Black NJ Prep School Student President Stripped of Office for Mocking White Male Peers - The Root

Black NJ Prep School Student President Stripped of Office for Mocking White Male Peers - The Root: The Lawrenceville School’s student body president, Maya Peterson, was forced to resign or face disciplinary action after she posted a photo of herself dressed as a typical “Lawrenceville boi.” The photo was meant as a joke—and a little dig at the white male “Lawrenceville boi.”

However, Lawrenceville School Student Body President Maya Peterson’s

Instagram post of her dressed in L.L. Bean boots and a Yale University
sweatshirt, casually holding a hockey stick, did not go over so well, BuzzFeed reports.

“You’re the student body president, and you’re mocking and blatantly

insulting a large group of the school’s male population,” one student
commented on the photo, which boasted hashtags like #romney2016 and
#confederate, according to the news site.

“Yes, I am making a mockery of the right-wing, confederate-flag

hanging, openly misogynistic Lawrentians,” Maya replied. “If that’s a
large portion of the school’s male population, then I think the issue is
not with my bringing attention to it in a lighthearted way, but rather
why no one has brought attention to it before ... ”