Report: Berkeley High yearbooks being returned, offensive message to be blotted out

[KamaAina]

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/06/05/report-berkeley-high-yearbooks-being-returned-offensive-message-to-be-blotted-out/

Berkeley High School officials plan to fix an racially offensive message created as a prank in its yearbooks, the school said, according to a local news report.

The school requested the yearbooks back after a description in the book said “trash collators (sic) of tomorrow” instead of “innovators of tomorrow” when describing one of the academies — which is predominantly made up of Latino and Black students — at in the campus, reported KPIX.

“The Academy of Medicine and Public Service is a small learning community focus (sic) on medicine, making our future doctors, dentists, nurses, physicians, fire chiefs and trash collators (sic) of tomorrow,” the yearbook said....

Students said that the message was incredible offensive. “I feel like the garbage collector was in a way trying to attack colored people,” one student told KPIX.

is going on in Berkeley? First the incident with W. Kamau Bell:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026157124

and now this!

[antiquie]

1. Prank?!

[BrotherIvan]

2. Proving yet again that racists and bigots are fucking idiots

Every single one.

[daredtowork]

3. There's a larger problem with gentrification = white-washing here

and the general implication that all the color in high schools are illegal "charity" cases sneaking across the "border" from Oakland.

There would probably be an outbreak of major class warfare here except for the elite presumption that they've already won.