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White Hoods Don't Match Up Well With Tuxes, Kid
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Creative promposals are all the rage, of course, but you have to go a long way to get into the news. Most kids try to do that by roping celebrities into their schemes, or painting "WILL YOU GO TO THE PROM WITH ME?" on the side of a cow, or something like that. So it's unusual for a simple note to become news. But one in Arizona did, and not for its creativity. No, it's news because it's racist. A teen got the promposal from a guy who wrote "If I was black I'd be Picking Cotton, But I'm White So I'm Picking YOU 4 Prom?" She posted it to Instagram, an appalled friend posted it to Twitter, and here we are. It's not clear from the note or the coverage whether the kid who wrote that knows how racist that was, or was just trying to be funny and is ignorant of... no, how can you write a "picking cotton" joke in 2019 and not know, at any age, that it's trouble? (KPHO-TV-KTVK/Phoenix)
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