Wimberly’s mother is the school’s “certified media specialist.” She says in the federal discrimination complaint that after her daughter had been told she would be valedictorian, the mother heard “in the copy room that same day, other school personnel expressed concern that Wimberly’s status as valedictorian might cause a ‘big mess.'”
McGehee Secondary School is predominantly white, and 46 percent African-American, according to the complaint. Bratton says that the day after she heard the “big mess” comment, McGehee Principal Darrell Thompson, a defendant, told her “that he decided to name a white student as co-valedictorian,” although the white student had a lower G.P.A.
I want to have been in the room when the school’s lawyer looked around and asked, “Who’s the fucking idiot who thought this was a good idea?”
Because there is no other way to respond to idiots of this level. One might think the school would be embarrassed that for the first time in 22 years someone of the the race of 46 percent of the students was going to be valedictorian. Most people would be breathing a sigh of relief that they could show some very minor progress towards racial equity in the school system. Not these assclowns–they were worried some white folks would have their feelings hurt because we treated a student equally under the law. Fucking geniuses.