AZ High School Girls Pose for "Questionable" Pic

[keen23]

A group of Seniors from Desert Vista High School, in Awatukee- aka the part of Phoenix that likes to pretend it's not Phoenix- posed for a very questionable picture as part of a pep rally today.

http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/district-aware-and-outraged-by-racist-photo-allegedly-snapped-by-high-school-seniors

 

These girls are dumb. It's gone viral. I suspect some of them will be losing much more than 5 days of school. Hey kids, don't be stupid. Racism isn't a joke.

[Catey]

Not sure which is worse, the stupidity of the people in the comments section defending their behaviour or the fact that they are seniors and at the end of mandated education and seemingly still have SO much more to learn.

[downtherabbithole]

I swear some kids these days seem to be complete idiots. I grew up in the south and in a mostly white school(I could probably count on 2 hands the number of African Americans I graduated with in my class of 400) and around some pretty racist folks. I still would have NEVER thought that this was okay and I am not sure even they would have donned these outfits. 

 

[ShepherdontheRock]

1 hour ago, downtherabbithole said:

I swear some kids these days seem to be complete idiots. I grew up in the south and in a mostly white school(I could probably count on 2 hands the number of African Americans I graduated with in my class of 400) and around some pretty racist folks. I still would have NEVER thought that this was okay and I am not sure even they would have donned these outfits. 

I grew up not in the south, went to mostly white upper-class schools, and while some people had weird racist attitudes, I'm pretty sure this type of shit would have been, quite rightfully, stopped in 2 seconds flat. And I'm pretty sure most kids would have known this was unacceptable.

And, who RAISES kids to have the mindset that they'd think for a second to do that?

[Deist woman]

What the girls did was wrong and stupid, no question about that.   I wonder if much of the problem could be lack of judgment and impulse control, plus lack of empathy due to not having a racially diverse team.   If the letters from the larger message could have been spelled out to say "F**k You", I am sure they would have also giggled about it and took a picture.  Sometimes it is hard to differentiate between racism and young-and-stupid at this age.  Unfortunately, when people are old enough to be elected to public office, much of the voting public seems to be perfectly fine with both racist AND stupid.

 

I think the kids should definitely be punished, but I don't think this should brand them for life as being racist.