{"id":12985,"date":"2012-02-23T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12985"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:05:13","slug":"white-teacher-sues-to-use-n-word-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12985","title":{"rendered":"White Teacher Sues To Use N-Word In Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2013 A 48-year-old Chicago public school teacher used the \u201cn-word\u201d as part of a lesson on the perils and pitfalls of racism, and it landed him a five-day suspension from his job. The teacher is fighting back, filing a federal lawsuit against the district and claiming that his civil rights have been violated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lincoln Brown<\/strong>, a 21-year veteran teacher and native of Chicago\u2019s Hyde Park, used the word in his sixth grade classroom at Murray Language Academy on Oct. 4, 2011 after discovering a note that female student was passing had the slur written on it as apart of some rap lyrics. <strong>Brown<\/strong>, who is white, used the note as an opportunity to teach lesson about racism in the context of Huckleberry Finn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2013 A 48-year-old Chicago public school teacher used the \u201cn-word\u201d as part of a lesson on the perils and pitfalls of racism, and it landed him a five-day suspension from his job. The teacher is fighting back, filing a federal lawsuit against the district and claiming that his civil rights have been violated. Lincoln [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}