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Several students at Southern California's Charter Oak High School got a yearbook surprise recently when they opened up the the page featuring the Black Student Union and saw that someone had tampered with it, giving all of the students in the club "ghetto names" like "Tay Tay Shaniqua,” “Crisphy Nanos” and “Laquan White.” The school is investigating the "intent" behind the name changes. '“A yearbook is very significant and something you always hold on to,” said Toi Jackson, whose daughter, Evanne, is a BSU member. “When she shows it to her kids she will have to explain why she has the name Crisphy.”' [SDUT]

Jun 30, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 7 Responses

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Comments (7)

No. 1 · daria from Gorgeous Black Women

Hmmm. The graduating class had 10 black people. The school is predominantly Hispanic (of the white variety presumably) and white (non-Hispanic). That all the black kids in the graduating class were the ONLY ones who were targeted makes this pretty clear. I'd just tell them to give me my money back and move the heck on to college because there's no point wasting good time on bad rubbish. Let them deal with the shame they've brought to their school.

Posted: Jun 30, 2008 at 3:06 pm

No. 2 · khia213

Where was the faculty advisor for this publication? Somebody that's an adult is responsible for failing to perform due diligence. I'd have someone's butt hoisted on a petard for this one.

Posted: Jun 30, 2008 at 3:24 pm

No. 3 · holls

Well, I don't really see a diff between Tay Tay and Evanne, but don't faculty members usually have final edit?

Posted: Jun 30, 2008 at 4:18 pm

No. 4 · Ike

Lmao! That has to be the best high school pranks I've ever seen. Lol. But jokes aside… I'd sue the school and yearbook company for allowing it to be printed. I want more than a refund.

Posted: Jun 30, 2008 at 9:38 pm

No. 5 · oogie

@Ike: Wow, how can you find this funny?

@Holls: Ok, funny.

Posted: Jun 30, 2008 at 10:37 pm

No. 6 · SweetDiva

The faculty advisor needs to be removed of his/her duties. For those names to be used even as filler text is incredibly irresponsible.
Offended students should get their money back. They'll never get back all the yearbooks so a recall will be ineffective.

Posted: Jul 1, 2008 at 10:03 am

No. 7 · blackmistressdiva

It could have been worse. Give the kids their money back and keep it moving.

Posted: Jul 1, 2008 at 2:49 pm

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