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Fleming senior wears racist T-shirt to school
Jacksonville.com ^ | 9.15.05 | BRAD SCHMIDT

Posted on 09/15/2005 10:46:04 AM PDT by conserv13

"What's up with your shirt?"

Those are the words a former senior at Fleming Island High School remembers hearing as he walked from his fifth-period algebra class toward the gym. The 18-year-old, who is not being identified due to his family's concerns of safety, had just taken off his Dixie Outfitter T-shirt, exposing a highly offensive shirt.

"What about it?" replied the 18-year-old, skinny and white.

"Well, you know it's racial," said a black student, now in a group confronting the 18-year-old.

"Yeah. So?"

The undershirt the white student wore had a confederate flag on the front with the words "Keep it flying." On the back, a cartoon depicted a group of hooded Klansmen standing outside a church, waving to two others who had just pulled away in a car reading "Just married."

Two black men in nooses were being dragged behind.

Upset by the shirt, a 17-year-old black student hit the white student in the head. A crowd of about 100 students gathered to watch the Aug. 29 fight before authorities intervened.

(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: dangerseeker; darwin; dixie; dixielost; florida; hateflag; idiot; moron; race; rebellion; slavery; slaves; treason; tshirt
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I'm sure this kid will have a lot of fun in the Marines!

/not

1 posted on 09/15/2005 10:46:09 AM PDT by conserv13
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To: conserv13

What year is this?


2 posted on 09/15/2005 10:47:56 AM PDT by manwiththehands ("Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else" -Will Rogers)
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To: conserv13
Upset by the shirt, a 17-year-old black student hit the white student in the head. A crowd of about 100 students gathered to watch the Aug. 29 fight before authorities intervened.

I think the black student is the idiot here. There is no justification to hit someone, even if you are "offended" by his stupid T-Shirt.
3 posted on 09/15/2005 10:48:26 AM PDT by DoraC (Ceterum censeo Palaestinam esse delendam!)
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To: conserv13

I don't think the Marines want or need his kind.


4 posted on 09/15/2005 10:48:30 AM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: conserv13

I was starting to feel some compassion for the kid till I got to the "Just Married" part. If he were my kid I would beat him to within an inch of his life.


5 posted on 09/15/2005 10:48:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: conserv13

Dumbass! While the flag is not necessarily a racist symbol, the Klan picture on the back most certainly is. What a maroon!

If there's any justice, he's wearing a couple of black eyes right now.


6 posted on 09/15/2005 10:49:06 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: conserv13

This young man sure is stupid. Too bad there's no anitdote for it. My goodness, what a dork.


7 posted on 09/15/2005 10:50:04 AM PDT by RexBeach (Pardon me, but is that a malaise sandwich in your pocket or are you just glad to be in a funk?)
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To: manwiththehands
In addition to ghetto 'hood rats, Jacksonville has a large "peckerwood" population of PWTs as well. I aint surprised that this happened.

Reminds me of the time I saw some guy who looked like he just got out of Stark Penitentiary wearing a Hitler T-shirt with "white pride worldwide" at a shopping mall in South Florida largely patronized by Jews and Caribbean blacks.

8 posted on 09/15/2005 10:50:49 AM PDT by Clemenza (What's Puzzling You is Just the Nature of My Game)
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To: conserv13

Ok, that shirt was completely unacceptable. That being said, how much do you want to bet that these kids get away with assault because they were OFFENDED.


9 posted on 09/15/2005 10:50:55 AM PDT by sandbar
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To: conserv13

Racist or not, we either have free speech or we don't. If the left-wingers have the "free speech" to engage in overtly treasonous behavior, then this kid should have the free speech right to express his own beliefs, however odious.


10 posted on 09/15/2005 10:51:09 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. - Patrick Henry)
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To: DoraC

"There is no justification to hit someone, even if you are "offended" by his stupid T-Shirt."

I'm afraid I must disagree with you on this one. The t-shirt is the equivalent of "fighting words."

You did notice the description of the back of the t-shirt, right....the two black people being dragged behind the car in nooses?

Sorry. If I'd been there, I'd have punched this kid, and I'm about as white as they come.


11 posted on 09/15/2005 10:51:20 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: conserv13
What an idiot.

Lando

12 posted on 09/15/2005 10:51:21 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (The general public doesn't pay attention enough........to care enough.)
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To: conserv13

How disgusting.


13 posted on 09/15/2005 10:51:52 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: conserv13

Stupid moron shouldn,t be allowed to breed.


14 posted on 09/15/2005 10:52:03 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: conserv13

So we have TWO morons here. Filter out the gene pool. One racist moron and one violent felon. Case closed.


15 posted on 09/15/2005 10:52:10 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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To: conserv13
"I'm not racist or anything," he said. "It's just, some people I hate, some people I don't get along with. And black people just happen to be the ones because they think they're better than everyone else."

'nuff said.

16 posted on 09/15/2005 10:52:12 AM PDT by rattrap
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To: conserv13
Maybe hes a friend of Prince Harry
17 posted on 09/15/2005 10:52:23 AM PDT by lillybet
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To: conserv13

The shirt was offensive.

But the principal is taking the attitude that it's okay to physically assault someone whose speech offends you, and that the continuing physical threats which are keeping the kid from returning to school are understandable and to be expected.

Also, the principal gave the same punishment to the kid expressing the offensive thought, and the kid who physically attacked him.

I have to wonder out loud what would happen to a black kid who made a racial slur against whites? You can't tell me that never happens. Would he be punished?


18 posted on 09/15/2005 10:52:46 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: conserv13

man if i picked a fight for every Tshirt that offended me i dont think i would ever leave prison


19 posted on 09/15/2005 10:52:55 AM PDT by DM1
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To: MineralMan

Agreed, no way I'd convict if I was on a jury.


20 posted on 09/15/2005 10:53:17 AM PDT by rattrap
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