Posted on 03/14/2009 8:09:10 PM PDT by james500
An elementary school principal is barring a fifth-grader from wearing a Barack Obama mask in the school's talent show because parents have complained it's inappropriate.
Dru Lechert-Kelly, 11, hoped to dress presidentially and dance to a YouTube parody that features an Obama look-alike and a rap called "I Can Do Whatever I Like."
The skit features him in a navy blue suit, white shirt, red tie, black shoes and an Obama mask purchased at a costume shop — one like Obama himself once donned for a Saturday Night Live sketch. The choreographed routine rehearsed Thursday ends with Dru on the floor in the splits and was met with applause from students and teachers.
But some parents objected.
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Dru said he didn't think performing without the mask was an option.
"If I don't have the mask," he said, "it's just some kid up there dancing around."
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A Bush or Clinton mask is OK however.....
I wonder if they’ll allow him to switch to a Bush mask?
Amazing, we have an AA president, and we’re still soaked with White Guilt.
These same parents who complained had “ABS” as their candidate in 2000, 2004 and no doubt repeat “Bush Lied People Died” during political discussions.
F’in fascist hypocrites.
Take it as far as it'll go and watch the zeroites scream.
It ain’t Halloween yet, that’s why
Which will now be allowed, but only for schools who have the Jesus character wearing a BHO mask.
And the angels have to include a new message to the shepherds, "G@d damn America!"
It’s Portland, Oregon. Need I say more?
Gosh, when did pretending to be a president become racist? How many kids have impersonated Abraham Lincoln?
It sounds like the school and the parents are the ones who are being racist. Would it be racist to wear a Micheal Jackson mask and do the skit? Would it be racist to wear a Bush mask?
It’s already noted that Obama himself wore the same type of mask on SNL, so that’s probably not it. Maybe it’s because the student is dancing and that perpetuates the racial stereotype that black people know how to dance. No, that was the first thing Obama did when he went on the Ellen DeGeneres show...
Hrm. I don’t want to jump to conclusions before all the information is in but it’s beginning to look like the ‘racism’ charge is being made as a way to bully a child out of making even the most mild criticism of President Obama.
Why does Obama have Jimmy Carter’s teeth?
>Hrm. I don’t want to jump to conclusions before all the information is in but it’s beginning to look like the ‘racism’ charge is being made as a way to bully a child out of making even the most mild criticism of President Obama.
If even a child is known by his doings, then how much more the Government?
Racism.
Same old Democrat play book. Silence all dissent.
From the same horse? Or rather, donkey?
“That my principal is a fascist pig? and that liberals say they're for free speech but it's all Bull s@#%, because they're only for their freedom to speak?”
Very good Dru, that's right.
Since when was being racist illegal?
If O were (all) white, no controversy, no headline.
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