Campus-run elementary school may have taken racism lecture too far.
Officials at Grambling State University were meeting Monday after the school newspaper ran photographs of adults at a campus-run elementary school putting a noose around at least one child's neck, reports the Associated Press.
According to an article in the school newspaper, teachers at Alma J. Brown Elementary School were teaching kindergarten and first-grade students about the reasons why nooses are symbolic of racism.
The article said the children also were being taught about the "Jena Six" — black high-school students who are accused of beating a white schoolmate. The allegations were seen as racially biased and drew about 20,000 to 25,000 people to Jena, about 70 miles from Grambling, for a civil rights march in September.
A press release posted on the Gramblinite's Web site said three photographs from the event were removed after a staff conference call. Ten others were re-posted to the site Monday after the university's president ordered the removal of all the photos and the story over the weekend, according to the Gramblinite press release.
"The Gramblinite only did what our motto stands for: 'We don't make the news; we report it,'" said De'Eric M. Henry, the paper's editor in chief. "We do not approve of censorship or prior review, and we stand by our editorial decision to inform the students of Grambling State University of news events that affect them on campus, in the community and everywhere."
University President Horace Judson told The News Star of Monroe and the Ruston Daily Leader on Friday that he was starting an investigating immediately, and would meet Monday morning with everyone involved.
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