About 6-7 years ago I had some contract work at an elementary school in inner city Baltimore. This was over the summer so the only people there were support staff like costodians and maybe a couple admins. I never saw anyone except the janitor to open the door for us and then someone to direct us to the rooms.
The classrooms had pictures of the kids from the class and I think I saw MAYBE 1 white kid per classroom, some had none.
I was in a 3rd or 4th grade class and they probably started studying US history in that class as they had pictures of every US President hanging at the top of the wall, going around the room. This all seems normal but here is where I felt like I was in the twilight zone. Every picture was of a black man. The facial features and hair style were clearly identifiable as the president it depicted. The hair might not have been so white for the wigs on earlier presidents, and all had black hair when pictured without wigs.
At first I thought it was the lighting in the room, but really doubted that. I turned on all the lights and took a closer look. Yup, no doubt about it. These people had a complexion between Mr & Mrs Obama. I then decided to look at the names to make sure this wasn't something else but was really confused b/c I knew the facial features of many of the earlier presidents and a number in between that were unmistakable, LIKE JFK!!!!
To make matters worse, I couldn't ask the guy I was working with to verify what we were seeing as we had had some major issues on the previous job and there was already lots of tension. I figured I would be called racist if it was brought up as he more resembled those pictured in the room.
At the time I my phone didn't have a camera so I couldn't document this, but I called a couple people (3) from the site and not one person believed me. I left the building, went to lunch across the street and came back hoping that things would be normal and that earlier I was suffering from food poisoning or something. No such luck.
Well, I posted many times about this in the following weeks and months. Many times the posts were immediately deleted and in others I was mocked and told I was on drugs, a racist or that I was inciting racism. If any of that were true (incitement, being racist, effects of drugs), it would be the first time for me and contrary to all previous lifetime behavior, so IDK, judge for yourself. IDK how I would benefit from this as it actually hurt some relationships by reporting this as they thought there was something wrong with ME (delusional, hallucinating, etc). I had no other problems navigating a city I didn't know or problems talking to people immediately after the job, so I feel confident what I saw was "real".
So, IDK what to think about this nor what to do. I let it drop as the more I brought it up with family and friends they acted more strangely to me. What is one to do when something like this (or REAL UFO) type things are seen?
Has anyone else encountered anything like this in the educational system or had to deal with similar circumstances of people not believing them b/c it was TOO strange and "rocked the boar".?
I was thinking of calling the school and asking why those pictures are like that but I would have to do some digging to find the paperwork for the school. IDK if that is worth doing or not, having so much time pass.
What do you people think? (no need for mockery or rude comments, I've already had enough of that when it happened).
The classrooms had pictures of the kids from the class and I think I saw MAYBE 1 white kid per classroom, some had none.
I was in a 3rd or 4th grade class and they probably started studying US history in that class as they had pictures of every US President hanging at the top of the wall, going around the room. This all seems normal but here is where I felt like I was in the twilight zone. Every picture was of a black man. The facial features and hair style were clearly identifiable as the president it depicted. The hair might not have been so white for the wigs on earlier presidents, and all had black hair when pictured without wigs.
At first I thought it was the lighting in the room, but really doubted that. I turned on all the lights and took a closer look. Yup, no doubt about it. These people had a complexion between Mr & Mrs Obama. I then decided to look at the names to make sure this wasn't something else but was really confused b/c I knew the facial features of many of the earlier presidents and a number in between that were unmistakable, LIKE JFK!!!!
To make matters worse, I couldn't ask the guy I was working with to verify what we were seeing as we had had some major issues on the previous job and there was already lots of tension. I figured I would be called racist if it was brought up as he more resembled those pictured in the room.
At the time I my phone didn't have a camera so I couldn't document this, but I called a couple people (3) from the site and not one person believed me. I left the building, went to lunch across the street and came back hoping that things would be normal and that earlier I was suffering from food poisoning or something. No such luck.
Well, I posted many times about this in the following weeks and months. Many times the posts were immediately deleted and in others I was mocked and told I was on drugs, a racist or that I was inciting racism. If any of that were true (incitement, being racist, effects of drugs), it would be the first time for me and contrary to all previous lifetime behavior, so IDK, judge for yourself. IDK how I would benefit from this as it actually hurt some relationships by reporting this as they thought there was something wrong with ME (delusional, hallucinating, etc). I had no other problems navigating a city I didn't know or problems talking to people immediately after the job, so I feel confident what I saw was "real".
So, IDK what to think about this nor what to do. I let it drop as the more I brought it up with family and friends they acted more strangely to me. What is one to do when something like this (or REAL UFO) type things are seen?
Has anyone else encountered anything like this in the educational system or had to deal with similar circumstances of people not believing them b/c it was TOO strange and "rocked the boar".?
I was thinking of calling the school and asking why those pictures are like that but I would have to do some digging to find the paperwork for the school. IDK if that is worth doing or not, having so much time pass.
What do you people think? (no need for mockery or rude comments, I've already had enough of that when it happened).