As Dan Sterlace [1] pointed out a few days ago, a Mississippi public school was barring black students from running for class president [1] and other offices. When I first heard about this story, I was saddened, outraged, and annoyed, so I dealt with it in the most mature way I could: I prank called them.
The image below is a copy of the election rules for Nettleton Middle School’s class officers.
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Qualifications for class president including having a B average or better, a good attendance record, and WHITE SKIN?
I decided to check out Nettleton’s web site, and, to my surprise, evidence or racism was nowhere to be found!
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If we’re racists, then why do the black people in this stock photo look happy?
In fact, on the middle school’s page, which my best guess and Google’s cache of the site tells me has been unchanged since this controversy made the news, you find that the principal and assistant principal both appear to be black women! [4]
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What? This school has a principal who, as a student there, wouldn’t have been allowed to run for class president?
Fortunately, after the news broke, the school reviewed the policy and removed it.
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