Michelle Obama once told a tale of harrowing racism in which a woman asked her for help at a Target store. It turns out her entire family is victims of this insidious type of racism. Her brother, Craig Robinson, and his white wife are suing their children’s former school over racism because the word “plantation” was used in a lesson plan. It’s like slavery and Jim Crow never went away.
Craig and Kelly Robinson are suing the University School of Milwaukee Pre-K-12 school for expelling their two children after they had complained about a lesson plan using the word “plantation.”
The Robinsons went on Good Morning America to plead their case:
“We heard what was going on because of COVID. There were repeated use of racial and ethnic use of stereotypes that were in actual assignments…”
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Craig Robinson explained that everything started because he and his wife overheard the remote-learning lessons during the COVID-19 lockdown.
“We heard what was going on in the classroom because of COVID and there were repeated use of racial and ethnic stereotypes that were in actual assignments, the use of the word ‘plantation’ and things of that nature,” said Robison.
What other things are of the nature of using the word plantation? Using other words in the English language?
Apparently Robinson thinks that “plantation” is a racial or ethnic stereotype, which is a new one to me. I should also point out that he used the word “plantation” on national TV, so that must make him a racist too.
“In addition to the racial and ethnic stereotypes there was an insensitivity to socioeconomic status,” Robinson added.
It should be noted that the University School of Milwaukee is an exclusive private school that costs $25,000 a year in tuition. That in of itself seems like an insensitivity to socioeconomic status and the Robinsons are obviously guilty since they willingly sent their kids there.
If you are confused about this, and you should be, Craig Robinson gave a little clue to what this is really about:
“We thought, maybe we’ll have a communication with [the school] and give them some suggestions and once we gave them the suggestions and had a little bit of a back and forth, they summarily dismissed our young children,” Robison said.
Reading between the lines, Robinson and his wife got shitty with the school over something completely insignificant and eventually the school said, “You don’t like? Go somewhere else.”
In fact, according to the termination letter sent to the Robinsons, the reason their kids were kicked out is because the parents had, “not fulfilled the foregoing commitments as a partner to USM and its Middle School teachers and administrators.”
And somehow this is racist. In reality, it’s not racism but helicopter parenting. The Robinsons should have taken up day drinking during the lockdown like normal people and this wouldn’t even be an issue.
Just like his sister, Michelle, Craig Robinson is trying way too hard to find racism where it doesn’t exist. Also like his little sister, he revels in being the victim of imaginary racism.
