Living On The Plantation

Life on a plantation as a slave is good. You do what you're told, and in return you get free housing, food, clothing, medical care (subject to the limitations ordained by a benefits panel), and you don't have to pay taxes, all provided at the expense of Ol' Massa.

Half the population of the country lives that well now, but it's considered NPC to mention it. Case in point is a 13 year-old girl in Rochester who wrote an essay on Fredrick Douglass and seemed to get rather a bit more out of it than the school was quite prepared for:

Coming across the famous passage in which Douglass quotes the slavemaster Auld, Miss Williams was startled by the words: “If you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master.” The situation seemed to her familiar, and her essay was a blistering indictment of the failures of the largely white faculty of her school: “When I find myself sitting in a crowded classroom where no real instruction is taking place I can say history does repeat itself.”

This seems to be grounds for having your grades reduced, and getting drummed out of school. It summs up most succinctly the problem with unionized teachers in the K-12 schools in a large part of the country.

The above quote is from an article by Kevin Williamson at the National Review. Click the link and RTWT. Williamson calls for tar and feathers for the school superintendent for letting this go as far as it did. The super says that now that this has come to his attention (and Glenn Beck's) he's looking into the problem and will do something about it.