‘Only White Girl’ In Class Is Pulled From School After Portraying White Supremacist In Play

This is kind of sad…

When I was seven I played a groundhog in the school play. My mom made me a big furry groundhog costume I was really proud of.

This little girl is playing a White Supremacist…. she also happens to be the only white kid in her class.

Why would a seven-year-old EVER be put in that situation?!!

According to Daily Mail:

A seven-year-old girl’s parents have pulled their daughter out of her Georgia elementary school after they watched her play a racist character in a student play.

Amber and Heath Bertram were horrified when they saw Anastasia on stage, holding up a sign that read ‘Go home!’ and ‘Cursed is the man who integrates!’

Anastasia, who was playing the role of a white child against school desegregation, took the microphone and yelled at a black peer: ‘Go away, you don’t belong here!’

Again… I’m at a loss about how this is an appropriate play for seven-year-olds….

Heath Bertram told DailyMail.com that he was ‘shocked and appalled’ when he saw his daughter in the play at Burnett Elementary School.

‘Other parents started looking at me,’ he said. ‘She is the only white girl in her class, and one of the very few in the whole school.’

‘Giving her the position of a white supremacist at the age of seven was unacceptable.’

Amber Bertram, who was out of town and saw a video of the play that her husband had filmed, said it left her ‘literally speechless’.

‘I was shaking,’ she said. ‘All I wanted to do was run to the school and ask them if they had lost their mind.’

‘I was in disbelief. I couldn’t believe that what I had witnessed was true.’

I can’t even imagine how she felt watching her little girl…

This is so unfair to her. There’s no way the kid understood the implications of this. Just… not ok.

Before Anastasia took the microphone, he told a group of girls on stage: ‘We don’t want our white children going to school with a black girl.’

Anastasia’s parents said the teacher said she CHOSE to be that character… so she didn’t see the problem.

Anastasia’s parents said they were told by her teacher, Mrs Jamila James, that their daughter had volunteered for the part after a peer struggled to learn the lines.

‘I was so excited when she volunteered to cover the role for another student,’ James wrote in a message to Amber. ‘She really stepped up and saved our play.’

But Amber was upset that she had not been contacted to give permission for the role before Anastasia went up on stage.

Amber, who reached out to James on a platform called ClassDoJo, told the teacher that Anastasia has always been taught to ‘help adults as much as possible’.

‘What she saw was the teacher needing help (according to you) and so she volunteered to help (according to you),’ the message reads.

‘At seven years old, there was absolutely no way possible she could have understood the compromising position she was putting herself in.’

Even if she DID volunteer… there’s no way this little girl understood what she was setting herself up for…And again… this shouldn’t even have been a possibility. This is NOT a situation 7 year olds should be put in.

Amber also revealed she was upset that Anastasia had been filmed and photographed holding a sign ‘telling black children to go away’.

‘This is not an image I want portrayed of my child,’ Amber told James.

OF COURSE NOT! This could be used against her… even though she did NOTHING WRONG.

‘The point still stands that this play did nothing but perpetuate the idea of racism and teach my child that the school sanctions her discriminating against anyone who doesn’t look like her.’

James apologized for the incident, telling the mother: ‘It was never my intention to isolate or make any racial group feel bad.’

But Amber said that after she sent a second email to the teacher regarding her concerns, her account on the platform was deleted.

They just don’t want to deal with her anymore, apparently…

The Bertrams decided to pull both their daughters out of the school following the incident.

‘We did not feel they could stay in an environment like that,’ Heath said.

The girls’ transfer was approved by the district and they will start at a different school on Friday.

Burnett Elementary School has declined to comment on the incident.

The Bertrams said they were only contacted by Douglas County School District Superintendent Trent North after they took their story to the media.

‘I am calling to apologize. I was unaware of the treatment of your daughter,’ North said in a voicemail message left on Amber’s phone.

North has since confirmed that they are investigating the complaint.

UGH…

Again… seven-year-olds should be in plays about woodland creatures… not school integration and racism.