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Teen denied major prom date

The punishment handed to a Pennsylvania high school student clearly doesn’t fit the “crime,” such as it was.

The misdeed was to ask Miss America, Nina Davuluri, to accompany him to the high school prom. The request came from Patrick Farves, who reportedly had let his intentions be known before Miss America’s appearance at the high school.

http://time.com/69592/miss-america-prom-suspended-teen/

School administrators warned Patrick not to do it. He asked her anyway. For that he got suspended, over the objections of Davuluri, who pleaded with the school to allow the boy to stay in class.

Her pleas fell on deaf ears. Farves was suspended and later apologized for asking Miss America to the prom.

What kind of justice is that?

Don’t educators believe in harmless pranks any longer, which is what Farves no doubt intended with his request?

Personally, I have to admire the kid for showing the brass to ask a beautiful young woman out. Of course, she isn’t going to accept. It would open up the proverbial worm can to other students in other schools on her lengthy itinerary of public appearances.

Still … Patrick Farves didn’t deserve a suspension.

Others have taken him up on his prom-date offer, including Khloe Kardashian and some Nevada hookers. Patrick has said “no” to those acceptances.

Good for him. Apparently, Patrick won’t go out with just anyone.

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Social media reveal racists among us

I’ve discovered an unexpected plus about the advent of social media on modern society.

They reveal individuals’ character or their lack of it while identifying who these individuals are to the rest of the world.

Consider the reaction to last night’s crowning of the new Miss America, who is a young woman named Nina Davuluri. She hails from New York. She’s the first Indian-American to be crowned Miss America. The reaction from some of her countrymen? Well, it was quite revealing.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/showbiz/miss-america-racist-reactions/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

The link attached here reveals the moronic attitudes of Americans toward people of certain ethnicities. I won’t detail here what some of the individuals said about Davuluri. You can access it by clicking on the link.

Suffice to say the young woman comes from a successful family. Her dad is a physician. Nina aspires to follow in his footsteps. She’s a young woman of considerable accomplishment. She is the latest in a long line of such women to own the title of Miss America.

As for social media’s influence on modern culture, we’re seeing by the reactions posted on Twitter to this event, there’s a certain value in allowing idiots to express themselves freely. They’ve exposed themselves to the rest of the world.

As an old friend once told me, it’s better to keep your enemy out front where you can see them rather than have them hiding in the bushes.