The teacher in the Lexington (American, South Carolina) asked fifth graders as homework to present themselves as members of the ku Klux Klan in the period after the Civil war. It is reported by The New York Times.
Photography homework posted on his page on Facebook, the uncle of one of the disciples Tremaine Cooper. “This is the homework my 10 year old nephew. Now he cries at home,” wrote a man.
According to him, the students had to imagine themselves as members of the ku Klux Klan and to answer the question: why do they believe that their attitude to African-Americans fairly. The task was another question: “are You a slave had been freed. Are you satisfied with your life? Why?”
The school newspaper reported that very serious about the incident. Currently, the teacher placed on administrative leave.
Ku Klux Klan — a far-right radical organization in the United States, established immediately after the Civil war in 1865. The movement professed nationalism, racism, and subsequently communism, gave lynchings of activists in the abolitionist movement and advocates for the rights of blacks. In the heyday of the strength of the organization reached six million people, currently, according to various estimates, is from five to eight thousand.