Showing posts with label Payton Head. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Payton Head. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Jackson Free Press Plays a Round of "Let's See if We Can Tie Initiative 42 to Racism"

In a Jackson Free Press article written by RL Nave, (On Education, Privilege and Empowerment) , he accounts some of the racial  trials and tribulations of  Payton Head, student body president at the University of Missouri.

  He begins:
  • Sept. 11, a pickup truck full of white guys screamed the word n*gger at him. "I really just want to know why my simple existence is such a threat to society,"
I am not condoning the way the word was used or even suggesting that it was right, but, really, if someone calls you a name then you are a threat simply by "existing?" Anyway, that's where it begins and it kind of goes on from there following that similar narrative. 

It ends this way:

Either it was the only way Nave could get a story about a friend of his from Missouri to be relevant to Mississippi, or it's a heck of along stretch to get anti-initiative 42 tied to being racist. 

http://www.picayune.us/ms-rl-nave.html
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MEME REPORT:
WHO SHOULD DECIDE WHAT'S BEST FOR THEIR CHILDREN??