Reverse racism at it's finest!
CNN.com reports on a typical overreaction. A black student in Richmond, Virginia had been named class valedictorian. A couple of other student's parents looked into it and found that their children had virtually identical academic records, and so the school was going to recognize all three as co-valedictorians. No problem, right?
Wrong. The two other students were white, thus igniting a firestorm of controversy and cries of racism. It went so far as to generate this comment from a national NAACP spokesperson...
>>>The outrage also caused NAACP national board vice chairwoman Roslyn Brock last month to compare it to an academic "lynching."<<<
Two issues here. First, if the original valedictorian had been white and two black students had been found to have similar academic records, what do you supposed the reaction would have been? I am guessing just the opposite. The school would have been accused of a racist conspiracy and the local "civil rights activists" would have demanded at least equal recognition of the black students. Second, the use of language like "lynching" to describe this demeans the memory of those who were lynched back in the early days of the civil rights movement (back when it really was about civil rights and not about entitlements). Those people were innocents who were hung from a tree because of the color of their skin, and yet that horror is compared to a young blakc student having to share academic honors with two white students.
When will this end?
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