Posted on 01/05/2010 12:10:50 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
DEARBORN, Mich. -- About 15 Arab-American students at Edsel Ford High School are in trouble over a sweatshirt they had made over the holiday break.
On the back of the sweatshirt, the number 11 is made to look like the World Trade Center Towers. The school's mascot, a thunderbird, is seen flying toward the number.
Under the graphic, a tagline reads, "You can't bring us down."
The students wore the hooded sweatshirts to school Monday. They were immediately sent to the principal's office.
The sweatshirts were confiscated.
“What took place here today was an inappropriate, distasteful act,” said David Mustonen, a spokesman for Dearborn Schools. “(It was) totally inappropriate, totally disrespectful, and they just were not thinking.”
The students told the principal they didn’t mean any harm by having the sweatshirts made.
Other students who heard about and saw the shirts said they were disgusted.
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“Let ‘em wear the shirts. In fact, MAKE them wear the shirts,
into some little Texas biker bar.”
WHY SHOULDN’T IT BE ANY BAR IN ANY STATE?
There is no such thing as an Arab-American. They are Arabs. Best this nation understand it.
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