They say Trevor made a mockery of MLK Day say guilt-ridden liberals and white apologists

Radiofree West Hartford ^ | January 24, 2004 | David M. Huntwork

[PoliticsInCT]

Trevor is a junior at Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day Trevor, along with a couple of friends, decided to orchestrate a campaign that he be named the recipient of the "Distinguished African American Student Award" for next year. In the best American political tradition, they printed and plastered throughout the school about 150 posters showing a smiling Trevor giving a thumbs up and encouraging votes for him. The award has been given for eight years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to a senior selected by teachers.

There was only one slight problem. Though Trevor was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, he is white. This apparently did not sit well with the powers-that-be at Westside High School. In very short order, Trevor and his band of merry men found themselves on the receiving end of disciplinary action. Though the punishment of the other students has not been publicly disclosed, Trevor himself was suspended for two days. This was his reward for publicly spoiling the spirit of this inspiring award on no less than the holiest of the politically correct holidays.

I suppose an insignificant punishment for unsanctioned poster hanging may have been in order but the resulting punishment was certainly out of proportion to the crime. The students were not officially disciplined for the hanging of the posters themselves but for the particular ideological message that was contained on them.

Even more disturbing and serious was the punishment of another student for circulating a petition the following day criticizing the practice of recognizing only black student achievement with the award. This gallant expression of grassroots activism was swiftly squashed by the now on-guard school administration that was boiling at the audacity of mere teenagers hanging, as they put it, "inappropriate and insensitive" posters in this culturally aware and enlightened society.

There is no law that says one has to be "appropriate and sensitive" (as defined by who?) but the speech codes in public high schools and college campuses are mercilessly used to strangle any suggestion of dissent of the policies and ideologies of the Left.. Never mind that Trevor is more "African" than any other student attending his high school and is probably more knowledgeable of African culture than the other 1,842 students combined.

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[BabsC]

Public education is sorely lacking in basic geography

I read somewhere that the kids are learning geography today one war at a time.....ba da bom.

[cyborg]

hehehe

[savedbygrace]

In the 2002-2003 school year, there were only 56 black students in that school. And one African-American student.

http://reportcard.nde.state.ne.us/Page/DemoEthnicity.asp?Level=sc&DistrictID=0066&CountyID=28&DistrictName=WESTSIDE+COMMUNITY+SCHOOLS++++&SchoolID=001&SchoolName=WESTSIDE+HIGH+SCHOOL++++++++++&KindOfSchool=HS&Unified=0&HasKindergarten=

[Right Wing Professor]

I say Trevor file a lawsuit.

The Academic Freedom Coalitiion of Nebraska has contacted the parents and offered support if the parents want to pursue this. I don't know yet if they do.

[cyborg]

***I'm so glad I never went to public school. Lucky for them they wouldn't know what to do with me anyway. What's the motivation for classifying students in such a manner anyway? Hmmmm....

Race and Ethnicity


Race and ethnic categories are defined under directives from the U.S. Government Office of Management and Budget. Each student must be placed in one of the following categories:



White, Not Hispanic – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa or the Middle East.



Asian or Pacific Islander – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent or Pacific Islands. This area includes, for example, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, Samoa, India and Vietnam.



Hispanic – A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.



American Indian/Alaska Native – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, or who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.



Black, Not Hispanic – A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.



DATA SOURCE: School District Membership Report

[kenth]

Why can't he be the Distinguished African American Student? Clinton was the first black president and the left celebrates him.

[Condor51]

Really?!?
I believe you, but it's absurd. Then again, the whole pc 'movement' is absurd.

[Enterprise]

See post #36. I swear it's true, and LWalk8 has read it too. And it's simply amazing the race based pc sh!t that goes on in this country.

[sweetliberty]

"I've always wondered what would happen if a white from Africa asserted his African-American status."

I guess they will need to redefine blackness again with yet another BS racist politically correct term for them that would exclude white Americans of African descent.

[Salgak]

Ahem. In SOME Nations we define membership via unbroken line of male descent.

Therefore, by the laws of the Iriquois Nation I'm full-blooded Iriquois. Ever though I'm as generic-white-bread-anglo as it gets.

And since the Nation recognizes me, the Feds think so too.

Not that I've ever used it, but I could. . .

[sweetliberty]

"Trevor COULD have some African anscestry, or be descended from someone who once lived in Africa."

Did you read the article? Trevor IS African, born and raised. His family immigrated to America, so in reality, he is the ONLY one of his classmates who can genuinely claim to be African-American. The fly in the PC ointment is that his skin happens to be white.

[cyborg]

Remember all your FRiends when you that casino money comes rolling in :D

[Jonah Johansen]

What is really interesting is What is an Asian-American.
According to EEOC guidlines. People from India and Pakistan are Asian. People from Afganistan and Iran are not. Arabs from Africa are not African American and Arabs from Asia are not Asian American.

[cyborg]

LOL!!!! So funny you can cry

[sweetliberty]

"Maybe someone from one of their civics classes could comment on freedom of speach."

I don't think they teach civics anymore in the government schools, and even if they do, it is from politically corrected textbooks. Out language has been so neutralized by the sociocommiecrats, that it is virtually devoid of meaning when approached in that manner.

"Last time I looked he was guaranteed freedom of speach. I haven't seen the part where blacks are guaranteed freedom from getting their feelings hurt."

Obviously you haven't read the Jesse Jackass guide to the Constitution.

[cyborg]

They should take a look at recent winners of things like spelling and math contests... homeschoolers and kids attending private schools. Seems to me that public shool administrators forgot about STUDYING.

[sweetliberty]

"I can no longer remember where I read it, but at some point, an Egyptian was told he could not call himself African-American because he wasn't black"

And it doesn't cut both ways, either. Consider the case for banning the story of Little Black Sambo, under the pretense of offense to blacks....even though he was Indian and not African. (I don't even think there are any tigers in Africa, are there?)

[sweetliberty]

"Seems to me that public shool administrators forgot about STUDYING."

Oh well, that's because requiring kids to study might be offensive to those who don't like to study. Besides, we can't have the dumb kids feeling dumb, now can we? So the obvious solution is to lower the educational standard to the lowest common denominator, then compensate by importing people from other countries to do the jobs Americans are too ignorant to do.

[cyborg]

My mother used to grab kids by the ear, give 'em a good twist and say 'stop being a disgraceful pupil and go to school!' Now you can't do that anymore LOL

[sweetliberty]

"I'd like to see this debated more in society at large."

Until we drive a stake through the heart of politically correct thought and speech, it will never happen. PC has effectively silenced all relevant debate. That was its purpose and it has been served.