CRedskinsRule
08-27-2010, 03:42 PM
http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/100827-Nettleton-Class-Races.grid-8x2.jpg
Miss. school reverses race-based rules for student elections - U.S. news - Life - Race & ethnicity - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38880820/ns/us_news-life/)
This policy has supposedly been overturned but this mom's statement sums up my feelings:
“I have always taught my children not to see race,” Springer told Richardson. “This is so disgusting to me.”
Seems pretty black and white to me.
SmootSmack
08-27-2010, 05:00 PM
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!...oh wait, wrong Springer
Lotus
08-27-2010, 06:48 PM
I'm so proud of the state where I live. Always on the progressive edge of race relations.
saden1
08-27-2010, 06:49 PM
ABC has a different story up (http://abcnews.go.com/US/miss-middle-school-bars-black-students-running-class/story?id=11498343).
In any case we shouldn't have shit like this going on in this day and age. :doh:
724Skinsfan
08-27-2010, 09:05 PM
Wow... stories like this just dump a cold bucket of reality on your perception of where we're at as a nation. I can understand the individual racist. Stupid people exist in this world. But an entire community that actually believes this is "okay"? Wow!
FRPLG
08-27-2010, 09:26 PM
did everyone read the story? it doesn't sound like racism, it sounds like stupidity.
FRPLG
08-27-2010, 09:30 PM
ABC has a different story up (http://abcnews.go.com/US/miss-middle-school-bars-black-students-running-class/story?id=11498343).
In any case we shouldn't have shit like this going on in this day and age. :doh:
ABC seems to not have all the facts. according to the first story:
In alternating years, the positions would be reversed so blacks could run for president and whites could hold other positions, district officials said.
CRedskinsRule
08-27-2010, 10:11 PM
did everyone read the story? it doesn't sound like racism, it sounds like stupidity.
:confused: sorry, but apportioning positions based initially on race seems pretty much to be by definition racism, and something that has no excuse or validity in this country today. If it is stupidity then it is stupidity by choice and still not excusable or acceptable by any standard of this country.
Lotus
08-27-2010, 10:29 PM
did everyone read the story? it doesn't sound like racism, it sounds like stupidity.
:confused: sorry, but apportioning positions based initially on race seems pretty much to be by definition racism, and something that has no excuse or validity in this country today. If it is stupidity then it is stupidity by choice and still not excusable or acceptable by any standard of this country.
I think it is a bit of both racism and stupidity. Racism incites such policies; stupidity keeps such policies on the books until 2010. It's just another example where Mississippi is 20-30 years behind the rest of the country. I hear that there is this cool new invention called "the wheel" and I'm hoping that we get it soon.