Kansas City White boy asks White girl to homecoming with 'picking cotton' racist sign
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI: Two White teenagers, as well as their schools in Kansas City, are drawing intense flak after the boy asked the girl to homecoming with a racist sign. The unnamed boy asked the girl out by brandishing a hand-written sign that said, “If I was Black, I would be Picking Cotton, but Im White so Im picking you for Hoco?” The casual reference to "Picking Cotton", a derogatory way to remind Blacks of the painful history associated with slavery, has again reignited the issue of racism in schools and why CRT is necessary.
The sign also included two boxes alongside a “Yes” and a “No,” and the unnamed girl crossed off the “Yes” box while smiling next to her date. The photo in question has been shared on Twitter by a user named — @byBrandi. She wrote on Twitter, “The smiles here are absolutely sickening and tell me all I need to know about the environment in which these teenagers are raised. Is an adult taking this photo? Did the parents of the girl immediately run this kid off their property and discipline their own child? Likely not imo.”
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