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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[ladylib]

The trailers that dot the landscape in many overcrowded school districts are now called "cottages."

Well, maybe the administration calls them "cottages." The kids probably call them something else.

[cyborg]

LOL admit it... it was the picture of the Nuge not me!

[Enterprise]

Well only if the Nuge is wearing blue jeans and a thin strap "shirt."

[cyborg]

LOL I will try not to let all the nice words get to my head.

[savedbygrace]

The school, which is overwhelmingly white, has been using the award to pander to the blacks in the school. Trevor reminded everyone that the emperor has no clothes, and that the award was meaningless. So the principal and other school officials had to come down hard on Trevor.

People don't like to be proven to be pompous asses.

[sweetliberty]

"People don't like to be proven to be pompous asses."

No, but the really ironic thing is that when someone exposes them and they indignantly attempt to smack down the challenger, they magnify the point that was being made in the first place. This is the same kind of blind pomposity that defines the RAT candidates. In their arrogance, they never once stop to think that just maybe they're wrong and that everybody, except themselves, can see see it.

[Riverman94610]

Egypt?Yes,it is in Africa and I have known more than a few Egyptians with"Negroid"features.Which is not to say that it is a "Black"country as some Afrocentrists claim but it is undeniable that there must have been a lot of mixing with people to the south.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

At our local public school it is called the "opportunity room" What a bunch of CRAPPPPPPP!!

[cyborg]

LMAO opportunity room???

[Enterprise]

LOL! What a great post! Blacks in America are automatically assumed to have origins in certain requisite parts of Africa, but an Egyptian who also has origins in the same parts as do African Americans is excluded because he is Egyptian and therefore doesn't meet the definition! Funny!

[dts32041]

I am sorry I am native American I was born and raised in the USA, I was adopted.

Therefore I can't Identify with any other country or place but the united states, therefore I am a native American.

Get over it I am here to stay.

[reg45]

Just tell your PC acquaintances how happy you were to get Bobby Lee's birthday off work, school, etc.

[reg45]

Just let me know when Arkansas wants Hillary Clinton back .... She's rightfully Illinois' bitch native "daughter."

We don't want her back either!

[JZoback]

Thought this might interest you

Bro

[solo gringo]

Why are people so upset about this is it because thie young man is african or because he is white.There are lots of us would like to know.

[ladylib]

BWAHAHAHAHA.

[rave123]

would you feel better if these people did as most of you on this board are proposing and mark the box: white, on the census data. Since you believe they have no african decent that warrants the name african american. Even though the government has stated what is in each category and being called black-african american means you have ancestory from black africans? Don't get mad at the blacks, they didn't create the categories. An I guarantee you the black parents were not the ones complaining about the african american student that did what he did.The black student population at the school was only 56 students.

[rave123]

I have never heard a black say they have a problem with an egyptian being called black. So why do you think the census b. not blacks, want egyptians to be white?

[the_daug]

[M Kehoe]

The more this story is told, the more the hypocrisy of the PC crowd, and the left is exposed. Believe me, if the left was as well armed and trained as most of the Right (or was able to disarm the populace), we all would be living in a communist country right now.

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