Uppity Black Teen Uses Racism to Upset Arkansas High School? – It’s about Morality, Stupid
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AR) – Kimberly Wimberly, a black student at McGehee Secondary School, completed her High School Career with a single B grade. Through hard work she earned the top academic grades for her graduating class. This in itself should have garnered her superlative status as valedictorian, but in a bold move, the principal Darrell Thompson told the student’s mother “that he decided to name a white student as co-valedictorian.”
Wimberly says the school discourages black students from taking honors and advanced placement classes, “by telling them, among other things, that the work was too hard.”
The liberal media appears very quick to jump on the soul train and sing “We Shall Overcome” for an Arkansas race issue. Two facts are consistently pointed out within the mass media reporting the case to support racism. First, McGehee Secondary School is predominantly white, 46 percent African-American and 54 percent white. Second, the last African-American valedictorian in McGehee School District was in 1989. If one only has these two facts, the case for racism seems plausible. A third and important fact has not been as widely reported.
Kimberly Wimberly is a teenage mother. [LINK]
Part of being the highest performing student is not limited to only grades, but moral character. While Kimberly Wimberly achieved the highest quality of performance compared to her predominately white classmates, her moral character was determined to be quite low.
The National Honor Society describes itself as “the nation’s premier organization established to recognize outstanding high school students.” The NHS was founded in 1921 by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and will exclude students for “character” or citizenship “standards.” Arkansas high schools routinely assign, as part of the performance evaluation, a “citizenship” grade determined by teachers and moral authorities of the school.
Young men typically are valedictorians because they have the common sense not to become pregnant. If they did, they certainly would not carry the child to full term or acknowledge their responsibility. Those actions would lead to expulsion from the National Honor Society, which is an important part of the college application. According to High School Guidance Counselors, many Colleges and Universities will cull applicants on membership in the National Honor Society.
A young man’s character won’t be held to the same standard as a young woman’s character because as we say in the south, “Mamma’s baby, Pappa’s maybe.” It would be a violation of civil rights to demand a virginity examination for female Honor Students or a DNA test to determine the father. That doesn’t stop folks from thinking of such tests. And while many principals and superintendents may entertain the notion of tests to prove sexual morality, few are willing to jump headfirst into this socially engineered buzz saw. Therefore they simply rely on unwed pregnancy as an indicator of character. This method has proven successful for many years and few will sue on the debate.
Had she procured a secretive abortion or had the good sense to be born male, this would not be an issue and would save embarrassment for the school board. Many have shown abortion to be a winning strategy in avoiding such problems.
While still a High School youth in the 1980’s, I publicly declined my National Honor Society invitation because another student was rejected for giving birth to a child. I was given a two day suspension to work on my sunbathing skills after a legendary extemporaneous speech given during a NHS orientation meeting that ended in cheers from fellow students and angry glares from several NHS sponsors. Some mentioned “the speech” at the 20th class reunion, but they may have been trying to draw my attention. No one in authority appreciates the well-tanned non-conformist. I blame it on all these dad-burned liberal diversity programs and sunscreen commercials. Thank goodness I grew up and gained some sense and quality moisturizers, even if the teen mom was mistakenly admitted to NHS right before graduation.
While attitudes on sunbathing have changed, the standard for what constitutes “good character” has not. Conventional wisdom whispers that a girl in trouble should not be allowed to flourish or thrive. They must be punished for the good of their bastard children so they might not follow the same path. It is a well reasoned truth.
Young women that dare flaunt their immorality publicly cannot be held in high esteem. To do so would call into question the conventional wisdom and high moral standard. Some shows like Teen Mom’s are very effective in illustrating these moral tenants and rewarding the premise that teen moms are only successful at incubation. The shows format is popular for the couch coach activist.
The assignment of a co-valedictorian sends a message to the community and Kimberly Wimberly. That message is “we do not approve of gestation in our schools.” The way this story has been reported in even liberal rags like the Huffington Post also sends the same disapproving message. The fact that Kimberly’s legal battle is focused on racism supports the conventional wisdom that having a child out of wedlock is worthy of the public dilution of laudable accomplishments. They can only file complaints of racism because all are certain of Kimberly’s flawed morality. Why else would the media and Kimberly Wimberly play the race card instead of addressing gender bias in the standard of achievement?
For those that require the safety net of ‘satire’ for social commentary, I didn’t attend my 20th class reunion. I was 9 months knocked up at the time.
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6:03 pm
You are all missing the real story here. The real story is that this girl’s name is KIMBERLY WIMBERLY.
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7:58 pm
Sean,
What is the point? There should be a point for such nefarious activity. The absurdity of such case is highly acknowledged, appalling, but real. White folks should not be so racist and biased against black folks. As much opportunity as they are entitled.
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6:13 pm
She should try out for 16 and pregnant on MTV. The nerve of her for achieving the highest grades I’n her class. She”s black! She can’t be smarter than all her class especially! Lmao! Sarcasm! When blacks work harder and learn more than their peers it’s always a jealous white trying to stop them from achieving their dreams! You are valedictorian in our eyes and I’n Gods eyes!
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6:54 pm
I can not believe this is a christian site, but don’t get me wrong i love the hypocracy yum yum yum. Although if it were a fellow white girl then it would be ungodly to deny her whats hers. To hell with them niggers, they want it all, right?!? Well not in Ark. http://www.stormfront.org/forum/ meet me there. A smart nigger is a contradiction. They should’ve ripped that nigglette from her womb maybe she might of have had a chance. One less nigger is a good nigger
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9:05 pm
We do not condone such hate speech on christwire. The Proper term is blacks.
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10:51 pm
You are one of the most retarded mentally incompetent people I’ve ever heard.Maybe someone should’ve told your mother to abort you when she made that mistake. You clearly haven’t been educated much so let me help you. African American’s have made invented several of the things you use in your everyday life so saying a “smart nigger” is a contradiction proves just how smart you are! The baby is a blessing,unlike you,and I am elated(overjoyed,because you probably don’t know that that means) that the baby is alive and well. This Black young African American student shows that even with overwhelming obstacles like parenting, you can still excel.In just about every other normal case the title of Valedictorian is based on the highest GPA down to the decimal.Due to the obvious race difference between the two students and based on this nation raising racist pigs,scums of the earth and plain out idiots like you,i is logical to think this is a race based decision to share the title.After you read this how about you jump off a bridge:)you’ll be going to hell anyway:)
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7:48 pm
She’s colored, ergo she cheated to get such high grades. Cheating is in the negro blood. How else to explain their greater foot speed, exceptional rhythm and more-thundering slam dunks compared to those of us whose flesh resembles that of our Lord?
This is not to mention their sinful ability to squirt out pickaninnies at a rate of one every 8 1/2 months. Have they no shame?? Have they no b***h c*****l??
Darkie cheaters will never make the Lord’s dean’s list. Indeed, they shall toil forever over the deep-fryer at a McDonald’s in Hell.
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8:33 pm
Hey Scanty,
Interesting you say that. It is the thought-process of those white folks such as YOU who are tainted, nefarious, and so envious of people of ethnicity that you can acknowledge you as a people being a cursed breed – your skin, thereafter. It is YOU being the bottom feeders, trying to blame everyone else of ethnicity for your filth. You have the audacity to exclaim that Kimberly Wimberly cheated. Do not forget, black people are much smarter and affluent that YOU white people – in reality YOU all are, not all of YOU, but YOU are the people who stole everything including America, only to try and amass earth with your fabricated, non-cooking a**e*,chemical way to live.
The reason YOU feel inferior of Kimberly Wimberly, is because YOU only wish that YOU retained the wherewithal to become that scholarly prototype, YOU comprehend that most white folks CHEAT anyway, thus maybe it is starting to bite you in the a**, YOU wish to have the athleticism and skills of African-Americans, that of which to present your intellect as well as your nobleness. While you are hollow and transparent, you are lifeless, seemingly you are the ‘Yakub’ of current era.
My case in point; Kimberly Wimberly did not cheat through high school. High School..? Get real. Scanty, as far as your hatred against the negro … don’t waste your time, you should be trying to scientifically figure out cures to skin cancer, while your butt-hole is trying to be the very BLACK that you hate.
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8:44 pm
Scanty Panty,
By the way, she is colored-n-beautiful, beautifying the earth, something YOU probably wish to be, while you are constipated with disgrace.
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10:55 pm
ur dumb as fuck,have u know shame????..you’ll face ur fate when u see the devil in hell anyway and he’ll tell you how ur racist ways got you there.
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7:54 pm
And you call yourself a “Christian.” How dare you stand in judgment of her. How dare you label immoral or “uppity.” She made a mistake. You have no idea of the moral integrity that she is inherently made of. Let me assure (seeing as I have know her my entire life) that Kym Wimberly has more dignity, courage, and INTEGRITY than more than half the population of the state she lives in. You have no idea what life is like in OUR town. You claim she pulled the race card on moral issue, but then again, you’ve no idea how race plays in our community.
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11:13 pm
Horrified,
If you aren’t going to SHARE or report directly on the racism, then you can’t use it as a shield. Has the welfare state made you so complacent that you are unable to discern the difference?
Kind regards,
BB
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10:20 pm
The word “shield” implies that I am hiding behind the term racism. This might be true were I on welfare, unwilling to work hard, and still expecting to be rewarded and oh yeah, if I were of a minority race. But I’m not. I am white. I worked hard right along side Kym all throughout our high school years. She took every advanced and honors class that our high school offered. She had a higher G.P.A. than her white co-valedictorian. Period. The school attempted to justify this white co-valedictorian by quoteing a loophole clause in our handbook. I have read the handbook front to back. The “clause” used does not exist. As in, it is not written in the handbook.
Becoming a valedictorian is not a morality competion. It is a GRADES competition and she won it. Had it not been for her race, Kym Wimberly would have been the only valedictorian for the McGehee High School graduating class of 2011. Had Kym been white her co-valedictorian would have been salutatorian.
Do not mistake righteous indignation for complacency. I am well aware of the abuse of the welfare system, but seeing as neither Kym nor I have ever been on welfare (or abused it’s use) that is neither here nor there.
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11:34 pm
The article does not deny her effort for earning the grades.
The article does not make remarks about her race, other than those made within the scope of Ms. Kym’s legal action.
Superlatives, such as valedictorian, are subject to all kinds of interpretation – many of which are meant to repress and deny those deemed unworthy. In this instance, it isn’t race.
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11:51 pm
“Superlatives, such as valedictorian, are subject to all kinds of interpretation”
Valedictorian is NOT subject to ANY kind of interpretation, it flat-out means that the student in question had one of, if not then the highest GPA of the whole school. This school basically told her that because she’s black, she’s not getting to be the only one and they let someone else who had a lower GPA claim the title of valedictorian as well.
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12:06 am
L.N.
You are well and truly ignorant.
Life isn’t fair. Nothing was taken away from this girl and she files a $75K lawsuit? She shared the valedictorian title, it was not taken away from her.
I suppose you think that Taylor Swift should have sued Kanye West for usurping her Grammy?
Please! Grow some.
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12:10 am
Vma Blanche not Grammy, please make sure you know what your talking about before you write it. Just makes you look crazy otherwise.
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12:13 am
You think valedictorian is just a numbers game, and not a representative of the community? Hogwash. Can we just agree to disagree?
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12:19 am
“Life isn’t fair. Nothing was taken away from this girl and she files a $75K lawsuit? She shared the valedictorian title, it was not taken away from her.”
She had the fact that because she was black and black people aren’t exactly well received around where she’s at, and if this had just been a white student then there wouldn’t be a ‘co-valedictorian’. The person she shared it with didn’t deserve the title. Hell, it’s not a title that you’re even supposed to share with in the first place if you’re both graduating at the same time. It’s an extremely high honor to be the valedictorian of a high school, even more so if you’re the first black person since the mid 80′s to get that title, and they’re degrading it by treating more like a children’s trophy and saying ‘they’re both winners’.
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12:20 am
Many schools have co-valedictorians. Google it.
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12:22 am
What exactly was taken from this girl that would warrant $75K?
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12:27 am
“You think valedictorian is just a numbers game, and not a representative of the community? Hogwash. Can we just agree to disagree?”
Uh, no, the proper definition of valedictorian is a student who has the highest GPA of their graduating class. She took harder classes, had to deal with a child, and STILL got the best GPA of the school, and they’re telling her that she’s going to share the title of ‘best’ with the person who should have gotten ‘second best’ instead.
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12:32 am
“Many schools have co-valedictorians. Google it.”
When a school introduces the co-valedictorian concept right before a student does what this one did (i.e. did something that’s rather rare for the area and be a black student when the last one who got that title was back in the mid 80′s), then it’s nothing but a way of degrading the meaning of the title.
Was the lawsuit worth that much? I honestly don’t know. Maybe there’s a message behind the amount, maybe she doesn’t care about the money but wants to show that the number represents her anger towards the school for telling her that her hard work was as equal as to someone who didn’t deserve the title. Big time companies do it all the time whenever they sue someone; doesn’t matter if the person gets the money in the end, all that matters is that you see that number and you know their fury.
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11:40 pm
If she wants the same recognition that white people get, why doesn’t she work hard like a white person? Why do people expect life to be handed to them in a government check?
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11:46 pm
And who’s to say she didn’t work hard? Where’s the evidence that proves she didn’t work hard to earn those grades?
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12:03 am
Because she took remedial classes….
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12:09 am
Proof? Looked around, didn’t see ‘remedial’ classes anywhere with her involved, mind pinpointing it for me?
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2:21 pm
I couldn’t disagree with you more. First off, no one works more than another color, hard working people are hard working people no matter what the color of their skin. Second, she worked her butt off, keeping her grades high while taking care of a child. She took AP classes, kept her As and showed the community that nothing was going to keep her down. I give all the credit to her!
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8:05 pm
I think the fact that she was able to have her baby and Stijl become valedictorian is amazing! I commend her for it. There are to many teen moms who just give up on their dreams because they got pregnant. I wish her the best of luck and hope she acomplishes everything in life she ever has dreamed of!
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9:15 pm
Indeed Shannon, Jesus tells us that abortion is murder, compounding sin upon sin is never the answer. She should have waited until she was married that was the first sin, lets us celebrate that she did not commit the sin of murder.
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8:15 pm
You shouldn’t get valedictorian if you take special ed classes, listen to books on tape, sleep with the teacher, and major in Ebonics.
I was a valedictorian as was my wife. We earned it taking hard classes.
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8:19 pm
Why on earth would you marry a smart woman? Aren’t women supposed to be below men?
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11:17 pm
Claire, I have read several of your posts and I have come to the conclusion that you are pretty smart. However, you may not know that this site is satire and is meant to be humorous. Some people have noticed and called it a troll site, others believe what it says. And others are really offended. If you research this site or even search Christwire on Wikipedia you would know it is meant as a joke, or satire. I thought you might like to know. Their aim is to make fun of conservative Christians.
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11:43 pm
Claire is only pretending to be liberal. She is planted by extremists to make liberals look bad. Except for her unbalanced posts, Christwire treats all of our liberal guests with the utmost respect and fairness.
She is the bad seed in an otherwise civil and polite web site.
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11:47 pm
Yeah, that’s why you think liberals should be kicked out of office and burned because they’re the anti-christ, treat liberals with respect and fairness my ass.
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9:17 pm
I commend you Sister Blanche on your witty article, I fear for the minds and souls of those who do not receive your message.
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3:30 am
I wouldn’t regard 54% as predominantly white, I’d say that is a very even split. And I’d agree the girls main problem here is her parents brutally naming her Kimberly Wimberly.
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7:32 pm
But she wasn’t named “Kimberly[sic] Wimberly”. Blanche couldn’t spell “Jesus” even if you spotted her the J-E-S.
True, “Young men typically are valedictorians because they have the common sense not to become pregnant.” is a delightful sign that this article is satire. Wish I’d thought of it myself.
But Blanche’s leaving out details that allow many of the stereotyped insult comments to stand uncorrected (e.g., Ms. Wimberly took plenty of honors and AP courses), and Blanche’s stumbling/rumbling/bumbling on her “satire” sign at the end mean that this needs more work.
And to whoever wrote the title: “uppity” just doesn’t work anymore, ok?
May you all live long enough to see Jesus return (Matt. 16:28).
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12:10 am
The beauty of Christwire is that we don’t play the race card and we don’t succumb to the racist rantings of other sites. We just call a spade a spade, without any malice in our hearts. If she had worked hard and gotten valedictorian the honest way, then we would applaud her hard work. But instead she chose to get knocked up instead of study, and now she wants to be rewarded for that. It is racist to think that she should get special privileges because she is black. Christwire is completely color blind on this issue. It feels good to be part of a sanctified site.
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12:28 am
“The beauty of Christwire is that we don’t play the race card and we don’t succumb to the racist rantings of other sites.”
Bullshit, you made the claim that she doesn’t deserve it because she didn’t work hard enough for it, when the truth is that she took harder-than-average classes. You’re all a bunch of racist pricks!
“If she had worked hard and gotten valedictorian the honest way, then we would applaud her hard work. ”
She did.
“But instead she chose to get knocked up instead of study, and now she wants to be rewarded for that.”
She worked her ass off to keep her grades up AND took care of a child. She wants to be rewarded for the fact that she has the highest GPA of her graduating class with the title of ‘valedictorian’, a title that is NOT held by more than one person.
“Christwire is completely color blind on this issue.”
Bullshit, you’re all making the claim that she’s just being pissy because she’s black, not the fact that she’s in a racist school and worked her ass off to get the grades she got and they reward her by telling her she’s going to have to share her title with someone who should have gotten salutatorian.
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4:42 pm
This article is drenched in racism…”Uppity” “Soul-train” are you on drugs not to recognize this?
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4:54 am
Do I get this right, you say she should have got an abortion? Isn’t that a sin too?
And how should she have “the good sense to be born male”? You can not decide which sex you want to be. Or do you mean if the person wants to be smart, it should at least be male because women don’t need their intellect in the kitchen?
(non native speaker)
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4:39 pm
Shame on this writer, and shame on Christwire for letting such seething racism into it’s domain. Not the (wrong) opinion that this student was denied her academic honor because she was an unwed mother but for the racist way it was voiced.
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7:59 pm
When a liberal loses an argument, they call names like “racist” or “hitler”.
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1:02 pm
The hypocrisy of this article would be amusing – if it weren’t so cruel in its unconsciousness. This “Christian” spewer of hate who wrote this drivel is so focused on her peculiar brand of moral righteousness, she doesn’t even realize how amusing her illogic is. That Kimberley managed to pull of such great grades – while contending with giving birth along the way (!) – says that she has a discipline and intelligence that warrants her lone valedictorian status!
Perhaps in the ridiculous South, “valedictorian” is awarded on condition of some amorphous standard of “morality,” – colored with other variants :>) In the real world, it is awarded on scholastic standards alone. If, indeed, Kimberley’s met that highest standard, then she’s valedictorian. Period. Get over it.
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3:04 pm
Addendum to my earlier comment: ever hear of “Salutatorian?” That’s the title second highest traditionally receives.
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9:32 am
WOW! So this is what a Conservative Christian website is all about. These are some of the most hateful comments I’ve every read. Ive got to go take another shower and wash off the hate.
“For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned” Matthew 12:37
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11:56 am
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