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Students at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia walked out of class on Monday to protest a school officials Twitter message that referred to young black men as a nightmare for white fathers.
According to WVEC, the Twitter post was made in June by the school administrator, but students only recently noticed it.
The tweet was a reposting of a message from an account called @OrNahhTweets. It showed a photograph of seven white girls in prom-style dresses with seven African-American young men in tuxedos. The caption on the photo read, every white girls fathers worst nightmare or not.
Over a dozen African-American students walked out of classes with protest signs on Monday after they said that school officials and the school board refused to respond to their complaints.
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Feral Child
(2,086 posts)Laughing Mirror
(4,185 posts)I wonder about the school administrator's state of mind posting this, or that "Or Nah ?" at the end.
It boggles the mind, at least the state of mind I'm in reading this.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Why does he/she still have a job? Why has the school administrator been utterly ignoring this? Whoever that is needs to get fired as well.
Love the photo though. Lovely young ladies with their handsome dates all look so happy and confidant with the rest of their lives before them. A beautiful "coming of age" type of moment. How does anyone look at such a photo and crap on it with such ugly thoughts? What evil memories they made for those young people in such a photo they should be allowed to cherish the rest of their lives.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)I'm still wondering where that pic came from. It's been around for a while and generates a ton of replies every time.