Reply #129: excuse me [View All]

[onenote]

but I missed the flippancy in your comment and I don't think my post is at all off-topic. I think the publication of a yearbook identifying an African American student only as "Black girl" is very unfortunate and that the school should bear the cost of reprinting, at very least, the page(s) in question. However, my point is that yearbook screw ups happen all the time for a variety of reasons with a variety of motivations. I don't know enough to assess the intent of the parties that intentionally/unintentionally caused this to happen any more than I have the ability to assess what was in the minds of the white girl and African-American male that posed for the Florida yearbook. But my point is that if we're going to assume that anything that looks racially insensitive is in fact the result of racial insensitivity and should result in some sensitivity awareness training (which might well be a good idea), everyone could benefit from that training.

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