An eight year-old boy at Harold McCormick Elementary School in Elizabethton, Tennessee brought home a handout which stated those on Mount Rushmore were … racists.
The handout, provided by the Nation of Islam(!), was titled “What does it take to be on Mount Rushmore?” and noted that George Washington was a “prime breeder of black people,” and that Teddy Roosevelt called Africans “ape-like.”
There were also disparaging remarks made of Thomas Jefferson (he enslaved 200 Africans) and Abraham Lincoln.
She [the mother, Sommer Bauer] said her jaw dropped when she followed the link to a website that was listed on the handout. Imagine her surprise when up popped the Nation of Islam home page.
The Nation of Islam believes there is no God but Allah. They also aren’t all that keen on white folks or Jewish folks.
“It raised a number of red flags,” she said. “They are basically saying our Founding Fathers are racists.”
Sommer told me she reached out to the teacher for an explanation – hoping it was an honest mistake.
“At first, she did not recall which paper it was,” she said. “Later in the day, she found the paper and told me she didn’t like what it said – and said she must have printed it by mistake.”
The teacher also told Sommer that her son was not supposed to take the Nation of Islam handout home. It was supposed to stay in the classroom. That bit of news caused her great alarm.
Ms. Bauer said she is still waiting for the results of a promised investigation by the principal, but Fox reporter Todd Starnes managed to get a comment from the district superintendent.
“My goodness, that we would promote bigoted or racist points of view – merciful heavens,” Superintendent EC Alexander said. “I can assure you that is not the case.”
But Alexander offered a different version of events from the school’s, saying that the handout was “never meant for public distribution” and that Bauer’s son “took the handout from the teacher’s work station without her permission.”
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