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<p>Ugh.</p><p>Oh, sorry. Let me rephrase that.</p><h2>UUUUUGHHHHHHH.</h2><p>A picture of a student from Robertsdale High School in Alabama is going viral because it depicts a young woman <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/mbvd/school-officials-in-alabama-are-investigating-a-racist-sign?utm_term=.ftk1r5Gln#.udBwNp1X3">holding a racist sign </a>at a school football rally. The woman on the left in the photo is smiling and holding a sign that says &quot;Put the &#39;Panic&#39; back in Hispanic.&quot; To her right is a woman holding a <a href="https://www.someecards.com/entertainment/celebrities/clay-aiken-apologizes-defending-donald-trump/">TRUMP banner</a> and the school&#39;s mascot.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Facebook: Jennifer Lopez Vazquez" data-attribution-url="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1414493638670952&amp;set=a.253312341455760.58179.100003309873392&amp;type=3&amp;theater" height="1247" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/2174331914144936386709522350612956108384878n-zAsEz2.jpg" width="700" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1414493638670952&amp;set=a.253312341455760.58179.100003309873392&amp;type=3&amp;theater">Facebook: Jennifer Lopez Vazquez</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;Put the Panic back in Hispanic. #dontgetButthurt &quot; wrote Harley Powell in the caption, adding &quot;I&#39;m honestly not gonna care if you do anyways so!! #sorryboutit.&quot;</p><p>According to<a href="http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/09/baldwin_school_officials.html"> AL.com</a>, an Alabama news source, the woman brought the sign to a football game between the Robertsdale Bears and the Spanish Fort Toros on Friday. The Instagram post was captured via screenshot by Robertsdale High senoir Jennifer Lopez Vazquez and uploaded to Facebook. It then went viral.</p><oembed>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1414493638670952&amp;set=a.253312341455760.58179.100003309873392&amp;type=3&amp;theater</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>&quot;This happened yesterday at our school pep rally. They know it&#39;s Hispanic Month&quot; wrote Lopez Vazquez &quot;That&#39;s very disrespectful in so my ways. But it&#39;s funny to think that our school thinks it &quot; OKAY &quot; this is Honestly what white trash looks like.&quot;</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="FACEBOOK" data-attribution-url="" height="1247" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/2174307214150837886119372662408216923158434n-m5HxL9.jpg" width="700" /></div><div class="image-attribution">FACEBOOK</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Eddie Tyler, the superintendent of Baldwin County Public Schools, claims that the school is looking into the incident:</p><p>&quot;We are aware of a photo that appears to be taken at a Robertsdale High School football pep rally Friday Sept. 15 that is circulating on social media containing political banners and unacceptable language,&quot; said Tyler in a statement. &quot;School administrators, as well as my office, are following up on the matter.&quot;</p><p>Powell later deleted her social media accounts, but screenshots are forever. She released this apology note:</p><blockquote> <p>It wasn&#39;t my intention and was not meant for it to be taken that way. I apologize for the publicity and misunderstandings that it has brought to our school.</p> </blockquote><p>Hm, sounds like Powell is actually #sorryboutit after all. Well, we are sure that she will have a *wonderful* year at school after this mess. Applying for college is going to be fun, too!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Remember, #dontgetbutthurt, Harley.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Student defends blatantly racist homecoming sign by insisting it isn't racist. It is.

April Lavalle

Ugh.Oh, sorry. Let me rephrase that.UUUUUGHHHHHHH.A picture of a student from Robertsdale High School in Alabama is going viral because it depicts a young woman holding a racist sign at a school football rally. The woman on the left in the photo is smiling and holding a sign that says &quot;Put the &#39;Panic&#39; back in Hispanic.&quot; To her right is a woman holding a TRUMP banner and the school&#39;s mascot.Facebook: Jennifer Lopez Vazquez&quot;Put the Panic back in Hispanic. #dontgetButthurt &quot; wrote Harley Powell in the caption, adding &quot;I&#39;m honestly not gonna care if you do anyways so!! #sorryboutit.&quot;According to AL.com, an Alabama news source, the woman brought the sign to a football game between the Robertsdale Bears and the Spanish Fort Toros on Friday. The Instagram post was captured via screenshot by Robertsdale High senoir Jennifer Lopez Vazquez and uploaded to Facebook. It then went viral.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1414493638670952&amp;set=a.253312341455760.58179.100003309873392&amp;type=3&amp;theater&quot;This happened yesterday at our school pep rally. They know it&#39;s Hispanic Month&quot; wrote Lopez Vazquez &quot;That&#39;s very disrespectful in so my ways. But it&#39;s funny to think that our school thinks it &quot; OKAY &quot; this is Honestly what white trash looks like.&quot;FACEBOOKEddie Tyler, the superintendent of Baldwin County Public Schools, claims that the school is looking into the incident:&quot;We are aware of a photo that appears to be taken at a Robertsdale High School football pep rally Friday Sept. 15 that is circulating on social media containing political banners and unacceptable language,&quot; said Tyler in a statement. &quot;School administrators, as well as my office, are following up on the matter.&quot;Powell later deleted her social media accounts, but screenshots are forever. She released this apology note: It wasn&#39;t my intention and was not meant for it to be taken that way. I apologize for the publicity and misunderstandings that it has brought to our school. Hm, sounds like Powell is actually #sorryboutit after all. Well, we are sure that she will have a *wonderful* year at school after this mess. Applying for college is going to be fun, too!Remember, #dontgetbutthurt, Harley.

Ugh.  Oh, sorry. Let me rephrase that.  UUUUUGHHHHHHH.  A picture of a student from Robertsdale High School in Alabama is going viral because it depicts a young woman holding a racist sign at a school football rally. The woman on the left...