"Negro" Used On School Form

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First Posted: 09- 2-09 12:35 PM   |   Updated: 09- 2-09 12:57 PM

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Miami Herald:

Faced with complaints from parents and students about racial insensitivity, state and local education officials have dropped the word negro from a racial background form that went out to every Broward public school student the first day of school.

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Faced with complaints from parents and students about racial insensitivity, state and local education officials have dropped the word negro from a racial background form that went out to every Broward...
Faced with complaints from parents and students about racial insensitivity, state and local education officials have dropped the word negro from a racial background form that went out to every Broward...
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- dfranz I'm a Fan of dfranz 88 fans permalink
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Do they use the word CRACKER as well?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:24 PM on 09/02/2009
- constitutional 1 I'm a Fan of constitutional 1 15 fans permalink

ridiculous to use that word.... its a shame we still have to reference our race on any government form.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:00 PM on 09/02/2009
- constitutional 1 I'm a Fan of constitutional 1 15 fans permalink

ridiculous...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:58 PM on 09/02/2009
- harriscrl3 I'm a Fan of harriscrl3 191 fans permalink

Wow America is really is still BACKWARDS in a lot of ways.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:37 PM on 09/02/2009
- mixnmatch I'm a Fan of mixnmatch 141 fans permalink
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Jake Edri.......your parents must be very proud of you. I'm sure you will find great success in what ever you do in life. Thank you for doing the right thing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:08 PM on 09/02/2009
- MSNichols I'm a Fan of MSNichols 48 fans permalink
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It's 2009 and this type of error is still made by a school board?
Time to get a new school board.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:39 PM on 09/02/2009
- AmericanSon1 I'm a Fan of AmericanSon1 permalink
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are we sure it didn't read "nigra" or "nigress"? i guess "colored" was specific enough, eh?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:11 PM on 09/02/2009
- SouthJerseySteve I'm a Fan of SouthJerseySteve 10 fans permalink
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So 1960 of them -- Tracy Turnblatt will start the march next week!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:55 PM on 09/02/2009
- RightWingMarine I'm a Fan of RightWingMarine 75 fans permalink
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why is this info needed to educate children? Is this the new N word? Will African-American someday become the new N word?

White is a color, not an ethncity.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:41 PM on 09/02/2009
- protagonia I'm a Fan of protagonia 80 fans permalink

This is the end of the anti-Christian movement, cloaked in the flag and hiding like cowards behind the cross that Jesus died on.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:20 PM on 09/02/2009
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