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Student Caught In Racial Controversy
Flyers Promote White Student For African-American Award
OMAHA, Neb. -- Four Westside High School students are suspended for promoting a white student for an African-American award.
More than 150 flyers were distributed throughout the school Monday. They featured junior Trevor Richards, A South African native who moved to the United States in 1997.
Westside officials say the flyers were were quickly removed because they were inappropriate and insensitive to black students.
Trevor said he is as African as anyone else.
"I had no intent of hurting anyone or offending anyone. I wasn't trying to make a statement. I was just running for the award, but i guess the administration felt differently," Richards said.
Richards was suspended for two days.
Two other students were disciplined for putting up the posters and another student was punished for starting a petition to promote Richards.
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Well, what do we have here? It seems as though a few enterprising young minds have found a loophole in the system to show us all how stupid we're being. Bravo for them, says I. What the article failed to mention was that the award centers around Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke with compassion about the brutal truth that America faced during the fight for Civil Rights. He did not mince words. In his famous speech he gave in August of 1963 he said
"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" This sure sounds like what he wanted, and rightfully so...color to be a non-issue in our everyday life.