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Waxahachie's "Black Girl" Honor Student
May 22, 2005
Editors of the high school yearbook in Waxahachie, Texas, unfortunately played into the Dumb, Bigoted, Southerner stereotype, in which illiberal, intolerant white dweebs and "never forget the pain" black race hustlers playing "progressive" towns like Seattle revel. The Waxahachie yearbook editors did this by publishing a photo of local National Honor Society students with all the white kids nicely listed by name....and the only black student in the picture labelled as, "Black Girl." Details from The Houston Chronicle here. Honky dorks. Deserve a good whuppin'. Posted by Matt Rosenberg at May 22, 2005 10:29 PM Comments:
The article says "Black Girl" was a placeholder while they tracked down the girl's real name. Gee, a classmate, National Honor Society member, but no one on the staff of the yearbook knows her name. Sometimes stereotypes exist for a reason. Posted by: Steven at May 23, 2005 10:42 AMRosenblog, thank you for posting this story.I live in Austin and when I read this in the local paper I was horrified. The town of Waxahachie is very strange indeed, and while many bloggers said "Stop whining about an editing accident" I knew better. Waxahachie has a church on every corner. Even in residential neighborhoods, homes are converted into tax free churches. Yesterday the local paper ran the school district's apology for the black girl incident, and on the same page published the name of a man that was arrested in an undercover sting-operation conducted by the police to "enforce community standards." The man was identified in the paper by age and name and was arrested for soliciting homosexual sex from an undercover cop trolling around the park. "Enforcing community standards" was a term that made me shudder. How about cops using some standards by not running crazy schemes to entrap the citizenry of this town of 20,000 for what the cops call "deviant" behaviour. Posted by: karena at May 24, 2005 12:38 PMOne wonders if the school will "claim" this "Black Girl" when she becomes an award-winning writer, high-powered attorney, or financial whiz.... Oh yeah - right, how can you possibly ask the "Black Girl" to come speak at your school if you don't know her name? Posted by: Re' at May 24, 2005 08:26 PMPost a comment
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