Girls using а word

A group called FCKH8.com has created a new video featuring girls as young as 6-years-old repeating the F-word over and over, ostensibly, to raise awareness of gender inequality.

According to the creators of the clip, “these adorably articulate little ladies in sparkling tiaras turn thewith words and statistics society should find shocking such as ‘payinequality’ and ‘rape.’” Note that this clip is definitely not safe for work.

FCKH8.com isn’t just another 501(c)(3) seeking attention for progressive causes. It’s a company. In fact, it’s a T-shirt company. In other words, the video of the cursing 6-year-olds is really an advertisement.

The company’s about page reads, “FCKH8.com is a for-profit T-shirt company with an activist heart and apassionate social change mission: arming thousands of people withpro-LGBT equality, anti-racism and anti-sexism T-shirts that act as ‘mini-billboards’ for change.”

The video has already been viewed more than half a million times thanks largely to Upworthy, the progressive video sharing site. Upworthy’s Angie Aker, who is apparently a single mom, pronounced it a “fine piece of work” without mentioning that it’s an advertisement for a for-profit T-shirt company.

Upworthy apparently did get some blow-back on the clip, not because of the content but because of a previous controversy involving FCKH8.com. There is now a disclaimer on the site saying, “FCKH8 is definitely a far-from-perfect organization, and boy, do weshare some of the concerns our audience might have with the organizationitself regarding its practices.”

That a reference to controversy surrounding a similar ad the group released last month featuring black children from Ferguson, MO reading a script about racism. The clip became controversial when some people noticed it was connected to a for profit site. A news site called ColorLines accused the group of trying to profit off “black death” and racism. Another blogger called the company “accidentally racist” and “oblivious.”

In addition, a parent of two of the children in the Ferguson clip later complained that FCKH8.com had only paid her kids about $50 even after the clip went viral and, presumably, sold a lot of T-shirts. Luke Montgomery, who produced the clip, told the Riverfront Times the criticism made him sad and added, “It hasn’t even broken even in terms of production costs.”

As for the video of cursing kids, many of the comments on the group’s Vimeo page seem to be critical of the clip. Is there still a line between activism and for-profit advertising? FCKH8.com seems determined to find out.

Update: The company had two versions of this clip on Vimeo. At some point they deleted one clip from Vimeo entirely and switched to a new one. They then switched to the new clip on their own site. I switched out the video above as well. Darleen Click suggests this may have been an attempt to rid themselves of all the negative comments that were accumulating on the Vimeo page.

High School kids are dumb.  They believe dumb things. They do dumb shit.  There aren’t really any exceptions.

Some High School kids commit crimes. Some High School kids do things that cause serious harm.  

Over the pandemic I’ve been watching juvenile court Judge Allen Kim as he adjudicates highschool-aged kids on everything from running away from home to marijuana, including a remarkable amount of Chuck E. Cheese based capital murders.

As a society, we cut highschool-aged kids some slack, we give them lower criminal penalties, offer counseling support, and most often expunge criminal records. 

Even in Texas court you can see the attempt to combat systemic racial stereotyping in treatment and sentencing.

This month’s series began with a tragedy at a highschool near me which resulted in the death of a Black football player and the shooting of his friends by a Latino student and his friend. 

The Latino Community will no doubt ask for compassion, leniency, and forgiveness due to the students’ ages and the history of racial strife in the suburban school district. 

It’s likely the courts and the public will take mercy for the murder as details arise.

If there’s one thing as a society we can agree must never be forgiven…

IT’S BLONDE GIRLS ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD!!!

Minnesota is the home of the nation’s first teachers union strike. Like the native homeland of many of its Finnish immigrants, Minnesota is known for very high education spending. 

Despite Progressive policies (the Duluth Model, segregation, eugenics labs, rich white kids burning down Black neighborhoods for social justice, sanctuary cities, etc.) Minnesota still manages to have significant disparities that we don’t talk about. 

Well, we don’t talk about financial disparities, because that would be rude, but oh, do we talk about racial disparities, like BLONDE GIRLS ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD!!!

This has been a huge problem for the Black Indiginous Students of Color in three of the wealthiest, most well-funded, highest performing school districts in the country.  

Starting back in April 9 2021, in White Bear Lake,  Minnesota, a BLONDE GIRL WAS ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD!!!

White Bear LAKE

Local media and activists were ablaze covering the tragedy and the ensuing student walkouts, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] protests and the righteous indignation of students and parents in one of the best funded school districts in the country. 100’s of students, parents, and anti-racist activists from around the Twin Cities showed up to share their emotional outrage. 

Then it happened.  

The BLONDE GIRL ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD had the unbridled audacity to say she didn’t do it and on FOX NEWS, no less! 

Soon, this was picked up by far right news outlet, Newsweek and known conspiracy site, The Daily Mail.

Apparently her blond girl tears got the school district to do an “investigation” who said the Instagram hate-posts were “confirmed” to be by a student of color. The WHITE MALE Superintendent went on to further outrage one of the wealthiest communities in the state by calling this a “Hoax.”

As we’ve stated in an earlier article, some people consider “Hoax” to be a deeply offensive racial slur. 

Prior LAKE

In November, a video of a BLONDE GIRL ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD, and telling a BLACK girl to kill herself, went viral through Prior Lake High School and the nation. 

Local activists and parents once again organized student walkouts, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] demonstrations, and shared their collective outrage on local media.

This time she couldn’t blame it on the Black Indigenous Video Publisher of Color who was coaxing her off screen to say it.  She SAID it!  Rather than claim it was a “h0@x” she went straight for the, “My Boyfriend is Black” defense.

Classes were canceled at Prior Lake High School and a global hashtag went out demanding this BLONDE GIRL ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD be expelled and not accepted by any college or university.  

This BLONDE GIRL ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD, as an enrolled member of a Native American Tribe of this suburban Twin Cities Indian Reservation, would be entitled to tuition at any school she could get into.

Twitter alighted worldwide with the hashtags  #PriorLakeHighSchool

While this copy of the video, with 235K views containing her name and phone number was reported, Twitter has still not taken it down.  I block it out now so the white supremacists don’t try to platform her.

At a press conference, WHITE MALE Principal Dr. John Bezek said the school took “immediate action.”

WHITE District Superintendent Teri Staloch said they are “listening to the voices and the needs of our students,” and “condemning the racist” video. In a written statement she said, “Regarding the student seen in the video, that student is no longer enrolled in Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools.”

WHITE Savage Police Chief Rodney Seurer said, “We are investigating and working with the School District and the Scott’s County Attorney and our Detectives are investigating,”  after he made a point to thank everyone for coming out on “VETERANS DAY.”

Of course, he failed to acknowledge the land they were on was Stolen Indigenous Land, adjacent to still held Native Land, that is among the wealthiest 2,000 square acres pieces of land in the history of the world. He also failed to mention the Duluth Lynchings or the Sioux Uprising, which was the biggest single-day mass execution in US History.   

WHITE Scott County Communications Manager Emily Gunderson REFUSED to say whether charges would be filed.

Newly hired WHITE MALE ADJACENT, Race, Equity, and Inclusion Director, Sam Ouk, suggested the 20 people on the Racial Equity Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Task force can not do this alone. 

Of course, they need the help and resources but didn’t say exactly what they were going to do to protect students of color in the extraordinarily well-funded majority WHITE school district.

Superintendent Teri Staloch’s statement went on to read, “To be clear, our school does not tolerate racism or hate speech. Our hearts go out to the student victim and her family. We have been in contact with them and are seeking ways to support them.”

Outraged students walked out in outrage of the continued existence of the person no longer allowed within their school district.

Full Meeting (FB | Archive) 

Outraged activists took to the extremely well funded School Board meeting.

Aspiring rapper, Lavish Mack, professional suburban white lady yeller-atter was going to make the white ladies leave the meeting using his white privilege and a bull horn, but decided to do it analog, old school. 

The victim’s relative, Elizabeth Sigin, gave a revealing, heartfelt speech at the extremely well-funded School District’s Board meeting.

“I never knew what racism was till I became a Laker,” she said. The district’s commitment to Social Emotional Learning and Equity and Inclusion was obviously working.

“You all are white and you all raise racist children … you do not care about any of us in this room, and I hope every day that your children feel what we feel … and go through everything we have to go through.”

“When I went to the middle school, Twin Oaks, there was a Confederate flag that greeted me outside the school every day.”

This clearly drives home the pain from US racism in nearly one full generation since her family emigrated to the wealthy district, barely 150 years after the end of the US Civil War.

The school board returned once again to close the meeting, when a visibly upset Elizabeth Sigin, the sister of Nya, approached them and shouted: “You do not listen to anything we have to say.”

The victim turned activist is inspired by the community support she’s received. She has received money, attention and the Minnesota Vikings made her a private guest and gave her tickets to the SuperBowl, which was racist. 

Elizabeth and Nya Sigin.[KSTP-TV]

Minnetonka

Then, last week, we have yet another BLONDE GIRL ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD.   

This time she denied it again.  The WHITE school administrators tried to make her Black Indigenous Accusers of Color asking for “evidence” or “proof” before they could expel the BLONDE GIRL ACCUSED OF USING THE N-WORD.   

This time, they went right to the source.  

They once again called local activist and aspiring rapper, Lavish Mack, professional suburban white lady yeller-atter, and the call went out.  International activist Shawn King, who never dares use the N-Word also chimed in a show of support. “It’s working.  All the pressure on them is working.”

They set up a petition to have the student expelled and have her mom fired, and they were successful, they both left. 

The protest was called off for student safety.