Students at Park Hill South High School in Missouri want to bring back slavery. Should they be punished for their conservative views?

[supercutebutt]

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RIVERSIDE, Mo.—Park Hill South is taking action to condemn a petition that students circulated calling to bring back slavery. The reaction from district leaders was swift after a group of Park Hill South students posted unacceptable, racists comments online.

"It doesn't matter their intent, the impact is real. The impact is being felt, the hurt is real and there," Park Hill South Principal Kerrie Herron said.

District leaders have heard from dozens of parents since the incident Friday. The Park Hill School District Director of Access and Inclusion Terri Deayon was shocked by the behavior of the district students.

“Anger, to fear, to frustration, to disbelief,” Deayon said.

The district is 67% white. Park Hill staff get diversity training, current students do not.

“We don't have anything formal, as far as like a standardized cultural sensitivity training or anything like that. Those are definitely things that I would love to see in the future,” Deayon said.

The district plans to hold a listening tour in response to the incident. One silver lining, Park Hill South students were first to call out the racist comments.

“Students brought it to our attention right away. The reporting culture at Park Hill South is working,” Herron said.

Deayon says they believe the petition is a difficult reminder of the struggle for progress.

"This incident just further confirms that necessity, the need for the work and that we are headed in the right direction,” Deayon said.

The district says schools are a safe place for everyone.

Park Hill says it can't comment on specific disciplinary actions, but the district policy prohibits discrimination and harassment. Violators can be suspended or expelled as a result of breaking the district's code of conduct.

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No. These are just silly teens. Parents should just send them to their rooms without their supper for a night.

Yes. They should be expelled.

No. I agree with these students. And people need to stop being snowflakes. Slavery wasn't as bad as liberals say. Focus on the real criminals such as girls with crushes on girls. MAGA!

Yes. They should be given detention and be required to go through extensive sensitivity training.

[horsenrhinounicorn]

Parents and schools should train their kids to treat everyone equally. There are forms of slavery that we still have today such as welfare and tribal lands. If a person has multiple generations of people only living on welfare they need the tools to get out of poverty and get a career otherwise they are stuck being some of the poorest people of the earth. If a person lives on tribal land and does not make enough money running casinos, selling seafood, selling fireworks, generating tourism, etc you have the same scenario. Everyone in that community lives in poverty and the only way to get out is to have the education such as high level colleges and other resources to give them the tools to get of poverty.

[nawtee_me]

If you actually read the article you find that they have a District Director of Access and Inclusion. This in itself tells me they have had issues before. Why else would there be reason to have a district director? (A job and title) Also it was the students who first brought this to their attention and call out the racist comments. A good job on the parts of the other students to say this is wrong. This shows that there may be a few bad apples in the bunch but the real question should be where did they get this from? Did it come from home or from somewhere else? Their are many hate monger groups out there with their secret meetings to recruit others into the group.

[SaoirseS]

This happened practically in my back yard, I live in the metro area. A few knuckleheads with internet access and no adult supervision. Riverside is a pretty conservative KC suburb, but the actions of a few missing a lot of brain cells don’t represent the community. Not the first time a few area high school kids did something stupid. It won’t be the last. Let the school and parents deal with it.

[nawtee_me]

@SaoirseS I agree, I just remember when I was young and groups like the KKK and Nao Nazi were trying to recruit young kids around where I live. They there was no internet but flyers were put out every where.

[tatianamay]

If they are expelled, then the amount of hate is only going to increase. Those students should be given proper training. I'm not saying that racism and slavery is right, because its not, but those students are simple not going to learn and are just going to resent the minority groups more and more. They're gonna teach their kids the same thing and the level of racism will only increase. They need proper, rigorous training

[tatianamay]

simply not*

[CaliSixx]

Just don't hurt the kids. We need to educate them on how the slaves were actually treated back then and how they felt about it. They most likely get these views from there parents or an adult in their life. They just need some education

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Only "slavery" I approve of is that of robots, if you could even call them that, since they are not human. This isn't the 1800s so only a really old school and dumb person would want actual human slaves in this day and age. More than likely, the petition was a non serious one meant to troll people and not to be taken seriously. If so, it worked.

[supercutebutt]

It worked to get them in trouble and upset children.

[errorgoodnameunfound]

Honestly, if I met the guy who made that petition, I'd just roll my eyes, call them a fogie, and give them a number with the AARP on it :) Maybe mock them for that iPhone they have from Apple who literally put billions into Oprah's pockets. Part of my strategy to use brands as econ as ways to bruise egos. Makes it more fun :D

[Red_Arrow]

I don't agree because they were so wrong I have to wonder about their sanity. But expelling them would possibly cause resentment from other students (kids are strange). Perhaps get some of the leaders among the sane ones and discuss ideas for handling this.

[Cherry234]

Omg yes they definitely should be punished. That's really messed up. I thinking giving them detention and making them go through sensitivity training is important to teach them that their behavior is wrong

[Cherry234]

*I think

[Stoner710]

These aren’t conservatives they’re idiots. No obviously we should not bring back slavery or have anything to do with countries that have slaves or interment camps like China

[Apraxia]

I say bring it back, then chuck those students in the chains. No normal civilised person suffers, and those students get what they want win:win

[Anonymous]

I don't know the context behind this and it sounds like a joke among students that has got their liberal oppressors upset. And worse, embarrassed.
I'm just wondering how this could be compared to some of the other liberally accepted campaigns. I just bet there's some hypocrisy that we could find to mitigate this.

[nutureornature]

Debate is usually allowed with facts and figures that support it. But it should be a debate not an angry crowd. Why anyone would want to hurt each other on purpose is beyond me. Usually, it is influence or ignorance raising that flag.

[Morgador]

I'm a conservative and I absolutely would not support this. Tell them ok and have them vote on it then after the vote tell them everyone who voted for are now slaves

[dustybiker]

Would a hard-labor field trip give them some perspective or be called child abuse?

[molonski2]

In essence its about education , and they need to study and understand the implications of what they have commenced , education is the key , not punishment that will only encourage them..

[GaGirls]

Identity development is key.

[jshm2]

Obviously the article is written with a slant. Need to find out what actually happened, and the intent, first.

[supercutebutt]

An anti-slavery slant?

[Cathy7734]

Why are you saying conservatives want to bring back slavery? I've never heard of that before and I'm liberal.

[supercutebutt]

I didn't say it. Students in Missouri did.

[purplepoppy]

I suspect they're just reflecting views they're hearing at home. It may be a joke but more likely they're sending a message about what they're really about.

[Anonymous]

Expulsion. End of story. And maybe get a bodyguard because someones gonna surely physically target their ignorant asses

[Anonymous]

When outrageous things are common place students have to go further and further to draw attention to themselves. I went to high school in a nearby school. Which wasn't racist enough for students to even want this. So either things have drastically changed over the last 20 years; or these students are trolling the school.

[exitseven]

It was probably a small minority of students that were behind this. Maybe only a single student. The press is blowing this all out of proportion. It was reported that other students condemned this.

[Coulis]

Of all the things to be "blown out of proportion" I think this should be.

[exitseven]

@Coulis I hate it when everybody is painted with the same paintbrush because of the act of a very few.

[Coulis]

The reality is that this are the vocal few. Tip of the iceberg.

[exitseven]

@Coulis I don't know if tip of the iceburg is correct. The article said most students opposed this.

[Coulis]

I mean in American society.

[exitseven]

@Coulis Oh, still I do not think there are many in America that would support slavery of any kind.

[Coulis]

@exitseven Perhaps... perhaps not. Who's to say?

[exitseven]

@Coulis Can I ask you if you really think there are a lot of Americans that would want to implement slavery again? Could you explain a little why?

[Coulis]

Because a lot of Americans still actively teach racism and white supremacy. Whether overt or covert. A lot of white people don't even realise how many supremacists attitudes they have that they don't think are. It's time for what people to get out of this headscapce "i don't say n**, I do think agree with slavery and I have black friends therefore I'm not racist". These things are good but white people have a lot of unlearning and listening to do that they jist don't want to when it comes to the issues of race relations in America.

When I was studying economic theory in uni, an economist Richard Posner (name may be off) put forth a theory that economically speaking that slavery was virtuous and should be reinstated.

I mean this hundreds of years after slavery, some ass is propounding this at a scholarly level.

[Coulis]

*do not agree with

[exitseven]

@Coulis Something like that would not be tolerated in American colleges. I teach at a local college and when I had to hire somebody for my department I got a pile of resumes and applications. On the back of the applications was a field where you would fill in what race you belonged too. I was supposed to give preference to people of color. I was labeled a racist because I refused to look at the back of the application because I wanted to hire the best candidate for the position and not fill a quota. Maybe some would argue that I WAS a racist but I think that Dr. King proposed a colorblind society and I would want to work towards that.

[Coulis]

I'm sorry but I agree with affirmative action because white people have been given preference in American society horribly and justly so for so long so when people do get all up in arms about affirmative action I do think that deep down they are very racist. White people have been getting an extra leg up and a shoo-in in American society were black people would be put into jail for drinking from the wrong water fountain what's wrong with a little affirmative action if the person is qualified. For years and years and years in American society white people are getting the job when they're under qualified and black people with overqualified for not getting job because of their skin color so what's the problem with equalizing a little bit? Where was all the best person for the job in the 50s?

[exitseven]

@Coulis I don't know about the 50s because I was not born yet. I do know that if I have to run a department to the best of my ability I would like to think I would be more successful having the best people that I could get. Also, if there is an affirmative action hire in the department and all the other technicians know it then it causes poor morale. By the way, just so you know, out of the last 3 people I hired 2 of them were minority candidates and they were great technicians. I did not hire them to fill a quota I hired them because they seemed motivated and wanted to learn.
I know a lot of bad stuff went on in the 50s and even the 60s. I don't think I am responsible for it since I hadn't been born yet. I am tried to run my department with fairness and equality, not filling quotas or checking boxes.

[Jjjjjj12344321]

This is dumb as fuck Democrats were the ones who started the kkk and the kkk backed them politicaly google it yourself the founder a democrat by the name of Nathan Bedford
by the way Lincoln was a republican he also freed slaves

[loveslongnails]

Learn some real history kid. The White Supremacist movement to reinstate slavery was formed by "people", not a "Party". Since the party of Lincoln aimed to establish some sort of economic and political equality for blacks, the white supremacists joined any other party BUT them, or no party at all. If you want to blame the Dems for the KKK, then you might as well blame Dems for the Civil War, as opposed to Southern states, landowners and business people who wanted, and claimed they needed, slavery to maintain their economy. But again, it wasn't the Democratic Party who got together and said "let's secede from the Union", it was the individual states, and it was driven by economics and the idea whites had the right to enslave. Go read the Cornerstone Speech by Andrew Stephens.

In today's politics, the major parties have solidified into robot like behavior so much that a single principle becomes associated with a single party. If you believe in "x", you're Republican. If you believe in "y", you're Democrat, and THAT is why Washington is a cluster fuck that can't get anything done unless one party rules. But that in and of itself, is clearly NOT the model of governing that the founders had in mind.

[supercutebutt]

So Republicans = Black Lives Matter?
LOL! :)

[loveslongnails]

Ironically, YES ! LOL

[RolandCuthbert]

As long as they are volunteering to be slaves, I see nothing wrong with it.

[Pnp4unMe]

How do you figure that's conservative? That's kind of radical if you ask me

[Anonymous]

Slavery never left its called prison lol.

Go look at all the stuff prisoners make.


Hell female prisoner got Jobs 2020 at actual factorys

[supercutebutt]

Sorta. But there are some people in prison who prefer it to non-prison life. They get guaranteed hot meals and a warm place to sleep. They also have easy access to LOTS of turgid penis if they are into that sorta thing. :)