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Oy.
I can see rolling your eyes and taking the fliers down, but suspending the students? That seems a bit much.
They (the PC school administration) can't have it both ways - calling it African-American but meaning Black.
When I get upset about stuff like this, I remember that we're one, maybe two generations out from the civil rights movement, and we're still negotiating a lot of boundaries and trying to figure out how to be deal with issues of race and identity. We may just have to go through this foolishness to get to the other side.
This raises interesting questions about how you acknowledge legitimate differences in culture and experience without erasing commonality? It's a tricky border to negotiate. And I agree, good for these students for pointing out the line and how absurdly we behave trying to pretend it's not there.
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