I’m sure he was referring to time… Black president… Now Arkansas won’t allow a black valedictorian?
^ Obama changed mankind the moment he got elected?
I know he said change would happen in America but you are taking that a little too literally nigga…
lolol how are you all shocked…the south stay the south. who needs a delorian to go back in time?
a black president don’t mean shit
i tried writing a long ass post about this, but really… that’s the only real message here
edit: call me when Bill Clinton gets back, that’s the real first black president
The illegal ones will never get smart as long as we bar their kids from enrolling in our schools. Which is going to turn out really well, I’m sure.
The racism wasn’t what shocked me, the racism in public school and how bluntly the defended themselves with being “concerned a black valedictorian would create a “big mess” at the predominately white school”, seriously wtf?
i thought if they are born here, you cant prevent them from getting an education.
Whoa…feels like a took a time machine back about 60 years.
I don’t think you can, but many are fighting for the contrary.
Actually you’re post gives credence to the opposite conclusion you stated. At first glance the article makes you call racism but from the sound of "big mess: it’s most likely the school board was concerned about the public backlash from parents and students and thought appeasing them would be the lesser of two evils rather then the school board being racists themselves.
Perhaps I’m giving the school officials too much credit and even if I’m right that doesn’t excuse their actions but makes it somewhat understandable.
I’d like to take this moment to thank most of the state of Arkansas, for once again giving a Black Eye to the U.S. in front of the rest of the world…
I HATE when folks say this…
What makes him black?
The impeachment?
The weed?
The cheating on his wife?
The love of hideous fat white women?
Playing a sax?
ugh…
Don’t lump all southerners in with these backwoods Deliverance motherfuckers.
I live in a town in southern Mississippi, and shit like this happening would cause a riot. And I personally find it rather deplorable that any school would use any factor other than grades to determine the valedictorian (with the exception of high levels of repeated disciplinary action throughout the year).
Even grades can be altered in order to obtain the results the school wanted.
During my early years in school I moved a lot…when I was transferred to a neighborhood school at the beginning of the school year, the girls in the school hated me for reasons beyond being the new girl in school.
My grades were the highest of all the students in that grade and I actually tutored other students in the school. I had straight As and my home room teacher told my mother about the mentally gifted school in the city and urged her to get me to go there.
When the school year ended and all the grades were turned in I was pulled to the side and told I was given a B in social science so that the girl who went through 5 years in that school could become valediction. I was given the chance to speak at graduation (I entered a city wide oratorical contest, and placed in the top 5) and was told the parents at the school would be pissed if I was given what they thought was Quasheema’s title (the girl they gave it to).
This happened during freaking 5th grade graduation…I learned early on how the schools do students based on the perception from the parents.
I did end up going to the mentally gifted middle school…even though the elementary school refused to send the application in to the mentally gifted school (they stated I HAD to go to the neighborhood school).
Long and the short of it: its all about saving face…obviously race is a heavy factor…because if white Suzy Scribbles had a kid and still pulled off having the best grades, she would be an inspirational story.
Thank you. I live in Alabama. We’re universally known for sucking and every state thinks we’re all racist. But this crap wouldn’t fly down here. I don’t understand how these mostly black towns let this stuff happen but in predominately white areas it’s unthinkable.
how bout all of the above
Nothing makes this “somewhat understandable.” If there’s public backlash from a black person being successful, you deal with it as it comes, you don’t deny that person their rights just because you’re worried parents will be upset.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mLjKI968g&feature=view_all&list=PLC1B757435F29EDB5&index=0 I think this applies here.
^
I think on every black persons birthday, they should be allowed to sucker punch one random white person
that would be awesome, but it’d regress into a fundamentalist theocracy like the middle east. and it wouldn’t be long before they’d be sending suicide bombers to attack the satanic atheist paradise to the north.