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The Straight Story

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Wed Feb 6, 2013, 05:55 PM Feb 2013

NJ Girl Charged Over Racist Tweet

A Glassboro High School student has been charged with harassment for a tweet she allegedly posted while sitting in algebra class.

The sophomore girl is accused of taking a picture of two African American students, writing a racist remark, and posting it on twitter.

The tweet was posted for just over a month before being noticed last week. It was first reviewed by a guidance counselor and a school police officer, who then alerted detectives.

NBC10's Monique Braxton showed the tweet to the head of the NAACP in Gloucester County, Loretta Winters. "When I first saw it, my heart just dropped, it was like it skipped a beat, it was horrible."

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/NJ-Girl-Charged-Over-Racist-Tweet-189424821.html

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NJ Girl Charged Over Racist Tweet (Original Post) The Straight Story Feb 2013 OP
the comments in response to that story Skittles Feb 2013 #1
OMG, no shit... OneGrassRoot Feb 2013 #4
Maybe they should charge the people who posted the comments as well. LeftofObama Feb 2013 #2
One Tweet = "harassment"? Do two = assault? WinkyDink Feb 2013 #3
Wow the responses are as racist as the original tweet Sheepshank Feb 2013 #5
 

Sheepshank

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5. Wow the responses are as racist as the original tweet
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 07:29 PM
Feb 2013

example:

Aaron Noon · Top Commenter · Freelancer at Sandusky Register
Integration has become the death sentence for the well-educated white student. Between classes being turned into daycare centers; sexual, physical, and psychological abuse becoming an everday obstacle; and being forced to interact with and thereby pick up mannerisms of these savages - and even befriending or *shudder* dating them, this country's once-promising white students are falling to the level of these apes. Send them back to the zoos, or better yet, back to Africa, before it's too late. There isn't an honest study in the world that says black students improve the culture of any school they attend, or rather, INFEST. End this disastrous social experiment; it hasn't just failed the variable population, but brought down with it the constant.
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