Eastern Technology High School Students Suspended After Drawing Racist Picture Involving Obama

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Posting It To Twitter...

Three students at Maryland's Eastern Technology High School have been suspended after drawing a racially offensive picture involving President Barack Obama during class and posting a photo of it to Twitter, The Baltimore Sun reports.

According to Baltimore County police spokeswoman Cathy Batton, the image depicts three nooses hanging from the rafters of a building. Next to the ropes is a burning cross with three stick figures in pointed hats, a clear reference to the Ku Klux Klan. To the right is a grave marker with the name "Barack Obama" at the top, and under the president’s name appear two racial epithets.

Two students drew the picture during the end of a class period the morning of June 7, the day before school ended. According to Batton, their teacher was busy talking to several students about their final exam grades when another student told her about the drawing. By the time she went to go investigate, most of the images had been erased, Batton said.

A student in the class, however, had taken a photo of the drawing before it was erased and posted the image to Twitter, where it was seen by other students and eventually a parent, who emailed the photo to an assistant principal.

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[Tom Ripley]

1. That's even beyond racist

[notadmblnd]

2. Maybe they could pass it on to the secret Service and they could pay the boys a little visit?

nt

[Nye Bevan]

3. Why? You think these kids are a serious, credible threat to the President's life?

If not, why waste the Secret Service's time on them?

[notadmblnd]

4. And you think kids don't kill?

there's a long list of school shootings by kids that says different.

I don't think it was a cute or harmless prank.