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Posted: 5/23/2005 9:11:06 AM EDT
What a bunch of ignorant no good bastards.The girl is the only black girl in the photo ,everyone else (WHITE) are called by their name ,she is not ,she is known as the "black girl".Not many blacks at the school.
Thats like a white guy ,in a black school only known as the "WHITE BOY" in the picture of the year book. VERY STUPID DECISION,HOPE ITS A COSTLY ONE! |
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The school doesn't put those yearbooks together. The students do, if it is anything like my school was.
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I remember when I went to parties where I was pretty much the only white guy.
Wanna guess how people there identified me? |
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So what? Sounds like the most regonizable descriptive term to me.
Better than calling her a Coon. |
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"Hey White Boy!" btdt. It's not a big fuckin deal. |
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I get called "white boy" everytime I walk in downtown Newport News...
There's nothing wrong with her being called the "black girl" (folks need to get over it)...If you had a highschool class with a genuine female Eskimo...you would refer to her as the eskimo girl, not "that cute girl with blubber-breath". She needs to celebrate her induvidual ebony blackitude with pride. |
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I thought they still had a teacher overseeing the yearbook and making sure everything is okay. |
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I'm sure had she been the only white girl in an all black high school, and someone labeled her a cracker, nothing would have been said.
Yeah, they should have put her name in there, but I'm not gonna get my shorts in a knot over it. |
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I have a friend of mexican descent . She and her son refer to one of his friends as Guero (pronounced wettle) which means white boy. His younger brother is called Guerito. But, in a yearbook, that is a little different. They should know the names of the students.
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And being from AL you do right? How about a link, some more info or background? CH |
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Usually the students working on the yearbook are a bunch of liberal hippies intent on getting a BA in Liberal Arts in college. |
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One thing moma never tought you ,two wrongs, dont make a right. |
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yup I'm called that by my Mexican friends quite a bit. Although they pronounce it wetto |
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The term 'black girl' was used as a temporary name until the editors could find out her real name.
The oversight was never corrected. End of story. A very tragic story, for the young girl and her family, but one that doesn't need to be settled in the Courts!. Make of it what you will. Eric The(Sensible)Hun |
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Suffering from white guilt or angry negro syndrome? |
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this comes down to context.
i remember in highschool we use to do stuff like this just to torque the wrong people. |
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For those of you that are to stupid,I explain a little more.It's a little something called "RESPECT".Everyone deserves it, not just you.
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Officials Apologize to Girl ID'ed as 'Black Girl' in Yearbook
WAXAHACHIE (AP) — A North Texas school district has apologized to a student who was listed under the name "Black Girl" in a high school yearbook photo of the school's National Honor Society. All white students are identified by name in the photograph in the Waxahachie High School yearbook, which was distributed on Friday. The teen identified as "Black Girl" is the only black student in the photo. The label apparently was meant to be a placeholder until the yearbook staff could track down the student's name, district spokeswoman Candace Ahlfinger said in Sunday's edition of the Waxahachie Daily Light. She said using that label was a poor choice, but it was not meant maliciously and was not meant to be printed. School board president Joe Langley said a student made the mistake. "I'm sure the student is very sorry," he said. District administrators and high school faculty members were expected to meet on Monday to discuss the mistake, Ahlfinger said. She said the district probably would make adjustments to the yearbook and yearbook staff to avoid such incidents in the future. From WBAP radio website - http://www.wbap.com/listingsEntry.asp?ID=191742&PT=morenews Eric The(Informative)Hun |
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Well I'm looking for a place to move and the demographics of that area sound very appealing... |
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/052305dntexyearbook.d3dd9d03.html
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Bigger problems in this world. No need to create more by making an issue out of an honest mistake.
Unless you profit from such attention that is. |
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Absolutely! Every student deserves just such respect, indeed! But I can assure you that, had the pic been of the High School's track team or basketball team, and every student wasn't known, the sole 'white boy' would likely have been identified just so! It's NOT disrespect, it's just 'place-keeping'! Another method likely needs to be used, such as the photo number, or something.... Eric The(Idealistic)Hun |
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I suggest placeholders such as "Big Ears" or "Buck Tooth". These future changes to placeholder names should avoid help the yearbook to avoid any undue attention next year. |
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So what would clean_cut's placeholder be? |
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So, like what WAS the black girl's name?
Are we trying for to add insult to injury by further failure to publish her name? Is her name not revealed because she's a minor? Hope the outcome is she's a big success, as that's the only answer to the issue. |
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I'm not quite certain how focusing national attention on this 'honest' mistake is going to make life in the US better for anyone's kids. Unless, 'keeping score' and 'settling old grudges' can somehow make for a more 'color-blind' society? If you have any information that this mistake was deliberate...please advise. Eric The(Honest)Hun |
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40 years from now ,she will bring out the year book to show her grand kids her high school years.The grand kids will see Greta ,Tyler,and THE BLACK GIRL.Do you get it now?
I thought calling a person out of their name was disrespectful,I guess it only is for the privledged. |
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I doubt it. There's one black girl in the class and nobody knew her name? Did anyone walk into the hallway and ask "What's the black girls name?". You learn the names of the unique people first. I don't believe they didn't know her name. Unless she was one of those students that inexplicably appear and dissappear. There were plenty of those in my high school. |
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Race Relations is way down my important shit list just over putting out the cockroach traps and just below making sure I wear suntan lotion. I make the world I live in a better place by not making a big deal about stupid shit. |
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Only black girl in the picture, not only black girl in the school. |
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Kung-fu Boy? |
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Well, that was certainly worth getting your panties in a wad!
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"Keeping score" and "settling old grudges" sounds like one of your civil war revisionist posts. |
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You're right about that buddy, I don't have time for hand wringing over that. I have plenty of real world problems to keep my time occupied. Pass your guilt onto someone who has a need fot it, as I do not. Have a nice day now. |
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Please please you can call me "white boy".. but dont call me "honkie boy".. I just couldnt take that.
Proud to be: White Honkie Cracker call me anything.. just dont call me late for dinner. stick and stones... |
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The problem isn't race relations, the problem is they are a bunch of fucking animals. |
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Except people in Missouri though huh? |
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I understand that completely! It was irresponsible in the extreme for the student whose task it was to properly identify everyone in the photograph NOT to go back and change the 'place-holder' name given to this student with her proper name.
Nonsense. As a Father and a Grandfather, I understand just how important it would be for the young girl, AND her family, to see her proper name in print in such a prestigious position as the 'Honor Society.' Everyone suffers from this tragic mistake. Even the other students whose names were properly credited must cringe when they realize that the celebrity that they should be sharing for this honor is being trashed by the national focus on this tragic mistake! Frankly, I cannot imagine why the Waxahachie High School Administration didn't withhold distribution of these yearbooks until they could be corrected WHATEVER THE ULTIMATE COST of that might be!
No, it wasn't OK.
Nor would I wish to be identified as a Cracker in my yearbook, either.
I surely don't call you that. I doubt the fellow students of this young lady didn't call her the 'black girl', either. Eric The(Sensible,AsAlways,IHope)Hun |
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REALLY?!?!?! |
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<sigh> Actually, ryann, if you had actually attended your high school history classes, or at least stayed wake during them, you would know that my understanding of the War Between the States was THE correct understanding of that War from about the End of Reconstruction until sometime around the beginning of the Great Society! Your views are the 'revisionist' views! But thanks for injecting this issue into a thread on another subject altogether! Eric The(Sensible,AsAlways)Hun |
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Several of my high school yearbooks have errors. Mistakes are a fact of life. My last name is mispelled and mispronounced all the time. Shit happens. The mistake in the yearbook should have been caught in the proofing. You expect a high school popularity contest to be perfect? It's not worth blowing a vein over something like this.
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One thing YOUR momma never taught you: How to spell. |
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