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发帖数: 4796 | 1 Oklahoma college recruiter fired after lining up high school students by
skin color, hair texture
Updated 4:32 pm EST Mar. 1, 2020
Students at an Oklahoma City high school were made to line up by skin color
and hair texture by a college recruiter who has since been fired.
Eleventh grade students at Harding Charter Preparatory High School told KFOR
-TV the recruiter from Oklahoma Christian University visited Monday and,
during a gathering at the gym, first asked them to line up from darkest to
lightest skin. After dispersing that line, he had them stand based on their
hair.
“He told us to line up nappiest hair in the back and straightest hair in
the front,’’ junior student Rio Brown said in an interview with the
Oklahoma City station.
“That’s when I felt uncomfortable,’’ classmate Korey Todd said. “I was
like, ‘OK, I don’t think this is right.’’’
Both the university and the high school acknowledged in statements to the
station that the incident took place.
Repeat offense: Another University of Oklahoma professor uses the 'N-word'
during a lecture
“OC admissions leadership did not approve the inappropriate activity in
advance and has communicated closely with Harding administration since the
visit,’’ said the university’s statement, which noted that the admissions
counselor is no longer employed there.
OCU also said its representatives would stop by Harding on Monday to
apologize to students.
Harding Charter Prep, ranked by U.S. News & World Report as Oklahoma’s top
public high school in 2019, has an ethnically diverse student body of about
430. According to the school’s website, the demographic breakdown last year
was 28% African American, 28% Hispanic, 23% Caucasian, 7% Asian and 14%
other.
The name of the recruiter has not been made public, though Todd said he was
a white male who portrayed his unusual requests to students as a game.
Brown said teachers left the assembly in tears because they were offended.
“I hope it is a wake-up call because many people at the school need to
hear how we feel,’’ he said.
The incident is the latest in a recent series of racially charged episodes
at Oklahoma learning institutions. In February, a University of Oklahoma
history professor repeatedly used the N-word while reading from a historical
document in class, and another professor agreed to stop teaching a
journalism class for the rest of the semester after telling students that
the slur is no more offensive than the phrase “OK boomer.’’
The incidents prompted dozens of students to protest and demand changes
at the school.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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: Oklahoma college recruiter fired after lining up high school students by
: skin color, hair texture
: Updated 4:32 pm EST Mar. 1, 2020
: Students at an Oklahoma City high school were made to line up by skin color
: and hair texture by a college recruiter who has since been fired.
: Eleventh grade students at Harding Charter Preparatory High School told KFOR
: -TV the recruiter from Oklahoma Christian University visited Monday and,
: during a gathering at the gym, first asked them to line up from darkest to
: lightest skin. After dispersing that line, he had them stand based on their
: hair.
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