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Suit claims Red Wing school's 'Wigger Day' discriminated
AP/pioneer press ^
| 8-5-11
| chris williams
Posted on 08/05/2011 7:00:42 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
The lawsuit said 60 to 70 students were involved in the activity during the 2008 and 2009 school years. Red Wing is about 50 miles southeast of Minneapolis along the Minnesota-Wisconsin border.
The high school has about 880 students, and their racial composition is 89 percent white, 4 percent Hispanic, 3 percent black, 3 percent American Indian and 1 percent Asian, according to the Minnesota Department of Education.
The day was unofficially known in the school as Wednesday Wigger Day. The lawsuit said wigger is a pejorative word for a white person who imitates the mannerisms, language and clothes associated with black culture.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: mn; redwing; school; wigger
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To: WOBBLY BOB
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:02:23 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: WOBBLY BOB
War, famine, suffering everywhere - but THIS is the kind of thing that REALLY gets the US Media’s panties in a wad.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:04:34 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: WOBBLY BOB
The lawsuit said wigger is a pejorative word for a white person who imitates the mannerisms, language and clothes associated with black culture. Why say "Wigger," when "moron" will do just as well?
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:05:11 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Who the hell would want to imitate that stereotype? What I would like to see is Cracker Friday, when they sit quietly in class studying and imitate white geeks for a change...
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:07:26 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: WOBBLY BOB
A host filling in for the ED Show on MSNBC the other night happened to be black and the entire show was reporting this story and stories like these and saying Obama was great and the GOP are evil.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:07:56 AM PDT
by
Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
(It is possible to both promote Palin and support Bachmann at the same time, ya know.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
If you need the term “wigger” explained to you... you just won’t understand.
I live in a predominately white community. If you went to the High School and told them, anyone who wants to be changed into a black person, report to the parking lot... the school would be just about empty.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:09:06 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(I miss the America I grew up in.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Discriminated? dis·crim·i·nate/disˈkriməˌnāt/Verb 1. Recognize a distinction; differentiate. 2. Perceive or constitute the difference in or between. I fail to see a problem.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:09:23 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Discriminated?
dis·crim·i·nate/disˈkriməˌnāt/Verb
1. Recognize a distinction; differentiate.
2. Perceive or constitute the difference in or between.
I fail to see a problem.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:10:44 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: WOBBLY BOB
So blacks can dress up as gangstas and it's cool, but whites do so and it's racially insensitive? Wazzup wit dat, dawg?
To: WOBBLY BOB
“Wigger” means a white person acting like a black person?
Would it be less offensive to call them “Whack” or “Whacked”?
= = =
Would a Chinese person acting black be a “chigger”?
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:13:00 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: kidd
The kids in our area call the black squirrels “Squiggers.”
I was both amused and offended the first time I heard it.n And we are in a pretty racially diverse area.
I don’t know if the squirrels were offended by it or not.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:19:03 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(I can't think of anything clever, so I'll just say, "Obama sucks.")
To: WOBBLY BOB
My ex-wife was a helluva NAGGER.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:30:11 AM PDT
by
dadgum
(Overjoyed to be a Pariah)
To: dadgum
That must have annoyed you.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:36:20 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(New gets old. Steampunk is always cool)
To: WOBBLY BOB
I don't see the problem. Some famous people were Whiggers.
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posted on
08/05/2011 7:59:46 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
("Si, se gimme!")
To: WOBBLY BOB
The black kids in my school make fun of anybody who dresses that way.
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posted on
08/05/2011 8:13:27 AM PDT
by
Cyclone59
(The national debt has gone from $8.5T in 2006 to $13.5T in 2010 - led by the democRATS)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Maybe the Red Wings will have a Wigger Day in Detroit next season . . ?
I wanted this to be a hockey thread
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posted on
08/05/2011 8:18:58 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing)
To: WOBBLY BOB
I’m now looking @ “lolwigger.com” from the pic you posted and I’m LMAO!!!!!
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posted on
08/05/2011 8:20:11 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Mr. Weiner...Don' t Tweet your meat. It's too late to delete!)
To: WOBBLY BOB
The High School that I went to was a Trade School.
Once a year we would celebrate “Jigger Rigger Day”
To: 11johara28
That’s something like tying flies, isn’t it?
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posted on
08/05/2011 9:18:10 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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