"The school has never done something like this before, but they’ve also never had a black valedictorian before."
I'm curious as to why there hasn't been a black valedictorian in this town in more than 110 years when it has a majority black population (according to Wiki
49.9% Black vs.
46.8% White)?
"According to Jasmine’s mother, racial tensions are prevalent in the school district. In 2016, a federal judge ruled that the district failed to desegregate schools despite the 50-year-old Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision ordering them to."
If the school district was segregated up until last year, what would have been the motivation for them to promote or even acknowledge a black valedictorian before 2016?
History of Cleveland according to Wikipedia:
Cleveland, Mississippi - Wikipedia
In 1967, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark, Jr. began Senate hearings to assess the effectiveness of the War on Poverty programs. The first field hearings were held in Jackson, Mississippi, and the following day Kennedy and Clark set out to visit "pockets of poverty" in the Mississippi Delta. They arrived in Cleveland, along with Marian Wright and Peter Edelman, for a tour conducted by Amzie Moore. There they observed barefoot, underfed African-American children in tattered clothing, with vacant expressions and distended bellies. Kennedy told Edelman that he thought he had seen the worst poverty in the nation in West Virginia, but it paled in comparison to the poverty he observed in Cleveland.[2]
I wonder what the leadership in this majority black town looks like?
I wonder what that school board look like?
Botton Row - L to R
Mr. Richard Boggs,
Secretary
Mr. George L. Evans,
President
Mr. Todd Fuller,
Vice President
Top Row - L to R
Mrs. Tonya Short,
Parliamentarian (Useless position)
Dr. Jacquelyn C. Thigpen,
Superintendent (Useless - akin to a white Corporation having a predominantly black HR department)
Dr.Chresteen Seals,
Chaplain (WTF is this, a minister?)
Mrs. Jamie F. Jacks,
Board Attorney
Mayor is
Those in positions of power on it's school board are
5 out of 8 city alderman are
And this is in a majority
town......
nikkas need to wake the fcuk up.