Not the Best of Defenses
So you’re a Texas school teacher and you’ve been accused of molesting one of your first-grade students.
You know that you probably should have talked to a lawyer before you came up with this defense …
But Stokes has denied the allegations, claiming that her racist tendencies would prevent her from ever fondling a black student.
“She (said she) doesn’t like to even touch the black children on their hand, she shies away when they try to hug her — she admitted to being prejudice [sic],” Blanchard told KHOU 11 News.
True, the school was in Humble, Texas, where being a racist is practically required for home purchase, but the case will be set in Harris County – where racism isn’t tested with your driver’s license renewal.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Yeah, not the best defense.
As to her pulling back from the hugs these small children would give her – I would normally think “shame on her”, but it might have been the best for the children.
But, I still call BS on that hug thing – small children and animals instinctively know about people – they never would have tried to hug her.
1But…but…I can’t possibly be a cannibal. I don’t even like the taste of people.
2Pundits like to argue whether or not we live in a port-racial society. When a woman thinks her best defense is to claim she is a racist, she knows her friends, she knows her neighbors, she knows she might lose her job but can otherwise go on about her business. If she gets a jury of her peers, they may agree her argument makes a lot of sense. Post-racial America is like a Bigfoot sighting, there’s a few people out there who swear they see it. Right before it runs back into the deep dark forest.
3Her defense is . . . I couldn’t possibly have done that awful thing I am accused of because I am already a born and bred crapsack???
There has got to be a place for the School Board to retire her to such as shuffling papers in the curriculum development office. No more little kids in her employment module.
4I lived where she does for about 2 years. Not one of my favorite memories. Even worse, I actually sent my innocent children to school there. I am so sorry kids!
5lord, what a dumb person! i have heard better ones. i was a court reporter.
laying the ground work for insanity??
6Her defense amounts another type of child abuse: emotional cruelty.
7She does not belong anywhere near a classroom.
Northwest Preparatory Academy Charter School
Wonder if the “Charter” has anything to do with it.
8Teacher?!? Did you say “teacher?” She just crapped all over that word. I have to go now — I’m going to be sick to my stomach.
9I just looked on the school’s website. All of the pics were of students of color, so it is curious that she even applied for a job at the academy.
10“. . . but the case will be set in Harris County – where racism isn’t tested with your driver’s license renewal.”
It will be prosecuted, though, by the same DA’s office that, until a few years ago, used “Canadian” was a code word for African American,* so they could e-mail each other about Things They Weren’t Supposed to Talk About. As in, “how many Canadians did you get on that jury pool,” or “you know those Canadians will never vote to convict another Canadian.”
* I know there’s a Ted Cruz joke in this, BTW.
11I am confused as to why she would make this statement to anyone. Myrna, I noticed the students in the pictures, too.
12Cuz she’s accused of molesting a little boy of color. So if she wouldn’t even want to touch him normally (his coloriness being a bar) why in the world would she touch him THAT way???
Have us hooter-toters always been involved in this stuff too (like men, some of whom are always doing something naughty) and we just didn’t even THINK about it much less TALK about it? or is this something new? I mean, I could barely manage complete sentences and rational conversation with my teenaged son (he’s all growed up now and conversable too!) back in the day. I can’t for the life of me imagine a romantic entanglement with a teenaged boy, and it’s getting reported all over the place now. Babies are a little different, and first graders are still babies to me. Did I just not know, as usual?
13Humble = Kingwood racists minus the $.
14If there were no witnesses and no other evidence can be developed to support the victim’s charge, it may be difficult to win a molestation conviction. More power to the prosecution if they can prove it. Seeing that smiling expression on Stokes’s booking photo, however, brings another thought to mind. If she admits to “racist tendencies,” it’s very possible that she and the little girl’s mother may have had other conflicts. This charge could be a case of mom’s revenge, or even a kid’s reprisal for a teacher’s mean and spiteful conduct. All that aside, however, given Stokes’s admitted bias and general dislike of black students in her classroom, she is unsuited to teach. On that basis alone and at the very minimum, her termination is warranted.
15At this point- whether she did or didn’t; her admissions make her unfit to teach. Fire her sorry ass and yank her pension and benefits!
16The good teachers wonder why so many of us are negative about teachers. Look at that face. Imagine being a child under control of that every day of the school year. I’ve been there with bad teachers. Kids don’t deserve to be tormented by people like her.
She’s admitted she’s racist; that should be qualification enough for rescinding her teaching certificate.
17This explains so much about the state of education in Texas.
Rick Perry explains the rest.
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