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Arizona school's 'Redneck Day' sparks anger
https://www.tennessean.com/ ^ | May 1, 2013 | Luci Scott

Posted on 05/02/2013 11:26:58 AM PDT by BO Stinkss

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To: BO Stinkss
Wow. First it was White Trash Wednesday.

Now Redneck Day?

Gee!

21 posted on 05/02/2013 12:01:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: skeeter
If “Redneck Day” offends delicate sensitivities this much imagine what what the reaction would be if someone suggested a White History Month.

I think it would offend too many white people.

It would offend all of those white people whose favorite white historical figure was omitted (there are just too many worthy individuals to count).

Not to mention all of those limousine white Liberals who know that every great historical white figure was racist, homophobe who should have been shot for his thought crimes.

22 posted on 05/02/2013 12:02:08 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: njslim

“There is a REDNECK AVE in a nearby town “

We had a local road called “HNIC Lane”. Some of you older vets here on FR will now what that stands for. The sole black man that lived at the end of HNIC Lane was the one that named it that! But someone got offended so the name was changed.


23 posted on 05/02/2013 12:02:52 PM PDT by BO Stinkss ( I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees)
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To: Slyfox

See post 21. A school did just that.

Didn’t work either.


24 posted on 05/02/2013 12:04:38 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: BO Stinkss

Anybody remember the U of N. Colorado, Fighting Whities? I thought this was going to be all about how an intended insult to Americans of European heritage were going all in for another attempted dig. Instead, we have the NAALCP hyperventilating.

The NappyOne


25 posted on 05/02/2013 12:19:36 PM PDT by NappyOne
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“... A school is supposed to be for education and showing people where we come from, our history...”

Whether you like it or not, that Confederate flag IS a part of our history...To ban it is an attempt to rewrite or change history...something that liberals are well known for....


26 posted on 05/02/2013 12:20:19 PM PDT by Boonie
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To: BO Stinkss

No doubt “Cracker Day” would have been much more acceptable.


27 posted on 05/02/2013 12:27:08 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: BO Stinkss

Don’t worry. Next MLK day, the white kids can show up in black-face.

In solidarity, of course.


28 posted on 05/02/2013 12:29:23 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (All observant Muslims want to kill you. If they don't, they are not really Muslims.)
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To: BO Stinkss

I’ll bet that if they called it “Muslim Day” they would be lauded for their “diversity”.


29 posted on 05/02/2013 12:41:15 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

A ‘’conservative’’ who flies a flag associated with Southern Democrats.Interesting. The flag that was attacked on Dec. 7,1941 and Sept.11,2001 sure as hell wasn’t The Stars and Bars. It sure as hell wasn’t the flag being raised on top of Mt. Surabachi and it sure as hell isn’t the one our men and women are serving under today.


30 posted on 05/02/2013 12:47:31 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa

I fly it right under Old Glory and by my Texas flag. My family tree is southerners from way back. I also fly The USMC flag.


31 posted on 05/02/2013 12:57:36 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: BO Stinkss
I think these kinds of things are more offensive to actual rednecks, or Southerners.....but apparently its okay to make fun of southerners and rednecks, their language,their customs, their food, their music....

but we certainly can't have "Redskins" as a football name, and we can't have any more "Aunt Jemimas" and we certainly can't offend the muzlems....

32 posted on 05/02/2013 1:01:27 PM PDT by cherry
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What is really funny is when people from outside the south come down and you see them in southern restaurants with their jaws stuffed with BBQ, biscuits and gravy, fried chicken, pork chops, cornbread...*LOL*


33 posted on 05/02/2013 1:16:08 PM PDT by Boonie
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To: BO Stinkss
Before I began reading this, I imagined the offense was taken by proud ancestors of early Southerners.

A Redneck was simply an honest, hardworking, sunup until sundown farmer with a permanently sunburned neck from tolling in the fields all his life.

Of course we learn that is not true any more. Leave it to the Liberal Socialists to relabel this innocuous term for my beloved antecedents into a pejorative image of hate against Conservative values.

34 posted on 05/02/2013 1:17:33 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Which is the one you pledge allegiance to?
35 posted on 05/02/2013 1:30:25 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: BO Stinkss

Perhaps Anglo-American Necks or Necks of Color would have been more acceptable.


36 posted on 05/02/2013 1:30:32 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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To: jmacusa

Old Glory.

God, Country, Corps, Family, and Self


37 posted on 05/02/2013 1:46:06 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: BO Stinkss

Interesting. My Mississippi history textbook talked about rednecks. They were loyal to the Union. But maybe that’s not taught anymore. Maybe my memory is faulty. Maybe there’s a lot of ignorance floatin’ around.


38 posted on 05/02/2013 1:48:27 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: BO Stinkss

“Redneck” is an offensive stereotype against whites. But go ahead and have a day for it. Actually why not call it “white person day” to be more inclusive and everyone can dress like dumb white people? I am sure that would make everyone happier.


39 posted on 05/02/2013 1:53:47 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: Uncle Miltie

Back in college had a “zoo” fraternity (think Animal House)

Dressed up as KKK for Halloween

Got expelled.......


40 posted on 05/02/2013 2:02:52 PM PDT by njslim (St)
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