Black Mississippi student forced to share valedictorian title with white student who had lower GPA

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115. So disappointed with so many on DU siding with a school district that as recently...

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as last year was fighting a years-old racial discrimination law suit.

Why the hell is the default here of so many that the AA student and her mother are wrong or are too obsessed with another student's grades or don't know about weighted classes, and that they should just accept being co-valedictorian, smile and shut up?

We all know without a doubt, or should know if one is truthful to themselves, that if the roles were reversed the school district would prove very quickly that there was no tie and the white student was the sole valedictorian.

As many threads that have been here on DU on white privilege you'd think knowledgeable progressives would recognize it when it stares them in the face — because that's exactly what that is — the black student and her mother should just take the white school board's word for it without proof and the white student gets the benefit of the doubt.

It's disgusting, especially on this allegedly progressive site.

They're black so the skepticism comes out instead of calls for a school district, recently fighting a years-old discrimination law suit, to prove it was a tie.

No identity politics here I guess .

Again, disgusting.