Professor Volokh cites an article about a campaign for a white kid from South Africa for the “Distinguished African American Student Award.” Anyone else know a white-skinned African-American? Yeah! Yeah!

From Volokh:

Under Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Comm. School Dist. (1969), speech may be restricted if it’s disruptive — but not because it’s “inappropriate and insensitive,” something that many students no doubt thought about the anti-Vietnam-War black armbands that Tinker held to be protected speech.

Of course, if a school has content-neutral rules prohibiting students from putting up posters on doors or lockers, the school may evenhandedly enforce this policy; the doors and lockers are its property, and it may bar students from using them as their own billboards.

From the article:

The posters were removed by administrators because they were “inappropriate and insensitive,” Westside spokeswoman Peggy Rupprecht said Tuesday.

Rupprecht said the award always has been given to black students. . .

Remember folks, it’s insenstive and inappropriate to judge people based on their color if their skin color is not white… or yellow, if the yellow guy is an achiever.