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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids do not want their parents to watch like they do at Cap Cotillion.  They do not want an audience of other parents gawking at them -- trust me.  Mrs Simpsons has a few parents sign up to chaperone every dance and has cocktails with them.  I know her well, and she is not a racist.  Sorry liberal poster.  [/quote]

If she wasn't racist, would this complaint have been necessary?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/12/15/at-mrs-simpsons-a-more-modern-dance/f0df45e5-6d4b-4ee7-a216-4dc8f8312c68/[/quote]

Being accused of "Racism" doesn't mean one is guilty of that.

Just part of the bullying that goes on when people don't get their way.[/quote]

If you read the earlier Washington Post article that sparked the legal issues, you would have seen that she is quoted making negative generalizations based on race, which I believe is the textbook definition of racism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/06/21/a-class-unto-itself/c6a97ff1-1c4f-48f3-9ce9-dd9789097d1a/

"I started asking around, and people said, 'Oh, yes, they aren't invited,' " Bernstein said. "But the stories were so amorphous, and there was always an explanation." So the following winter she says she wrote to Mrs. Simpson proposing four children, making clear in her letter that two of them were white and two were black.

The two white children received applications within six weeks, she said, and the two black children heard nothing. She called Mrs. Simpson. "I just said I was so embarrassed, that these children had not heard anything, and that I'd heard she didn't accept black families, but I couldn't believe that could be true." *****Mrs. Simpson said she did invite black families, but that in the past "they haven't even had the courtesy to respond."*** Bernstein closed the conversation with vague pleasantries.

I don't think there is a real textbook definition of racism. It's usually a charge leveled to intimidate people.

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