the wolf that dresses in the skin of the lamb teacher. She is the way to the reckoning.
I am a minority too, so I can feel your pain. A lot of teachers made fun of me, probably because I am deaf, but I will show them whose the boss when I become the prime minister of Canada!
I totally believe she is a racist because I think she made fun of me once for being deaf. I am from lurkingglass by the way, but I left a long time ago because the horrible people there would pick on me for my disabilities.
Most of the people there are Satan worshipers, BTW although our membership has gotten more diverse in recent years and there are a number of Atheists, rattle-snake handlers, and Zoroastrians on it now.
Oh, the humanity!
It probably was not racist, just embarrassing to her. I have no idea if she used student’s real names and why she would have thought it a good idea.
The lapse in judgement seems suprising given that I considered her one of the brighter people on this site. Hopefully she will return under another name.
What I’m trying to say is that I love you! Will you honor me by being my bride?
Lurkingglass is also where I give unsolicited medical advice. It’s no more adult than any other website, but I used to be a member of several of those as well. Once, I hopped a train to DC to be in a communist protest, and I blogged about it later.
I wonder if swonkenoon would be appreciative of Asian beauty. I wonder if the rainclouds outside my window will conflict with my inner tranquility…
I don’t know about this generation but when I was in school, if this would have happened, we just would have beat the teacher up. Caught her after school real quick, you know lols =). Really, we can’t change how people feel but this should have never been for the world to see.
She sounds immature and that is a reflection of today’s vulgarity, asininity, lack of self control and bad manners. She does not belong at a predominately ethnic school that is different from her perception of herself in New York of all places.
She would probably love to teach at The Friends School or some hoity-toity school and resents going to WORK there with heaven forbid all of those people.
It is improper for her to act as she is acting and her conduct needs to be reprimanded. She as well needs to shore up her resume, and start hunting for a job where she will not feel threatened and therefor conduct herself stupidly.
As for the First Ammendment right, to the gentlemen who said that prior,well you cannot go up to your boss and call him a jerk and expect to keep your job. Your perception is reminscent of the Tea Party mentality, uninformed, highly opinionated and sarcastic. Therefore as a result you appear just as asinine in your behavior as the teacher who should have been developing teaching paradigms
instead of spending her time on that asinine blog when there are myriads of educational blogs available.
Get that resume ready get out of Harlem dear.
“the average New York City high school student might not know that Adonis is a Greek God who is known for his good looks. That’s why they think that only a well-rounded, college educated individual would be more likely to know about Greek mythology.” has got to be the stupidest thing i have ever read.
I hope that anyone who reads this article will take the time to read this comment. Just remember a name on the internet means nothing. This poor girl most likely did not post that, as it would be universally stupid to post something like that under your true name on the internet. I am more likely to believe that this was done by someone who does not like her, or as a bad practical joke.