Poll: Teen sues school over "wigger day"

Lucane

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44013049#44013381

goldendriger said:
Im opposite. Its expression, how CAN they find it offensive?
How about the school calls her mother one day for wearing a scarf or "head covering" asking what it might mean (on a regular day) and doing nothing about it when other people did it on wigger day or even the 1st year when between 40-70 students started (a non-school supported/prior knowledge) wigger day 2 years prior or the following 2 years.
 

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While I do agree the school should have done more to prevent this I'd like to point out a few passages from the articles most seem to not have found

From http://www.startribune.com/local/126739938.html
"Although the student council has designated a "tropical day" during the Wednesday of homecoming week, about 70 juniors and seniors took it upon themselves to change it to "Wednesday Wigger Day" or "Wangsta Day," according to the lawsuit.

Although administrators knew of the activity, they "failed to take adequate steps to address the conduct," the lawsuit says.

Students dressed up for "Wednesday Wigger day" in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Pruitt contends. When Pruitt complained in 2009, then-Superintendent Stan Slessor told a television reporter that the district was disappointed in the students' actions and would "address issues of human relations."


In other words it was not school supported even if they did not do enough to stop it. That doesn't make it right, but I thought I'd put this in to emphasize that the school didn't come up with this.

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/wigger-day-red-wing-minnesota_n_916323.html
According to a 2009 article on KARE-11, students participating in "Wigger Day" that year were immediately sent to change their clothes, but no additional punishment followed.

And from the KARE-11 article http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=826128
Red Wing Superintendent Stan Slessor says the district is disappointed with the students actions and words -- whether or not they were intended to be offensive. Officials did require the students to change their clothes immediately. No more punishment has followed, but the district does plan to use the incident to teach tolerance.

Slessor added that if any of the students involved in the prank do anything like it again -- they will be suspended. He says the district is also considering sending a letter to all parents, and they may still require the responsible students to apologize to their peers.


While the day may have been offensive and in incredibly poor taste I don't think it validates the student getting $75,000.

Sorry for the wall of text everyone, just wanted to add a bit more information.
 

ShindoL Shill

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*facepalm*
why did they think making white kids pretend to be black would be smart.
WHY GOD WHY! WHY ARE EDUCATORS IDIOTS! WHY IS THE WORLD SO IRONIC!
 

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WOW truly truly wow i mean really? seriously? america was rascist now its just fucking stupid not even funny stupid just you know pissing your own pants stupid or missing the clitoris during sex!
 

The Grim Ace

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That is really far to much to ask for damages. Then again, seriously, it sounds like that school was just trying to piss people off. It's a wash.
 

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Sober Thal said:
I missed the part of the article that said the school sponsored this.

Oh yeah, cause they didn't. Just because a bunch of kids decide to do something on a certain day of the year doesn't mean the school 'sponsored' it.

Money hungry, sue happy kid, yuck.
They didn't sponsor it but they didn't prevent it either and they did have prior knowledge of the event possibly happening again.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44013049#44013381
 

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Arluza said:
the first problem is your link is to Fauwks 'News' (using news very lightly). Fauwks has made up stories to make minorities look weak and easily offended before, and often make it so the poor white man is being abused by the minorities. So until someone can provide a newspaper headline that isn't owned by Rupert Murdoch, i won't believe the story.

however, the article was kind enough to say what newspaper did write an article first. here is a link to it: http://www.startribune.com/local/126739938.html

Now, when you google "The Minneapolis Star Tribune wigger day" the first link is to Fauwks, the second to that link, and the third here, to this very thread. And i don't know about you other Americans from public schools, but typically homecoming takes place in late September to mid October, depending on the schedule of the football games. WHY then was this only NOW covered by the news? something like this in Ohio would get news for the notice that wiggers even exist. a student SUING a school? that would probably be a decision made far before an entire year had passed.

The whole article seems fishy at best to me.
While I applaud your scepticism and background check, there is a reason for such a story to appear now: that the student has just finished her final year there and can now sue without fear of repercussions during exam season.

Although the student council has designated a "tropical day" during the Wednesday of homecoming week, about 70 juniors and seniors took it upon themselves to change it to "Wednesday Wigger Day" or "Wangsta Day," according to the lawsuit.

Although administrators knew of the activity, they "failed to take adequate steps to address the conduct," the lawsuit says.

Students dressed up for "Wednesday Wigger day" in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Pruitt contends. When Pruitt complained in 2009, then-Superintendent Stan Slessor told a television reporter that the district was disappointed in the students' actions and would "address issues of human relations."
The descriptions provided on page 1 didn't make that distinction.

Pruitt, who graduated from Red Wing High School in 2010, moved there from Little Rock, Ark., with her mother during her junior year, Williams said.

Pruitt eventually quit cheerleading, track and the student council, Williams said. She also refused to participate in the school's Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.

"When she saw how her friends acted and how the school reacted, or rather, failed to react, it sent her into a pretty deep depression," Williams said. "Her mother had to pull her out of bed in order to go to school.

"Bullying is when someone is in a position of power and takes advantage of that power. That's kind of what happened here. My client was a minority at the school. There wasn't anything she could do when she's only one of a handful of minorities."
Not quite "as soon as I'm out of here I'm suing" then but it could take a year to get over it.

Stupid, primitive, teenaged arseholes are stupid and primitive. Apathetic, useless teachers are apathetic and useless. There could have been a lot worse going on that isn't in those articles, and the teachers could have been overlooking, ignoring or just ignorant of it.
 

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KoalaKid said:
This is so stupid I'm having a hard time believing its real.
NO! Believe! Believe that this is real. That way you can believe that somewhere out in the world, there is something that is as smart as this is stupid.

Positive Pessimism. ;)
 

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standokan said:
Palm.. you know what to do.

Wait, does Wigger mean wannabe ****** or white ******?
I believe it's a combo of the n-word and white, but it ultimately could be either or.
 

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as much as I make fun of Wiggers ("I'M A MIDDLE CLASS WHITE TEENAGER IN THE AMERICAN SUBURBS. BUT DON'T LET THAT FOOL YOU, I IS TOTALLY STREET MY DOG."), yeah, this is the stupidest fucking idea I have ever heard. the fact that someon actually thought "let's have everyone act like BLACK PEOPLE" was a GOOD idea BAFFLES me...
 

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Okay maybe not a good idea... but does anyone think it sounds a little fun...a tiny bit?
We could have all kinds of stereotype parties that way everyone gets discriminated against in the name of comedy.
Can't wait for the be british national day bet I'd be real good at it
 

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intheweeds said:
heh jesus, long post is long.

at the sarcasm bit, fair enough, i meant it in a lighthearted way but it seems to have boiled your blood beyond return, so fair is that it was "not warranted".

slavery =/= dressing up, your saying my analogies were bad, while yes they may not have been amazing, as i was just going for the matter of fact the "theme" and "dressing up" as what the fact of those events are based on, slavery is by far wayyyyy far off comparatively. Now we weren't actually there, so I can't tell you if they just "dressed up" or truly were mimicking wiggers in every sense of the word, but dressing up is dressing up, which is the point i was getting at with the theme/social party argument, BUT if you DO remember i did point out that was for social/public events, which is why i was surprised the school allowed it. And on the last part on those parties, I haven't been to one, as that would take alot of work to mimic greeks in every sense of the word, and based on the fact that i dont like greek food i would probably pass on that part, as would alot of people i know, but i don't see how that is ignorant/stupid.

if greeks had an "american party" where they walked around like fatasses and ate fatty foods talking in an awful american accent, i would probably laugh and not care, if it happened at a greek school? i would once again be surprised the school allowed it.

what i was getting at with the wife beater part

wife beater - a term used with these types of shirts



alot of men get wrongly "perpetrated" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/perpetrate into "abusing" their partners, and that is where the term "wife beater" is coined from, as most of those men are seen wearing those shirts or are put into police cars with that shirt on, most of the time it was used in slang with very ghetto or minority based races, alot of times it was used to discriminate against when people would be seen wearing them.

you kind of picked that one apart a little to closely, so i'm not going to get into it, and it wasn't meant to be much of a point there outside of just a wife beater theme


in not a single point in my post(s), did i ever "justify the schools actions", please quote it because i do not see it. Now based on the fact that the school said they would do something, which if it is true they did not do anything, then yeah I can see why a student would get a bit unsettled because of that. I still don't get how i would make the remark in my first comment if i thought i was wrong..that does not compute?


and while i've not seen "snotty white person day" i have seen some close to it, such as "Prep kid" day, where everyone wears shin socks/kacki's/striped tie with white shirt and possible a sweater vest if you got one, and quite afew people had slicked/combed hair involved with it.

hm. condescending suits you well i see, i came in more light hearted, for the fun of it, but it seems "serious business is serious" was what your intentions were there pretty hardcore, so i'll let you feel mighty and proud stepping on my wonderfully learned peasantry education, and my suspect grasp of english.
I was trying to explain why this crosses the line between a light-hearted theme party and a racist event. If you still don't understand why this is racist, nothing i can say will change your mind. Regardless, your use of the word perpetrate is still very very wrong, even after using the dictionary so um, yeah. One can't be 'wrongly perpetrated'. A crime or deception is 'perpetrated'. I think your trying to say that men are 'wrongly accused' of perpetrating a crime. I understand everything your saying about wife beaters and yes, its wrong, not all men are required to be offended, but if they are offended, they are right to be. American parties in foreign countries, still wrong.
 
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The day shouldn't have been allowed and whoever thought it up should be punished for it, but she has no reason to sue. It's offensive and racist, yes, but you don't deserve because your school f*cked up.
 

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GraveeKing said:
Never heard the word wigger before - so no idea if it's an offensive word or something. But bloody hell this is a brilliant idea! It's expressing their acceptance. If everyone acted really flamboyant and gay for a day - I doubt we'd be so offended. We'd all have a good laugh and people would be happy but noooooo the second you mention a color it's the worse thing in the worse.
O.K It wasn't a good idea perhaps but really now - GET OVER IT! xD
No. This is not about acceptance. It's about turning a group of people into a joke, and saying that all the people in that group are nothing more than that. A big joke that shouldn't be respected.
However, I don't think you can fine the school for just being stupip. They didn't do this out of malice, just ignorance. You can't fine someone for stupidity alone. Yet.
Also wigger is a combo of the N-word and white.
If we want acceptance we need to stop dividing ourselves. We are all human.
 

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pubbing said:
A black student is suing her former Minnesota high school for celebrating "Wednesday Wigger Day," where white students pretended to be black during homecoming week, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/04/black-student-sues-minnesota-high-school-for-celebrating-wigger-day/?test=latestnews


Now I am not one to really be politically correct or get into a big huff over racial issues but hosting an event like this at a public school seems pretty fucking stupid to me.
White people have been trying to pretend to be black for a long time. It's a bit late to raise a fit now. You're suppose to laugh at how stupid it looks.
 

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This is both stupid and offensive I really don't know who could possibly think this was a good idea.

Just horrible. If this was put on by the school they deserve to be sued.