Comments on: All-White High School Reunion

By: firebird

firebird — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:56:55 +0000

Good grief cant we do anything these days without some bunch of whining idiots complaining? what’s wrong with them I’m sure their ancestores were made of tougher stuff then the bunch of spoiled little mugwhumps of today they have it too easy maybe its time for them to face a little time in the wilderness which is what many indian tribes did when someone in their group broke a law or what ever just like what that tribe in alaska did a few years back.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:37:07 +0000

Most reunions allow the atendee to bring alone a spouse/date/significant other. Were any attempts made to prevent this? If not, then could not this person be black and would therefore be in attendance? I don’t think the issue is about race for I just do not believe that many people would go along with such a thing. Maybe I am wrong, but I would just bet at least one spouse would be black and likely in attendance, likely many more and of a large variety of ethnic backgrounds. Sime how I doubt the invitations would say “Spouses welcome unless they are not white.”

I think someone is trying to create trouble and racism where there was none intended. And if not blacks attended the school during that time period, I seriously doubt they care one bit about the reunion. Since when do blacks sit around and pine to attend somebody else’s reunion, anyway??

Things like making some sort of racial issue out of this are nasty games designed to inflame racial tensions and it is counter-productive to advancement in that area. Some do not want racial harmony and equality and strive to pit races and economic classes against each other in very devious ways. You have to wonder why.

By: WayneB

WayneB — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:36:11 +0000

I guess I should have pointed out that that person didn’t give me a chance to explain myself…

By: WayneB

WayneB — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:32:34 +0000

Montie,
“If the complaining gentleman is so concerned about the motive behind the event perhaps he could set up a “Grand Reunion” of 70’s, 80’s and 90’s graduates. Oh wait, that would mean that Whites would be included, so it would have to be SPECIFIED as being for Blacks only. Now THERE’S an event we can be sure has a racially exclusive motivation behind it, instead of simply speculating about whether it does or not!”

Who cares? In Cincinnati (I don’t know about other cities), we have an event called “The Black Family Reunion”. Three guesses on the race membership of the attendees. Big deal. It’s a big party for black people. People don’t have any problems with societies being formed for people with red hair, say, or people with tattoos. But white people? Any time they want to go off on their own, someone has to attack them. Or the Really Big Threat: A group consisting of only White Male Christian Conservatives – oh, the horror! How can we let a group like that form? They must be bent on dominating the rest of the world, right?

Or could it be that maybe, since the world has done such a job on us by making us afraid of offending anyone who can play a discrimination card, that we might like to gather by ourselves, away from people we fear might pull a lawyer out of their pocket if we say something they don’t like? I’ve been threatened with disciplinary action and/or lawsuits just because someone didn’t understand what I was saying. Maybe some of us would like to be able to have a discussion without that fear.

By: Raymond C. Coleman

Raymond C. Coleman — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:53:07 +0000

“In the late 80s or early 90s, the CBC had a white member.”

OH! LOL. That certainly vindicates the practice. I stand down.

By: DarkStar

DarkStar — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:19:20 +0000

Has a white congressman ever tried to join one of these groups?

In the late 80s or early 90s, the CBC had a white memeber.

By: Raymond C. Coleman

Raymond C. Coleman — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:02:56 +0000

Curious….the Congressional and Hispanic Caucuses in the US House of Representatives don’t ever seem to come under the same kind of scrutiny for their racially exclusive make-up and agenda. Why is that?

Has a white congressman ever tried to join one of these groups? Someone should try just to FORCE federal anti-discrimination statutes into play. I’d like to see them explain there way out of that conundrum.

By: actus

actus — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:58:09 +0000

“The Brown case sought to outlaw government-sanctioned discrimination, and it accomplished that goal.”

I think brown outlawed government mandated discrimination.

By: John C James III

John C James III — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:28:38 +0000

Do you think it would be racist to have the following organizations?

The Congressional White Caucus
United Caucasian College Fund
Historically White Collages and Universities

Should OSP, AKA, DST, KKY, Sigma, Zeta, Alpha, and others have to integrate? Have a certain number of non-black participants?

Things that make me say ‘Hmmmmmmmm’

By: John C James III

John C James III — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:18:16 +0000

“Since the event is not government sponsored, they have the right to set it up in whatever way they choose.”

If it was government sponsored they couldn’t have the reunion? Why?

Note: Kerry’s on the TV doing what James Brown sings about – “Talkin’ loud and Sayin’ Nothin’”

Ok its a slow day and I have lots of free time today! WooHoo!

By: John C James III

John C James III — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:11:38 +0000

OH Brother! Let folks have their reunion PLEASE!

Geezzz!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:49:47 +0000

Mayflower touched on what I was going to say. The common denominator for this group, besides skin tone, is that they’re part of the AARP group. This is like WWII vets that start out by having unit/ship reunion and as members start to die off, the groups consolidate further to campaigns (Pearl Harbor/Battle of Bulge etc) to theatre (Pacific/Atlantic) to just WWII and so on. So what. Much ado over nada.

By: ratso ferrari

ratso ferrari — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:46:11 +0000

OK Harry, move those black mannequins into the auditorium, the school reunion is starting in 20 minutes.

By: Old Patriot

Old Patriot — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:07:39 +0000

I belonged to several groups that had no black members. It wasn’t that blacks were excluded, but that there were no blacks apparently interested in joining the group. Would a reunion of those groups be “racist”? How? One of the groups was formed of foster-parents of a private agency that dealt with emotionally-disturbed children. The children were of almost every ethnic group imaginable (My wife and I were foster-parents for Vietnamese, black, and Hispanic children at the same time). We had one Asian couple who were foster-parents, but no black families (there were quite a few black families working as foster-parents in the several counties that made up the area, there just weren’t any in our group – at least not in the four years we were a part of it, and for several years afterwards).

Circumstances appear to be more in play than racism, and trying to push the latter speaks of an agenda other than community harmony.

By: Rong

Rong — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:49:38 +0000

I don’t live in this area of Maryland and can’t comment on the racial tension that may or may not exist there. If this truly is seen by the community as purposfully racist (it would be interesting to hear from some white alumni on this point) then maybe the classes of the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s should promote their own bi-racial reunion to show those living the past the present.