Reply #117: I hate to repeat myself (see #116) but I will anyways. [View All]

[Dora]

But I'll give you this with an addendum:

If the tables were turned....

If I were a white girl in a black man's world...

If I were going to school learning about
- white history
- white politics
- white culture

If that history included learning that my white brethren
- were enslaved (within the last 150 years)
- were denied the right to vote
- were segregated
- were lynched
- were the victims of violence organized by groups of black men determined to prevent us from exercising our freedoms

If, in this predominantly black school, I was the only white student in an academic honors organization that (in all likelihood) has always had a majority of black members...

and they LABELED me "white girl" rather than taking the time to go to the registrar's office and learn my goddamn name...

You're damn straight I'd be "offended."

I'd be on the phone with the ACLU and the NAAWP (Nat'l Assoc for the Adv. of WHITE People) so freaking fast your head would spin.

It is UNFORGIVEABLE in THIS DAY AND AGE for one of our PUBLIC SCHOOLS, which are supposed to be BASTIONS OF TOLERANCE, DIVERSITY, AND UNDERSTANDING, to be PERPETUATING THIS BLATANTLY RACIST bullshit.

Now, I understand that "black girl" was used only as an identifier, not as a derogative. But the THOUGHTLESSNESS and DISREGARD and DISCOURTESY required to make such a boneheaded maneuver MUST BE STOPPED so that this doesn't happen anymore.

And if that means suing the pants off the school district so that their administration and their lawyers wake up and smell the stink of racism coming off their campuses then so be it. Perhaps they'll have to pony up a few million bux. Perhaps no monetary award, but perhaps there would be mandated changes to curriculum, perhaps mandated diversity awareness coursework for everyone from the schoolboard to the custodial staff (though the custodial staff probably wouldn't need it as they're likely underpaid people of color themselves). It happened to Denny's restaurants, and it could happen to Waxahachie USD if they don't watch their asses.

BTW. Schools and districts carry insurance policies to cover their asses in cases like this. No money would be lost from precious activities like football or YK (Young Klan). And as far as monetary awards are concerned, what price would you put on your dignity? How much is your culture worth to you? How much would you be willing to sell your pride for in order not to rock the boat? These are rhetorical questions: don't bother answering them because I don't care.