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Each year high school students find creative ways to ask someone to prom. But a recent promposal involving Central High School students in Kane County wasn't creative at all. Some students are calling it racist.
A photo of the promposal that's being shared on social media shows two teens holding a sign that reads, "If I was Black, I'd be picking cotton, but I'm white, so I'm picking you. Prom?"
"I think the student should face some type of repercussion, whether it is suspending or expelling them, for sure not letting them go to prom," said senior Kayla Haynes.
Not everyone was offended by the sign. Haynes said some students see it as a joke.
"I was not surprised but I was disappointed more of just seeing the kids I grew up with, seeing a different side of them," she said.
There have been reports of similar promposals over the last few years at high schools across the country.
School and district officials are aware of this incident.
"The derogatory, racist remarks in the post do not reflect Central 301's values or our standards of appropriate and acceptable student conduct," said Superintendent Todd E. Stirn in a statement. "Actions that go against our values of inclusion and respect have no place in our schools or our school-sponsored activities."
Only 2% of students at Central High School are Black, according to the Illinois Report Card. The school is 62% white, 19% Hispanic and 13% Asian.
Sophomore Ashli Bonds said racism has been an ongoing issue at the school and it needs to finally be addressed.
"There's too many situations that happened where kids think that it is OK now and they know that they will get away with it," she said.
School officials said they can't discuss any disciplinary action being taken against the student who organized the promposal.
Prom is set for this Friday.

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What's sad is this is not even the first time I've seen this exact stupid joke used for this purpose. It's every year

Its not even funny I mean that Joke hasnt been funny and decades. what a stupid white trash kid

Disgusting but also cringe. Like wtf

Zoomer gen is trash, same as all the previous ones.

Please Be Better Alpha

yea...I thought this was the same story from a year or so ago, but it seems like people are just doing the same thing.

smh.

I thought I was having deja vu.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/551190-minnesota-high-school-investigating-photo-of-racist-picking/

Nope, this has happened before. Fucking morons.

These dumbasses do this every year. Why?

Its cringe but the punishment should come from his peers not the school ie people making fun of him or calling him out

Yikes wtf

ZeroV2 posted...

Its cringe but the punishment should come from his peers not the school ie people making fun of him or calling him out

If youre in a town at a school doing that, no one is gonna make fun of him. Most of his school probably thinks its funny.

Their Local News Video on this:

https://youtu.be/_eqv6Vd6DFA

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I already know how exactly how this kid sounds like. Hes the guy that asks super racist questions in history class and you wonder if he even knows hes being racist.

Just ban the dickhead and his date from the prom. Let their familes waste all that money and tell them to get fucked. Easy solution.

eston posted...

What's sad is this is not even the first time I've seen this exact stupid joke used for this purpose. It's every year

I had to check the article date to see if this was from last year.

Trying to be generous here, this sounds like a stupid edgy joke teenagers make. Especially if the girl he's asking also likes stupid edgy jokes, this seems like a very stupid teen thing to do.

Like, this should be a learning opportunity to explain why even "as a joke" things like this are generally crossing a line.

justaguy3492 posted...

Just ban the dickhead and his date from the prom. Let their familes waste all that money and tell them to get fucked. Easy solution.

Like this.

How is this joke made so often? I was having major deja vu or thinking someone was posting an article from years ago.

They need to get new and better jokes. Less cringy and racist would probably be good as well

Kids say the darnest things lol

Only "some" students are calling it racist?

meralonne posted...

Only "some" students are calling it racist?

Yup. This tends to happen in backwater cousin marriage towns where this kind of thing is accepted. These kids keep doing it because no real punishment comes of it. One of the few students who stands up against it gets it on the news and then nothing happens because even the school principle was most likely laughing and smiling when this happened.

That was actually more of a sarcastic, rhetorical question than a serious one. I'm all too aware that plenty of people at that school thought it was an absolute hoot!

Shit its not even funny. Thats extra racist.

but seriously thats effed up

every year

eston posted...

What's sad is this is not even the first time I've seen this exact stupid joke used for this purpose. It's every year

For real