Wigger what?

[shmike]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...151717544.html

A former student at Red Wing High School in Minnesota is suing school officials for failing to stop a group of students from celebrating what they called "Wigger Day" during homecoming week in 2009.

The federal class action suit, available on Courthouse News, says that the school failed to protect Quera Pruitt, a black student who graduated in 2010, from discrimination by ignoring the racially-charged way of celebrating homecoming week.

The student council officially designated Sept. 30 as "Tropical Day." But Pruitt alleges that more than 60 upperclassmen instead declared it "Wigger Day," around a pejorative term formed by combing the words white and nigger. Those students wore "oversized sports jerseys, low-slung pants, baseball hats cocked to the side, and 'doo rags' on their heads," according to the suit.


Though the school is predominately white, Pruitt's lawyers say about 40 students suffered from the "racially hostile" environment created by "Wigger Day." The suit claims that Red Wing's principal knew that Wednesday of homecoming was "historically" called "Wigger Day" but didn't stop the students.

Pruitt says she felt extreme stress and depression, to the point that it led her to drop out of cheerleading and the student council, and almost made her stop going to school altogether. She is suing for damages. Her lawyer, Joshua Williams, tells The Lookout that Pruitt is now living in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attending community college. He added that the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights "imposed several remedial measures" on the district.

Red Wing School District Superintendent Karsten Anderson, who is named as a defendant in the suit, said in a statement to The Lookout that the district "denies the allegations that it has created a racially hostile environment and looks forward to meeting these allegations in court." He added that he couldn't comment further since the litigation is pending.

Department of Education Spokesman David Thomas says its Office for Civil Rights entered into an agreement with Red Wing School District to "take all steps necessary to ensure that African American students enrolled in the District are not subjected to a hostile environment on the basis of race, color, or national origin, and includes several specific actions by the District." They are still monitoring the district for compliance.

[Tmall]

I understand some of the students being upset about the use of the word wigger. But I think that being upset about the white students dressing in a style that you see worn every day is pushing it a bit.

I'd like to see what some of them wore. It's probably look quite stupid and be funny.

[dubbs]

So she's suing for something that has absolutely nothing to do with her.

Makes sense.

[Particle Man]

felt extreme stress and depression

Buck up and fucking deal. You're in high school - what the fuck are you gonna do when you get into the real world?

What pisses me off the most about this is that there are people who battle every day with real stress and depressive disorders and these fucksticks have to throw "stress and depression" around because they got all but hurt about a school function that wasn't even really officially called what they say it was called. They're basically minimizing the problems that people who REALLY suffer from these disorders have to deal with.

UGH

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Buck up and fucking deal. You're in high school - what the fuck are you gonna do when you get into the real world?

What pisses me off the most about this is that there are people who battle every day with real stress and depressive disorders and these fucksticks have to throw "stress and depression" around because they got all but hurt about a school function that wasn't even really officially called what they say it was called. They're basically minimizing the problems that people who REALLY suffer from these disorders have to deal with.

UGH

"First world problems"....

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by Tmall

"First world problems"....

Good point.

[Homeslice]

who graduated in 2010

So much for filing a suit with the hopes of changing an organization you still have a vested interest in.

After you've left it becomes being a gold-digger

[101lifts2]

Yawn....I say tuff shit, suck it up.

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

So much for filing a suit with the hopes of changing an organization you still have a vested interest in.

After you've left it becomes being a gold-digger

needs to pay her college tuition somehow

[Kaneman]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

Buck up and fucking deal. You're in high school - what the fuck are you gonna do when you get into the real world?

She'll continue doing what she's been doing, because that is actually how the real world works now unfortunately. So easy for a squeaky wheel to get greased these days.

In fact, I'll bet high school is actually harder than real life for people like her.