Posted on 03/13/2021 10:04:23 AM PST by simpson96
Two California students and their parents are suing a private Catholic high school for $20 million, claiming that the boys were forced to withdraw after they were falsely accused of wearing blackface in a photo.
The lawsuit says that the students, identified as A.H. and H.H., were actually wearing acne face masks and they were pushed out of St. Francis High School in Mountain View without a proper investigation by school officials.
The incident took place in August 2017 prior to the boys starting school that fall at St. Francis. They were both 14 years old at the time.
On Aug. 17, 2017, A.H. and a friend identified as Minor III — who did not attend St. Francis — put white face masks on while at A.H.'s house. The lawsuit says that his mother bought the masks because A.H. suffered from acne.
"Believing themselves to look 'silly' in the masks, A.H. and Minor III took a time-stamped photograph of themselves in the masks," the lawsuit states.
The following day, A.H., H.H. and Minor III were at A.H.'s house and put on another, light green face mask.
"Again, they took a silly photograph in this mask, which had turned dark green by the time it dried on their faces," the suit states.(snip)
In June 2020 — in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement following the police shooting of George Floyd in Minneapolis — St. Francis became involved in a number of racial scandals, including one where recent graduates of the school posted a meme about Floyd's death on Instagram.
Around that time, a student at the school obtained a copy of the boys' photo and shared it online. The suit claims that the student named those in the picture and insinuated that they were in blackface.
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How in the world does this even come close to blackface? Power hungry Morons!
20m is a lot of money. I think if i were on the jury my limit would be the cost of one years tuition +25%
The guy in the foreground doesn’t look black; he looks like The Incredible Hulk.
"Police shooting"? Oh, it's NBC News, never mind. (/s)
Meanwhile, Chairman Northam of the People’s Republic of Virginia gets a free pass.
They are called mud packs. It’s supposed to be good for your skin. Of coarse there was a day when males didn’t give a damn about skin care.
“First, let’s kill all the lawyers...”
W. Shakespeare
Perhaps they are just showing their affection for that green lady in the original Star Trek series.
This is the same crap they pulled when they changed the everything is OK hand signal to mean “white Power”
Black face goes back hundreds of years
Blackface cosmetic used in a theatrical staging presentations goes back hundreds of years very probably used in staging Greek and Roman as well as Shakespeare’s plays.. More often than not it was used because the story line called for a a black person who was not available to perform in whatever it called for.
While the technique has been often used in satire. Political objectors to the characterization portrayed instead of labeling it as a abuse, are now condemning the means used (blackface) and are calling any use of blackface as racist instead of targeting the story line and the source Demonstrating just how far we are allowing the revisionists pervert and poison a means of communication to promote their guilt agenda.
I would award a judgement of $20M in punitive damages — just as a deterrent for anyone else.
Even more offensive are those masks that make an 18 year old hoodlum look like an innocent 12 year old kid
These families need to win.
Bigly.
I consider it punitive damages and it should be 100 million. This wokeness has GOT to stop.
Zero. No, you have to PAY. There is NO right to not being offended. NONE.
Right?
This report of George Floyd being shot by police would be breaking news if true.
Good. Destroy the totalitarians. Utterly destroy them.
No. The school tried to destroy their students reputations. One year tuition doesn’t begin to cover it.
Sue for 20, settle for 12.
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