Discussion: Students 'Sorry' For Racist Rap Saying 'I Want To Kill' Blacks, Latinos, Asians

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“Being new to social media, I did not realize anyone would find out. I’m sincerely sorry I got in trouble.”

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Racism begins at home.

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Did they or did they not hear it through the Grapevine???
(apologies to Marvin Gaye)

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But they are sorry, according to those wonderfully drafted letters that they did not write.

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Before this goes too far into bashing the entire state of Texas?

Grapevine TX.
This AGAIN is in an area of small, Evangelical, moneyed townships just north of Dallas
(somewhat east-of-Ft Worth)-- where we’ve heard of similar dumb^ss-and-racist stunts.

Recall the ‘WHITE’ and ‘POWER’ signs at the HS basketball game?
Flower Mound TX. Same general area.

OU SAE frat member Levi Petit-- hails from–
Highland Park TX about 20 minutes away.

Being from HouTX?
Like I need three more reasons for which-- I just can’t stand Dallas.

jw1
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BREAKING: Kids are Fucking Idiots.

Stupid Teenagers Record Racist Song About Lynching TWO YEARS AGO on the heels of YOUNG ADULTS WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER being caught doing something similar within the last month.

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No, no.

Don’t tell me racist, bigots…bible thumpers one and all, I can guarantee!

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So much bullshit flying from one mouth. He must be choking on it.

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Breaking: Kids may be f^cking idiots-- but that doesn’t parlay to being f^cking racists.
Ghost-- the point being:

“As kids, we hear racist jokes all times of the day. It’s what we’re around, it’s the jokes we heard.”

It’s endemic to the local culture. This is Ted Cruz and Rick Perry-land.
We’ll see and hear more of this from this area. I’d bet cash.

jw1

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Does modern school curriculum include an equivalent to The Diary of Anne Frank that personalizes the African American experience of being treated as less than human and living in fear of violence?

I remember reading Richard Wright’s Black Boy in HS English, but he and his story were pretty complex and practically alien to middle class white me in 1970s Arizona.

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I heard plenty of racist jokes growing up, in of all places, Ann Arbor. I probably told some too. I think at a certain point to many they stop being funny. All except maybe the Italian, Scotsman, and Chinese “SUPPLIES” joke.

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Here’s the song in question. Apparently, you can make racist song, then blame it on society and write an “apology” letter and, poof, you’re no longer a racist.

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Polish and blond jokes never go out of style.

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“I was 14 years old and was ignorant to the words coming out of my mouth. As kids, we hear racist jokes all times of the day. It’s what we’re around, it’s the jokes we heard.”

But Grapevine High School teachers and administrators know nothing about what they hear within its walls, only what they read on Facebook.

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Where are these kids’ parents? One says, " As kids, we hear racist jokes all times of the day." Can we assume that some of these “racist jokes” were heard at home? Has anyone asked?

Nearly 70 years ago, Oscar Hammerstein II wrote in South Pacific:

You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught

Racism does not come naturally. It is taught, modeled, and imitated. Kids like these, and their parents, and the adult influences who breed this kind of behavior need to be held accountable. Isn’t it about time?

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Nailed it! The money quote!

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“As kids, we hear racist jokes all times of the day. It’s what we’re around, it’s the jokes we heard.”

Texas.

The End.

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After growing up in a progressive late-60s Miami-- dad’s job took us to Atlanta.
I was fortunate to have made lifelong friends–
with the few adolescent males I met there–
who weren’t racist rednecks.

Would have been very easy to have fallen in with the culture there.
But I’d just spent 3yrs in MIA being bused to a desegregated all-black junior high school.
The lessons learned served me well.
I simply became a new kind of minority in ATL.

The school-aged kids I know today-- here in Houston?
As far as I can tell-- are practically color-blind.

jw1
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“I am also horrified to learn that stealing is wrong,” the teenager said. “I was 15 and a half when this crucial life lesson was imparted to me when I stole something and was caught.”

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