I agree with your argument. If this school allows Malcolm X and Rap t-shirts, then they must allow these girls to bring these purses.
I too find Rap and X highly offense and don't any of this crap around my kids. For me, I'd prefer the schools wipe it all out and force all student clothing and attire to bland and functional, if not a uniform.
If you felt that I implied you or others are descendants of traitors if your lineage pass through Confederates, I appologize. That was not my intent, nor do I believe this personally.
I often chose to argue sides I do not necessary agree with, but a side that has few defenders, just for the enjoyment of debating as filler during parts of my day.
I'm sorry too....that was very gracious.
I prefer uniforms at school too for my own children....which is the case at most parochial and conservative private schools here in nashville
I perused your posts...the mulatto argument was interesting....the Spanish root is about mules as in hybrids not beasts and there is an arabic root too which is strikingly similar and means an arab mixed with non-arab....but I'm not sure anyone knows for sure
Having lived in Haiti, latin America and West Africa and being raised in the American South, I have seen the word all my life and never saw it as racist there or any of the other locales...it is a part of the accepted dialect at all of those places and is quite accepted.
But, I believe it may be considered derogatory in the UK...at least according to Wikpedia FWTW.....I had a Jamaican girlfriend once and they used the term as well without derision....or they simply said "light skinned" or "Jamaican White" and everyone knew the meaning..
Who knows....it's more colorful than "mixed race" for sure