One student takes a stand against her high school's racist yearbook photo (Huh?)

Hello Giggles ^ | 05/19/15 | Gina Mei

[AngelesCrestHighway]

When Florida high school senior Jessica Morales received her yearbook this year, she was both shocked and disappointed to find a deeply offensive photo amongst its pages. The picture, which took up nearly half a page, featured various students dressed in sombreros, ponchos, and mustaches while holding fake green cards, with another student dressed up as “border patrol” between them. As a young Hispanic woman, Morales couldn’t believe the yearbook had included the photo, let alone featured it so prominently. So, she posted it to social media, where it quickly went viral — and now, she’s speaking out about why.

“It was just really offensive, especially because the picture kind of belittles the whole issue,” Morales told WFTX, referring to the fact that both her parents are still dealing with the immigration process themselves.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Let's see...Which is more offensive?

[Steely Tom]

“Maybe I can get the taxpayers of my county to pay for my college education.”

[Jack Hammer]

Trying to find a sense of humor in America these days is like trying to find a left-handed skyhook.

[AppyPappy]

Like the frat parties in the same vein, I want to know who said to themselves “Hey, I have a good idea”.

[Darksheare]

Boo hoo cupcake Morales, you don’t have a right to not be offended.
*weak lol*

And yet they are taught in school that they do have the right to not be offended.

[eyeamok]

both her parents are still dealing with the immigration process themselves

So her parents are both ILLEGAL ALIENS, DEPORT THEM TODAY!

[The Toll]

OH LORD, stop the planet! Someone’s OFFENDED!

[drypowder]

to me, both photos depict truth and reality and as usual, illegals are inconvenienced by the truth, thus they speak against it because the truth does not favor them nor their cause. Kudos to those high school students in that photo and to those who put it in the year book.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Leave Jessica alone...!

[MeshugeMikey]

shes been macro-microaggressed

it triggered ..[ false ] memories of her night long struggle swimming across the great rio grande river with a case of dos equis strapped to her back...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Some people are just looking to be offended.

[I want the USA back]

Why is that deeply racist?
Anything a White does or says, or doesn’t do or doesn’t say is now called racist.

[VRW Conspirator]

“It was just really offensive, especially because the picture kind of belittles the whole issue,” Morales told WFTX, referring to the fact that both her parents are still dealing with the immigration process themselves.

Cannot scream loud enough.

[Darksheare]

Lol!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[Pollster1]

“It was just really offensive, especially because the picture kind of belittles the whole issue,” Morales told WFTX, referring to the fact that both her parents are still dealing with the immigration process themselves. Why do I get the impression that her parents are criminals in our country illegally? It's a shame the "immigration process" takes longer than a bus ride back to their own country for criminals like her parents. I approve of legal immigration, at a rate determined under the rule of law, but I have no sympathy for criminals or for those who think crime should carry a reward.

[MrB]

And if she was “offended”, she’s behind the PC curve -
she needs to “feel threatened”.

[MeshugeMikey]

Well Spoken! why anyone would give these nincompoops a “platform”..and.put them in the spotlight is I think ......terribly SADISTIC...

[BuffaloJack]

I saw the photo. I was not offended.
Freedom of Speech is the Freedom to Offend.

[Kirkwood]

I’m offended because it makes the border patrol look idiotic, ineffective, and pathetic.