• Minnesota School Faces Lawsuit Over Racist 'Wigger Day'
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[release]A Minnesota school district allowed a homecoming event called "Wigger Day," during which students wore clothes and behaved in a manner that "from their perspective, mimicked black culture," according to a federal [URL="http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/02/Wigger.pdf"]class action lawsuit[/URL] filed against the district on Friday.The suit alleges that despite student council voting on a "tropical theme" for homecoming in 2009, a group of approximately 60 students from the predominantly white school instead attended the event dressed for "Wigger Wednesday" in "oversized sports jerseys, low-slung pants, baseball hats cocked to the side and 'doo rags.'" "Wigger is a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates the mannerisms, language and fashions associated with African-American culture," the complaint explains. Students also referred to the activity as "Wangsta Day" -- meaning "white gangsta" or "Red Winger gangsta" -- and created a [URL="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=150633196358&v=info"]Facebook group[/URL] advocating for the event. (Warning: This Facebook link contains offensive language.) The plaintiff, former [URL="http://www.redwing.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientschool.cgi?schoolname=school348"]Red Wing High School[/URL] student Quera Pruitt, an African American, claims that the school's lack of intervention caused her "severe emotional distress including depression, loss of sleep, stress, crying, humiliation, anxiety, and shame." Pruitt filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota on behalf of an unnamed class of "all students who experienced discrimination as a result of Wigger Day." The complaint states the class could include more than 40 people. Pruitt's attorney, Joshua Williams, says her family hoped the incident would be addressed following "Wigger Day" 2008. While it was never an officially-sanctioned school event, the family discovered "Wigger Wednesday" was something of a tradition. After the 2009 incident, "[Pruitt's] mom came up to the school, attempted to reach out to the school board, the superintendent, and the principal, but Red Wing's response was essentially to sweep this under the rug and act like it didn't happen," Williams told The Huffington Post. According to Williams, Pruitt became depressed, quit the cheerleading squad, left student council, skipped her senior prom and even considered dropping out of school. Pruitt also declined to participate in the school's Martin Luther King Day ceremonies, considering the memorial a "farce." She graduated in 2010 and moved back to Little Rock, Ark. Williams added that the school district has acknowledged that "Wigger Day" took place in 2007 and 2008, but neglected to prevent the event from happening in 2009. Red Wing principal Beth Borgen and school district superintendent Karsten Anderson, both defendants in the suit, say the school is committed to creating a learning environment free from discrimination. According to a [URL="http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=826128"]2009 article on KARE-11[/URL], students participating in "Wigger Day" that year were immediately sent to change their clothes, but no additional punishment followed. Williams, who is seeking $75,000 in damages for his client, did not know whether "Wigger Day" took place again in 2010. A statement from Anderson obtained by HuffPost says the district "denies the allegations that it has created a racially hostile environment and looks forward to meeting these allegations in court." Williams says that position is "symptomatic of Red Wing's response to 'Wigger Day' from the onset." "The students shouldn't have felt empowered to hold 'Wigger Day' in 2009," Williams said. "These students were not disciplined, they were not counseled and they were not punished. This could have been a teachable moment."[/release] Wangsta day :v:
I'm sorry, but that's just fucking hilarious
[quote]"Wigger is a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates the mannerisms, language and fashions associated with African-American culture," [/quote] people emulating her culture caused her "severe emotional distress including depression, loss of sleep, stress, crying, humiliation, anxiety, and shame" ? Bit of a self-directed zing there. That being said, gangsta rap (or at least the lyrics and general themes) is certainly enough to cause depression, loss of sleep and shame. EDIT: you can see the intrinsic racism there, with the use of the word 'emulating' - if african americans were all like that, then you can bet your ass that they'd be discriminated against even more now. My point is that by phrasing it in those words, they're only furthering racism.
What do the black kids in the school do on wigger day? They must feel left out.
[QUOTE=Funky.;31528460]What do the black kids in the school do on wigger day? They must feel left out.[/QUOTE]Dress in suits, wear polo shirts, and such.
[QUOTE=Funky.;31528460]What do the black kids in the school do on wigger day? They must feel left out.[/QUOTE]Wear jeans, rock/metal band t-shirts and talk about how much their parents hate them.
lol, african-american being thrown around, what a stupid area of the world
why does everything awesome call for a lawsuit
[QUOTE=Contag;31528417]people emulating her culture caused her "severe emotional distress including depression, loss of sleep, stress, crying, humiliation, anxiety, and shame" ? Bit of a self-directed zing there. That being said, gangsta rap (or at least the lyrics and general themes) is certainly enough to cause depression, loss of sleep and shame.[/QUOTE] Hmm, so rapping about saving children and how the ghetto is bad really causes depression. Cuz thats what Tupac rapped about. He sold drugs to keep his family from living on the streets. Or how about Eminem who raps about overcoming drug addiction. Or how Common raps about how the gangsta culture is bad. Typical "hurr I don't like rap because of its culture". I would rather have guys rapping about how they get laid and how rich they are instead of a bunch of strange guys raping the microphone with their throats, yelling about how they are satan's children and you should cut yourself and burn bibles.
It sounds like the school was acting incredibly insensitive towards diversity, due to the plaintiff actually suffering from depression due to a lack of acceptance. Or she might just be hypersensitive about it, dunno. [editline]4th August 2011[/editline] As someone who's on student council though stuff like this usually will get a laugh and then be thrown out within 5 minutes. Or called "Jersey Shore" day, not "wigger" day.
[QUOTE=FreakySoup;31528813]why does everything awesome call for a lawsuit[/QUOTE] No fun allowed.
[QUOTE=Mikedestruct;31528894]Hmm, so rapping about saving children and how the ghetto is bad really causes depression. [/QUOTE] he also rapped about killing cops. do you advocate the murder of police officers?
[quote]a group of approximately 60 students from the predominantly white school instead attended the event dressed for "Wigger Wednesday" in "[b]oversized sports jerseys, low-slung pants, baseball hats cocked to the side and 'doo rags.[/b]'"[/quote] [quote]"Wigger is a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates the [b]mannerisms, language and fashions associated with African-American culture,[/b]"[/quote] Those people complaining sound pretty racist to me. Not all black people dress like gangsters.
[QUOTE=Mikedestruct;31528894]Hmm, so rapping about saving children and how the ghetto is bad really causes depression. Cuz thats what Tupac rapped about. He sold drugs to keep his family from living on the streets. Or how about Eminem who raps about overcoming drug addiction. Or how Common raps about how the gangsta culture is bad. Typical "hurr I don't like rap because of its culture". I would rather have guys rapping about how they get laid and how rich they are instead of a bunch of strange guys raping the microphone with their throats, yelling about how they are satan's children and you should cut yourself and burn bibles.[/QUOTE] So, you have no problem with stereotypes at all, you're just a big fucking hypocrite, huh? Don't defend rap then attack another music form just as senselessly and just as full of ignorance.
[QUOTE=Mikedestruct;31528894]Hmm, so rapping about saving children and how the ghetto is bad really causes depression. Cuz thats what Tupac rapped about. He sold drugs to keep his family from living on the streets. Or how about Eminem who raps about overcoming drug addiction. Or how Common raps about how the gangsta culture is bad. Typical "hurr I don't like rap because of its culture". I would rather have guys rapping about how they get laid and how rich they are instead of a bunch of [B]strange guys raping the microphone with their throats, yelling about how they are satan's children and you should cut yourself and burn bibles.[/B][/QUOTE] Golf Wang don't give a fuck.
[QUOTE=Mikedestruct;31528894]I would rather have guys rapping about how they get laid and how rich they are instead of a bunch of strange guys raping the microphone with their throats, yelling about how they are satan's children and you should cut yourself and burn bibles.[/QUOTE] By saying this you're just as bad as those people who accuse rap of only being about shooting prostitutes, carrying out drive-by shootings and stealing shit.
Hilarious. Minnesota represent.
[QUOTE=Craig Willmore;31529433]he also rapped about killing cops. do you advocate the murder of police officers?[/QUOTE] If that's the case, playing GTA makes you advocate the killing of pedestrians and cops. Listening to songs about killing police officers does not make you support the killing of one. If he has one disagreeable belief, it does not necessarily mean that all of his beliefs are null.
Horrible. A lot of people won't think so though, because they're white, young and men, so they have next to no perspective of what group discrimination is like.
Yeah, this really isn't a good idea by any means.
They made a discrimination between black and white by using wigger and wangster, and that is why it was inappropriate. Call it something that doesnt use everyones favorite racial slur.
wigger is literally a combination of the words "white" and "nigger" so uh what the fuck were they thinking?
[QUOTE=BurningPlayd0h;31530206]They made a discrimination between black and white by using wigger and wangster, and that is why it was inappropriate. Call it something that doesnt use everyones favorite racial slur.[/QUOTE] Yeah. Most schools call it "Gangster Day" or "Jersey Day" or something, not "Wigger Day."
Okay, if everyone is getting offended by how they used the word "wigger" why not make it "ACT LIKE A BLACK DAY!" or even better "CHILLIN' LIKE A BLACK DUDE IN SCHOOL DAY!" I hate how people bitch and moan about how "racially inappropriate" some jokes are. If you can't handle some backwards people poking fun at you by using a mild racial slur, think about how bad it was only 50 years ago and be glad you got born when you did.
[QUOTE=valkery;31530309]Okay, if everyone is getting offended by how they used the word "wigger" why not make it "ACT LIKE A BLACK DAY!" or even better "CHILLIN' LIKE A BLACK DUDE IN SCHOOL DAY!" I hate how people bitch and moan about how "racially inappropriate" some jokes are. If you can't handle some backwards people poking fun at you by using a mild racial slur, think about how bad it was only 50 years ago and be glad you got born when you did.[/QUOTE] "you still have it pretty shitty and unfair compared to me, but keep things in perspective!"
[QUOTE=Reimu;31530286]Yeah. Most schools call it "Gangster Day" or "Jersey Day" or something, not "Wigger Day."[/QUOTE] This is something that a lot of schools do? That's fucking stupid, why would they do that? I honestly would not blame anybody if they found that grossly offensive.
[QUOTE=TheHydra;31530379]"you still have it pretty shitty and unfair compared to me, but keep things in perspective!"[/QUOTE] Exactly. Realize that minorities are now the majority of Americans, and that racist white people are slowly dying off.
Well, it's better than my schools "Take it in the ear day". I'm not joking. They said that over the announcements and I was laughing my ass off.
[QUOTE=valkery;31530413]Exactly. Realize that minorities are now the majority of Americans, and that racist white people are slowly dying off.[/QUOTE] no no i was pointing out how stupid that thing that you said was
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