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When "Tradition" Destroys Progress
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05/24/09
& I certainly hope being publicly shamed/humiliated in the NYT contributes to a significant change next year. I just wish NYT had enabled commenting--I would being berserk over there right now.
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I want someone to do a follow up article on this.
05/23/09
It is like Toni Morrison's novels all over again...
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05/23/09
Dear Montgomery County schools: You are made of fail.
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[www.theorderofmyths.com]
It was at sundance and SXSW. Here's the salon.com review too
[mobile.salon.com]
05/27/09
05/23/09
Seriously, what the heck was that about? Repeatedly noting that the non-white kids went to KFC, how much they ate, etc.
Why not just put in bold font: "Black people like fried chicken."
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That one girl's color contacts pissed me off, especially considering what this article was about. Come on sista.
If they ever have a Real Housewives of Montgomery County, we will see this Haley character and her mother again.
I hope ALL of these kids get the hell out of this town for college.
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05/23/09
i'm glad i'm not the only one who noticed and took issue with that. you spend the entire first two thirds of the slideshow showing only pictures of white kids, but you still somehow manage to include embarrassing dancing shots from only the black prom? really?
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It's the circle of life!
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I don't know, you guys. I just don't want this thread to spin off into a "well of course she says racist things, look at her, she looks like a blah blah blah" as I think that's a pretty dangerous mode of thinking anyway. Harley Boone may be the visual rep of the white kids at this school, but she's not the only one, and certainly not the only one who thinks this is "okay" and "just the way it is." Her dumb gown may be hideous but it's her mentality that is ugly and that's what needs to be discussed here.
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I'm half-joking.
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That's my take, anyhow.
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I mean, I totally disagree with every word out of her mouth and out of her mother's, and what she looks like or how she dresses wouldn't change that, but it does make an impression.