high school students continue to use this racist phrase to ask date for dance

[Demovictory9]

Parents are worried, students are speechless and the superintendent has issued a letter after a racist comment was used on a poster invitation for a school dance.

The poster in question said, “If I was black, I’d be picking cotton…but I’m white so I’m picking you!”

It was reportedly written by a female student who asked a male student to the Sweetheart Ball next month at Thunder Ridge High School. Photos of the poster quickly made the rounds on social media and on Tuesday, Bonneville Joint School District 93 Superintendent Scott Woolstenhulme sent a letter to families and employees addressing the issue.

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“As Superintendent, I feel a personal responsibility to our students, our staff, and our families who have been offended and hurt by this poster. While I will never be able to personally understand how it feels to be a target of racist and bigoted language, I recognize how traumatic such language must be,” Woolstenhulme wrote. “I am deeply sorry that such an awful remark was connected to our schools.”

Woolstenhulme added he was “devastated” that this act made its way into the district after similar incidents have been reported across the country over the past few years.

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2022/01/superintendent-students-condemn-racist-posted-used-to-ask-boy-to-dance/

[Initech]

1. What in the hell is wrong with people?

[chowder66]

5. +1000

[Diamond_Dog]

2. No words .....

[Emile]

3. Female student wrote this, wow!

[txwhitedove]

4. WTF? Uh, white peeps picked cotton too. Totally stupid.

[ShazzieB]

6. They sure did.

My mom was one of them.

[LiberatedUSA]

7. That is some repulsive shit. N/t

[ProfessorGAC]

8. It's Not Just Racist, It's Stupid

Cotton has been harvested by machine since the 1880s.
Even sharecroppers quit growing cotton, because the machine were 200 times more efficient than hand picking.
So, if that ninny were black, blue or green she wouldn't be picking cotton.
She's a racist & an idiot!