Posted on 12/26/2020 3:57:15 PM PST by karpov
LEESBURG, Va. — Jimmy Galligan was in history class last school year when his phone buzzed with a message. Once he clicked on it, he found a three-second video of a white classmate looking into the camera and uttering an anti-Black racial slur.
The slur, he said, was regularly hurled in classrooms and hallways throughout his years in the Loudoun County school district. He had brought the issue up to teachers and administrators but, much to his anger and frustration, his complaints had gone nowhere.
So he held on to the video, which was sent to him by a friend, and made a decision that would ricochet across Leesburg, Va., a town named for an ancestor of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and whose school system had fought an order to desegregate for more than a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling.
“I wanted to get her where she would understand the severity of that word,” Mr. Galligan, 18, whose mother is Black and father is white, said of the classmate who uttered the slur, Mimi Groves. He tucked the video away, deciding to post it publicly when the time was right.
Ms. Groves had originally sent the video, in which she looked into the camera and said, “I can drive,” followed by the slur, to a friend on Snapchat in 2016, when she was a freshman and had just gotten her learner’s permit. It later circulated among some students at Heritage High School, which she and Mr. Galligan attended, but did not cause much of a stir.
Mr. Galligan had not seen the video before receiving it last school year, when he and Ms. Groves were seniors.
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The girl, who was a freshman in high school, was not calling anyone an n-word. She made a mistake but does not deserve to have life ruined or name sullied in a national newspaper. Jimmy Galligan, the snitch, has more to be ashamed of.
Just a high yellow brother trying to demonstrate he’s down with the cause.
Good lord - she was trying to act hip and urban like the black kids she admires and, whom I’ll point out, say the words all the time.
Lesson 1 is when you see a camera, just shut the hell up smile and wave. That’s it! Don’t say or do a dam thing to be used against you. That’s what the Internet is designed for, to eventually destroy you!
The use of the n word has changed.
It used to be used by people of other races to insult Americans of African Descent.
Now, my observation is that it is mostly used by Americans of African Descent to address other Americans of African Descent.
All young people want to be cool and use the common slang.
If it is a bad word, then it is a bad word for everyone, including Americans of African Descent.
Leesburg was founded in 1740.
“Leesburg was named to honor the influential Thomas Lee and not, as is popular belief, his son Francis Lightfoot Lee who lived in Loudoun and brought up the bill to establish Leesburg, nor as is sometimes thought, Robert E. Lee (his great-grandnephew)”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leesburg%2C_Virginia#Etymology
When rap songs and TV quit spamming that word, then I might take it seriously. I don’t care about the nuances of spelling, either.
It’s either an evil bad word and offensive to all when said by anyone or it’s nothing. At this point it’s nothing but a word I chose not to use.
Blacks have been saying “N***** please” since at least 1977: https://tinyurl.com/y6wcjmk9
Who cares? Whites are disparaged constantly..
“””Two lessons: 1. Never use racial epithets. 2. Social justice warriors are vindictive little bastards.”””
Actually, there are three lessons. #3. The Chinese Social Score System will be here very soon, if not already.
Blacks call each other that word every other second.
But anti white racial slurs are A - OK
“I’m going to remind myself, you started something,” he said with satisfaction. “You taught someone a lesson.”
What a vindictive little prick.
“Jimmy Galligan, the snitch, has more to be ashamed of.”
He has a bright future in the Rat Politburo.
I remember how Tipper Gore was ridiculed for attacking this problem years ago. I don't know much about her other than she also had the sense to dump that freak to whom she was married.
What a "Christian" thing he did. Effing POS...
POS has been raised to fail - and blame whitey.
Mr.Galligan is a POS and he looks to be queer as a three dollar bill.
I wonder why the New York Slimes would publish a story like this now.
Goes to Vanguard University in Costa Mesa CA.
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