Not “racism” in Mississippi: affirmative action in Mississippi.

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Not “racism” in Mississippi: affirmative action in Mississippi.

Written By : TrogloPundit

Here’s a shocking story: black students barred from running for class president at a Mississippi middle school.

My first thought – like yours, I’ll bet – was: you have got to be kidding me.

But no. That was the policy, and it was so ingrained into their “that’s just how we do it” that it wasn’t even hidden. Nobody, apparently, thought there was anything wrong.

Sheesh.

Thankfully, the school board is reversing the policy:

The school board in Nettleton, Miss., voted Friday to reverse its policy under which race determined whether a candidate could run for class positions, including president.

According to a memo sent home with students last week, African-American students could not run for class president in Nettleton Middle School this school year. However, the board voted at an emergency session Friday to drop that policy, according to Craig Ford, a reporter with the NBC News affiliate WTVA, who attended the meeting.

So, good. Even so, it’s hard to believe, in this day and age, that people didn’t notice this. That nobody thought: y’know, we shouldn’t be doing this.

We should mention: it wasn’t a simple case of white-over-black racism:

That’s part of the memo the school district sent home with students. Note how some positions are whites-only, while others are blacks-only, with the black students getting the less-prestigious spots.

Let’s read more:

According to the district’s statement, the practice had been in use for more than 30 years with whites and blacks rotating among offices annually.

“It is the belief of the current administration that these procedures were implemented to help ensure minority representation and involvement in the student body,” Superintendent Russell Taylor said in a statement.

So: this wasn’t a case of out-and-out anti-black racism. It’s affirmative action, making sure that both races get a place regardless of who wants the position, or who has support.

Clumsy, blockheaded affirmative action, sure. But affirmative action, nonetheless. Somebody, sometime, thought they were doing black students a favor.

I suppose we should be grateful that nobody feels that way now.

Which still leaves the question: don’t they have any Hispanics? And what about mixed-race children?

Posted by The TrogloPundit

UFKA_Smithwick

Great, so they've been putting this nonsense in kids' heads for 30 years.

I can only hope that it ticked off the majority of students so that they come out hating affirmative action style programs.
DevStar

This is the stupidest policy ever. I attended a 70% white school with a Black student body president. How did that happen? Because not every white person in the world is racist (sure a lot are, but clearly not all, ask our current US president).

And you're right, what about Asian, Hispanic, mixed, Native American, Indian kids? They can't hold office? I get that in a school that is mostly white with a history of racism, minorities may not get to hold many positions, but you can deal with it other ways. Like teaching people not to be racist. Not by perpetuating it!
UFKA_Smithwick

I would say it goes beyond stupid.

Intentionally denying access to people based solely on their race, no matter what the intentions, amounts to an evil act.

This is blatant racism that is at the core no different than Jim Crow laws. Yes the intentions are probably better and the scope is smaller but the wrongness of it is the same.

America hasn't had the best history with regards to race (although far better than many like to present it as) but generally speaking we're trying to make things right and ensure that everyone is treated the same regardless of skin color.

These sorts of programs are a major step backwards. And the fact that they're trying to force these thoughts on impressionable minds makes it all the more inexcusable.
regularguy

Affirmative action is one of the most egregious sins America has imposed on itself in her long history. It has certainly instilled more racial animosity between people where there wouldn't otherwise be–more than Satan himself could have imagined in his darkest dreams. It is the very definition of state sponsored, institutionalized discrimination and simply fosters more racial prejudice into the cynical and personal. There is not a woman or person of “color” that I don't first think got his or her position because of race or gender rather than merit anymore, even if it's an unfair portrait. I'd love to be free of that cynicism, but the insidious nature of affirmative action makes me pretty sure I am not alone in harboring such thoughts.
Karma Hoser

Yet another fine example of what happens when moonbats run the show!!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52JULG2T2XWUMHBUJY3F5LOG7I kevin

“affirmative action, making sure that both races get a place regardless of who wants the position, or who has support.”

This is not affirmative action. If it were the school would be actively recruiting qualified Black students for ANY of the positions.
This is a clear example of separate but equal, and why that policy is inherently unequal.
This certainly does not represent, No Child Left Behind.
Toastrider

“In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us… I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! … And if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! … your interference is doing him positive injury.” –Frederick Douglass
mightysamurai

This is not affirmative action. If it were the school would be actively recruiting qualified Black students for ANY of the positions.

Recruiting qualified applicants is the very antithesis of Affirmative Action in the first place.

Affirmative Action is a program where applicants are chosen based on race rather than merit. That's what this is.
UFKA_Smithwick

This was done to ensure that blacks get certain positions regardless of being the most qualified for that position.

That is exactly what affirmative action is.

If it were about simply recruiting for quality then race wouldn't enter in to it.
http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

Not “racism” in Mississippi: affirmative action in Mississippi.

There's a difference?
http://troglopundit.wordpress.com TrogloPundit

In flavor, yes. But you're right, affirmative action is itself a racist policy.
sim427

Intentionally denying access to people based solely on their race, no matter what the intentions, amounts to an evil act.

Unless it's the NAACP, BET, Ebony, ACORN, Rainbow Push Organization, National Urban League, African American Planning Commission (AAPC), African American Speaker Bureau (AASB), National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators and Developers (NABHOOD), National Association of Black Accountants (NABA), National Association of Blacks In Criminal Justice (NABCJ), Black Women In Sisterhood For Action (BISA), Jack and Jill of America, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Miss Black USA, National Action Network, etc, etc, etc…
http://twitter.com/DaSaintFan Mark Stone

i have to admit, when I first saw the article today From a VERY liberal old high-school friend.. I was dumbfouned… I had no way to know how to explain it.. Until i read the entire article… So here's my question… are those who are referring to my original home state as racist, ready to apologize, and are they ready to state that “Affirmative Action is a racist policy”?