Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

This is pretty much the most awful thing you'll read today.

A high school student in Arkansas was blocked from receiving sole valedictorian honors this summer, despite earning the highest G.P.A. in her class and receiving only a single B in her four years at McGehee Secondary School. Kymberly Wimberly’s offense? She’s black. School administrators worried that Wimberly’s accomplishment would result in a “big mess” at the majority-white school, so Principal Darrell Thompson told the student’s mother “that he decided to name a white student as co-valedictorian,” even though the white student had a lower G.P.A. The matter is currently pending in federal court.

Pause.  Rewind.  A black female student makes valedictorian and is denied the honor because it would piss off the racist assholes in her school district.  And yes, she has every right to take this to court and absolutely rip this school district a new one.

But remember, there's no racism in 2011 because we have a black President.