In your face. You go girls. To hell with the whiners and full-on hypocrites . What are you *men* waiting for?
Life as a white person is just so hard!
That’s why, at Franklin High School in New Jersey, several students formed a “White Girls Club,” to stop the oppression of… white people.
On social media sites, the girls who started the group posted photos of themselves throwing up three fingers in “W” shapes.
The group has ignited a slew of racist tweets from Franklin High students. One girl retweeted a boy who posted a group of monkeys and wrote, “the hallways in the high school.” That same boy posted a picture of the Confederate flag hanging the gym wall in front of bleachers, with the hash tag “south will rise again.” In a separate tweet, he also said, “I’m prepared to wave this flag around in a gym full of 1,000 screaming black people.”
(Editor’s Note: NOT a very bright idea. Helps no one. Wise up.)
The boy was suspended for the tweets.
A student from Bishop George Ahr High School in Edison, a supporter of the White Girls Club, also posted crass tweets. One said, “Al Sharpton ain’t gonna save your ass now,” and another said, “Sometimes I wonder if I crossed a line, but then I remember I’m white and I can do whatever the fuck I want.”
The same girl tweeted “Africa this way,” with an arrow pointing down.
The White Girls Club was apparently started as “a joke” by eight friends, and they wore “White Girls Club” shirts to school.
After getting negative feedback about their group online, the girls tweeted, “You’re choosing to take offense to statements that weren’t about you in the first place.”
Of course, parents and school administrators finally caught wind of the White Girls Club and the girls were punished. They were suspended and required to attend group counseling.
The tweets by some White Girls Club supporters were offensive and racist. But it is important to note the irony of this situation. When caucasians start a group like the “White Girls Club,” it makes national headlines and infuriates people (justifiably). The group is racist because it excludes everyone except whites.
On the other hand, however, it is totally acceptable in our society for black or other minority students to form their own exclusive groups. For example, the Association of Black Women is a respected organization on Harvard’s campus.
Aren’t such organizations just as racist as the “White Girls Club?” Groups that accept members strictly on skin color do not bring people together — they only widen racial gaps.
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”