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TAR, FEATHERS: Teacher forced to apologize for bringing in cotton plants during lesson on slavery.

A San Francisco history teacher allegedly was suspended and then forced to apologize for bringing in cotton plants for a lesson on slavery and the cotton gin.

Last month, the Creative Arts Charter School teacher had brought in the plants, called “bolls,” to show “the sharp edges that had pierced hands while picking cotton and pulling out the seeds,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

It took less than a day for the school to begin an investigation into the teacher and the lesson.

Although school officials “declined to confirm” what specific actions were taken, the teacher was absent for five weeks following the lesson. Upon her return just nine days ago, she issued a written apology to school families.

The apology noted the lesson was “sourced from reliable sources” (the report indicates it is “widely available online”) and was “an effort to get the students to understand the difficulty of manually processing cotton prior to the invention of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin.”

But, the teacher added, “I realize that this lesson was not culturally responsive and had the potential to cause harm.”

No, it did not.

IF YELLEN IS THIS CLUELESS NOW: About inflation, that is, what about during her tenure as head of the Federal Reserve Board? Good question and who better to ask it than Issues & Insights, along with a bunch of related and equally pointed queries that illustrate how Yellen has been all over the map on the inflation issue:

“Keep in mind who we are talking about here. Yellen has a sterling resume. A doctorate in economics from Yale. Professorships at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. On the faculty of the London School of Economics. President of the Western Economic Association and vice president of the American Economic Association. Head of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Bill Clinton. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve.

“So how in the world can her pronouncements about inflation under President Joe Biden be as reliable as the weather forecast? Is her understanding of economics tainted by liberal ideology? Is she just doing the bidding of an incompetent and desperate Biden administration?

“Does it matter? Yellen is a shining example of why so many in this country feel betrayed by the people who claim lordship over them.”

It’s that last graph that the elites simply cannot seem to grasp and which is why most Americans think the country is headed North on a South-bound mule.

 

IT’S AS IF TWITTER WAS A VITAL TOOL OF THE DEEP STATE/MEDIA ALLIANCE:

THEY’D PROBABLY VOTE REPUBLICAN, TOO: Clear majority of Americans would welcome 100,000 refugees from Ukraine, poll finds. “More than three in four Americans favor accepting Ukrainian refugees to the United States, a new Gallup poll shows. It’s the highest level of support – by far – Gallup has recorded among Americans for any refugee group since the start of World War II more than 80 years ago, the independent polling firm found. Of those surveyed, 78% agreed that they would accept 100,000 people from Ukraine.”

YOU DON’T SAY: Global stagflation won’t be just a squall that’ll blow over. “The new reality with which economies must reckon is higher inflation and slowing economic growth. And a big reason for the current bout of stagflation is a series of supply shocks that have curtailed output and raised costs. The covid pandemic forced many sectors to lock down, disrupted global supplies and produced a persistent reduction in labour supply, especially in the US. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has driven up various prices. China’s draconian lockdown in major economic hubs has squeezed supplies further. But even without these short-term factors, the medium-term outlook would be darkening. There are many reasons to worry about stagflationary conditions haunting the global economy with higher prices, lower growth, and possible recessions in many places.”

Left out: 80% of All US Dollars in Existence Have Been Printed in Just the Last Two Years.

Also left out from 2020: US industrial production tanks the most in 101 years amid factory lockdowns.

Inflation is when the growth of the money supply exceeds the growth of goods and services. Governments didn’t just print too much money, they crushed the production and delivery of goods and services.

It’s a perfect storm of a disaster our elites conjured up for us, and they didn’t give a damn.

HEH: Canada to build border wall, demand Twitter pay for it. “Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced this morning that he will work closely with the Canadian parliament to rush building a wall along the country’s border with the United States to halt the mass immigration to Canada of American leftists, journalists, and celebrities fleeing after today’s sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Lib Twitter Tantrum, Day 2—Send Fainting Couches and Diapers. “Imagine millions of grownups taking on the characteristics of a child in his terrible twos who was being raised by parents who had yet to say ‘no’ to him. Alleged adults spent time that they could have used productively engaged in a collective snot-bubble meltdown.”