"No noose is good noose."
Posted on 11/24/2007 6:56:55 AM PST by chessplayer
Accusations of racism in a Lee's Summit high school have lead to suspensions, but now the parents say their kids were unfairly punished.
Travis Grigsby loves playing drums, but he and his friend Alex Coday weren't able to play for two weeks after they were suspended. It started after the band's performance at a football game. Some kids on the drum line said they were talking about the best knots to use to tie up the drum equipment.
"Someone asked if anybody knew how to tie a noose and Travis did admit he knew how to tie a noose," Kim Grigsby said.
Travis' mom said her son is almost an Eagle Scout, he knew how to tie it, but told his friends he wouldn't because you could get in trouble for that. Later, a black student on the drum line told the teacher he was offended.
"Travis was accused of using a racial slur for saying the word 'noose.' Then he was suspended for 10 days," Kim said.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxkc.com ...
Goodness gracious. I never thought this crap would hit the KC area so soon. Lee’s Summit is a suburb of KC and I’m shocked the kids were suspended over something so stupid. Why is it that the libs screech their first amendment rights are being taken away by the Bush “regime” but sh** like this goes on all over and NOT by conservatives? If this begins happening across the state line in KS I’ll really flip.
“Later, a black student on the drum line told the teacher he was offended.”
Interesting how they give a black kid absolute power over what the white kids can and cannot say.
Just before Thanksgiving break my son (10) had “Cowboy Day”. He dressed up and off he went. Later I asked him about it, he said they talked about the west and then they watched “The Rifleman”. He was excited because he and my husband actually watch it every night and he knew all the characters. I asked him, “Did Lucas whip out his gun?” “Yes”. “Did Lucas kill the bad guy?” “Yes”. “Did therapists come to the classroom to offer counseling for the kids that were traumatized by seeing a gun?”
In the 12 years I’ve been dealing with my kids schools I have never had a problem with left wing nonsense. But I think our school reflects our community.
Parents should never let the school bully them. If the community stands up to them they back down. When they get away with crap like your friends friend went through, it just emboldens them. She should call that teacher and tell her how the cow eats the cabbage.
This incident should be unbelieveable, but, unfortunately, it is not. vaudine
The speech codes grow stronger with the tyrants in the seats of power seeking to squeeze personal freedom from the little people on every front. Compliance with the thinking of the collective is ultimately going to be the law of the land of hillary and obama. If you think it is bad now wait till the RAT party gains further power.
Do you suppose playing hangman is a racial slur now?
The left has every intention of shutting down any speech they dislike. The incidents involving Larry Summers, James Watson, Duane Chapman and Don Imus show the power they have to force people to grovel and then get them fired. It’s an ego boost to them, and they know that every year they can expand their scope of control by finding something new to be “outraged” about. They can even hurry things along by faking incidents, as now appears to be the case in the Columbia University noose incident. If that case was legitimate, it wouldn’t have vanished so fast from the media radar screen once the survellance tape was turned over to law enforcement officials.
And yet, Democrats still get 50% of the people to vote for them.
It is indeed those Democrats who are helping to take away our rights and our free speech. Not that some Republicans don’t help them in some ways. Too many of them, from GWB on down, just don’t speak out enough on these issues. Yet the American people, most of whom probably would express outrage at this ridiculous student suspension, don’t seem to have any clue that the people they are voting for are helping foster this PC lunacy!
A black student was offended because another kid said he did NOT want to talk about a noose or make one because it might get him in trouble?? My God, if our future generation of leaders are so damn sensitive that completely harmless incidents like this are enough to upset them then we are in for very troubled times ahead. How are we supposed to defeat the terrorists, and stand up to the forces in the world that are out to destroy us if so many people freak out at hearing a mere word??
Do you realize that “BUCKS” is a racist word? It was used by “ De Master of the plantation in describing very masculine slaves! So now we have the second B-word. S/sar
In 1999, one John Elijah sued Microsoft over a photo included in Publisher 98's clip art gallery of a black couple in a park next to a set of monkey bars. Among the eighteen tags associated with the image was 'monkey bars'. If you searched the gallery for 'monkey', you got that photo along with several showing real live monkeys. Elijah wanted $75,000, and his lawyer wanted to bring a class action.
The William E. Proudford Sickle Cell Fund had better watch it. They used this here boy_monkeybars.jpg to decorate their board of directors biographies page:
Only when he was hanging around with Rocky.
Just once....just ONCE, I'd like to be a principal when presented with this type of complaint.
Remember, in any population, 50% are less intelligent than the average.
They they'll be able to expell students for thinking about nooses.
Yeh I know - I'm next on the thought police's hit list.
No, they get about 25 percent, about the same as Republicans. The other 50 percent don't vote. These are percentages of eligible voters.
We'd each better get in there and lay claims to some symbols or we'll all be SOL!!!
It used to be in the encyclopedia...how to tie a hangman’s noose. That’s how I learned. It might’ve been in a boyscout book too.
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