High School Students Pose for Yearbook Photo with T-Shirts Spelling Racial Slur

[KamaAina]

http://usuncut.com/news/students-wear-t-shirts-spelling-racial-slur/

Six students at Desert Vista High School in Ahwatukee — a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona — took a picture proudly wearing shirts spelling out a racial slur that swept through social media this Friday.

The students can be seen here wearing shirts that, when standing side by side, spells the N word.

The students wore these shirts on the day of the senior class’s annual yearbook picture. Students are “allowed to wear pre-approved shirts with lettering or messages.” Their shirts were supposedly part of a larger message that reads “BEST * YOU’VE * EVER * SEEN * CLASS * OF *2016”.

No faculty member saw the offensive configuration of the lettered shirts until the picture surfaced online. A school spokeswoman told 12 News the photo was “unacceptable and does not represent the student body or the district.”

Worth a thousand N-words...

[underpants]

1. Bad parenting

[brush]

2. How clever (not). Racism is fun and a joke to these jerks.

[lapfog_1]

3. so where did the "I" come from?

was it the "L" or was it the "1".

And I can't imagine what these young people were thinking when they created this

Another anagram they could have created would be

"Observe No Class" and without the wildcard "*"

[oberliner]

11. I think it is a "1"

Taken from "2016"

[Scurrilous]

4. Left asterisk scares me...

[spanone]

5. what. the. fuck.

?

[davidn3600]

6. They hear the word 50 times a day

I mean seriously, these kids didn't live through the 60s. They are kids who probably don't fully understand the history or meaning of that word because it's spewed in music and movies today like it means nothing. And the education concerning it doesn't exist.

There is a generational issue here.

Alyssa Stiggers, president of school's Black Student Union, said her group was starting a campaign called "spread the word to end the n-word."

"Something that used to stop my grandparents in their tracks is now being used in regular conversation," Stiggers said. "Someone needs to put their foot down and say it's not OK to say that."

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/protest-outside-phoenix-area-school-racial-slur-photo-233217266.html

[yardwork]

14. Then why bother to spell it out?

I disagree with your premise that the word is so common in popular culture that it has lost its meaning. If that were true, no teens would bother to make a photo opp of the word.

The girls did this because they thought they were being clever and it was an inside joke in their clique. That tends to prove that they know the word is offensive. They liked their cruel little inside joke.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

20. They know exactly what it means.

They are young, but they are not stupid. That word is no more acceptable to be used today than it was 50 years ago.

[MuttLikeMe]

7. Black girls get expelled for wearing their hair naturally

but these ....people...get only a slap on the wrist.

[woolldog]

8. Apparently, one of the girls' boyfriend is black

and encouraged them to take the photo. . .all in good fun. Wonder if he'll be suspended too?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. This doesn't surprise me. That her boyfriend is black does not men that she can't be racist.

And there are some black people who contribute--willing or unwillingly--to their own oppression.

It's similar to Holocaust deniers who are Jewish, or women who believe that they are supposed to be second-class citizens because they are women and give birth.

[davidn3600]

12. That's not necessarily the point here...

The issue is you have kids, who are not out of high school yet, who have not matured, hearing this word used in casual conversation every day by their peers, their music, their movies, all over pop culture, and then they are not being educated in what that word means and what the history is behind it.

Yes, the history textbooks talk about slavery. It talks about the civil rights movements. It talks about Martin Luther King Jr. But I assure you, these books say absolutely nothing about that word. The schools don't teach them about it. We leave that up to the parents to teach the kids about it, and obviously....that's not happening.

Like I said above, it's not common sense to these kids. They didn't live through the 60s. They didn't experience the types of blatant and hurtful racism and discrimination that existed back then. And no one is teaching them.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. Racism is taught much early in life. They know that this is WRONG. I don't buy for one second that

these kids are sweet and innocent and don't know that what they're doing is wrong. They just don't care. They are racists, period.

[KamaAina]

15. Justin Volpe had a black girlfriend.

You remember Justin, the NYC cop who sodomized Abner Louima with a broom handle.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. And, what's your point? He was a racist prick, too. Again, just because someone is fucking a black

person DOES NOT mean that they aren't racists. Slave masters were raping black women and some black men.

What the fuck is your point?

[KamaAina]

18. The point is that that also applies to the girl in the picture who has a black boyfriend.

Take a chill pill, dude!

[woolldog]

16. The fact that her bf is black

and it was his idea certainly makes it less likely that this stunt = she's a racist. I'm a lot less bothered by it given that context. Not that I was ever that bothered by it to begin with.

I see this more as a "oh look at me and how edgy I am"/attention seeking stunt teenagers are prone too than a display of pathological racism.

[Brickbat]

9. This photo was not for the yearbook; this was a private outtake.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

19. As far as the character of the people in the pictures, it makes no difference. nt