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According to Nettleton Middle School’s rules, children running for certain class officer posts must meet a specific race requirement: to be president, the child must be white.
A school memo, obtained by MixedandHappy and The Smoking Gun, was passed out to every 6th, 7th, and 8th grader to inform them of the breakdown. The upcoming elections are divided between offices delineated for black and white students. Of the 12 offices for which students can compete, “eight are earmarked for white students, while four are termed ‘black seats.†The presidency is reserved for white students across each grade, but a black student is permitted to be the 8th grade vice-president or reporter, the 7th grade treasurer, or the 6th grade reporter. So, along with a “B†average and “a good disciplinary status and moral character,†a child hoping to represent his or her class must be the right race.
A school memo, obtained by MixedandHappy and The Smoking Gun, was passed out to every 6th, 7th, and 8th grader to inform them of the breakdown. The upcoming elections are divided between offices delineated for black and white students. Of the 12 offices for which students can compete, “eight are earmarked for white students, while four are termed ‘black seats.†The presidency is reserved for white students across each grade, but a black student is permitted to be the 8th grade vice-president or reporter, the 7th grade treasurer, or the 6th grade reporter. So, along with a “B†average and “a good disciplinary status and moral character,†a child hoping to represent his or her class must be the right race.
As someone in the comments section on ThinkProgress said, Nettleton is about to be sued back into the Stone Age.
Edit: Removed Teabagger reference. Whatever. They're still a bunch of racist hicks, no matter how much they try to deny it.
Edited, Aug 27th 2010 5:22pm by catwho