Jesus Christ, what year are they stuck in?

1955, when nobody is mad at nobody.

Pete and Repeat were on a boat...

namatad: wow, imagine the uproar if they alternated color each year?
or, well, just got rid of class president and officers altogether?
and got rid of prom and sports?

shocking that school has become an insane micro-cosm of the adult world, rather than a place to educate children.

well, you've got to prepare them for that adult world. they should know it sucks early on.

If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

This is a relief. Especially when the positions get filled in by all whites due to popularity and population demographics.

Will the NAACP and others like them cry foul at that time too?

Old news is old.

They had basically an affirmative action policy in place for school elections, and people got pissed about it, as everyone knows that racial quotas are asinine, so they got rid of it.

Finally people are speaking up against such nonsense.

SithLord: This is a relief. Especially when the positions get filled in by all whites due to popularity and population demographics.

Will the NAACP and others like them cry foul at that time too?

Yes, yes they will.

Something tells me that minorities won't have a chance in any of the elections without the policy.

/just saying

namatad: wow, imagine the uproar if they alternated color each year?

That is actually exactly what they did do. Last year a white child couldn't have been President.

And this isn't much of a follow-up since they had revoked the policy when the first article came out.

namatad: wow, imagine the uproar if they alternated color each year?
or, well, just got rid of class president and officers altogether?
and got rid of prom and sports?

shocking that school has become an insane micro-cosm of the adult world, rather than a place to educate children.

Class officers do important things like have meetings and promise to add 5 minutes to recess, but never actually do anything at all.

Well most of the minority children never vote unless there is a black canidate.

shirtsbyeric: Well most of the minority children never vote unless there is a black canidate.

Most of the white children never vote unless there is a white candidate.

/everyone has a built in racial bias. EVERYONE.

FormlessOne: If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

Wrong.

The school was being forced to adopt an affirmative action type system, where four of the elected positions WERE REQUIRED to be filled by black students. Little white girl wants to be treasurer? Sorry, black kids only.

So the story goes public, spun in a way to make it sound like black kids are being prohibited from school government, cue public outrage, and the school gets what it wanted all along: no racial quotas in the school government anymore.

Really? Is this all we have? This was taken care of the last time this was posted. It's not even worthy of followup status, because it was done.

Way to beat that dead horse.

Renowned transvestite sexologist: /everyone has a built in racial bias. EVERYONE.

I don't you dumb cracker!

Didn't see the original thread, so all this is new to me, but...

"Go by the mother's race b/c with minorities the father isn't generally in the home,"

oh no you di'int

Hmmm, it's almost like it was planned from the start

What in fark is that supposed to mean?

Barakku: namatad: wow, imagine the uproar if they alternated color each year?
or, well, just got rid of class president and officers altogether?
and got rid of prom and sports?

shocking that school has become an insane micro-cosm of the adult world, rather than a place to educate children.

Class officers do important things like have meetings and promise to add 5 minutes to recess, but never actually do anything at all.

Class officer positions also fatten a college application. Just ask the 70 valedictorians that will graduate from a class of 300 or so.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: School mandates minority representation in student elections on a rotational basis: racists!
School eliminates said mandate: racists!
/what white farkers actually believe

School doesn't rotate certain positions in student elections: racists.
School mandates "white ceiling" in student elections: racists.
School hastily rescinds student election policy once it becomes widely known: racists.

Stanfan114: FormlessOne: If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

Wrong.

The school was being forced to adopt an affirmative action type system, where four of the elected positions WERE REQUIRED to be filled by black students. Little white girl wants to be treasurer? Sorry, black kids only.

So the story goes public, spun in a way to make it sound like black kids are being prohibited from school government, cue public outrage, and the school gets what it wanted all along: no racial quotas in the school government anymore.

If it was a "there are 4 black seats on a 12 person council", I'd believe it was an affirmative action policy... but telling the black kids "you absolutely cannot run for president, but we'll let you have the vice president slot" doesn't sound like any kind of sane affirmative action policy I've ever seen.

Apparently news about Brown VS Board of Education finally got to Mississippi. Anyone willing to break the news that they lost the civil war?

Stanfan114: FormlessOne: If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

Wrong.

The school was being forced to adopt an affirmative action type system, where four of the elected positions WERE REQUIRED to be filled by black students. Little white girl wants to be treasurer? Sorry, black kids only.

From this article:

Springer is white. Her two older children, including the sixth grader, are half Native American. Her two younger children have a black father.

Fool. The girl in question wasn't white, and she wasn't black, either - that's the whole point of the article. She didn't fit the school's policy at all. That's not a surprise - the school wasn't "forced" to do anything, given that the school's done this for over 30 years.

So the story goes public, spun in a way to make it sound like black kids are being prohibited from school government, cue public outrage, and the school gets what it wanted all along: no racial quotas in the school government anymore.

Actually, it wasn't worded as "black kids are being prohibited from school government", there. The whole question was raised because an Amerind girl wasn't allowed to run for any office - she's not white, she's not black, and so the school told her she couldn't run for treasurer, because that was allocated to a black kid this year. The policy was ham-handed silliness. Again, from the above article to which I linked:

Even if the rule is an attempt to ensure black and white participation, Springer said diversity is no longer a black and white issue, with a growing number of mixed-race children, Hispanics and other ethnicities attending school together.

The school agreed, saying it the statement that it "acknowledges and embraces the fact that we are growing in ethnic diversity and that the classifications of Caucasian and African-American no longer reflect our entire student body."

You missed the point, filled in assumptions, and got basic information wrong.

Gdiguy: Stanfan114: FormlessOne: If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

Wrong.

The school was being forced to adopt an affirmative action type system, where four of the elected positions WERE REQUIRED to be filled by black students. Little white girl wants to be treasurer? Sorry, black kids only.

So the story goes public, spun in a way to make it sound like black kids are being prohibited from school government, cue public outrage, and the school gets what it wanted all along: no racial quotas in the school government anymore.

If it was a "there are 4 black seats on a 12 person council", I'd believe it was an affirmative action policy... but telling the black kids "you absolutely cannot run for president, but we'll let you have the vice president slot" doesn't sound like any kind of sane affirmative action policy I've ever seen.

The worst part is that the girl in question wasn't white or black, but half-Amerind, screwed by a 30-year-old school policy that didn't move with the times. She quite honestly threw a wrench into an already-silly process because she didn't fit the mold set up by the school.

The school figured it out, with a little help from the public attention attracted by such silliness.

FormlessOne: Stanfan114: FormlessOne: If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

Wrong.

The school was being forced to adopt an affirmative action type system, where four of the elected positions WERE REQUIRED to be filled by black students. Little white girl wants to be treasurer? Sorry, black kids only.

From this article:

Springer is white. Her two older children, including the sixth grader, are half Native American. Her two younger children have a black father.

Fool. The girl in question wasn't white, and she wasn't black, either - that's the whole point of the article. She didn't fit the school's policy at all. That's not a surprise - the school wasn't "forced" to do anything, given that the school's done this for over 30 years.

So the story goes public, spun in a way to make it sound like black kids are being prohibited from school government, cue public outrage, and the school gets what it wanted all along: no racial quotas in the school government anymore.

Actually, it wasn't worded as "black kids are being prohibited from school government", there. The whole question was raised because an Amerind girl wasn't allowed to run for any office - she's not white, she's not black, and so the school told her she couldn't run for treasurer, because that was allocated to a black kid this year. The policy was ham-handed silliness. Again, from the above article to which I linked:

Even if the rule is an attempt to ensure black and white participation, Springer said diversity is no longer a black and white issue, with a growing number of mixed-race children, Hispanics and other ethnicities attending school together.

The school agreed, saying it the statement that it "acknowledges and embraces the fact that we are growing in ethnic diversity and that the classifications of Caucasian and African-American no longer reflect our entire student body."

You missed the point, filled in assumptions, and got basic information wrong.

OK. But did you really have to call me a fool? That seems like the kind of thing an African American might say, perhaps a large one with a mohawk and lots of gold chains.

Just sayin.

Stanfan114: OK. But did you really have to call me a fool? That seems like the kind of thing an African American might say, perhaps a large one with a mohawk and lots of gold chains.

Just sayin.

For that, I apologize - my anti-troll hair trigger's been a bit touchy, lately, what with the sudden influx of pre-November political derp. In keeping with the theme, I should've used "Foo."

/stay in school

FormlessOne: Stanfan114: OK. But did you really have to call me a fool? That seems like the kind of thing an African American might say, perhaps a large one with a mohawk and lots of gold chains.

Just sayin.

For that, I apologize - my anti-troll hair trigger's been a bit touchy, lately, what with the sudden influx of pre-November political derp. In keeping with the theme, I should've used "Foo."

/stay in school

Agreed.

/respect your momma too

aearra: Apparently news about Brown VS Board of Education finally got to Mississippi. Anyone willing to break the news that they lost the civil war?

I think Grant and Sherman pretty much got the point across in Vicksberg and Jackson.
/old joke: just after the Civil War, a little girl in Jackson, MI, asks her mom "What's the big thing attached to the chimney, momma? I've never seen one before."
"It's called a house,honey."

Jesus Christ, what year are they stuck in?
-------

2010.

Not a single member of Congress sends their kids to a majority-Black public school.

Oh, Huffington Post will ban you if you question why there are no gentile Israeli Prime Ministers, so the hyprocrisy is staggering...

You REALLY need to stay away from Huffington posts.

PC run amok.

FormlessOne: Stanfan114: FormlessOne: If, by "it was planned from the start," you mean "the school continued a 30+ year old policy designed to ensure a heavily controlled minority presence in school government and then rescinded it when they realized other people were now paying attention", then, yes, it was obviously a conspiracy.

If you believe that, I've a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate I could sell you. Cheap.

Wrong.

The school was being forced to adopt an affirmative action type system, where four of the elected positions WERE REQUIRED to be filled by black students. Little white girl wants to be treasurer? Sorry, black kids only.

From this article:

Springer is white. Her two older children, including the sixth grader, are half Native American. Her two younger children have a black father.

Fool. The girl in question wasn't white, and she wasn't black, either - that's the whole point of the article. She didn't fit the school's policy at all. That's not a surprise - the school wasn't "forced" to do anything, given that the school's done this for over 30 years.

So the story goes public, spun in a way to make it sound like black kids are being prohibited from school government, cue public outrage, and the school gets what it wanted all along: no racial quotas in the school government anymore.

Actually, it wasn't worded as "black kids are being prohibited from school government", there. The whole question was raised because an Amerind girl wasn't allowed to run for any office - she's not white, she's not black, and so the school told her she couldn't run for treasurer, because that was allocated to a black kid this year. The policy was ham-handed silliness. Again, from the above article to which I linked:

Even if the rule is an attempt to ensure black and white participation, Springer said diversity is no longer a black and white issue, with a growing number of mixed-race children, Hispanics and other ethnicities attending school together.

The school agreed, saying it the statement that it "acknowledges and embraces the fact that we are growing in ethnic diversity and that the classifications of Caucasian and African-American no longer reflect our entire student body."

You missed the point, filled in assumptions, and got basic information wrong.

Actually, you're wrong, the half-American Indian girl was allowed to run for the "white" positions. Remember "go with the mother's race because with minorities the father generally isn't at home." Yeah.

Affirmative action = racism.

I feel sorry for the asian kids who can't run for anything.

Renowned transvestite sexologist:
/everyone has a built in racial bias. EVERYONE.

You don't represent me. Don't try to makes yourself feel better about your bigotry by projecting it onto everyone else.

/Also [Citation Needed]

My wife went to school in Mississippi, she said they ROTATED the presidents race every year, one year a black president, the next year a white president so no one would get butthurt. Really though who gives a fark

BackAssward: You don't represent me. Don't try to makes yourself feel better about your bigotry by projecting it onto everyone else.

Humans congregate with those most similar to themselves. We do it automatically and with out thought. It's just that simple. It's not racism, per say, but it is a bias. We are all genetically biased towards people who look and act as if they are from the same tribe. That includes racial bias. It's okay, that doesn't mean you're a racist. It means you're human.

If you deny that a clear majority of your associates aren't of the same race, you're either a liar or you're one of the only people of your race in you're locality.