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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/milwaukee-students-answer-to-nazi-salute-prom-photo_us_5bfb4a6be4b03b230fa312a8Milwaukee Students Answer To Nazi Salute Prom Photo Will Melt Your Heart
After students in Baraboo, Wisconsin, drew attention to the Badger State by posing for a photo in which nearly all the young men most of them white were raising their arms in what appeared to be a Nazi salute, another group of students about 100 miles away decided they would not let that image speak for them.
More than 60 students at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee got together after school earlier this month to create their own photo: a diverse group of young people showing signs of love and peace, OnMilwaukee reported.
The Baraboo photo, which was taken in May before the high schools junior prom, went viral after being posted on Twitter this month. Last week, Baraboo School Superintendent Lori Mueller announced that the students would not be punished because of their First Amendment rights.
The Rufus King students used their First Amendment rights to respond with their own powerful image.
Link to tweet
More at Huff Post link above.
Takket
(21,424 posts)Thanks for the great photo! Lots of diversity. A true snapshot of America
Is this an all girls school? Noticed the only men look like staff.
sheshe2
(83,338 posts)Young boys there as well.
What a beautiful picture of diversity. These kids are our future.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)They look like individuals, not the homogenous bunch who threw up that salute.
To be honest I think those boys should be taught rather than condemned. Theres nothing more difficult than youngsters who are certain they can casually be cruel and not take it seriously. But theyre potentially reachable if the world doesnt help them to concretize that behavior by not doing as those other kids did-expressing love in all its diversity.
Cha
(295,909 posts)Wipe Out that "Nazi" shite with Strong Diversity and Love!
pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)It is great to see our young people showing their morals to combat the evil that is loose in the world these days.