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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happened at Wootton is no different than the N Word card incident at Churchill that made national news about 6 years ago. Dr. Moran was Director then. Churchill had a meeting similar to the Wootton meeting tonight. Dr. Moran speaks a good speech but there was little action taken to create a meaningful change at Churchill. I’m not expecting much to change at Wootton.

Frankly, MCPS should have a K to 12 plan for teaching respect for all students and staff including a plan to end bullying and racism in all schools. Why is MCPS always reacting to hate incidents instead of preventing them? [/quote]

+1.  I'm on my third kid through Churchill and had one there at the time that kids thought it was fun to be handing out N Word cards.  I haven't seen any change over those many years.  My current student says Black kids won't speak up or report bad behavior because they'll be ostracized by the majority.  But DC complains about kids saying inappropriate things regularly.  (DC is also impressed that Wootton kids took action and seemingly got something done.)[/quote]

What did they get done, besides a round of musical chairs at the Principal's desk? Are Black students going to stop writing the N-word now? [/quote]

i've no idea about how often the black kids use it as a term of empowerment (sort of).  but I do know that white kids have yelled it at my black kid at school events.  and that white kids regularly say things besides this particular word that are racist on their face.  i'm less worried about the former (which is often not done in a hateful way or intended to denigrate) than the latter (which clearly are both).  this is the point.  every white kid (and parent) knows that aiming that word at a minority is done to humiliate or put them down.  [b]there's literally no reason to use that word unless you're okay with this outcome. why people on this board openly and repeatedly say that is acceptable is beyond me.[/b][/quote]

No one is saying that it's acceptable. Some people have reported that they hear/see the word being used often in schools and elsewhere, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable.[/quote]

Perhaps you don't find it acceptable, but clearly there are people on this board who draw an equivalence between the way Black people use the term and the way White people do.  [/quote]

LOL.  So it's fine when black kids say the n-word to each other, but if a non-black person tries to fit in with them and say the exact same word and trying to be cool, the non-black kid will be branded forever as racist??!?!?

WTF!!!!  YOU'RE CRAZY!!!![/quote]
If you cannot see why a non-black kid cannot say the word,  you're dumber than I thought, and this area is supposed to be well educated??
-White person [/quote]

Tge tide is turning so try to catch up. 30 years ago we had the n word debate in my uni. Back then, it was generally accepted that black people reclaiming the word was a positive but whites should not say it.  That was largely because white people were widely using the n word in a derogatory manner. Today that's not the case. I have never heard a non black use that word as a slur in about 30 years.  
I have heard black people use it freely towards both other blacks and to whites. Always in a manner that csn be considered endearing or familiar.

The words been reclaimed and changed.  Time to stop the white savior bs and admit the black community killed the original meaning of the words themselves without the teary victim mentality some try to impsose on the community. 
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My black kid (not at Wootton) has had the word yelled at them by a white kid as an insult at within MCPS context (in a sports game) within the last couple of months. Along with other racial insults.  My other kid was in a parent carpool to a sports event a couple of months before and was told by white friends that the parent they rode with in a different car used the term to insult black drivers as they were driving to the same event.  Your experience is not everyone's experience. [/quote]

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