Milwaukee Students' Answer To 'Nazi Salute' Prom Photo Will Melt Your Heart

[Stonepounder]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/milwaukee-students-answer-to-nazi-salute-prom-photo_us_5bfb4a6be4b03b230fa312a8


Milwaukee Students’ Answer To ‘Nazi Salute’ Prom Photo Will Melt Your Heart

After students in Baraboo, Wisconsin, drew attention to the Badger State by posing for a photo in which nearly all the young men – most of them white – were raising their arms in what appeared to be a Nazi salute, another group of students about 100 miles away decided they would not let that image speak for them.

More than 60 students at Rufus King High School in Milwaukee got together after school earlier this month to create their own photo: a diverse group of young people showing signs of love and peace, OnMilwaukee reported.

The Baraboo photo, which was taken in May before the high school’s junior prom, went viral after being posted on Twitter this month. Last week, Baraboo School Superintendent Lori Mueller announced that the students would not be punished because of their First Amendment rights.

The Rufus King students used their First Amendment rights to respond with their own powerful image.

Link to tweet

More at Huff Post link above.

[Takket]

1. Great to see some mature grown ups to offset the losers!

Thanks for the great photo! Lots of diversity. A true snapshot of America

Is this an all girls school? Noticed the only men look like staff.

[sheshe2]

2. I enlarged the picture.

Young boys there as well.

What a beautiful picture of diversity. These kids are our future.

[nolabear]

3. There are a few boys, but mostly girls. Really great kids.

They look like individuals, not the homogenous bunch who threw up that salute.

To be honest I think those boys should be taught rather than condemned. There’s nothing more difficult than youngsters who are certain they can casually be cruel and not take it seriously. But they’re potentially reachable if the world doesn’t help them to concretize that behavior by not doing as those other kids did-expressing love in all its diversity.

[Cha]

4. Mahalo to the Rufus King Students!

Wipe Out that "Nazi" shite with Strong Diversity and Love!

[pazzyanne]

5. This is the America that I know and love!

It is great to see our young people showing their morals to combat the evil that is loose in the world these days.