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When eighth-graders at Black Mountain Middle School in San Diego County, Calif., got their yearbooks, the covers featured an old map of the northern part of the county. Then someone discovered a problem. “On that map,” said school district spokeswoman Christine Paik, “there was a reference to a place where a freed slave was known to reside, and it had a name.” That name was the N-word. The eighth-graders’ yearbooks were recalled — the sixth- and seventh-graders hadn’t gotten theirs yet — and the taboo term was removed. “Literally staff went through each yearbook and scratched off that word from the cover,” Paik said. (AC/KFMB San Diego) ...Too bad they can't go back in time and scratch out the word and the attitude it expressed.Original Publication Date: 11 June 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.
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