Oh, Sorry. Because You Are Black, You Can't Be Valedictorian

wrong. if it was the 1860s she wouldn't be going to school at all

Good point. She would also be a slave, which I'm sure is just OK with some Southerners.

Y'all come back now, ya hear?

I like stories like this that list at least one credible source and don't come completely packaged as a source-less blog poast from some internet place that I have never heard of or been to before this particular click. Other than that, great link.

If this school receives federal monies, shouldn't they be in a meepload of federal trouble?

They would be, if the Congress wasn't a) trying to find excuses to not spend money on ordinary people, and b) actually thought there was anything wrong with this scenario.

Well, the source was several national sites, but I "dug" as requested by upstanding Linkswarmers around these parts. I didn't waste too much time digging, so this is what you got.

You could read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/black-student-cant-be-val_n_909163.html

Or this.

Blame it on The Man keeping you down.

So , whatever happened to Micheal Steele?

The ex-RNC chair? He is a commentator on MSNBC.

> and did not want to see Wimberly, an African-American young mother as valedictorian

While I'm sure being black didn't help, apparently she is also a teen mother, which is also frowned upon, what with Jesus and whatnot.

Jesus was a real meep.

If I were God, I would nuke the South asap... or unleash a disease that caused all meeps to fall off their owners.

all meeps?

No, just those in the Southern US states. Very specific plague.

As a Northerner living in the South, I've found that the best solution is to continue with the mass migration from the North and the West to out populate them. They aren't bright enough to get any jobs better than dirt farming, working fast food or at a convenience store, so we can continue to take choice plots of land, put a science/technology company on that land and then offer them jobs working in the kitchen or taking out the garbage.

If only we could reinstate the literacy tests that they came up with when trying to differentiate themselves from poor, ignorant black people, we could keep those dumbmeeps from voting.