Al Jolson in blackface, singing "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer, 1927, the first talking picture.
Yes. That would be considered racist today.
Posted on 05/08/2024 7:33:12 PM PDT by Morgana
Two California teens who were forced to withdraw from an elite Catholic high school over accusations of blackface have been awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement.
A Santa Clara County jury sided with the teens, identified by the initials A.H. and H.H., on two claims concerning breach of oral contract and lack of due process.
The boys sued Saint Francis High School in August 2020 after photos circulated of them sporting acne treatment masks.
The controversy started when the boys were accused of performing blackface and were ultimately pressured into withdrawing from the prestigious Mountain View school.
'It was quite clear the jury believed these were innocent face masks,' attorney Krista Baughman told the San Francisco Chronicle after Monday's judgement.
'They are young kids, their internet trail is going to haunt them for the next 60 years. Now they don’t have to worry about that.'
The teens lost on three other claims alleging breach of contract, defamation and a violation of free speech.
The plaintiffs initially sought $20 million when they filed suit in Santa Clara County Superior Court, three years after they and a friend - who attended another school and was not included in the lawsuit - snapped a selfie while donning acne treatment masks.
In the offending photo, the boys' faces were covered in dark green medication. A photo taken a day earlier revealed that they had tried on white face masks as well.
According to documents reviewed by DailyMail.com, another SFHS student obtained a copy of the photograph from a friend's Spotify account and uploaded it to a group chat in June 2020.
The photo resurfaced on the same day recent SFHS graduates created a meme pertaining to the murder of George Floyd, which sparked its own outrage and controversy.
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“Principal’s photo explains the problem.”
Is that a man or a woman?
Hmmmm. Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler?
Singing a nice, old American song is "overtly racist" now?
I see you have adopted the opposition's terminology (the first step in losing an argument).
Regards,
The Catholic Church is large enough that if you are chronically embarrassed by anything attributed to one of your fellow Catholics you are either going to need to find a shrink or a Baptist Church in the present day and age.
That said, at least one of the original twelve had major problems. Peter thought he was an awesome fisherman and sometimes thought he could walk on water . . . and rumor has it was skipping out of Rome when he wasn’t supposed to. Who would be willing to be caught dead with that guy.
Al Jolson in blackface, singing "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer, 1927, the first talking picture.
Yes. That would be considered racist today.
In today's America, affirming the mere existence of races can be considered ray-cist.
Regards,
But where does the $1 million come from?
From taxpayers.
Not the guilty parties.
If it was a public school the money would come from the taxpayers and might be a bit of a jolt so they start paying attention to who the heck they are hiring.
98% of the problems in the country could be solved if people would keep the eye they should on their employees.
“I wonder how much of that the lawyers will be paid, and how much of the remaining will be taxed.”
Standard contingency is 1/3 (though it can vary, or need not be a contingency at all). So they’d get $667k. Caveat that I’m not an accountant, but generally court judgments aren’t taxable unless they are for something that would have otherwise been taxable. For instance, a judgment for unpaid wages is taxable, but a judgment for personal injury isn’t. This sounds like it falls into the not taxable category.
“They look more like characters from Star Trek than black face. Their faces are hunter green.”
Yea the “Orion Slave dancers”. Those chicks were exotic and green.
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