"Go by the mother's race b/c with minorities the father isn't generally in the home."
 

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Thinking about running for eighth grade class president at Nettleton Middle School in Nettleton, Mississippi? Well... are you white? Because only white kids are allowed to run for president. Black kids can be vice-president, though! But only black kids.

A few days ago, Nettleton Middle School students brought home the following memo, which spells out the requirements for students who want to run for class office:
http://pics.livejournal.com/txvoodoo/pic/004ww95x

When one Nettleton mother approached the school board, wondering—among other things, obviously—which "category" her mixed-race kids (Italian and Native American) fell under, she was told the following:
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The schools' response:
No. Fucking. Shit. are you reviewing these processes. :mad:

i don't have anything else to say that i haven't said in chat.
unbelievable.

MMITY?

The whole thing is infuriating, but I made the one comment the headline because it absolutely floored me.

You notice how 8th grade is the only one with more then one black position?

President of the United States?

Oh wait, they go off the mother. Sarah Palin couldn't be VP here.

And I'm done.

Soooo are you SOL if you're Asian?

nah, you can be the number crunchers for the campaigns. and then work behind the scenes doing their math homework while they're busy in office. more money to be made from that.

What percentage of the student body is made up by blacks? Maybe the concern is that unless there are positions reserved for blacks, there will be none in student government? To that extent, it could simply be a simplified Affirmative Action sort of policy.

As to the method of determining race, however, lol.

uhh.

A social experiment.

"If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't go to school outside of your race," - Dr. Laura

...now run tell that!


HEH!

What is reporter, anyway? Is that secretary? Reporter sounds stupid.

I guess it's not possible this school is populated by a lot of people with the last names Black and White and this is last year's election results.

<insert doggie confused head turn>

Optimistic thought but no.

And maybe the reporter announces class news or something, I'm not really sure. Looks like treasurer and secretary are the same though.

Me too!
This doesn't make a lick o' sense!!

It was updated. They changed the policy.

Yeah, they're still blaming a "court order" though.

Same school also required racially balanced homecoming courts. And by balanced I mean one white and one black candidate (or winner?) for each class. It's just weird.

Oh and the quote I used as the title still has no excuse.

Stupid...

Affirmative Action FAIL??!!!!

Was that for real?
I'm not sure where Nettleton (I grew up in the 'Sip) but goodness - did a group of people really sit around and think that was a good idea?

Wow.

This can't be real. Is it?

Totally real. 100%, check the sources.

:(

:confused:My mother talked about situations like this when she was in middle school (small school, small town, Alabama), and said most people she knew thought it was behind the times even back then in small town Alabama (I don't remember when exactly that was, but let's say at least 35-40 years ago). So how in the hell did someone put this plan into action in 2010?

Affirmative Action is it not.

Now Quotas... Yeah... Dedicated positions according to race? Yeah--quota. Wait! It looks more like segregation to me...

Where was this? Oh yeah...Why am I not surprised? Oh well. So much for being post-racial...

What about the other races?

You're expecting too much. :(