Wrong from so many directions.
Jul. 9th, 2004 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeIt started when the California Secretary of Education told a 6-year-old that her name meant "stupid dirty girl". So that's pretty retarded to start with, and deserves a nice big boot to the head. He did apologize immediately, and the girl and her mother accepted that (not happy with the whole event, obviously, but they're past it) and don't intend to go all sue-for-emotional-damages, so you think that'd be the end of it.
Then some other people horned in, like the NAACP, and local media, and local politicians, etc. There are shouts for his resignation. It does sound like the guy's a dickhead, and if it's part of a pattern maybe he shouldn't be in the job; but considering this case in a vacuum, if the primary players are tolerably satisfied I'm not sure beating the war drums is called for.
But. The real kicker is this: certain of the Some Other People were going to have a demonstration against the SecEd...until they found out the girl was white, not black, as had been originally reported. So, um, it's an outrageous thing to say to a little black girl but not a little white girl? Run that by me again, I think I missed a step.
I award everyone involved a session in the Whack-a-Luser, except the girl (who patiently corrected the dorkwad and told him she was named for an Egyptian goddess) and her mother (for exceptional sanity in this lawsuit-happy age).
Then some other people horned in, like the NAACP, and local media, and local politicians, etc. There are shouts for his resignation. It does sound like the guy's a dickhead, and if it's part of a pattern maybe he shouldn't be in the job; but considering this case in a vacuum, if the primary players are tolerably satisfied I'm not sure beating the war drums is called for.
But. The real kicker is this: certain of the Some Other People were going to have a demonstration against the SecEd...until they found out the girl was white, not black, as had been originally reported. So, um, it's an outrageous thing to say to a little black girl but not a little white girl? Run that by me again, I think I missed a step.
I award everyone involved a session in the Whack-a-Luser, except the girl (who patiently corrected the dorkwad and told him she was named for an Egyptian goddess) and her mother (for exceptional sanity in this lawsuit-happy age).
