At the most resent Pep Rally for Waverly High School, located in Waverly NY, the usual fanfare of cheering for the home team to get them ready was in full swing. As the rally progressed you had your usual cheers and rally cries for the fall sports teams and the football team. It seemed to have done well, with Waverly defeating their opponent 70-21. But what happened at that pep rally went much farther than simple cheers. Three white students were to perform a skit in black face, depicting Chris Brown and Rhianna most notibly. In this skit they would display acts of domestic violence as satire to an audience that included not only students but parents, faculty, and various members of the media and community leaders. None of them stopped the skit. Now former students of Waverly High School are questioning how this was allowed to happen.” I think it’s unconscionable that such blatant racism has been tacitly approved two years in a row,” says Waverly alumni and Yale graduate Vlad Chituc. “The administration should be creating an environment where minorities are welcome, not the butts of racist jokes that make light of domestic violence.”
“I think it’s unconscionable that such blatant racism has been tacitly approved of two years in a row. The administration should be creating an environment where minorities are welcome, not the butts of racist jokes that make light of domestic violence.”
Fellow former Waverly student Hannah Van Wie-Desisti shared sentiments with her former schoolmate:
“I used to be so proud of where I came from. Not so much now due to the recent incident. I found it unfathomable that the faculty would not only approve this idea for the skit in the first place, but allow it to go on during the pep rally. I honestly don’t believe that the students meant to offend, but were just ill informed of how offending their skit actually was. The staff should have stopped it before it even started. By acting like the skit was acceptable, they are teaching their students that racism is okay and that abuse is humorous. The whole thing outraged me and made me so disappointed in the school that I was once loved.”
The offensive nature of what took place is made even more concerning know that in order for a skit to take place at the rally it had to be OK’ed by the administration of the school. A comment from the school district was not available at this time. [source]
What say you….
Thoroughly offended, indifferent, could give a damn?
Why or why not….
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LMAO!!! Oh I am going to hell…. but I laughed by big ass off at this one….
ETA:
I am curious when staging a "domestic violence" moment became a thing to do in a pep rally.
The Asian side of me feels like I should be offended by this gif, but my Black side finds this HILARIOUS!
Racists gonna race
*kanye shrug*
my original comment when I posted this on facebook:
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but Ambz said something when she posted that made me think:
This is what happens when you're not allowed to call racist things racist.
Black folks are always being accused of being too sensitive…but are we really too sensitive?
wait. two years in a row?! what did they do last year that no one called them out on until now?
This is what I was thinking.
The principal should resign.
I think it'd be more interesting to hear how this isn't racist. I mean, it was done in front of a whole school, right? And it was okayed by the school administrators, people enlisted to educate the country's youth? Sounds not only racist, but it also sounds like racism with a swagger, almost like it's being dangled in the faces of those it's laughing at, feeling that their actions will be consequence-free. Surely, that's a dangerous sign…?
Upstate NY…I'm not surprised really. Upstate NY and the South are actually not that different…except that we have snow.
"I honestly don’t believe that the students meant to offend, but were just ill informed of how offending their skit actually was."
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how long have their heads been up their asses to not know that in this day in age? i mean really…
(channeling your inner folk feels pretty good lol)
I stopped reading the comments on the post…
Most of the defenders were saying its a pop culture event & we didn't see the whole skit, blah blah blah *vomits*
It's also interesting that no one gets why blackface is racist…*sigh*
Some administrator should've known this wasn't a good idea
It's all fun and games until a black school talks about beating on white people….
I didn't see the skit, and I didn't watch "White Chicks".
I feel that only black people can portray black characters, and only white people should portray white characters. That way nobody has to wear "black face" (or white face).
Hence why y'all better leave spiderman the fugg alone!!!!!
So I guess I'll be the out man. This does not offend me. It technically is pop culture. While I think it was not appropriate for school Im pretty sure all/most of these Jans, Billies, Susies, and Parkers actually like CB and RiRi. Seems they were making fun of people and not a race. This reminds me of the debate that rape is never funny yet we laugh about rapey jokes.
Would this be okay if they were doing the skit but not painted brown? When is it crossing the line? The asian chick that does makeup for different races isnt considered offensive black face….. Only because no one is laughing?
I'll accept that, and be prepared to change my stance as a result. But still – why not get a couple of black kids to do it?
Also, I do think rape jokes are funny – if a) they highlight how pathetic the perpetrator is and/or b) if they highlight how disgusting the act is. No subject should be off-limits. But how it's approached is important.
Yeah I dont know. Maybe there arent any black kids willing to put themselves out there like that. In school at one point I was the only black kid involved in drama productions for the school. There were of course black kids in drama class but none (at that particular time) that were willing to do some in front of the school. Mostly because they didnt want to be silly. I remember wanting to be the mascot so bad. My black friends questioned my decision. They asked why not dance squad, drill team, flag line, or even soft ball. Why? Because I wanna be the gotdamn mascot lol.
I mean I could be completely wrong. This kids may sincerely be little racist bastards
No subject is off limits for me either but then again I've been told that I have a warped sense of humor
The question is would it be *as* offensive to people without the blackface?
Certainly the whole thing was in bad taste — but like Blu said, the whole Chris Brown/domestic violence thing is sort of a pop culture meme at this point. And if you're making fun of celebrities there's room I suppose for a laugh to maybe come out of physical comedy.
But if you go to that next level of blackface, it's not making fun of celebrities anymore (regardless of what color those celebrities happen to be) — you're taking a shot at a culture, and doing it in a way that's recognizably disrespectful.
This wasn't "2 famous black people did something we're going to reference in a joke" — this is "ALL BLACK PEOPLE ACT LIKE THIS" and to me that's a worse line to cross.
Says a lot about the people who organized this thing, and the principal that let it go on.
All that being said — As a former theater kid AND a former middle school drama teacher who got in LOTS of trouble from the principals I worked under for pushing boundaries with the jokes I included in our plays (I once had a kid dress up as the principal and fart on stage, which might have been why he was mad) — I can tell you that the riskiest jokes are the most fun, especially if the school administration are really tighta**es.
At the same time — if you offend the community, and you even bring the HINT of a lawsuit it can cost you your job, so even though you might like to make rude jokes — you have to be super careful about it.
To me something like this pep rally speaks to a school that doesn't mind a little racism with their football, and looked the other way enough that people thought they could do this without consequence.
I always find your comments to be so well balanced. I'd compliment you more but I'm also afraid I might be cut for encroaching.
"former Waverly student Hannah Van Wie-Desisti"
ok that name right THERE tells you what sort of peeps are going to this school and just why this is happening for the 2nd time in a row and will keep going until someone puts a stop to it. (And who's to say the pep rally entertainment the year(s) before last weren't just as ratchet?)
Her family is one of those "original peeps" (never mind those pesky NA peeps already there) in that NY area, when Harlem was Haarlem nowhatI'msayin?? This is a school chock full of the kids of the one percenters. Parents don't care, school don't care, kids don't care.
I'm too tired of ish like this popping up to be offended at the moment. Ask me again later.
You know, I still think the while thing was in bad taste. Chris brown beating Rhianna, not appropriate. Throw blackface into it? Show how or families didn't educate us on how this might get our asses whooped in the world. I see it as offensive. I'm not shocked one bit because racism and ignorance will always exist. It's sad that these kids are so ill informed on what is appropriate in this day and age. And some people are just stupid. People in this country can be so quick to sweep the dirt under the rug about our country's history with blacks. And half of the kids nowadays won't do their own research. No wonder the offensive things that should never be done again end up being done. Like I said before, either ignorance or just plain racist. Whatever though. The chances of me coming across these little bastards are petty slim. They will learn, and our may have to be the hard way, unfortunately.
The mastermind is on Tumblr boo-hooing about how everyone's being so mean, and that she 'hates people'.
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