Posted on 01/25/2016 10:25:05 AM PST by simpson96
An ignorant moment among six high school seniors - who spelled out a racial slur with lettered T-shirts they were wearing for a school photo and posted it to social media on Friday - has ignited national outrage that shows no sign of stopping.
Civil rights activists are even planning to hold a protest on Monday at the school, Desert Vista High School in Phoenix. That's where the six white girls, part of a larger group of students who wore lettered T-shirts and stood together to spell out "Best You've Ever Seen Class of 2016" for a yearbook photo, rearranged themselves for a private photo. For that one, they stood together spelling out the word "NI**ER," laughing and smiling at their spelling trick.
A Change.org petition with more than 37,000 signatures is calling for the girls to be expelled and for the principal, Christine Barela, to be fired. "Arizona has been stricken with another blatant expression of racism and ignorance," the petition says, seemingly referring to another recent social media controversy in which an Arizona State University student tweeted the N-word along with a photo of herself and a friend holding freshly picked cotton.
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I’m sure it was meant to say “NAGGER”.
Oh for Pete’s sake, they even included the asterisks. Give’em a break. But oh no, now they must be crushed.
This is bizarre.
NI**ER” Is a racial slur?
Asterisks are an obscenity? Is that right?
Shouldn’t they already get expelled for being white?
they expected to be colder, it actually spells “nipper”
It was meant to say “GINGER”. They like Gilligan’s Island and redheads. Being products of Public Education they couldn’t figure out how to spell it.
INNOCENT
There is no I in “Best You’ve Ever Seen Class of 2016”
Well, it IS in 100% of rap “music”.
So it would be a common colloquialism.
The left can’t have it both ways, either it is “ culture” for the word to be in common use -regardless of who is using it- or it is offensive and NOBODY should be using it.
Now, the honest truth is that we won’t truly be “post-racial” until words like this have no meaning and those who use them vet laughed at.
And it is actually big business to keep people offended...
Who do they think they are......rap artists?
Maybe they should show the students an old movie NO WAY OUT with Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier and Ossie Davis.
OK, you know what I watched last night on TCM!
Even it they spelled out “N-word” they would probably still have to be expelled to quiet the shrieks of outrage. This country has gone insane.
Why can black people call each other this term over and over, but white people can’t?
Ever notice, 16 year olds don’t feel the slightest racial guilt, and do not share older peoples angst about all things race? They aren’t racist and so they feel free to say anything they want.
Im not talking about how they don’t know about Jim Crow and aren’t on step with geezers. Im talking that they don’t even care what 26 year old college microaggressed fainting snowflakes think.
Furthermore, when you screech at them that something makes you really mad, guess what they learn?
Good fun. These kids crack me up.
INTOLERANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!
Different term. One is "nigger", the other is "nigga", and trust me, its a difference even to them. For a black person to call you a nigger, means they have utterly no respect for you. Nigga is a term of endearment.
Because Racism is the worst possible crime one can commit in today’s Amerika.
Now, don't get all nipply about it.
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