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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One of Ms. Groves’s friends, who is Black, said Ms. Groves had personally apologized for the video long before it went viral. Once it did in June, the friend defended Ms. Groves online, prompting criticism from strangers and fellow students. “We’re supposed to educate people,” she wrote in a Snapchat post, “not ruin their lives all because you want to feel a sense of empowerment.”
So prim! This is like a new age of Victorianism. I notice that no one suggests though, that black rappers refrain from using this infamous word.
Agreed. I graduated from a Christian college in So Cal in ‘87 and can tell you without hesitation that back then there were plenty of back-stabbing, hyper-sensitive, SJW types that preached love, peace, forgiveness and tolerance but their actions were the exact opposite. Never missed an opportunity to screw somebody over for the most trivial of slights.
Exactly.
What a terrible time to be a kid.
Where is the “app” that takes any video of any person and creates a deep fake of that person saying “n!gger”? It would erase all future persecutions.
The real lesson is that whites are under attack.
And out of the very purest motives, no doubt.
Welcome to FR, by the way.
1) HS Freshman girl thought she was being hip via cultural appropriation. White kids are heavily influenced by media to extol black ghetto gutter speech.
2) Does Galligan deserve our pity? How sad to be a an AA HS Senior so full of woke ignorance that he can’t discern the difference between a word used as a racial insult, and the same word used in pea-brained imitation.
3) Or does Galligan deserve our contempt for exploiting a silly girl’s big nothing to make himself into a “heroic victim”, so weak he is crushed by a blade of grass but postures himself as a hero for throwing stones at some minor sinner. What a loser.
karma is going to catch up to this POS one of these days...
Thanks. Happy to be here.
That's as far as I got with this drivel.
Nor that woke youth stop listening to rappers that do use it.
Henry Miller: “Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn’t the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.”
The “n” word is a magical word. This bimbo made the same mistake Don Imus made with his nappy head remark. If you are not part of the “elite” you cannot use the word.
He’s gay too, I see.
A mistake is when you dial a wrong phone number. She did this on purpose. She did it during the time you could be canceled for it.
But snitches do get stitches.
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