[cyborg]

These people need to GET OVER IT!!!!! They're just upset someone came along and knocked over their racial applecart.

[alloysteel]

The generally accepted rule here in America is, that if you declare yourself to be part of some racial or ethnic group, then you belong to that group. You don't even need to provide the most tenuous connection. If you say you are Irish, you are Irish, even if your name in Chang Mei-Ling or Adnan Korsian. Even with as little as one-64th Cherokee descent, you have people claiming to be "Cherokee", or you can simply claim a name like "Luke Warmwater", sit around in front of a tepee, and wear a headband of feathers with a Pendleton blanket draped over your shoulders.

Americans are a pretty mongrel bunch. Trevor COULD have some African anscestry, or be descended from someone who once lived in Africa.

[FormerACLUmember]

There are many millions upon millions of Caucasian Africans (i.e., Arabs, Berbers, South Africans, etc) unknown to the moron bigots who run that hell-hole public school.

Praise to the young white African-American for showing the world the true racists: his pathetic school's ignorant mega-hypocritical administration!

[sweetliberty]

"They're just upset someone came along and knocked over their racial applecart."

Bingo. I think it is the blacks who make a mockery of MLK period, when they trumpet blackness above everything else. That was NOT Dr. King's message. I think they make a mockery of both the man and his message when they elevate him almost to the status of a religious icon instead of a champion of equal rights. I think Dr. King would be embarassed and grieved to discover what a nightmare his dream has become.

[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=

[Mr. Mojo]

These people need to GET OVER IT!!!!!

As I said on another thread, I wonder if these same school administrators would be just as outraged if someone proposed that an Arab student originally from North Africa win this award?