Posted on 05/27/2015 9:41:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The National Spelling Bee preliminary round is being held today, and its officials are confronting the racism that has accompanied it in recent years.
Indian American children have won the spelling bee for seven straight years and 11 of the last 15.
Paige Kimble, the Bee’s director, addressed the question last week, partly because of the racially charged tweets that have grown to accompany the spelling bee.
“We certainly followed the coverage last year,” Kimble said, “and we are aware of Twitter posts that are not nice, that indicate that we have a long way to go as a country in embracing all of our immigrant population.”
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Ok, that was funny!
Good one!
Indians have an unfair advantage as they have to learn to spell names like Vishwanathan or Prakash Ramanathan or Balasubramaniam Sethuramanathan or Vallipurathampalayam Mottaiyappar Balasubramaniam Mudaliar : )
Being Asian the winners couldn’t get into Harvhard.
They’re just Americans and I don’t think winning a spelling bee is about spelling. Instead it’s about determination and focus. I suspect all the winners have dads, just like most losers don’t. There’s a correlation and, I believe, a causation.
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