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September 25, 2004
Can you say... Racism?
A Maryland high school is having a reunion for its graduates from the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
So? Why is this news?
Well, the reunion is being described as a "racist throwback to another era" because no African-Americans will be attending the events, reports the Associated Press.
Guess what? That’s because there were no African-American students at Washington High School in those decades before integration.
Mickey Wigglesworth, a retired banker and 1957 graduate who has spent the past year organizing the event at the Somerset County Civic Center, said there was no intent to exclude blacks.
Instead, he said, it is a gathering of students from three decades who share music and culture from the era of sock hops and jukeboxes.
But because there are no blacks who graduated this school in those decades, it's still racist, right?
I guess my family reunion would be racist too. Good thing we are not having one.
As long as we are talking about racism...
The Detriot Free Press reports that the City Council has an economic development plan code named "Powernomics" that explicitly blames the plight of Detroit’s black residents on immigrants from Mexico, Asia and the Middle East.
Powernomics will create a development corporation that would operate as a loan fund exclusively for black entrepreneurs and set aside city money for an exclusively African-American business district dubbed African Town. African Town will be funded exclusively by Chicago taxpayers.
In voting to implement the Powernomics plan, the council also passed a resolution that designates blacks, who make up 83 percent of Detroit's population, as the "majority minority."
And just for the heck of it, I'll thow this one in too:
The Lafayette Advertiser reports a Louisiana city clerk who attempted to stop a black city councilman from using city employees to fix traffic tickets was labeled a racist for her efforts.
It seems the councilman asked the city clerks to write letters on council letterhead seeking to get an unpaid cellphone bill and a traffic ticket he received dismissed. Lafayette Council Clerk Norma Dugas told her staff they were not to conduct personal business for councilman Chris Williams on city time.
When he found out about Dugas’ efforts to enforce the law, Williams attacked Dugas for being a racist who was harassing him because he is African-American.
Posted by LindaSoG at September 25, 2004 08:20 PM