Racism (blackface) in Missouri is ingrained. Any questions?...

[gordianot]

44. I live in Sullivan and have known about this for sometime.

I figured this at some point would hit national news. One story is the girls put on black face paint and messed it up so they covered their face in black football paint. The Principal Dr. Jennifer Schmidt claims she did not know of the face paint until they came on the field that too is in some dispute. In true mealy mouthed Administration fashion she is now blaming the students and as some students claim she is throwing them under the bus in a school wide assembly this afternoon. Ok maybe some students did not know how offensive black face is to African Americans. Sullivan Missouri has a terrible history of racial intimidation and openly boasts no less than three separate chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The Principal clearly understood the implications and had an opportunity to stop this deplorable display before the girls went onto the field. Dr. Schmidt has for two weeks hung up on district patrons who have called to complain. (She claims some are blowing this out of proportion) No attempt to tell the student body other than the girls involved was attempted until today in a school wide assembly how offensive black face to racial sensitivity. Lack of sensitivity or not this should be considered a hate crime. I am waiting at least for a public apology or school sanctions from Sullivan MO

I am disgusted, apparently other residents in the District are equally disgusted Sullivan MO deserves the scrutiny they are being given.