Except for a few holdout states, we’ve celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since 1986. And even though South Carolina, Arizona and–believe it or not–New Hampshire are relatively new to this, it was California that managed to botch the big day.
Aside from an unfortunate college dining menu incident, the Insensitivity Cake goes to Willow Elementary School in Glendora, Calif. for their botched racial injustice demonstration.
Well, not “botched,” really, because it their demo worked incredibly, stupidly well. The only problem is that, once you’ve oppressed the non-white second graders for one recess, parents don’t let you do the same to the white kids the next day.
Fortunately, healing can begin, Community-style:
“One parent told the Whittier Daily News that she hopes there will be an ice cream party to smooth things over with the children.”