<p>:eek: :eek: :eek: Oh, good grief!!! Where does it end?!</p>
<p>I don’t know, Poetsheart. I was taking tickets at the graduation ceremony at D’s high school. Chairs in the reserved seating area were white. Open seating chairs were blue. I directed a black couple with tickets to the reserved section by saying, “You’re in the white section & your guests without tickets can head to the blue section.” One of the other volunteers suggested that this could be offensive. Ummm…the school colors are blue & white. Did the school make a horrible racially offensive blunder by putting white chairs in the front, and blue chairs in the back?</p>
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<p>I also I agree, although I would add that what happened to Keith Sampson --50 year old janitorial worker and part-time college student-- was exactly that: harassment, and not neccessarily silly…to him.</p>
<p>It also happens often enough. We have had personal experience with just this sort of over-reacting harassment in our family and with one of our college age children.</p>
<p>When someone is being harassed, I don’t suppose it matters very much to them whether they are being harassed for a good cause or simply because they are not keeping up with the rituals of the day.</p>
<p>If any of the harassment described above occurs, it should be sanctioned. Although, in today’s climate, being harassed or abused has been taken to something of an art form. The haranging Mr Sampson went through was simply a little less elegant than some others.</p>
<p>As here:
[Baltimore</a> firehouse noose a hoax - UPI.com](<a href=“Baltimore firehouse noose a hoax - UPI.com”>Baltimore firehouse noose a hoax - UPI.com)
[NAACP</a> Apologizes After Noose Incident - Firehouse.com News](<a href=“http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=57378§ionId=46]NAACP”>http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?id=57378§ionId=46)</p>
<p>Here:
[Professor</a> in Noose Case Is Cited for Plagiarism - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog](<a href=“http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/victim-of-noose-crime-is-cited-for-plagiarism/]Professor”>Professor in Noose Case Is Cited for Plagiarism - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Here:
[The</a> Washington Times, America’s Newspaper](<a href=“http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2007/11/gwu_student_fakes_hate_1.html]The”>http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2007/11/gwu_student_fakes_hate_1.html)</p>
<p>Here:
[The</a> Cagle Post – Column – Clarence Page – Beware Hate Crime Hoaxes](<a href=“http://www.caglepost.com/column/Clarence+Page/3947/Beware+Hate+Crime+Hoaxes.html]The”>http://www.caglepost.com/column/Clarence+Page/3947/Beware+Hate+Crime+Hoaxes.html)</p>
<p>Here:
[Seven</a> GW students admit to hanging controversial posters - News](<a href=“http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/08/News/Seven.Gw.Students.Admit.To.Hanging.Controversial.Posters-3022092.shtml]Seven”>http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/08/News/Seven.Gw.Students.Admit.To.Hanging.Controversial.Posters-3022092.shtml)</p>
<p>Here:
[La</a> Shawn Barber’s Corner » FakeHate.com](<a href=“http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/05/09/fakehatecom/]La”>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2005/05/09/fakehatecom/)</p>
<p>A reasonable person needs to take a step back.</p>
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<p>some more hypersensitivity:</p>
<p>Texas County Official Sees Race in Term ‘Black Hole’</p>
<p>A county commissioners’ meeting this week over traffic tickets turned into a tense discussion over race when one commissioner said the county’s collections office was like a certain astronomical phenomenon.</p>
<p>“It sounds like Central Collections has become a black hole,” Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said during the Monday meeting.</p>
<p>One black official demanded an apology, and Commissioner John Wiley Price, who also is black, said that type of language is unacceptable.</p>
<p>[FOXNews.com</a> - Texas County Official Sees Race in Term ‘Black Hole’ - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380143,00.html]FOXNews.com”>The Latest Science News Today | Fox News)</p>
<p>When I first read about this, it put me into a brown study, and then a blue funk, but then I began to see red. In fact, my anger became white hot, but then I thought, maybe these reports are just yellow journalism, and the stories are just purple prose. Maybe the reporters are really the black hats here–perhaps politicians make them green with envy. I decided to go have an Orange Julius, listen to the Indigo Girls, stop and smell the African Violets, and forget about it.</p>
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<p>Hey, aren’t you insulting another group of AAs, namely Asian-Americans?
ROTFL!</p>
<p>“Hey, aren’t you insulting another group of AAs, namely Asian-Americans?”</p>
<p>Nope. Yellow journalism is named after the Yellow Kid, a cartoon character who is not Asian. He wears a yellow shirt.</p>
<p>Hunt: it does not matter. Just as a black hole is not named after African-Americans. :)</p>
<p>By the way, about black holes, someone better alert astronomers!</p>
<p>Purdue issues an apology to Mr. Sampson…</p>
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<p>[Janitor</a> reprimanded for reading book gets apology](<a href=“Home - WND”>Janitor reprimanded for reading book gets apology)</p>
<p>So, is he or is he not apologizing.?<br>
He states that "we regret this situation took place " (which situation?).
And he goes on to say that “I had not done so [apologized] personally to you.” And he still has not. </p>
<p>He then hastens to say he considers the matter closed. That seems to be the main point of the letter, as far as I can interpret it.</p>
<p>Sheesh.</p>
<p>That’s a good point, and I’m sure the letter was written with or by the school’s attorneys with very careful wording.</p>
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<p>Fantastic reading, Marite.
Quite funny, as well.</p>