Yay! Senior picture day! This is one of
those things that students get excited about. A chance to leave a
mark in history...at school. Line up with fellow students and take a
picture that will be around for years. Or you can be like these
girls at Desert Vista High School in Arizona and use letters from
“BEST *YOU'VE* EVER *SEEN* CLASS *OF* 2016” and take an extra
picture with “Ni**er.” Yeah. You could do that. Not sure where
the letter “I” came from unless its the “1.” Either way it
happened.
The school had to release a statement
after this image got online saying “The students will be
disciplined in accordance with district policy and while we don’t
discuss specific discipline I can tell you that will be addressing
the obvious need for sensitivity training in this case.” The school
and faculty approve what will appear in images for the yearbook and
of course this nonsense was not approved. Eventually the students
were suspended for five days.
Some people are asking if nigger even
means the same thing to kids as it does to older people. Unless you
are a toddler you know what the word means and when you say it are
aware of what you are doing and hopefully who you're doing it around.
Otherwise you could get hurt. These girls knew exactly what they were
doing. They were trying to be funny. They weren't, but points for
trying. Allow me to make an attempt to answer some questions
regarding this word.
