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All in all its plain stupid, but the bigger issue (among other things) is the class President, could NOT be black, it HAD to be white across all grade levels.
Yea but the black guys get 4 slots rather than 3. Kind of like the NBA Finals. One team gets 4 home games, the other only 3. But the 3 are in a row while the 4 are broken up.
[UPDATE II: The Nettleton school board today (August 27) voted unanimously to overhaul election rules so that “beginning immediately, student elections at Nettleton School District will no longer have a classification of ethnicity.” In a statement, superintendent Russell Taylor acknowledged that the school system is “growing in ethnic diversity and that the classifications of Caucasian and African-American no longer reflect our entire student body.” Future elections, he added, “will be monitored to help ensure that this change in process and procedure does not adversely affect minority representation in student elections.”]
[UPDATE II: The Nettleton school board today (August 27) voted unanimously to overhaul election rules so that “beginning immediately, student elections at Nettleton School District will no longer have a classification of ethnicity.” In a statement, superintendent Russell Taylor acknowledged that the school system is “growing in ethnic diversity and that the classifications of Caucasian and African-American no longer reflect our entire student body.” Future elections, he added, “will be monitored to help ensure that this change in process and procedure does not adversely affect minority representation in student elections.”]
Well there you have it. Sanity prevails for a change.
nah. they just changed it because somebody made noise about it.
if you read ole miss history you know they had actual lynching parties where they would go out and have a fun time while watching a black get his head ripped off when he dropped from the plaftorm.
old habits die hard.
they cant get away with that now, so its subtle things like this.
like i said, the only reason they changed it is because someone stood up and said this isnt right. thats the only reason, it made news, they got put in a bad light, obviously they will change it.
And your post is what? The RWNJ 'no-matter-what-the-topic-is-drag-Obama's-name-into-it' effect?
Go ask the people down in Mississippi responsible for creating and implementing this policy of electing class presidents how much they enjoy that fact the a non-White person happens to be the President of the United States. I'm pretty sure what the repsonse would be.
nah. they just changed it because somebody made noise about it.
if you read ole miss history you know they had actual lynching parties where they would go out and have a fun time while watching a black get his head ripped off when he dropped from the plaftorm.
old habits die hard.
they cant get away with that now, so its subtle things like this.
like i said, the only reason they changed it is because someone stood up and said this isnt right. thats the only reason, it made news, they got put in a bad light, obviously they will change it.
One more time- its a form of Affirmative Action, not Jim Crow and certainly not lynching. They were giving black students something, not keeping it from them.
my point remains that these families in miss are so messed up. the school knows the white kids wont vote for the blacks, which is why they created the guaranteed spots.
ole miss is known for being one of the most poorly educated, highest poverty, high divorce rate state in the nation.
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