Teacher Jessica Boyle Turns Elementary Classroom into a Slave Auction

Today, in case you didn't know, is Fort Sumter Day--the day Abraham Lincoln killed the Tenth Amendment. Facing unfair tariffs, the southern states succeeded from the union while Lincoln boasted he could care less about freeing the slaves in his Inaugural Address and his letter to Horace Greeley.  This story probably isn't told in Jessical Boyle's fourth grade class as the Civil War has been rewritten as almost a religious experience turning Lincoln into this God in American history known as the Great Emancipator, when the truth is Lincoln cared nothing about freeing the slaves when the Civil War started. He only cared about keeping the union together, and in doing so he trampled the Constitution multiple times.

None the less, the misguided lessons of Ms. Boyle are in the spot light today as we look back to Lincoln the agitator, who sent Union troops down to Fort Sumter, harassing Southern troops in a battle of nerves leading to the first shot that led to the deaths of 600,000 Americans. It was only later on towards the end of the war that Lincoln took up the cause of slavery. The fourth graders at Sewells Point Elementary School probably weren't told these things as Boyle turned them into slaves and slave owners as the classroom turned into a slave auction for a few hours. (I wonder if they invited Congressman Billy Long to do the auctioneering; after all, he has been seen around the DC area performing auctioneer services to raise money for schools in the Washington area.)

“She had not conducted a mock slave auction in class before,” Norfolk public schools spokeswoman Elizabeth Thiel Mather wrote in a statement. She added that “appropriate personnel action is being taken” but would not discuss the details.

Here's an interesting fact about this mock slave auction in Boyle's classroom. Her students consist of 40% white and 40% black. I wonder how she conducted who got chosen to play which parts, especially if she was concerned about the authenticity of the auction. It must not have been authentic enough to generate Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton's interests.