Hopefully we won't have comments such as "lighten up" and "it was only a joke". Thank you. :)
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HOUSTON -- A school district suspended a police officer as it investigates his distribution of a "Ghetto Handbook" and the
three-month lapse before top district officials were informed of it.
The eight-page booklet, subtitled "Wucha dun did now?", was handed out to about 15 Houston Independent School District police officers at a May meeting, district spokesman Terry Abbott said. Officials declined to identify the officer who handed them out, but said he had been ordered to attend diversity training.
A supervisor immediately collected the booklets, Abbott said, but district officials said they didn't learn about the incident until someone complained to the district's Equal Employment Opportunity Office in mid-August...
District Police Chief Charles Wiley had no comment, Abbott said.The booklet billed itself as a guide to Ebonics, teaching the reader to speak "as if you just came out of the hood." It included definitions such as "foty: a 40-ounce bottle of beer"; "aks: to ask a question"; and "hoodrat: scummy girl."
The booklet names six district officers "and the entire day shift patrol" as contributors.http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/09/01/wtf/doc46d82755edf90970706376.txt