Posted on 10/23/2015 10:12:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(KLFY) Acadia Parish, La. residents have mixed emotions about a photo featuring two educators at a costume party earlier this month.
Iota Middle School Principal Lee Ann Wall and her husband Jeptha Wall, who is a coach at Crowley High School, appear in the image.
Their costumes are described as People of Walmart. Jeptha can be seen wearing a red bandana around his waist with a gun tucked into his belt and money coming out of his pocket.
In front of Lee Ann is a basket full of black and white baby dolls and sign that read, You wait on pay day, I be waiting for da first of da month!
The photo was sent to KLFY by a viewer who called it a display of classism and racism. But not everyone thinks it should be taken so seriously.
Penny Fontenot lives in Iota and says sometimes a costume is just that: a costume. If theyre teaching your children right from wrong in the schools, what does a costume have to do with it?
We showed the photo to several other folks in Acadia Parish. They believe the costume choice crossed the line.
Wow, okay. So what is she trying to depict? Somebody whos on welfare? If that is what she was trying to depict thats even worse. Alan Honersucker told KLFYs Dalfred Jones.
Nathan Kresge, who also live in Iota said, To make fun of people that just cant afford a better way of life, to make fun of them? Thats just ridiculous!
Fontenot believes it just looks like a couple of people having some halloween fun, Its no big deal, its a costume, So, let them enjoy themselves while they still can.
Ellan Baggett, the Executive Director of Operations with the Acadia Parish School Board, says it was a private party, not school related.
Bagget also said the school board has taken appropriate action, although she could not tell us what those actions were.
We made several calls to both Crowley High and Iota Middle for a comment from Lee Ann and Jeptha Wall. They have not returned our messages.
I Love It.
Big ol’ +1 from me.
What’s the problem??? AT LEAST they are MARRIED..the way GOD meant it to be.
The real people of Walmart make these two look normal.
More PC police that need to be punched in the face.
Infinitely classier than Bill Maher’s getup as the Crocodile Hunter just weeks after he died.
ok so where are the “people of saks fifth avenue” costumes?
some hyper sensitive people need a SERIOUS life.
We call them “Wall-Martians” ‘round these parts!
What does the school board have to do with your private life. It is called freedom of speech. Much ado about nothing.
No controversy. Just insane people who pretend to be offended.
As a "Flapper" i find costumes of Flappers offensive
I suspect they intended to lampoon a little slice of the reality they observe in their community to show how people’s choices make them look ridiculous.
I'm sure if these same people did stereotypes of black inner city citizens it would be met with the same mirth... fun is fun, right Paul.
A Russian told me that the young, new Soviet political officers under Stalin were warned by the older officers never to say anything about anything, if it could be avoided. What was safe and politic to say today might get you executed a few months from now. We have entered an era when anything you say or do can retroactively, a month or a year or ten years later, get you fired.
If blacks (not all) are offended, they should quit living like it.
I really haven’t heard many blacks speak out against the baby daddy life-style. They should step up or shut up. I am sick of hearing from them moan. They demonstrate that they are willing to accept less than moral and civil lifestyles so I don’t care what they think. They (the immoral race baiters, politically correct idiots, etc.) can all kiss my #$&.
This MSM petty busybody “judging” of other people is getting very, very annoying. Why does this make “news”?????
This is all about Mind Control-—and trying to make people “Fear” offending the masses (all people have to think the “same” is the purpose of PC).
MSM is a “dog and pony show” —only for creating the “proper perceptions” for the ignorant masses——and keep them addicted-—away from the Truth/God and Real Life experiences/Reading the Great Books. (Ray Bradbury).
Since when did it become a crime to wear a costume to a private party? And why does the school district care since it wasn’t school related.
It’s like that episode of The Sopranos where all of the mobsters and their families turn out at an Italian Sons and Daughters of America banquet and bemoan the outrageous, unfair stereotyping of Italian-Americans.
THE PEOPLE OF WALMART IS A PAID UNION OPERATION.
Note that most of the photos are taken from waist level, I doubt they are using a Twin Lens Reflex with a ground glass.
Yes some photos are taken by useful idiots.
Anything you see at Walmart you can see at Chicago's Magnificent Mile, and much more.
Not tacky enough for our neck of the woods.
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