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2004-02-12 22:01 | User Profile
[IMG]http://209.17.95.115/images2/TrevorRichards.jpg[/IMG] MINORITY REPORT White African-American boy not 'black' enough for award National debate sparked after Caucasian student seeking 'race-based honor' booted out of school
Posted: January 25, 2004 3:37 p.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs é 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The Omaha suspension of a white high-school student originally from South Africa is sending shock waves across America as debate rages over who can claim rights to the term "African-American."
South African native Trevor Richards suspended over African-American campaign
The case centers on Trevor Richards, a junior at Westside High School, who moved from Johannesburg to Nebraska six years ago.
Richards and his classmates, 16-year-old twins Paul and Scott Rambo, were booted from classes last week after distributing posters touting Trevor as a candidate for Westside High's "Distinguished African-American Student" award on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
"The posters were intended to be satire on the term African-American," Scott Rambo told the Omaha World-Herald.
Principal John Crook says the posters were disruptive.
"It was offensive to the individual being honored, to people who work here and to some students," Crook told the paper. "My role is to make sure we have a safe environment, physically and psychologically. We can't allow that kind of thing to be hung up on our walls."
Records from 2002-2003 indicate only 56 of Westside's 1,632 students were black, and some in this year's student body were reportedly upset by Richards' poster.
Ironically, the first two recipients of the student award were white.
"It was not intended at the beginning to be one race only," Clidie Cook, who helps organize the annual event, told the World-Herald.
But Westside officials pushed to change that, feeling the spirit of the honor meant giving it to a black student, and by 2001, the ministerial alliance in charge specified it was for blacks only.
Since the suspensions last week, the issue has been picked up by the Associated Press wire service, and has become a hot topic for columnists, talk radio and Internet messageboards.
"There is no room at the inn for the viewpoints of conservatives, libertarians, Christians, or constitutionalists in the public indoctrination system," says David Huntwork, a conservative activist in Fort Collins, Colo., who criticized the squashing of "this gallant expression of grassroots activism."
The ABC television affiliate in Omaha, KETV, has been swamped with comments on its Internet messageboard.
Among the postings:
I attend Westside and I am in support for Trevor. Trevor is one of only maybe one or two other people that are actually from Africa. Trevor is more of an African-American than any other "African-American" at Westside. It is also wrong that there is an award for only black students when every other award at Westside is for everyone and everyone has an equal chance to receive those awards if they try.
If you mean black award, say black award. If you must be racist, that is.
Why are white Americans constantly hounded, ridiculed and stripped of any racial identity? Why is it OK for everyone to be racist, except white Americans? ... Can you imagine black students getting suspended for joining the "black student union" or any other black group on any campus, or workplace in America? This racism against white Americans must stop.
I think the administrators should be fired. This is going too far. Let's get a grip people! God this makes me sick. Fire those people!
As a Canadian white male, I have worked with and befriended a few black people. I never once heard them refer themselves as African-Canadians.
[T]echnically, Trevor is most likely Afrikaans-African-American or Dutch-African-American considering the white descendants of South Africa are from those European descents. So if you want to talk technically, he still is not eligible for this award. The truth is that everyone who is writing these absurd comments knows what African-American means. It is a black person. The term given to this ethnic group has changed over the decades from Negroes to colored people to black and finally African-American. It is a descriptor. The label "African-American" is not universally used by blacks today, as evinced by companies and groups such as Black Entertainment Television, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, better known as the NAACP.
A search of more than 200 U.S. newspapers geared predominantly toward blacks finds at least 16 have the word "black" in the title, while only five have "African-American."
As WorldNetDaily reported last summer, a member of Congress, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, ignited national controversy when she reportedly sought an affirmative-action plan of sorts for hurricane names.
"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials "would try to be inclusive of African-American names."
2004-02-12 22:03 | User Profile
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Irish eyes to smile on first black parade queen She's 'funny, intelligent, beautiful'. Born to Irish father and Nigerian mother, Hecksher educated in London and at McGill
RENE BRUEMMER
The Gazette
Monday, February 09, 2004
The newly elected St. Patrick's parade queen Tara Hecksher and princess Marie Lortie (left) yesterday. Hecksher chose to come to study at McGill University in part because the school has a lacrosse program and she is an avid player.
CREDIT: PIERRE OBENDRAUF, THE GAZETTE
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The United Irish Societies of Montreal picked Tara Hecksher Saturday as queen of the 180th annual St. Patrick's parade.
The 21-year-old Montrealer of Irish descent is, in the words of one of the judges, "funny, intelligent and beautiful."
And, for the first time in the 49 years the UIS has been choosing a queen, the Irish lass is also black.
"I think this is great," UIS spokesperson Jolyon Ditton said yesterday. "Montreal is a mixed cultural society ... and I think this is nothing but good for the community."
Although Montreal's melting pot has produced several queens of mixed race - Irish-Italian, Irish-French Canadian and even Irish-Inuit - Hecksher is the first who is a member of a visible minority.
"Now, more and more, you find people of mixed race who are Irish, so it's great to be representing the 21st century Irish woman," she said. "I hope this is going to be just the beginning for others like myself."
Born to an Irish father and a Nigerian mother, Hecksher was raised in Nigeria till the age of 9, when she moved to London to attend boarding school.
Holidays and weekends were often spent with family in Dublin.
She chose McGill University for her international development and economics studies in large part because it has a good lacrosse program - she's an avid player - and for Montreal, which she calls her favourite city in the world.
"I love the fact that it's really multicultural, which it truly is, and so diverse," she said. "I find it's very accepting of people from everywhere."
Hecksher beat out 27 other candidates who had to give a speech on an Irish topic before seven judges and 700 people at the Delta Centre Ville hotel Saturday night.
Candidates must be at least partly Irish and between the ages of 18 and 25.
Hecksher spoke about Ireland's former president, Mary Robinson, who served as the United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002.
"The selection is based on public speaking, confidence and poise," Ditton said. "This young lady shows all of that. She is extremely well-spoken, well educated, she gave a very good speech and we're very happy to have her as our queen."
The four runners-up - Marie Lortie of Montreal; Theresa Casey of Pointe Claire; Melissa Proietti of Montreal and Jessica Early of Beaconsfield - were named princesses.
They will join Hecksher in representing the Irish societies and waving to the 600,000 or so who regularly turn out for North America's longest-running St. Patrick's parade on March 14.
After graduation, Hecksher hopes to work in international development, probably in Africa, but first she wants to spend some more time in her adopted city.
"London is more polarized, so it's multicultural but you still find that each culture is sticking together, whereas here you can see the interactions," she said.
"I mean, just the fact that I was chosen shows how diverse and accepting (Montrealers) are."
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2004-02-12 22:06 | User Profile
Whites competing within the achievement standards of a-freaking-American ghetto would be a slam dunk.
2004-02-13 00:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot][IMG]http://media.canada.com/scripts/locate.asp?id=985af667-e42d-44d4-945b-afb1c78707d9[/IMG]
Irish eyes to smile on first black parade queen She's 'funny, intelligent, beautiful'. Born to Irish father and Nigerian mother, Hecksher educated in London and at McGill
RENE BRUEMMER
The Gazette
Monday, February 09, 2004
The newly elected St. Patrick's parade queen Tara Hecksher and princess Marie Lortie (left) yesterday. Hecksher chose to come to study at McGill University in part because the school has a lacrosse program and she is an avid player. [/QUOTE]Being primarily of Celtic stock, I have always had a rather perverse pride that the Irish in America were the most proudly ignorant of all ethnic groups. In fact, I did resent challenges by blacks.
Yet I see the Irish in Canada have outdone their southern neighbor.
2004-02-13 01:37 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot][IMG] And, for the first time in the 49 years the UIS has been choosing a queen, the Irish lass is also black.[/QUOTE]
This proves that mulattoes are strictly [B]negro[/B] and not "diverse" as the Media and her fellow whorish friends tell us.
2004-02-13 01:53 | User Profile
That poster they made of the South African kid cracks me up. :lol:
As WorldNetDaily reported last summer, a member of Congress, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, ignited national controversy when she reportedly sought an affirmative-action plan of sorts for hurricane names.
"All racial groups should be represented," Lee said, according to the Hill. She hoped federal weather officials "would try to be inclusive of African-American names." Of course if the National Weather Service were to ever give a storm a name like Tropical Storm Leroy or Hurricane Shauniqua, there'd be an outcry that the name was ridiculing blacks.
2004-02-13 02:17 | User Profile
*BREAKING NEWS FROM WORLD NET BUGLE***
HURRICANE ANTOINE BRINGIN' DOWN DA HOUSE
The Weather Advisory Commission has issued an all-points State Of Emergency across the United States due to a sudden hurricane that has attacked the Slut Islands and is spreading into the Gulf Of Meheeco and heading towards the Florida KosherKeys.
Hurricane Antoine, which the hurricane is named, is in honor of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee's request that hurricane names be inclusive of blacks. It is reported that the hurricane first hit the Slut Islands around 1800 hours Eastern Time.
...details to come...
2004-02-13 04:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE]"Now, more and more, you find people of mixed race who are Irish, so it's great to be representing the 21st century Irish woman," she said. "I hope this is going to be just the beginning for others like myself."[/QUOTE]
This might be true.
Someone out in Hollyweird was actually upset that Halle Berry refers to herself as a "black actress" when she is actually only half-black, the other half being Irish.
Look out for a remake of Darby O'Gill And The Little People with Eddie Murphy as Darby. :yucky:
2004-02-13 12:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ragnar]Look out for a remake of Darby O'Gill And The Little People with Eddie Murphy as Darby. :yucky:[/QUOTE] King Brian: "Ah ha O'Gill, is it me gold yer after? 'Twill be a cold day in hell indeed if ye think ye'll be outwitting me." Tyrone O'Gill: "Yo buss dis. What isyah talkin about? Sheeit! Han' over the bling bling 'fore I be busting a cap in yo' green ass."
2004-02-13 17:51 | User Profile
Years ago I knew of a girl named Secresha. It's true. A friend worked with her at Marshalls Department store. There's just no way I can make these things up. I saw her nametag.
Another buddy of mine, long time ago, attended football camp with a bunch of negroes. One had a sister named Female (Fe-MAHL-ay). It was on some document or other, and so the mother assumed (this was her first born, after all) that the hospital named the kid for her. Like a package deal.
2004-02-13 18:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Marlowe]Years ago I knew of a girl named Secresha. It's true. A friend worked with her at Marshalls Department store. There's just no way I can make these things up. I saw her nametag.
Another buddy of mine, long time ago, attended football camp with a bunch of negroes. One had a sister named Female (Fe-MAHL-ay). It was on some document or other, and so the mother assumed (this was her first born, after all) that the hospital named the kid for her. Like a package deal.[/QUOTE]
Knew a guy in Florida named Volume. He said it was passed down, third generation.
I always meant to ask him: Sound or Measure?