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Closet Racist to WST: Black people don't bear punishment well. by Zsenicorpse 10/27/2006, 9:08am PDT
More than 25 years ago, when I was dean of boys at a high school in northern Queens, we received a letter from a federal agency pointing out that we had suspended black students far out of proportion to their numbers in our student population. Though it carried no explicit or even implicit threats, the letter was enough to set the alarm bells ringing in all the first-floor administrative offices.

DING DING DING WENT THE TROLLEY.... of racism! I will supply in italics the edited portions of this gentleman's op-ed here:

"And when I passed the news on to our chief security guard that the feds were on our case, he merely chuckled and said, "They're bad"--meaning our rowdy clientele, which I took as confirmation of what I still believe: that until then, I hadn't recommended suspension for anyone who didn't richly deserve it. Most arrant negroes richly deserved it. Am I to blame?"

After the new non-ruling, he started randomly recommending suspensions to ensure an fair distribution of suspensions across the population. Cluster sampling and wot.

"For example, obscenities directed at a teacher would mean, in cases involving minority students, a rebuke from the dean and a notation on the record or a letter home rather than a suspension. Many were the times my fingers itched for the birch rod for those no-good niggers. For cases in which white students had committed infractions, it meant zero tolerance."

He's all "How was I supposed to be fair when I had to punish black kids but I couldn't punish them enough?" Like they're not already the world's toilet paper of choice. That reminds me of a joke - stop me if you've heard this one:

What's the best time to get pregnant?
- When you're a black teenager.


"The boy was a white kid, tall, with an unruly mop of blond hair. He was within 200 feet of the nearest exit and blessed freedom. But he couldn't wait. The nicotine fit was on him, and he lit a cigarette barely two yards from me. I pounced, and within 20 minutes he was suspended--for endangering himself and others."

Does anyone else remember that time when SB was all "I'm not gay, but Arnold Schwartzenegger is really sexually hot" ? The above WST-published quote is only the second time I've seen homoerotic Nazi fabulization. Hooooooooow that Dean of Boys longed to switch this young englin - switch him long and hard, until he understood discipline. He could barely help himself, the poor lad, it was the drugs, the horrible drugs - if I switch him hard enough, hard enough so that his perfect Aryan bottom almost bleeds, maybe he'll be good.... Maybe.
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