Your morning dose of "piss ya off"

Nettleton, Mississippi schools have some interesting requirements for running for student office, including, apparently, that the president of grade 8 be white, and the vice president be black. Both Pres and VP of grades 6 and 7 should be white. Secretary of grade 7 and reporters for both grades 6 and 8 must be black, but secretary of 6 and 8 and reporter for 7 need to be white.
Seriously? what the Hell?

When one Nettleton mother approached the school board, wondering—among other things, obviously—which "category" her mixed-race kids (Italian and Native American) fell under, she was told the following:

They told me that they "Go by the mother's race b/c with minorities the father isn't generally in the home."

And Tango Makes Three

How did I not know about this?!?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three