Well, that still leaves sailors, cowboys, construction workers, motorcyclists and cops ...
Posted on 11/24/2008 5:20:29 PM PST by truthkeeper
CLAREMONT - Audience members at the school board meeting argued among themselves about whether elementary school students should dress in costume for a Thanksgiving feast.
"The Thanksgiving story has been disproved as a myth," parent Diana Linden told the Claremont Unified school board on Thursday night.
The board meeting - held for the first time in new district offices at 170 W. San Jose Ave. - was packed with opinionated people on both sides of the issue.
The audience cheered loudest for speakers in favor of having the feast in costume.
One parent told the school board not to be "wimps" about the issue or simply cancel every holiday.
Parent Stephanie Wilbur, who said she was of Yaki Indian descent and in favor of having the costumes this year, noted that her grandmother did wear feathers and "terrible things happen to people ... it's part of what America is."
But parent Michelle Raheja, whose mother is a Seneca Indian, was angered at what she saw as "racist stereotypes" and said "it's wrong to dress up as a Native American."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailybulletin.com ...
Dena Murphy, a Mountain View parent, just gave an update on "The John and Ken Show" (KFI radio, 64.0). The parents at both Mountain View and Condit were hopping mad at the school board wimps. (The School District said the feast could go on, but not with the costumes).
Happily, the 98% of parents - at both schools - who support the kids in costume are staging a protest tomorrow. Yep, they're sending their kids to school in their costumes no matter how much the school board objects. Wait, it gets better...and then they're KEEPING THEM HOME FROM SCHOOL on Wednesday, so those schools won't get a dime of "attendance money" from the state for that day.
And hey, you people...this is Southern California!
For the real skinny and much thorough report on this story, complete with info on the lunatic parent who protested the costume tradition in the first place, try going to this blogspot: http://claremontca.blogspot.com/2008/11/celebration-of-genocide.html
Just don’t forget WHO AND WHAT academia is made up from. The slightest excuse to demonstrate their anti-American liberalism is ALWAYS jumped on as a great opportunity to down the fabric of American history, culture and tradition.
Excellent example of just exactly that.
Well, if it is all a myth, I suggest the school district revoke those 2 PAID vacation days for the administration.
I wish they’d spend as much time exposing the origins and founder of Kwanzaa...
Guess they need to take a really hard look at Kwanzaa.
What, exactly, is "racist" about dressing up as an Indian?
Unless you're claiming to be a member of Kennewick Man's tribe, save the "Native" part.
Well, if it is all a myth, I suggest the school district revoke those 2 PAID vacation days for the administration.
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Yeah, the gross HYPOCRISY of these rat liberals just stinks as they do.
The newspaper writer must have been racist...that should be “Seneca Native Ameican”
WTG to those Parents! about time people are fighting back.
She’s probably referring to that white guy in Colorado, Ward Churchill, pretending to be an Indian. lol
Ha, good point.
More evidence in favor of seperation of school and state.
I just heard Dena’s update too on J&K. Good for Dena standing up to this over the top PC hysteria. My goodness, this Thanksgiving party at the school is for five year olds, FIVE YEAR OLDs. These kindergartners are conducting themselves with more maturity than the UCR professor who stirred this up for no reason.
****But parent Michelle Raheja, whose mother is a Seneca Indian, was angered at what she saw as “racist stereotypes” and said “it’s wrong to dress up as a Native American.”****
but it soes not stop the Senecas from scalping people at their CASINO in NE Oklahoma.
Interesting point....The Senecas and Shawnees found they could make money by scalping Apaches and selling the hair to the Mexican government. They also found that the mex govt didn’t look too closely at the hair and quite a few Mexicans got their hair lifted by the Senecas.
Well, that still leaves sailors, cowboys, construction workers, motorcyclists and cops ...
and in the story, someone said that Thanksgiving is a myth.
I have a copy of Gov. William Bradford's "Bradford's History" published, after many decades of searching for his manuscript, in the late 1800's. (It continues in reprints as "Of Plymouth Plantation."
Gov. Bradford gave an account of the first Thanksgiving, and of their 90 Indian guests - and their 3 days of feasting and playing games together.
He was there. I'll take his word for it.
The 'myth' that still irritates me is the black and white dress that they mistakingly still attribute to the Pilgrims. (It was the straight laced Bay Colony, of Boston, Puritans who dressed in black and white. They were a bitchy bunch - the beginning of the liberals in the new world.)
The Pilgrims loved colors and dyed their cloths with reds, greens, blues, oranges, yellows - indeed, their spiritual leader, Elder William Brewster's favorite pieces were his red velvet cape and his green 'breeches'.
The original Plymouth Pilgrims made fast friends with the local Indians. They never stole land from them but always paid for it. They had a mutual 50/50 treaty with them that included mutual aid against their common enemies, the Indians to the south = including the Pawtuxets. (Their battles with the latter was nothing to do with 'racist' but to do with a warring enemy.)
Good thing I wasn't at the meeting for I would have suggested that before anyone opined about the whats and what nots of the Pilgrims take a bit of time and read what the Pilgrims wrote = and what their contemporaries wrote about them. Otherwise, go suck a clam.
Or they could recreate the celebration of the victory at Saratoga, another religious event.
Or any of the other ways in which "Thanksgiving" was celebrated by early settlers, all of which were religious in nature.
The academic wingnuts don't even realize that the simplified characterization of Thanksgiving as Indians and Pilgrims having a feast is secularization of a religious holiday.
Brainwashing good little Comrades. Isn’t that what schools are for?
Pray for W and Our Troops
What, exactly, is "racist" about dressing up as an Indian?
LOL! That's what I was thinking! Maybe she means to put on a headdress and then paint-up in black face with big lips. :-)
Honestly, I have no idea what she even could have been thinking with this ridiculous statement.
Save the Taxpayers money on paid holidays for staff.
Yet no one cares about kids coming to school at Halloween dressed as pimps and whores. WTF is going on with people and thank goodness for Dena Murphy!
“it’s wrong to dress up as a Native American.”
yeah...well...my HUSBAND is an ottowa indian and HE doesn’t think there is anything wrong with dressing up as a “native american”
Thank you for the update.
OK, I'll bite:
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