Who Dis?

I am either totally sick or totally cynical because, while this is not funny, it is pretty laughable that a student who was bright enough to be a member of the National Honor Society wasn't known by enough people so that she could be identified as anything other than 'Black Girl' in the yearbook.

"A Texas school district has apologized to a student identified only as 'Black Girl' in a high school yearbook photo.

All the White students are identified by name in a photograph of the Waxahachie High School National Honor Society. The teen identified as 'Black Girl' is the only Black student in the photo.

A schools spokeswoman says the caption apparently was intended as a placeholder until the yearbook staff could identify the student. She tells a newspaper, the Waxahachie Daily Light, the label was a poor choice, but wasn't malicious.

The spokeswoman says the school district will reprint the yearbook pages affected by the mistake. "

And, no, I don't think it was malicious -- though one would think that "unidentified" would have sufficed. I think it is "The Invisible Man" revisited. I'd love to say that things have changed since I was in high school/college (this child could be my daughter) but they are, remarkably, the same. Unfortuntely, sometimes laughing things like this off was my way of coping with the insensitivity, ignorance and invisibility way back in the day too. Oh well, at least they didn't use "Who Dis?" or "Who Dat?" as the placeholder. That probably would have made me mad.