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Monday, May 02, 2005

From Tongue Tied.
Officials at a school in Michigan are scrambling to contain the damage done by a student who distributed what were described as “racially innappropriate” fliers to fellow students, according to WJRT-TV.

The 17-year-old says he had been harassed for months by students who referred to him with such hateful and offensive terms as “hick” and “redneck,” but school officials refused to intervene or insist on sensitivity training for the entire student body.

So the student handed out a flier inviting his fellow students to attend a meeting at a local park to "take back the Creek" (sort of like Take Back the Night? – ed) and "keep outsiders away from our town and support our way of life."

The result of this act of "racial intimidation" by the young man? Expulsion from school - even though the school has determined, upon questioning, that this was not a "racially motivated" act. Another example of PC run amok...