OMG racist yearbook!

[Dolemite]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...izarre/3193088

School district sorry for yearbook mistake
Associated Press

WAXAHACHIE — A North Texas school district has apologized to a student who was listed under the name "Black Girl" in a high school yearbook photo of the school's National Honor Society.

All white students are identified by name in the photograph in the Waxahachie High School yearbook, which was distributed Friday. The teen identified as "Black Girl" is the only black student in the photo.

The label apparently was meant to be a placeholder until the yearbook staff could track down the student's name, district spokeswoman Candace Ahlfinger said in today's edition of the Waxahachie Daily Light.

She said using that label was a poor choice, but it was not meant maliciously and was not meant to be printed.

School board president Joe Langley said a student made the mistake. "I'm sure the student is very sorry," he said.

District administrators and high school faculty members were expected to meet on Monday to discuss the mistake, Ahlfinger said. She said the district probably would make adjustments to the yearbook and yearbook staff to avoid such incidents in the future.

I saw this on the news this morning, where they showed the pic with the "black girl" caption under it. LOL

[ChaoofNee]

Hahahah.
They're taking that way too seriously, though. I should know, finding names for a yearbook can be a bitch.

[dave is ok]

In my yearbook they messed up some asian kids message at the end to say "Gook Luck"

[Melf]

In my yearbook they messed up some asian kids message at the end to say "Gook Luck"

It should read "congraturations!"

[Wildkat]

I'd like to know when "Black Girl" became a racist term.

If it said "Nigger Bitch" I could see point of an uproar, but christ it was a mistake. I am sure we would not hear word one if it was "White Girl" under her caption.

[Dolemite]

I'd like to know when "Black Girl" became a racist term.

If it said "Nigger Bitch" I could see point of an uproar, but christ it was a mistake.

I don't think it was racist. But as I was watching that on the news I knew there would be an uproar (because there always is) and I thought that was funny.

I am sure we would not hear word one if it was "White Girl" under her caption.

It was a group photo and she was the only black person in it. If it listed another student as "white girl" the next question would be "Um, which one?"

[Nomi]

I'm on yearbook staff, but as a photographer. I have very little to do with the actual body text and captions, but...

Locally, a dicstrict or two over, someone called a student 'Blackie' in a caption of a club photo since they didn't have his name. It ended up getting published (some years back). We put in silly things for proofs if we don't know yet and have to send to be proofed before. (Sports, we'll not fill in body text if there are championships and such and correct them on proof send-backs before the final publishing). So somebody forgot to correct the Blackie name and it made it from proofs to final.

We do dumb stuff sometimes. 'Girl with hat', 'drooling kid', and once 'retard' but we caught it on proofs (the kid wasn't a retard, he was making a silly face). Shit happens, and it's not that surprising something made it past proofs to the final yearbook.

We've never had a slip-up. Now there's an automated jumble-text thing so it won't LET you send off something final without checking the caution areas. Yay for technology.

[Dolemite]

Locally, a dicstrict or two over, someone called a student 'Blackie' in a caption of a club photo since they didn't have his name. It ended up getting published (some years back). We put in silly things for proofs if we don't know yet and have to send to be proofed before. (Sports, we'll not fill in body text if there are championships and such and correct them on proof send-backs before the final publishing). So somebody forgot to correct the Blackie name and it made it from proofs to final.

Sounds like what happened with the ol' Gamefan "Jap bastard" scandal.

[ChaoofNee]

Actually, now that I remember, the godo ol' Chaminade yearbook always had a few cards working on it. The guys in charge a year before I was more important... er... wait, I had the same position both years...
Er, anyway, the Theme guys that year had the placeholders for all of their articles read, as follows:

Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about egg rolls. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives. Theme article, possibly about chives.

Shame none of them were published as such.

[Calliander]

It was a legitimate placeholder, they do it all of the time in yearbook classes. Anyone who gets up in arms about this is a douche. It would have been smarter to put "Unidentified" for the girl's name instead of "Black Girl," but that's why they don't let whoever did that work on the yearbook again. Simple as that.