Note the careful wording! From it we can conclude for certain that the friend was not white--but the report tries to give the impression that it was a pair of white-supremacists. No bias here....
BTTT for later.
It appears Xavier does not understand what real equivalence is. If any student wore a shirt which said "I hate N-----" that student would probably be jailed.
If the school had regular classes going on instead of this waste of time, insult to your intelligence, "multicultural" bull sh**, then this incident wouldn't have happened in the first place.
Here's a thought: Quit wasting taxpayer dollars and conducting thought control on public school students by having multi-cultural assemblies! Get back to class and teach some math and science instead!
That's another sour old lemon. Ollie Wendell was one smart fella, but he was dead wrong on that one. There's no such limitation on the right of free speech. The real problem with shouting "fire" in a movie theater is that the theater is private property. When you buy a ticket and enter, you're making an implicit contract not to disrupt the show, and you're in breach of that contract if you shout "fire". It's all about private property rights.
(Due credit to Walter Block and "Defending the Undefendable")
Racist? These kids were definitely running "multi-culti" into the ground, but the adults in charge of that school should have realized what an open invitation can lead to.
Wow, that is the most insensitive thing I've ever read. That Principal should be forced to attend sensitivity training so that he learns to respect his fellow man's differences.
I will burn my Stars and Bars just as soon as we have racial diversity in the NBA.
"...Patriotism was what prompted Ryan Lanman, a senior at Hickman High School, to enlist in the Marines in July. By joining nearly a year before his high school graduation, he can participate in weekly training sessions at the recruiting station in Columbia to help him prepare physically and mentally for the rigors of boot camp.
“I was raised this way,” says Lanman, who was dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt and a camouflaged ball cap as he ate a bowl soup at Panera. “My parents never wanted me to take my freedom for granted.”
Lanman recalls how as a senior patrol leader for his Boy Scout troop, he made everyone slow down as they recited the Scout’s oath, which pledges allegiance to God and country. The ritual had become a rote formality, and Lanman’s troop recited the lines quickly, almost thoughtlessly.
“It had bothered me a little bit,” Lanman says. “But my assistant patrol leader and I began to say the oath louder and slower. Slowing it down made the words stay there, sink in more, so they actually heard each word separately.”
Lanman’s father was accepted to West Point before breaking his leg in a skydiving accident. His mother, who immigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad as a child, tried to enlist with the Air Force but was disqualified because of a spinal curvature. One grandfather served in Korea, and an uncle fought in World War II.
His other grandfather, a paratrooper, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He rarely discussed the war with Lanman but did tell him one story. He was manning a machine gun while his squad was passing through a town. Instinctively he swiveled the gun around and started shooting at a window. Later, the battalion found a sniper, lying dead next to the window.
“I know the risks,” Lanman says of military duty. “There’s going to be stuff like that everyday if I get sent to Iraq. But that doesn’t stop me from doing it. It’s part of the job.”
The branch of service he joined mattered little to Lanman.
“I had already made up my mind to join,” he recalls, “and didn’t care about money issues or where I’d be stationed.”
A month passed between his first meeting with a recruiter and the day Lanman and his parents signed the waiver required of recruits younger than 18. Although his father left the decision to join the Marines to his son, Lanman’s mother made sure he understood the risks.
“We talked a lot before he signed,” says Lorraine Lanman. “No matter how proud of him I was, I had to play devil’s advocate. But he told me, ‘Mom, if I don’t do this, I will always feel like I should have served...’ ”
Interesting. Always thought that Columbia is a liberal college town.
Why is one culture not accepted in the multicultural assembly?
The superior intellect of the white southern flag waver on display...
We (southerns) lost that war.
It's kind of like wearing the headdress of an Apache Chief.
It makes you a loser by association.
Furl that Confederate Flag. It had its place in time but it is no more.
The only flags I desire now are the Flag of the State of Texas, the Star Spangled Banner, and the Standard of the USMC.
""If I came to school in a ‘I hate crackers’ T-shirt, I’d be sent home," said Xavier Bagby, 16, who is black."
He could just were a Malcom X shirt which would imply the same thing. I feel that is more comparable to the flag than a shirt that says "I hate crackers."
Dixie Ping
Crackers are known for their great Southern sense of humor - however they have little use for ignorance, Bagby.
A shirt with CBF or a CBF flag does not put anyone's life in danger. Nice try though.