{"id":3450,"date":"2007-06-09T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/09\/another-racially-themed-party-plantation-graduation\/"},"modified":"2007-06-09T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T21:04:52","slug":"another-racially-themed-party-plantation-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3450","title":{"rendered":"Another Racially Themed Party: Plantation Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The students and faculty at Riverdale Christian Academy decided to have a plantation party for their graduation. Notice that the party was\u00a0not to promote any kind of understanding of history; it was a graduation party with a “Southern plantation during the Civil War” theme. So the students and teachers decided to dress up wearing blackface, and mock<\/a>ing runaway slaves.\u00a0 According to the school principal, the point of the skit\u00a0was to “roast the graduates” and “poke a little fun at their mannerisms.” You can see him actually make this statement in the video posted at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n

The photos were brought to light when blogger Tate Hill, at Urban Knowledge<\/a>, found the photos at a photo sharing site called Bebo. The photos are no longer viewable via the links he provided; I’m assuming the poster either made them private or took them down.<\/p>\n

Now Mr. Hill is getting deluged with comments from anonymous racism apologists,\u00a0certainly not a big surprise for those of us who routinely blog against racism. Isn’t it so incredibly sad to see how people’s bigotry spews out when they think they are anonymous?<\/p>\n

I also find the “well many of the school’s students are Hispanic” argument to be utterly unconvincing.\u00a0 Apparently, some folks think it is acceptable for Latinos to be anti-Black, which several commenters noted is fairly absurd.<\/p>\n

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I have posted just one of the pictures above, which apparently had the caption “Bringing home the runaway slave in the Senior skit.”<\/p>\n

Readers can\u00a0go to Urban Knowledge blog to see some of the other photos, and their captions.\u00a0 Mr. Hill also has two follow up posts in response to the bigots who tried to take over comments in his first post.\u00a0 You can check them out 1st here <\/a>and 2nd here<\/a>.\u00a0 Plus, I\u00a0know that my readers realize that we can’t let the comments\u00a0on Mr. Hill’s site be overtaken by\u00a0people who think a Civil War Plantation themed party is a good way to “roast graduating students” and\u00a0“poke fun at\u00a0some of their mannerisms” (in the school Principal’s words not mine).\u00a0\u00a0 Go give the man some love for fighting these ignorant folks.<\/p>\n

I find it very sad to see how so many people think racism and slavery are a joke, but the themed parties show no sign of waning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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