Who says these are negative stereotypes? The people that the students were mimicking are fabulously wealthy in many cases. Certainly the behavior portrayed is considered hip and cool in many social circles, particularly among black people themselves. So dressing up like Donald Trump would be OK, but dressing up like Jay-Zee, another multi-millionaire, would not be acceptable? Did the critics stop to consider that perhaps the white students were in fact emulating people they saw as popular and successful? After all young whites are brought up to admire material success and to be racially color blind. Who made the critics the arbiters of right and wrong?
San Francisco Catholic School Students Suspended Over 'Wigger" Themed Party
Fourteen students at a mostly white Catholic high school in San Francisco have been suspended for attending a racist-themed “wigger” kegger, attended by up to 100 high school students in the Bay area.
The students were suspended from the prestigious St. Ignatius College Preparatory after outraged fellow students saw Instagram photos from the Jan. 23 party showing their classmates dressed in offensive costumes emulating negative black stereotypes.
“Wigger,” is a mashup of “white” and the offensive racial slur it sounds like and refers to white people who appropriate black culture.
“It’s so contradictory to who we are and who we want to be,” the school’s principal, Patrick Ruff, told KRON News about his decision to suspend the students.
The high school kegger was attended by up to 100 people from roughly 5 area high schools at Stern Grove, large city park, according to CBS News.
Fourteen students from St. Ignatius College Preparatory school in San Francisco were suspended after they posted Instagram photos of themselves at a racist-themed party on Jan. 23.
The suspended students flashed gang signs, held Bud Light tall-boys and wore shirts that said "Thug Life" on them in the incriminating Instagram photos they posted of themselves at the party.
In recent years, racist themed parties have stirred up controversy all over the country, including a Kanye West-themed UCLA partyin October 2015 attended by white students who dressed up like Yeezy and his reality star wife, Kim Kardashian.
The party sparked protests on the Los Angeles campus.
While students from other high schools attended the Bay area “wigger” party, St. Ignatius is the only school so far that has disciplined students who attended.
St. Ignatius College Preparatory school in San Francisco, Calif suspended 14 of its students after they saw photos on social media of them attending a racist themed party.
“Over the years, we have done much work in the area of diversity through the school’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, which is an integral part of our school community. Clearly, however, we have more work ahead of us in forming adolescents to be their best selves,” read a statement on the St. Ignatius website.
Students hope that the school can learn something from the suspensions and move on.
“I do forgive them and at the end of the day it’s a learning lesson for all of us,” student Joseph Lofton told ABC News.
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