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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs there still racism? Check this out...
http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20180423/sarasota-student-makes-racist-prom-proposalSARASOTA COUNTY -- A Riverview High student is under fire after using a racist sign to ask his girlfriend to the schools prom.
The sign, reading If I was black, Id be picking cotton, but Im white, so Im picking u 4 prom, made the rounds on Twitter Sunday night. The proposal was conducted by 18-year-old student Noah Crowley, the district confirmed. Riverview students found the image on the female students Snapchat, with a caption of two heart-eye emojis, implying that she was excited about the request. The Herald-Tribune did not identify Crowley until confirming that he is an adult.
By Monday morning, various Twitter posts had already received hundreds of retweets and favorites. One student tweeted out the image with the comment: He seems to not know about Americas history. Racism is a problem. Definitely should not be allowed to go to the prom!!
School district spokeswoman Tracey Beeker confirmed Monday morning that Crowley attended Riverview and the sign was under investigation by the school district. She said administrators have been speaking to the student and his parents on the phone since Sunday evening.
The sign, reading If I was black, Id be picking cotton, but Im white, so Im picking u 4 prom, made the rounds on Twitter Sunday night. The proposal was conducted by 18-year-old student Noah Crowley, the district confirmed. Riverview students found the image on the female students Snapchat, with a caption of two heart-eye emojis, implying that she was excited about the request. The Herald-Tribune did not identify Crowley until confirming that he is an adult.
By Monday morning, various Twitter posts had already received hundreds of retweets and favorites. One student tweeted out the image with the comment: He seems to not know about Americas history. Racism is a problem. Definitely should not be allowed to go to the prom!!
School district spokeswoman Tracey Beeker confirmed Monday morning that Crowley attended Riverview and the sign was under investigation by the school district. She said administrators have been speaking to the student and his parents on the phone since Sunday evening.
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Is there still racism? Check this out... (Original Post)
Sancho
Apr 2018
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Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)1. These kids
probably hear this kind of crap at home from their parents, still, that doesn't make it all right.
I can't believe that in this day and age anyone would say something like that.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)9. This is a conservative part of Florida...
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)2. Noah Crowley:
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)3. eww. Just eww.
malaise
(269,157 posts)4. Fuck him
Hope he never has children
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,588 posts)5. I can't figure
how he thought this was funny or cute. He must be insulated from the real world..............
rurallib
(62,448 posts)6. So many ways he could have expressed this concept
"If I was rich I'd be picking stocks ......."
"If I was a kid I'd be picking candy ......"
He went for a flat out racist one.
Maybe the girl could have said no because it was racist, but maybe that's her feelings also?
spanone
(135,873 posts)7. racist.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)8. Horrible school
But some students, including Erin Williams, who has said on social media that she is a Riverview student, have indicated that this prom proposal sign is not an isolated incident. Williams took to Facebook Sunday night to detail her experiences at Riverview, saying the past couple of weeks had been a race war.
Williams said the same student in the picture had thrown a banana at one student and told him to, Go fetch. She also said some white students had called black students monkeys and used the n-word to describe them on social media.
Williams said the same student in the picture had thrown a banana at one student and told him to, Go fetch. She also said some white students had called black students monkeys and used the n-word to describe them on social media.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)10. I just posted a link to the school website in a reply above...
yep, the school has issues.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)12. I tried to post Erin William's FB post, but I couldn't
She has some tales to tell.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)13. I saw this on FB shared by one of my ex-students...
oasis
(49,407 posts)11. Dorky asshole. It's a mystery how he managed to get a date. nt
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)14. He should be expelled.
Racist little punk.