A snot nosed punk

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I am a student of on online distance learning school. One of the classes that I am taking is cultural diversity. I logged in recently and saw a post labled "Vol. 9 reverse racism" I knew from this point that it was going to be one of those topics that I was going to just HAVE to reply to. So I read it, then read it again incredulously. The week of the annual observance of the birthday of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. this girl posts that she thinks that Dr. Kings effect was limited and has dissipated to the point of insignificance. She goes on to say that a black person mentioning the fact that blacks were once owned is racist of us! It is not racist it is factual just as belittling the contribution that is Dr. King's legacy to blacks in America is non-factual, petty, and small minded. Yet she started her post with, "I am 20 years old and I feel that I have had a lot of experience with life and have seen a lot of racism"!!#@#$%@% Can you believe that crap?! I couldn't believe that in an educational forum, in response to a class Discussion Question (which requires responses form each student in the class), that someone would be cutting and pasting racist rhetoric and espousing that stuff like it was the thing to do! I was floored. And that no one sought to challenge the racist rhetoric head on other than me was appalling. it took me over 30 minute to type my response to her but every student in the class read it several posted replies and agreed with me. Not only that but the student who posted it responded to me in four seperate posts on the thread. What she can't wrap her mind around my entire response in one post. She just called further attention to her lack of cognitive brain power! What do you do with a snotty nosed punk like this? The first line of my response was, While I don't mean to attack you, nor do I wish to be condescending, or inflamatory but in rebuttal let me first state I am 32 years old, also female, living in Affirmative Action free Southern California and I just felt that what you had to say here should be responded to and rebutted... And then I challenged every single point she had made both in the info that she cut and pasted and the additional points she had attempted to make with her own "experiences".