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Originally posted by BuDDaH
Wrong again, the award was given to ANY student who embodied the criteria of the merits of what the award endeared to. The first two winners of the award weren't Black at all..
The message I was understanding that those students was trying to say that it wasn't enough the way the award was termed, the had to go an "one-up" on the school and get an African to try to make a point.
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Are we talkin' about the same article? The one at the top of this thread specifically says " Four Westside High School students are suspended for promoting a white student for an African-American award. . .. . Westside officials say the flyers were were quickly removed because they were inappropriate and insensitive to black students."
That sounds like an award only for black people to me. I didn't see where 2 non-black kids got anything either.
*confused*
The message I got from the article was that the students A) didn't like the element of racism and B) realized that "African-American" is a stupid term to describe black people because 1) not all Africans are black and 2) not all black people are from Africa.