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Want to be class president? Not if you're black, in one Miss. school

This policy isn't "racist" against anyone; it is a well-intentioned policy that was probably almost unthinkably progressive thirty years ago when it was conceived: basically, in order to effect racial equality in student government, blacks and whites were forced to take turns filling different student government positions.
The community has now moved beyond the need for such a policy, apparently, and it's right that it be done away with at this time.
But it's stupid to claim it wasn't needed or useful thirty years ago, in the recently-segregated South, or that it's "racist".

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It indeed wasn't needed and surely lost its usefulness after 30 years. The law can only go so far, it can make sure every person gets their fair opportunity. If the state don't want you, there's always another state that would take you in. Remember, it's not the government's job to tell its people what to do.

Also this is blatantly going against the Civil Rights Act as there can not be any race, gender, etc. to prohibit a selection. Well this is a clear example of that if you changed all the White positions to Black and people are arguing about the Black student wanting to be the reporter. Just saying....
 
It indeed wasn't needed and surely lost its usefulness after 30 years. The law can only go so far, it can make sure every person gets their fair opportunity. If the state don't want you, there's always another state that would take you in. Remember, it's not the government's job to tell its people what to do.

Also this is blatantly going against the Civil Rights Act as there can not be any race, gender, etc. to prohibit a selection. Well this is a clear example of that if you changed all the White positions to Black and people are arguing about the Black student wanting to be the reporter. Just saying....

30 years ago, the South was still severely socially imbalanced because of the aftereffects of years of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
It is not your place to say whether this policy was useful or needed 30 years ago. I'm sure that if it wasn't, the citizens of the community would've done away with it long ere now.
The fact that they are only now complaining tells me that it was once a useful and necessary policy, but that the community has now progressed beyond the need for it.
 
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NOT funny Dan
 
Um, why should race have a factor in it at all? Yes it's racism, against just about every race it seems. It's horrible and wrong, and the policy should be removed.

Probably, because 30 years ago, some white, Liberal do-gooder said that there weren't enough black kids being elected to the student council and it's racist not to skew the system, to allow more black kids to have the chance to serve on the student council.

As far as racism being overcome? That'll never happen, as long as Liberalism exists.
 
30 years ago, the South was still severely socially imbalanced because of the aftereffects of years of segregation and Jim Crow laws.
It is not your place to say whether this policy was useful or needed 30 years ago. I'm sure that if it wasn't, the citizens of the community would've done away with it long ere now.
The fact that they are only now complaining tells me that it was once a useful and necessary policy, but that the community has now progressed beyond the need for it.

would you believe that there is still a building in the town where i live that still has a large plague that says "colored school" on it? the building is freshly painted regularly and that plague is still there and they paint around it.
 
I also find it interesting that you didn't bother to actually read the article. President position alternated every other year, which means that your thread title is misleading as well as your lack of posting anything from the actual article itself.

You just wanted to stir up the "Woe is me for I are Black" vitimhood **** again.

Granted the policy is as dumb as a box of rocks, its hardly the evil "Keepin' the black man down" act that the OP is making it out to be.
 
would you believe that there is still a building in the town where i live that still has a large plague that says "colored school" on it? the building is freshly painted regularly and that plague is still there and they paint around it.


Wow. They ought to hire the painters from my apartment complex to paint it.
Talk about thorough.
Last time they painted the exterior of the complex, they not only painted my birdhouse, which is nailed to the railing of my porch, but also the birdseed bell that was hanging beside it.
I figure if I'd been standing on the porch at the time, they probably would've painted me, too.

In all seriousness, though, perhaps there's a reason they leave that sign there.
Maybe they're trying to own their past, not sweep it under the rug like everybody else seems to want to do.
If so, kudos to them. I mean, it's no longer a "colored school", correct?
In a way, leaving the sign there, as a now-irrelevant anachronism, is sort of like owning the past while pointing to the progress they've made since then.

Although definitely if the sign offends everybody or causes discord, it should be removed.
I think people forget how recent this ugly past really was.
Seeing reminders of it- relics which aren't even that old- is not necessarily a bad thing.
It might even be vindicating to middle-aged people of color, who lived through it, and who must find it alienating to live among younger people who don't really believe it ever happened, and certainly not within living memory.
 
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Wow. They ought to hire the painters from my apartment complex to paint it.
Talk about thorough.
Last time they painted the exterior of the complex, they not only painted my birdhouse, which is nailed to the railing of my porch, but also the birdseed bell that was hanging beside it.
I figure if I'd been standing on the porch at the time, they probably would've painted me, too.

In all seriousness, though, perhaps there's a reason they leave that sign there.
Maybe they're trying to own their past, not sweep it under the rug like everybody else seems to want to do.
If so, kudos to them. I mean, it's no longer a "colored school", correct?
In a way, leaving the sign there, as a now-irrelevant anachronism, is sort of like owning the past while pointing to the progress they've made since then.

Although definitely if the sign offends everybody or causes discord, it should be removed.
I think people forget how recent this ugly past really was.
Seeing reminders of it- relics which aren't even that old- is not necessarily a bad thing.
It might even be vindicating to middle-aged people of color, who lived through it, and who must find it alienating to live among younger people who don't really believe it ever happened, and certainly not within living memory.

i have no idea why they leave it there. its a meat packing plant now. i was shocked when i saw it. hang on, lemme see if i can find the picture i have of it...
ok, its not a plague but its definately noticable:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a34BQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
 
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would you believe that there is still a building in the town where i live that still has a large plague that says "colored school" on it? the building is freshly painted regularly and that plague is still there and they paint around it.

Its historical.........
 
would you believe that there is still a building in the town where i live that still has a large plague that says "colored school" on it? the building is freshly painted regularly and that plague is still there and they paint around it.

It's good that it's there. It should stay there. If we don't remember history, we're doomed to repeat it.
 
I thought Breaking News Thread Titles had to mimic their Article title?

The title of the article in the OP is "Miss-School drops race based rules for student elections."

So why is the thread titled "Want to be class president? not if your black, in one Miss. school"
 
I thought Breaking News Thread Titles had to mimic their Article title?

The title of the article in the OP is "Miss-School drops race based rules for student elections."

So why is the thread titled "Want to be class president? not if your black, in one Miss. school"

It was the original headline. Obviously, someone discovered that the headline writer didn't understand the story.
 
It was the original headline. Obviously, someone discovered that the headline writer didn't understand the story.

Typical media misinformation..... lol.

I agree, should be in the "Bias in the Media" section.
 
It's good that it's there. It should stay there. If we don't remember history, we're doomed to repeat it.

Lol no were not. No one is going to wake up one day and be like "You know what would be swell? If we could keep move all the whites one way, and then make a brown town."

Anyways, my understanding and the NAACP's understanding of it is that it would alternate but seriously why do people act surprised that they did this? This isn't a normal state were talking about it's good ole Mississippi where the racism is so great, you can taste it in the food.
 
Lol no were not. No one is going to wake up one day and be like "You know what would be swell? If we could keep move all the whites one way, and then make a brown town."

Anyways, my understanding and the NAACP's understanding of it is that it would alternate but seriously why do people act surprised that they did this? This isn't a normal state were talking about it's good ole Mississippi where the racism is so great, you can taste it in the food.

Perhaps you have never heard of Mayor Nagin and Chocolate City USA...
 
Perhaps you have never heard of Mayor Nagin and Chocolate City USA...

As soon as I posted that for some reason I knew that someone woudl post that. Yeah New Orleans is a ****hole and ****ty to it's people too what's your point?
 
As soon as I posted that for some reason I knew that someone woudl post that. Yeah New Orleans is a ****hole and ****ty to it's people too what's your point?

That you knew it as soon as you made the post illustrates the point...
 
Lol no were not. No one is going to wake up one day and be like "You know what would be swell? If we could keep move all the whites one way, and then make a brown town."

Anyways, my understanding and the NAACP's understanding of it is that it would alternate but seriously why do people act surprised that they did this? This isn't a normal state were talking about it's good ole Mississippi where the racism is so great, you can taste it in the food.

How 'bout we remember the mistakes of the past...just in case.
 
Didn't Katrina clean it all out?

Can you elaborate?

How 'bout we remember the mistakes of the past...just in case.

I think learning about the civil rights movement in schools and such should help cover that. Do they keep old swatikas around Germany you think?
 
I have never seen a school with only black and white students.

Why did they leave out the asians, latinos and the mixed race students? Those kids must have felt useless to never have been included in anything for the last 30 years.
 
I have never seen a school with only black and white students.

Why did they leave out the asians, latinos and the mixed race students? Those kids must have felt useless to never have been included in anything for the last 30 years.

Because asians are craft and shifty with their little beady eyes and mexicans have stole enough jobs. That or, like a lot of rural based schools there wasn't really much of anything but black and white.
 
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