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Racist incident roils Pa. high school By MARTHA RAFFAELE, Associated Press Writer
Thu Oct 11, 8:41 AM ET



LITITZ, Pa. - For years, a clique of high school students in this prosperous and overwhelmingly white borough have worn clothes adorned with Confederate flags and parked their pickups in a section of the school parking lot known as "redneck row."

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The display, some parents of minority students say, was just one symptom of festering racism that school officials ignored until animosities boiled over last week.

That's when three white 16-year-old students allegedly yelled racial slurs and threw paper wads at minority students outside the 1,600-student Warwick High School.

School officials vowed to discipline the three students, tighten security and ban Confederate flags on school property. On Wednesday, police charged the three with disorderly conduct.

The "disturbing and repulsive" Oct. 3 confrontation was a "wake-up call" for Warwick High School, said Superintendent John George. "Perhaps we were lulled into a false sense that our school district was immune to racism and bigotry," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071011/ap_on_re_us/high_school_racism

[khyber]

WTF is all this racist stuff coming from in the states? When did that start up again?

[Alyallen]

I have been wondering the same thing.

I mean...I left in 2004 and I don't think it was near this bad back then...

But I could be wrong

[Pligganease]

In 2004, every little incidence if idiocy wasn't newsworthy. Now, because it's trendy, they'll report everything that, in the past, would have been local news if anything at all.

[Ilsanman]

Good on them for disciplining these kids.

But when I read 'until it was too late', I was expecting there to be some sort of serious aftermath. Mayber a stabbing or shooting. Paper wads? Whatever.

[wannago]

[khyber]

[blaseblasphemener]

[Ya-ta Boy]

To keep things in perspective:

Lynchings: By Year and Race
Year Whites Blacks Total

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1882 64 49 113
1883 77 53 130
1884 160 51 211
1885 110 74 184
1886 64 74 138
1887 50 70 120
1888 68 69 137
1889 76 94 170
1890 11 85 96
1891 71 113 184
1892 69 161 230
1893 34 118 152
1894 58 134 192
1895 66 113 179
1896 45 78 123
1897 35 123 158
1898 19 101 120
1899 21 85 106
1900 9 106 115
1901 25 105 130
1902 7 85 92
1903 15 84 99
1904 7 76 83
1905 5 57 62
1906 3 62 65
1907 3 58 61
1908 8 89 97
1909 13 69 82
1910 9 67 76
1911 7 60 67
1912 2 62 64
1913 1 51 52
1914 4 51 55
1915 13 56 69
1916 4 50 54
1917 2 36 38
1918 4 60 64
1919 7 76 83
1920 8 53 61
1921 5 59 64
1922 6 51 57
1923 4 29 33
1924 0 16 16
1925 0 17 17
1926 7 23 30
1927 0 16 16
1928 1 10 11
1929 3 7 10
1930 1 20 21
1931 1 12 13
1932 2 6 8
1933 2 24 26
1934 0 15 15
1935 2 18 20
1936 0 8 8
1937 0 8 8
1938 0 6 6
1939 1 2 3
1940 1 4 5
1941 0 4 4
1942 0 6 6
1943 0 3 3
1944 0 2 2
1945 0 1 1
1946 0 6 6
1947 0 1 1
1948 1 1 2
1949 0 3 3
1950 1 1 2
1951 0 1 1
1952 0 0 0
1953 0 0 0
1954 0 0 0
1955 0 3 3
1956 0 0 0
1957 1 0 1
1958 0 0 0
1959 0 1 1
1960 0 0 0
1961 0 1 1
1962 0 0 0
1963 0 1 1
1964 2 1 3
1965 0 0 0
1966 0 0 0
1967 0 0 0
1968 0 0 0
Total 1,297 3,445 4,742


Now paper wads and bad language from kids makes national news.

[wannago]

[Pligganease]

[Ilsanman]

I have been called a 'fucking whitey' by many indians in Canada, and I have been chased by a group of them who wanted to mug me. You don't hear me talking about being a victim.

Honestly, if that's the worst thing that happens to you, you have a charmed life.