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Olathe district apologizes after only black students invited on trip
http://www.kctv5.com ^ | march 28, 2014 | DeAnn Smith, Nathan Vickers

Posted on 03/29/2014 5:29:19 PM PDT by lowbridge

Officials with the Olathe School District issued an apology Friday after only black students were invited on a school outing.

On Wednesday, a letter was sent to Olathe South High School students by Assistant Principal Candy Birch. In the letter, Birch said in her role as activities director that she wanted to give students an additional opportunity to connect with each other.

"So we are planning an outing open to our African-American sophomores and juniors," she wrote.

The event on April 5 would include a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the American Jazz Museum, lunch at Arthur Bryant's and then a visit to the Nelson-Atkins Art Gallery to see the "History and Hope: Celebrating the Civil Rights Movement" exhibit.

(Excerpt) Read more at kctv5.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: academicbias; blackseparatists; kansas; naughtyteacherslist; neosegregation; racism
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1 posted on 03/29/2014 5:29:19 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Visualize the screams if a school held a “whites only” field trip.


2 posted on 03/29/2014 5:31:02 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: lowbridge

So much for inclusion and diversity.


3 posted on 03/29/2014 5:31:37 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("I said I never had much use for one. Never said I didn't know how to use it." --Quigley)
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To: lowbridge

That’s Races !


4 posted on 03/29/2014 5:33:11 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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Kansas I believe is the location.


5 posted on 03/29/2014 5:33:58 PM PDT by deport
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To: lowbridge
I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. . .

. . . We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go on school outings together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

6 posted on 03/29/2014 5:35:06 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: lowbridge

Now they won’t be able to “talk different” amongst themselves.


7 posted on 03/29/2014 5:35:15 PM PDT by digger48
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To: lowbridge

Whoever was involved with planning this will certainly have to face the repercussions.

Which is to say they’ll be promoted.


8 posted on 03/29/2014 5:35:26 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: PapaBear3625

yup.

any country that promotes every minority group at the expense of the majority culture - is waging war on the majority culture.


9 posted on 03/29/2014 5:35:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lowbridge
Even when Kansas City was a segregated town, Arthur Bryant's was an integrated restaurant because Arthur couldn't keep the white folks away. Eating at Arthur Bryant's should not only be an integrated experience, it should be treated as something akin to a religious experience. Arthur Bryant's barbecue was that good.
10 posted on 03/29/2014 5:35:46 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: PapaBear3625

“Visualize the screams if a school held a “whites only” field trip.”
********************************************************************

I see that various organizations have things such as “Hispanic Affairs Advisory Council” & “Black Affairs Advisory Council”.

Can you imagine the uproar if someone in one of those organizations tried to set up a “Germanic Affairs Advisory Council” or “White Affairs Advisory Council”?


11 posted on 03/29/2014 5:35:56 PM PDT by House Atreides
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Candy Birch.....

the school doesnt have any "african-American" administrators and yet..

who can explain these rubes behavior


12 posted on 03/29/2014 5:36:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: lowbridge

Liberalism has become so twisted it now favors racial segregation as a way to promote racial diversity.


13 posted on 03/29/2014 5:37:04 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: House Atreides

WHite Affairs sounds like formal events with tuxedos...


14 posted on 03/29/2014 5:37:11 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: lowbridge

This is definitely mind boggling.
Not only the premise — but, yes the outcry if it were a ‘White only’ outing.

That said, I can understand some Black students saying
“Why can’t WE have our own trip and why does it always lean towards the Whites?”
I can also understand some White kids (Yes, even today) saying
“My Daddy and Uncle taught me ALL I ‘need to know’ about ‘THEM’ so I don’t want to go on the trip”.

But in this day and time to even be in a ‘position of authority’ to schedule such a trip is completely ‘out of line’.

Granted, if the School District were to offer BOTH trips at the same time, for the same price and the same ‘extras’ you can imagine which students would sign up for which trip.

THEN the SWRHTF.......

Where do we get these so called ‘leaders’????

Obviously from “Cracker Jax Boxes”....(Somehow that seems or ‘sounds’ very Racist)..


15 posted on 03/29/2014 5:41:00 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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To: Secret Agent Man
any country that promotes every minority group at the expense of the majority culture - is waging war on the majority culture.

You are right, of course.
I think we're the only country that does that. Most countries don't have so many, many, many different cultures as ours does.

16 posted on 03/29/2014 5:41:52 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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lots of european countries have done this to varying degrees.


17 posted on 03/29/2014 5:43:57 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Junk Silver
Whoever was involved with planning this will certainly have to face the repercussions.

Which is to say they’ll be promoted.

Assistant Principal Candy Birch. In the letter, Birch said in her role as activities director that she wanted to give students an additional opportunity to connect with each other.

Apparently the only people she wanted the students to connect to were people they were already connected to, what a way to insure success, while completely missing the opportunity for a teaching moment, but hey it's a school, we can't have actual education happen there.

18 posted on 03/29/2014 5:46:50 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: lowbridge

Let them go. Let the rest of the kids see what the school is like on that day.


19 posted on 03/29/2014 5:47:39 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Repeal 16-17

You weren’t paying attention in the 1980s.
The whole reason for launching multiculturalism was to slow down racial integration which had begun to proceed rapidly (particularly in the southwest) and threatened liberal race posturing.

Why do you think the left got so furious and doubled down on George Zimmerman when his ethnic make up wss shown? They can not afford for Americans to all just be one people.

E Pluribus Unem.


20 posted on 03/29/2014 5:49:11 PM PDT by MrEdd (vHeck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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