High School Pep Rally's Racist Display

[proud2BlibKansan]

At the most resent Pep Rally for Waverly High School, located in Waverly NY, the usual fanfare of cheering for the home team to get them ready was in full swing. As the rally progressed you had your usual cheers and rally cries for the fall sports teams and the football team. It seemed to have done well, with Waverly defeating their opponent 70-21. But what happened at that pep rally went much farther than simple cheers. Three white students were to perform a skit in black face, depicting Chris Brown and Rhianna most notibly. In this skit they would display acts of domestic violence as satire to an audience that included not only students but parents, faculty, and various members of the media and community leaders. None of them stopped the skit. Now former students of Waverly High School are questioning how this was allowed to happen." I think it's unconscionable that such blatant racism has been tacitly approved two years in a row," says Waverly alumni and Yale graduate Vlad Chituc. "The administration should be creating an environment where minorities are welcome, not the butts of racist jokes that make light of domestic violence."

"I think it's unconscionable that such blatant racism has been tacitly approved of two years in a row. The administration should be creating an environment where minorities are welcome, not the butts of racist jokes that make light of domestic violence."

Fellow former Waverly student Hannah Van Wie-Desisti shared sentiments with her former schoolmate:

"I used to be so proud of where I came from. Not so much now due to the recent incident. I found it unfathomable that the faculty would not only approve this idea for the skit in the first place, but allow it to go on during the pep rally. I honestly don't believe that the students meant to offend, but were just ill informed of how offending their skit actually was. The staff should have stopped it before it even started. By acting like the skit was acceptable, they are teaching their students that racism is okay and that abuse is humorous. The whole thing outraged me and made me so disappointed in the school that I was once loved."

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-858297

[panader0]

1. An all white crowd........

[nc4bo]

2. America has lost its collective mind.

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Our society thinks free speech is wonderful (which it is) but there are also consequences as the scum of society get bolder and bolder in their actions and speech. The line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior is nonexistent, the illusion doesn't even exist anymore.

Kids see grown folk acting like savages, there are no repercussions.

How are we to expect them to behave any differently than the adults?

Houston, we've got a problem and I don't know if it will be solved any time soon.

[Xedniw]

3. Why were these kids putting on a show about beating up a woman?

Yeah, the black face is more than offensive, but think about the skit these kids thought it was ok to perform. Is beating women entertainment at pep rallies?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Because the adults at their school allowed them to do it.

[cali]

5. Yes, but aside from the fact that this is outrageous racism and sexism

what on earth gave these kids the idea to perform such a thing at a pep rally? and I'm not inclined at all to excuse the asswipe disgusting kids despite adult approval. they're fucking old enough to know better.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Turn on your TV

[Odin2005]

6. Wow, I thought our pep rallies were horrible!

[bullwinkle428]

7. Utterly grotesque. Are they going to stage a lynching at the next "pep rally"?