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Friday, October 30, 2009

Nobody Could Have Predicted

Predominantly white Catholic high school with heavily suburban student body fosters prevailing atmosphere of juvenile racism. And people are surprised at this?

Fun fact: It so happens that I was a freshman at the very predominantly white Catholic high school in question during the 1988 Presidential Election. The school, in the interest of promoting "civic responsibility" among its population of young men, held one of those lame "mock" elections where students were required to cast pretend votes for the candidate of their choice. Unfortunately, (or fortunately if you consider the absurdity of the exercise to begin with) the results of the fake election were occasioned by a minor scandal due to the embarrassing success of a certain fringe write-in candidate whose name I'll leave it to you to guess.

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