Small town Minnesota high school “promposal” goes viral and not in a good way. Teen writes his invitation to his girlfriend on poster board. Looks like it was done by a preschooler. The wording is so stupid that even if you take out the racist stuff it’s still stupid. Teen girl is so impressed she poses for a pic with him holding the sign, possibly in the school parking lot. You have to see the picture to get the full effect.
School announces there is no racism in Big Lake. And so it goes…
“The fact that you’re here doing this report perpetuates that fear, it perpetuates the racism,” said Geri who has children who attend Big Lake. She went on to say, "this is not a racist town, this is not a racist school. This is at the heart of the people who made that choice. They are, as all of us are, responsible for our own actions.”
Ah yes, racism is caused by people reporting on racists.
I got access denied for the link in the OP (from the UK). Just in case this is a more general problem for non-US, I found this, which appears to be the same story - have I got this right @mordecaiB?
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Well you need to properly point out the problem. Stop reporting about racism and -boom - no more racists! It’s like science.
Sorry about that link. Yes that’s the story. That also has a clip with comments from a bi-racial family that’s worth a watch. Thanks.
I think it was Trevor Noah who said this: Racists don’t mind being racist; it’s being called racist they don’t like.
p.s. Didn’t this happen before?
Yeah, these shithead racists can’t even come up with original racist signs. Fuckers.
Jesus! It’s exactly the same thing. I wonder how many more of these are out there? No way these three came up with that sign out of the blue. Is it a play off of a saying that wasn’t racist to start with? I guess nothing is new under the sun.
I notice there doesn’t seem to be any follow up to these two stories, the only consequences I see is that one of the guys was “talked” to.
What does the topic title have to do with the article?
There’s always someone.
That’s what I’ve been wondering. I don’t get it.
I share their confusion. This is about some high school student, and I see no mention that they plan to major in English or Art in college. “Racist high schooler is racist” would make more sense as a title to me.
From the title, I expected this to be about some sort of racist art project made in college.
I assume it’s a joke about how badly written the sign is, but I don’t quite get it.
Apparently a meme. I thought this was an old story and googled–the same phrase has been used at least three other times.
I want to say I’ve heard “Blacks pick cotton, whites pick X” before, but I don’t remember where. It may have been some previous news article or it may have been a stand-up routine.
~Max
A quick Google image search comes up with at least 8 examples:
Sounds like Trump’s COVID philosophy.
Huh. Looks like, when I went looking for a more generally available link for the story, I was really lucky to find the right story.
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Here is the search.
