Students Suspended For Talking About Nooses

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[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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It refers, in fact, to a knot type that was used in New Jersey for several centuries to execute murderers and cutthroats.

Actually, it technical terms a noose can take many forms. A noose can be a simple noose for use in a snare trap, etc.

What I think you are referring to is a Hangman's Knot which traditionally, has 13 loops around its "neck" which makes a thicker know....which facilitates a quicker breaking of the condemned's neck on the gallows rather than strangulation.

[6SJ7]

Here's a one male to two female adapter.

How about the even more risque 'gender changers'?!

[morkfork]

My email to the principal (Catherine Bates I think)

Noose.

I said it. I’m a racist. Suspend me.

Oh, and the Boy Scouts are racists. I learned how to tie one there.

And I saw a noose on Scooby Doo the other day. Dang racist cartoons.

Oh, and all western movies were racists that hung the bad guys with a noose.
Oops, did it again. Now I’m double racists.

Glad I don’t teach high school anymore. Too much of a racist, I guess. Even though I used to coach a football team that was half black/half white and regularly take black kids home to their Section 8 housing because their parents wouldn’t come get them. And be the only white guy in that neighborhood when I entered. Too much of a racist I guess.

Especially when I teach my two little boys knot-tying and how to tie a noose, if they ask.

Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t teach, administrate.

[gitmo]

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.

The solution: if white students are having a discussion, and a black kid comes along they should take their coversation elsewhere. Can't risk offending the blacks.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ms. Harman’s proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet, criticizing it for providing Americans with “access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda,”

Thomas Jefferson:

• "One essential liberty is free communication among the people, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right."
• "Information is the currency of democracy."
• "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
• "The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information."
• "Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views."
• "The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom."
• "Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."
• "No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in its effect towards supporting free and good government."
• "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

Ms. Harman needs to be tarred and feathered. The traditional treatment of such blatant usurpation of personal liberties by elected functionaries.

[Hunterite]

“Remember, in any population, 50% are less intelligent than the average.”

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Typically its 1/3rd left, 1/3rd right, 1/3rd fence sitters. Not 50%.

Nomatter how radical, socialist, anti-American, homosexual, anti-white racist the Democrat party gets, it still manages to get 50% of the political power in the country.

Why? It is because many Republican voters are angry about immigration and free-trade. We keep going down this road, the Republican party will split and Democrats gain a supermajority status in government.

Soon allot of people are going to realize that Bill Clinton hate does not necessarilly translate into Hillary Clinton hate.

[x_plus_one]

Episodes of Sesame street from its early days have recently been declared too dangerous and politically incorrect to show as reruns. When cookie monster eats too many cookies or when Oscar gets too grouohy or any character is Extreme it is a bad influence on the kids.

PBS will no longer show these episodes to the young and impressionable....

When Sesame Street is outlawed only outlaws will watch sesame street? What about Barney and OTHERS???

[UCANSEE2]

Here is the bottom line.

The principal may have his own opinions on this subject, however that matters very little.

He/She has to answer to the School Board.

People like Sharpton, and Jackson have made careers out of scamming off of racial differences. Using this tool, like a NOOSE AROUND THE NECK OF average WHITE AMERICANS (ironic, huh) , they have gained enough wealth and power to put a NOOSE AROUND THE NECK of politicians.

Yes, folks, Sharpton, Jackson, and others have told us all that they will HANG US BY THE NECK WITH A NOOSE if we use the word NOOSE ever again, and they are getting away with it.

So, the principal and the school board (not just in Lee’s Summit) are AFRAID that if they do not take action against the white student (HANG HIM OUT TO DRY) that there would be lawsuits.

MONEY LOSS, JOB LOSS. That is what this is all about. FEAR OF having things taken away from you. So, pick on the easy target, the little WHITE KID.

This subject (hate speech) could just as easily apply to HOMOSEXUALS, OBESE , INDIANS, CRIPS, BLOODS, MASS MURDERERS, CHILD MOLESTERS, ARABS, IRANIANS, IRAQIS, MEXICANS, ISLAMICS, etc...etc...etc

You are not allowed to say anything derogatory or mean about any of them.

The only ones we are allowed to pick on are....

YOUNG
WHITE
MALES
who have
HIGH MORAL VALUES
ATTEND CHURCH
RESPECT and LOVE their PARENTS
who spend their free time
HELPING OTHERS
and who are trying to learn skills to help them in the future.
and who will likely be the first ones to join the military and fight for our freedom when they become of age.

THEM, you can call any name you want, and deny them the most basic of services, and take away their rights like taking candy from a baby. You can even force them to be endangered by homosexual rape, and the public OK’s it.

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Bill Clinton achieved his goals: Down is up, left is right, black is white, white is black, bad is good, good is bad.

[Calpernia]

N.Y. lawmakers move on anti-noose bill

[isrul]

So now we have another “n” word. Sick, sick, sick. IN a civilized nation many of these PC crazes would be at the end of one, and rightly so.

[SteamShovel]

"Noose" is far from being a racial slur.

I hear NERDS get offended when they see or hear about SQUARE KNOTS

Ta Dum Dum....

[puroresu]

The male-female plug-ins are homophobic. Calling them male-female implies that heterosexual acts are the norm, hurting the feelings of men who like to sodomize other men.

[beaversmom]

Oh let the students apologize to the boy (oops is that racist to call the boy a boy?). Invite him over for some chitlins and a game of hangman.

[ReignOfError]

In the Boy Scouts, you learn how to tie a slipknot, which works like a noose. I don’t know if they still teach people how to tie a noose. I think I recall learning how when I was a boy.

It's a bit of a semantic niggle (maybe I shouldn't say that, but I'm a niggler), but the knot is called a hangman's knot. It is a strong and versatile slip knot. It isn't a noose unles it's intended to hang someone -- or, in fairness, to imply the intent to hang someone. Like a gun or a knife, the knot itself is not a threat until and unless it's used to harm or threaten someone.

[Plains Drifter]

bump

[ReignOfError]

That’s right up there with someone being FIRED for making a “racial slur” when they used the word “niggardly.”

David Howard wasn't fired. There was a lot of howling, and he offered his resignation, which DC mayor Anthony Williams accepted. In a few days, sanity was restored and Wiliams hired Howard back.

It was silly that there was ever any controversy, but there's no need to make more of it than there was.

[ReignOfError]

sue the school for over reaction!

If overreaction were a legal cause of action, we could never build enough courts. And a whole lot of FReepers would be looking at judgments.

[ReignOfError]

Typically its 1/3rd left, 1/3rd right, 1/3rd fence sitters. Not 50%.

So one third of the population have an IQ of precisely 100.0000? I don't think I can buy that.

Of course, "precisely" is a pointless word when talking about something like IQ, which is inherently imprecise. There's a bell curve centered on 100 IQ, however determined, but few people will fall right on the mean. It's the same as height, weight, blood sugar, blood cholesterol, white cell count, or other human factors that can be measured precisely and objectively.

[L98Fiero]

“Can’t risk offending the blacks.”

This reminds me of my old workplace. We’d come up with a new project or plan a business trip to some of the facilities. Two days later we would be redoing it all because the black guy went to upper management and complained about some trivial detail. Didn’t get the office space he wanted? Complained and got it. Didn’t get selected for the Florida trip? Complained and got it (I got bumped to the midwest trip).

Then there was the place I worked before that. In a shared office space, the black guy found a letter opener stuck in the ceiling tiles. It was obvious that someone had been tossing it trying to make it stick because of all the little holes. Well, obvious to everyone but the black guy. He claimed intimidation and demanded an investigation. He got it, of course. That incident ran off all the good techs.

[Plains Drifter]

Let’s see, anybody heard the song “Dang Me Oughta Take a Rope and Hang Me”, “The Old Home Town Looks the Same” Tom Jones singer. “Hangin Tree”, Marty Robbins. When I was a kid and we played cowboys a noose was part of our old west heritage and culture. It was something good guys used to give justice to cattle rustlers. I can remember metal lunch pails with western scenes which included a noose. I refuse to cave in and give up parts of my culture that another race wants to co-opt and brand as evil.