Posted on 04/16/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by drewh
Two white female students at Grapevine High School in Grapevine, Texas recorded and released a song with dangerous and offensive lyrics about black, Latino, and Asian-American students. As the anger boiled out of control in the school, the staff was forced to send the email below to parents.
The students apologized as only teenagers can. From one of their letters:
I understand that there are many unanswered questions and multiple versions of rumors regarding when, where, and why the rap was made. I have never been so utterly humiliated and ashamed in my entire life, because if you know me, you know you will never meet a human being with as much unconditional love and kindness in their heart as me.
First I will address all questions regarding the specifics. I am currently a junior in high school, and was a freshman at the time the song was recorded. It was a freestyle, meaning I just said whatever came to my head that would make people laugh. At this time in our lives, racism was not the talk of the country nor had we ever witnessed the true power of social media, twitter was still fresh and we had never heard of anyone getting in trouble for posting anything on social media, it was the beginning of this social era." said one of the girls in a letter written to classmates and teachers.
School officials said they just recently became aware of the recording, which was made in June 2013 and has been circulating among students on social media.
“N*ggas n*ggas n*ggas they always look at me, I want to kill them now, I want to hang them from a tree,” one girl raps at the start of the three-minute, 17-second recording.
The girls repeatedly threaten to kill black boys who look at them sexually and make stereotypical references to black penis size, in addition to homophobic comments and offensive remarks about Latino and Asian-American students.
The girls, however, insist they are not bigoted.
“The song does not portray in any way how I actually feel about people,” one of the girls wrote. “I am a very open-minded person and I enjoy being part of a diverse family and diverse community. I am being raised to be respectful of all people, cultures and differences.”
The other girl said they were only mirroring the society they grew up in.
“As kids, we hear racist jokes all times of the day,” she said. “It’s what we’re around, it’s the jokes we heard.”
But, the girl said, she learned all of those racial slurs and offensive jokes outside her parents’ home.
“In my own home, my entire life I have never heard a foul or judgemental (sic) word for another race ever leave my parents’ mouths,” she claimed. “I myself have witnessed others spit racial slurs or comments and have been completely dumbfounded to the point of tears.”
She cast herself of a victim of anyone who wants to see her held responsible for her own actions.
“The person I am, the person I will now be remembered as, the person who would do anything to take back the words that have hurt and offended so many has accepted the fact that when people are hurt, they want someone to be held responsible,” she said. “They need someone punished.”
The school’s principal said she was “angered by this reprehensible behavior,” but she said the school had no legal authority in the matter because the recording was made when school was not in session.
Principal Shannon Tovar said counselors would be available to meet with students to discuss the matter, and she has met with student leaders to discuss the possibility of guest speakers, and other student events to promote diversity.
She also plans to share letters of apology written by the girls’ parents.
Both girls asked classmates and school employees for their forgiveness.
“I am a good kid, I work hard, I laugh hard, and I love hard — anyone, from anywhere, at anytime,” said one of the girls. “I made a big mistake and if I had remembered it existed, it would have been destroyed as soon as its existence crossed my mind. I would do anything to take it back. I pray for your forgiveness, and open sincere hearts, and that you will believe me when I say, I am so so deeply sorry.”
Er...Houston, we have a problem?
yep, it’s somebody else’s fault .... LOL .... a liberal response ...
Global warming, climate change, Bush’s fault ....
Maybe others do bear some responsibility. Very derivative of nasty rap that they probably heard on numerous occasions. Doubtful that they originated the genre.
skulls full o’mush just doing what their liberal educators taught/programmed them to do....
to blame a liberal is to be condemned by a liberal ... I’ll wear the condemnation with pride.
Bigger question — why is this an article in a prominent regional magazine? Kids say and do stupid things all the time. If we had a news story about every kid who said something nasty or wrong, you would need thousands of weekly magazines to do it. The girls were wrong and should be chastised by their parents and friends but we don’t need a national debate about what two young girls said.
“Global warming, climate change, ...”
Yep, it’s even Bush’s fault that they can’t seem to find a name for what is actually happening in the great outdoors ... perhaps because the only names that describe what is actually happening just don’t fit their agenda?
It was posted to you tube when they were freshamn and came to light years a couple of years later on social media
Most popular musicians scream n*gger very many times, even in front of a paying audience of youngsters.
These lyrics sound utterly ordinary, these days - sorry.
I don’t understand the shock.
It’s illogical.
It was dumb, but they got it from somewhere. Still, chances are their families are very liberal, since most of the wealthy are liberals, and this is what the family says in its downtime when they think nobody is listening.
We hold tone-deaf high-school girls from Nowheresville to much, much higher behavioral standards than those applied to world famous millionaire pro musicians.
Two things.
1. These are white girls. They are naturally held to a higher standard than minorities who use the same lingo.
2. These girls are stupid. They knew better.
Bigger question — why is this an article in a prominent regional magazine? Kids say and do stupid things all the time. If we had a news story about every kid who said something nasty or wrong, you would need thousands of weekly magazines to do it.
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Ah, but these are WHITE kids dontcha know. And the Enemedia will ignore the 99/100 times dumb black kids do something so racist. But when a white kid does it...
It fits the MSM agenda to grandstand.
“recorded and released a song with dangerous and offensive lyrics about black, Latino, and Asian-American students”
What is a dangerous lyric?
...recorded and released a song with dangerous and offensive lyrics...
The lyrics are DANGEROUS and OFFENSIVE. We as a tolerant and progressive society just cannot tolerate a scintilla of DANGER or OFFENSE to our precious spawn.
(Do I really need a /s tag??)
What about those sexist, harassing black boys? That issue got lost in the shuffle, it seems.
I looked and looked and did not see the campaign to stop broadcasting rap music with the same dangerous and offensive language. Hmmmmm.
Why does their freedom to express their ‘art’ not apply? Rap artists are free to express their emotions.
btw - about those blacks with their sexist looks. My granddaughter in central Texas at a middle school had to go to the principal’s office a few weeks ago to tell the school administrators about the black kid who exposed himself to her and another friend — IN THE CLASSROOM! She is only in the 6th grade. The teacher had been made aware of it, so it seems that it was only procedure to document the incident, speak to the victims, and scold the kid. Other than that, it was an ordinary day in public schools.
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