SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
from tonguetied.us
Officials at a school in Michigan are scrambling to contain the damage done by a student who distributed what were described as “racially innappropriate” fliers to fellow students, according to WJRT-TV.
The 17-year-old says he had been harassed for months by students who referred to him with such hateful and offensive terms as “hick” and “redneck,” but school officials refused to intervene or insist on sensitivity training for the entire student body.
So the student handed out a flier inviting his fellow students to attend a meeting at a local park to "take back the Creek" (sort of like Take Back the Night? – ed) and "keep outsiders away from our town and support our way of life."
The flier was described as an act of racial intimidation that carried an “inherent threat” of violence. A subsequent search of his pickup truck turned up a hunting knife and a box cutter the kid used at work, so he was permanently suspended and will not be allowed to graduate with his classmates.
School officials now tell the Flint Journal that race had nothing to do with it, but the expulsion stands.
"It was a poor choice of words, and on the surface, it sounded racist. It's easy to understand why it was interpreted that way," said superintendent Roy Pearson. "But after spending a very long time talking to this boy and listening to what he had to say in his own defense, we no longer believe this had anything to do with race."
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Reverse racism at its finest. It's OK for a white student to be called offensive names, but God forbid it happen to any other kid. What bullshit.
Chalk up another freedom lost to Americans. Equality is a joke in this country. The only people whose rights matter are minorities or special interest groups. The common man ain't got a snowball's chance in a skillet. My very existence as a heterosexual right handed white male is a direct affront to more people every day. Spotted owls have more rights than I do.
We allowed this to happen. Silence equals complicity. Now look what we have. Yippee. While everybody was busy running around whining and bitching about how offended they were, our rights got usurped. Ain't the first time some of us have had it happen to us. We're still reeling from that one. Now, it's not regional. For the first time in her history, America truly has a crisis based solely on race. The other percieved one about 150 years ago was an economic issue. This ain't. This time it's gonna be in your back yards, not just contained to one little unimportant region of the country. Might be that this time, it's your town that gets sacked and pillaged and burned and erased. That won't sit too well I bet. It was OK when it was somewhere else. But this time...who knows?
On a brighter note, work on the hermit retreat is nearing completion...
Officials at a school in Michigan are scrambling to contain the damage done by a student who distributed what were described as “racially innappropriate” fliers to fellow students, according to WJRT-TV.
The 17-year-old says he had been harassed for months by students who referred to him with such hateful and offensive terms as “hick” and “redneck,” but school officials refused to intervene or insist on sensitivity training for the entire student body.
So the student handed out a flier inviting his fellow students to attend a meeting at a local park to "take back the Creek" (sort of like Take Back the Night? – ed) and "keep outsiders away from our town and support our way of life."
The flier was described as an act of racial intimidation that carried an “inherent threat” of violence. A subsequent search of his pickup truck turned up a hunting knife and a box cutter the kid used at work, so he was permanently suspended and will not be allowed to graduate with his classmates.
School officials now tell the Flint Journal that race had nothing to do with it, but the expulsion stands.
"It was a poor choice of words, and on the surface, it sounded racist. It's easy to understand why it was interpreted that way," said superintendent Roy Pearson. "But after spending a very long time talking to this boy and listening to what he had to say in his own defense, we no longer believe this had anything to do with race."
**end**
Reverse racism at its finest. It's OK for a white student to be called offensive names, but God forbid it happen to any other kid. What bullshit.
Chalk up another freedom lost to Americans. Equality is a joke in this country. The only people whose rights matter are minorities or special interest groups. The common man ain't got a snowball's chance in a skillet. My very existence as a heterosexual right handed white male is a direct affront to more people every day. Spotted owls have more rights than I do.
We allowed this to happen. Silence equals complicity. Now look what we have. Yippee. While everybody was busy running around whining and bitching about how offended they were, our rights got usurped. Ain't the first time some of us have had it happen to us. We're still reeling from that one. Now, it's not regional. For the first time in her history, America truly has a crisis based solely on race. The other percieved one about 150 years ago was an economic issue. This ain't. This time it's gonna be in your back yards, not just contained to one little unimportant region of the country. Might be that this time, it's your town that gets sacked and pillaged and burned and erased. That won't sit too well I bet. It was OK when it was somewhere else. But this time...who knows?
On a brighter note, work on the hermit retreat is nearing completion...
or did I get confused by his double negative. 
