A veteran Fairfax County high school teacher has been accused of using racially insensitive language by telling a student to read a Langston Hughes poem in a "blacker" style.

Jordan Shumate, a ninth-grader at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Va., told the Washington Post that he was reading Hughes' "Ballad of the Landlord" when the English teacher interrupted him.

"She told me, 'Blacker, Jordan. C'mon, blacker. I thought you were black,'" Shumate told the Post. The 14-year-old student claimed that when he refused to continue reading the poem, the teacher read it herself, apparently to demonstrate the style of speaking she meant.


she sounded like a maid on the 1960s," Shumate told the Post, saying he asked the teacher if she thought all black people spoke that way. “She read the poem like a slave, basically.”

He said he was reprimanded for talking out of turn and was told to sit down.

Shumate told his mother, Nicole Cober Page, about the incident on Tuesday, the Post said.

According to the Post, mother and son identified the teacher as Marilyn Bart. Bart has not spoken publicly about the alleged incident, the Post reported



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Originally posted by @michael. 'Blacker, Jordan. C'mon, blacker. I thought you were black'

Originally posted by @michael. 'Blacker, Jordan. C'mon, blacker. I thought you were black'

Originally posted by DejaVu ****. Something straight out of a Family Guy episode

racially insensitive, tells the students why black children like grape soda and rap music? and used the only black teen in her class as an example? this bitch should be fired.. and i'm white.

If you're black and in her class, run straight to your counselor and DEMAND a class switch. This woman will single you out and expect you to live up to all black stereotypes.

She singles out minority students and ignorantly stereotypes them in her lectures. I'm not sure why she is still teaching at this school because she has nothing positive to offer her students when it comes to learning. But hey, if you like ignorance, you might her.

Ms.bert, or as I like to call her "lynn", was once my teacher and lover. She took my v card. She stole my innocence. She saw a young, black and handsome teen and couldnt resist. All I wanted to do was be educated but she wanted more. She forced me to have raw sex with her, hoping id get her pregnant so that we could be together, forever. It took years of counseling for me to stop having flashbacks of her kissing me with her cigarette and coffee ridden mouth. I hate you!

Originally posted by @michael. 'Blacker, Jordan. C'mon, blacker. I thought you were black'

Ms.bert, or as I like to call her "lynn", was once my teacher and lover. She took my v card. She stole my innocence. She saw a young, black and handsome teen and couldnt resist. All I wanted to do was be educated but she wanted more. She forced me to have raw sex with her, hoping id get her pregnant so that we could be together, forever. It took years of counseling for me to stop having flashbacks of her kissing me with her cigarette and coffee ridden mouth. I hate you!

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Originally posted by Igrt It seems more like a stereotype than actual intended racism tbh.

Originally posted by ChapStick funny thing is, if it were on family guy far fewer people would be offended. wonder what's wrong with this woman....