Shaun King: White HS students in Mich. saying they'd like to bring back slavery shows racism alive

[gollygee]

I'm not surprised to hear about this in Grosse Pointe.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-white-kids-michigan-bring-back-slavery-article-1.2660272

Racism is as American as apple pie, baseball and handguns. If any of us thought it was a relic of the past or something relegated to the Deep South, we were sorely mistaken.

Over this past Memorial Day weekend, several white high school students from Grosse Pointe South High School in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, recorded a video where they discussed what they'd love to do if they were elected president in 2040. Among their ideas were bringing back slavery, burning black people with brands and sending them back to Africa. Yeah, really.

This isn't really coming as a surprise to people who live there. In March, four white students from the same high school were suspended for writing racial epithets on their bodies and posting pictures of it on Instagram. Two additional white students were then suspended for threatening people who reported it. Erika Erickson, a reporter for Fox2 in Detroit tweeted that this is actually the fourth incident of racism from the school.

Racism, it appears, is pretty doggone normal at Grosse Pointe South High School, but we're seeing racist incident after incident among young white teens all over America.

[merrily]

1. Racism never died, just as anti-racism never died, even in 1700.

When one of more laws change to where they should be, that is great. However, it does not mean that a battle is over. The same things that succeeded in getting laws changed must continue. Ongoing activism, education and propagandizing (in the good sense of that word) remain necessary.

[FrodosPet]

2. The youth of America represent a solid, faithful progressive voting bloc

Wait, whut????????

[roamer65]

3. Grosse Pointe is a very white elitist area in MI.

No big surprise on that fact. Nor does all this garbage from them surprise me either.