Teachers protest poster, say it paints them as racist

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A controversial poster issued by the Yukon Human Rights Commission showing a young Native girl standing in front of a schoolhouse, her face fraught with despair, has outraged the Yukon Teachers Association.

The caption on the poster reads: Mommy Don't Leave Me Here.

The text of the poster continues: "Racism scours the depth of our souls and dredges up the most undesirable of emotions. Yet the fear, the poverty, and the hatred pale beside racism's true legacy: the destruction of human dignity and potential."

The teacher's union says the poster, by implication, paints its members as racist and is considering lodging a formal complaint with the Human Rights Commission against the Human Rights Commission.

The commission has refused to stop distributing the poster despite demands from teachers to do so.