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School spends over $50K to reprint yearbooks because students flashed alleged racist sign
Posted on 5/24/19 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 5/24/19 at 3:36 pm
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A Chicago high school is forking over $53,794 to reprint its 2018-19 yearbooks after administrators discovered that the book featured students making the "OK" sign with their hands — a sign that some have interpreted to mean "white supremacy."
The original yearbooks reportedly featured photos of a group of students who were flashing the hand sign.
According to MSN Insider, at least 18 photos contained the offending hand gestures in this year's Oak Park River Forest High School yearbooks.
A letter from Superintendent Dr. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams read that the books contained "18 photos of clubs or teams in which students of various races, ethnicities, genders, and grades made a hand gesture — an upside down OK sign."
Some "alt-right" figures started a campaign on various internet message boards to troll the media into associating the "OK" gesture with racism, which would end up discrediting the media with the public.
Pruitt-Adams did admit that the offending hand gesture is also associated with the "circle game," a game in which someone makes the hand gesture and holds it below their waist. If they can coerce another person to look at the circle, that person can punch them.
Pruitt-Adams even said that the photos were taken mid-October 2018, well before "the gesture was widely known to have any association with white nationalism."
Still, the school shelled out more than $50,000 to have the books reprinted without those pages. The Chicago Sun Times reported that the school initially printed 1,750 copies of this year's yearbook before demanding the printer re-run all new books without the offending photos.
"I want to be clear that we are not making any presumptions about students' intent in using the gesture," she said. "Regardless of intent, however, there is a real and negative impact. Many students, not only our students of color, experience this gesture as a symbol of white supremacy. Potentially subjecting our students to this trauma is simply not acceptable."
Pruitt-Adams was apparently acting in a protective manner for the students, who, as a result of the photos, could be subject to "potentially a lifetime of questions or penalty from colleges, employers, etc," she said.
A Chicago high school is forking over $53,794 to reprint its 2018-19 yearbooks after administrators discovered that the book featured students making the "OK" sign with their hands — a sign that some have interpreted to mean "white supremacy."
The original yearbooks reportedly featured photos of a group of students who were flashing the hand sign.
According to MSN Insider, at least 18 photos contained the offending hand gestures in this year's Oak Park River Forest High School yearbooks.
A letter from Superintendent Dr. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams read that the books contained "18 photos of clubs or teams in which students of various races, ethnicities, genders, and grades made a hand gesture — an upside down OK sign."
Some "alt-right" figures started a campaign on various internet message boards to troll the media into associating the "OK" gesture with racism, which would end up discrediting the media with the public.
Pruitt-Adams did admit that the offending hand gesture is also associated with the "circle game," a game in which someone makes the hand gesture and holds it below their waist. If they can coerce another person to look at the circle, that person can punch them.
Pruitt-Adams even said that the photos were taken mid-October 2018, well before "the gesture was widely known to have any association with white nationalism."
Still, the school shelled out more than $50,000 to have the books reprinted without those pages. The Chicago Sun Times reported that the school initially printed 1,750 copies of this year's yearbook before demanding the printer re-run all new books without the offending photos.
"I want to be clear that we are not making any presumptions about students' intent in using the gesture," she said. "Regardless of intent, however, there is a real and negative impact. Many students, not only our students of color, experience this gesture as a symbol of white supremacy. Potentially subjecting our students to this trauma is simply not acceptable."
Pruitt-Adams was apparently acting in a protective manner for the students, who, as a result of the photos, could be subject to "potentially a lifetime of questions or penalty from colleges, employers, etc," she said.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 3:37 pm to Crimson Wraith
It's going to be so nice to eventually retire to some land out west and watch this country implode on its own stupidity.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 3:57 pm to Centinel
Well, when you do look me up. I’ve already moved out this way. Northern Idaho all the way. And I’m a realtor so I’ll be happy to sell your house.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 4:05 pm to Centinel
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It's going to be so nice to eventually retire to some land out west
Posted on 5/24/19 at 4:05 pm to Crimson Wraith
Lol @ liberals. I’m gonna start an alt right movement where clapping your hands is a symbol of white nationalism.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 4:07 pm to Crimson Wraith
Take down the WASHINGTON MONUMENT - nothing but a phallic symbol
Posted on 5/24/19 at 4:09 pm to Crimson Wraith
The stupid! It hurts!
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 5/24/19 at 4:27 pm to Crimson Wraith
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Potentially subjecting our students to this trauma is simply not acceptable.
Why are liberals so fragile? I don't think anyone I know would ever be traumatized by a hand signal in a photograph. Looking at a WWII history book must make them catatonic.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 4:29 pm to Crimson Wraith
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A letter from Superintendent Dr. Joylynn Pruitt-Adams read that the books contained "18 photos of clubs or teams in which students of various races, ethnicities, genders, and grades made a hand gesture — an upside down OK sign."
4chan must be rolling around dying laughing. They made the ok sign hoax and leftists even recognized them making the hoax yet still can't stop looking like a bunch of fools.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 6:00 pm to the808bass
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Lol @ liberals. I’m gonna start an alt right movement where clapping your hands is a symbol of white nationalism.
Other symbols of White Nationalists...
Working a Job
Paying Taxes
2 Parent homes
Posted on 5/24/19 at 6:06 pm to Crimson Wraith
Idiots.
The intent of the hand sign is NOT to mean "OK" OR to support white supremacists.
Ask some adolescent boy what it means then prepare to be punched.
The intent of the hand sign is NOT to mean "OK" OR to support white supremacists.
Ask some adolescent boy what it means then prepare to be punched.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:45 pm to Crimson Wraith
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the "OK" sign with their hands — a sign that some have interpreted to mean "white supremacy."
Posted on 5/24/19 at 8:55 pm to EGCROSS
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Well, when you do look me up. I’ve already moved out this way. Northern Idaho all the way. And I’m a realtor so I’ll be happy to sell your house.
Hah. My father in law has a bunch of land in northern Idaho that I'm hoping he'll either leave to us or let me buy at a good price.
Maybe we'll be neighbors
This post was edited on 5/24/19 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:04 pm to Crimson Wraith
So tired of white supremacists in the NBA
Posted on 5/24/19 at 9:14 pm to Crimson Wraith
The Chicago Cubs logo is a known symbol of white supremacy.
Posted on 5/24/19 at 10:02 pm to Crimson Wraith
We called it "dropping an a-hole", if you looked at it you were an a-hole. That was late 70's. I guess I have been alt right for 40 plus years. Who knew?
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