Thanks be, on occasion, to the Internet, and the noise it makes.

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/08/27-2

You Too Can Be President (If You're White)

by Abby Zimet



WTF Dept: A middle school in Mississippi is holding elections that dictate only a white kid can be class president - though a black kid can be vice-president (in 8th grade only). No word on what positions are open to Asians or, God forbid, Hispanics. As Colbert would have it, nation, this is real. More here.



Update: The school has ended the practice of elections by "classification of ethnicity." Thanks be, on occasion, to the Internet, and the noise it makes.





Class president? Must be white to apply at this Mississippi school!

http://mixedandhappy.com/archives/3343

[tridim]

1. We'd be screwed without it.

Imagine what Faux would be like without the Internet.

[RKP5637]

2. This was absolutely unbelievable. When I first heard about it I though it was

some type of hoax. Absolutely unbelievable.

[babylonsister]

4. How low can we go? I hear you. nt

[Recursion]

5. When my school did it it was to make sure it wasn't just all white winners

No idea if that was what these guys are thinking. That is, this could be well-intentioned but stupidly executed.

[depakid]

3. In the South, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

Requiem for a Nun ~William Faulkner.