Posted on 01/25/2016 10:25:05 AM PST by simpson96
An ignorant moment among six high school seniors - who spelled out a racial slur with lettered T-shirts they were wearing for a school photo and posted it to social media on Friday - has ignited national outrage that shows no sign of stopping.
Civil rights activists are even planning to hold a protest on Monday at the school, Desert Vista High School in Phoenix. That's where the six white girls, part of a larger group of students who wore lettered T-shirts and stood together to spell out "Best You've Ever Seen Class of 2016" for a yearbook photo, rearranged themselves for a private photo. For that one, they stood together spelling out the word "NI**ER," laughing and smiling at their spelling trick.
A Change.org petition with more than 37,000 signatures is calling for the girls to be expelled and for the principal, Christine Barela, to be fired. "Arizona has been stricken with another blatant expression of racism and ignorance," the petition says, seemingly referring to another recent social media controversy in which an Arizona State University student tweeted the N-word along with a photo of herself and a friend holding freshly picked cotton.
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They seriously probably spelled nigga as kneagah. When someone is named Kristin, you probably look for it to be a girl. But it sounds the same and it is a boys name if it is spelled Christian.
Louis Farrakhan: "Kill whitey"
Oprah Winfrey: "Old white racists 'just have to die'"
Expulsion is far too harsh. Over an alleged word? Orwell’s 1984.
The n is there in ‘seen’. They must have turned a c into a g.
OK...I’m a little slow...they actually used asterisks instead of Gs. Post 52 has a photo.
The asterisks were used as spaces between the words.
Well, no, that school did the right thing; the outrage started after. But you’re right, now they probably would cower.
THAT WHICH IS NOT PROHIBITED IS MANDATORY!
I had no idea that it was possible to be white and “teen”
Maybe NIBBER? Maybe ninner? Maybe Nipper? Maybe Nizzer? Who knows? Are people so prejudiced they can spell their own words that they don’t like?
Yup.
Years ago, I remember four teens walking down the sidewalk, their sweaters spelled out a very crude word. When a policeman walked over to confront them they rearranged themselves to say KUFC.
I don’t remember if they were arrested or not but it did make the news.
.. Best Youve Ever Seen Class of 2016
Where did the N & G come from?
That’s what I was thinking..
There is no “i” and no “g” much less two “g”
The I is the 1 in 2016, no g’s, they used the astericks, (spacers)BEST*YOU’VE*EVER*SEEN*CLASS*OF*2016
I’ll bet all the kids were making words out of this and the girls picture is the only one that hit the media.
What ever happened to freedom of speech?
Who cares?
Why should we?
Expulsion is grossly disproportionate. They need to learn a lesson that in these times anything stupid (and this was stupid) will be blown out of proportion if it offends the delicate snowflakes, but their lives do not need to be ruined.
Where do the double ‘g’s come from?
When I was in 5th grade I nailed a dead skunk to the bus shelter seat in protest. The principal could hardly stop laughing as he asked me if I did it.
Used 20 penny spikes and clinched them on both ends while it was in a garbage bag. Hammered the skunk until the scent glands opened and stood back with a rope and tore off the plastic bag.
Today they would put me in jail for cruelty to animals... Back then I just got my point across and a lot of laughs!!! I was running a trap line and always hated when I caught skunks. Must admit though that the bottle of pure essence of skunk I used to cover my scent when trapping fox did come in handy for a few mischievous pranks.
Yes, I grew up pure back country red neck.
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