Posted on 11/12/2016 12:53:19 PM PST by PAR35
It started as an idea to honor a father who was also a Dallas Police officer killed during the July 7th sniper attack.
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Victoria Smith, 14, plays volleyball at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton. Recently, the SMU Women’s Volleyball team extended an invitation for her to make an honorary first serve at Saturday’s game. Then on Thursday, his widow Heidi Faith Smith received an email that left her stunned.
“It just broke my heart to tell her…that the invitation had been taken away,” says Heidi Smith. In the email, Smith was told that “in light of recent events and diversity within the SMU community, that the demonstration could be deemed insensitive.”
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Defund liberalism.
I propose a name change to: Socialists, Miscreants and Undesirables.
This cancelation was rescinded. SMU apologized for the embarrassment of the cancelation and the invitation was reinstated with blame going to a total breakdown in communication.
The volley ball team supposedly was not informed at all of the invitation and did not even know it was ever scheduled, reportedly.
Whoever sent that out was a real boob, but who knows now if the family accepted the repairs and whether the daughter of the deceased officer agreed to participate.
How Christian of them - not.
That said, it’s probably best the daughter be kept out of the spotlight with so many haters out there.
The threat of violence has so intimidated this nation’s people, that Whites no longer have rights or a nation.
This will not continue.
Who Knows? You’d know if you read the article. The family accepted the apology, but refused to accept the second offer. The PC cowards at SMU can shove it.
Insensitive? How about that young girl’s sensitivity.
I really hate these people, makes me sick. They are selfish self centered POS. She lost her Dad!
It was a mighty half-assed ‘apology’ which the family was wise enough to not accept. The family and the police association are still asking for a real apology.
From NBC:
“The second one was them just not wanting to get hurt by what they said, just to cover it up.”
“Devastated, Victoria now says she has not intention of attending the volleyball game.
“I’m definitely not,” she said. “It’s definitely upsetting, and the second email just made it all a lot worse.”
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/SMU-Pulls-Re-Issues-Honorary-Offer-for-Daughter-of-Slain-Dallas-PD-Officer-400908511.html
Boo on SMU. What a pathetic cheap shot at this young lady.
Emergencyawesome
Since Nov 6, 2016
OK. That tells me something.
They really are incompetent if they think what they’ve done will ‘help the family heal’.
If the university wants to apologize, they should start by firing some folks.
DITTO!!!
I totally agree
So they have a private and public postion on this next
SMU has always been a haven of anti-American flagburners. The Methodist Bitchshops wanted to keep George W. Bush from having his Presidential library there.
I recently attended an SMU football game and the students were absolutely the worst I have ever seen. The girls were dressed inappropriately in skimpy white, bra-less tops with boots and their idiot dates were drunken than a skunk. Pouring beer on fans, vulgar language, it was awful. I was embarrassed for them - just proves money cannot buy class. Will never go back.
Not surprised that a former Rebel is an anti-American, Cop-killing-loving twinkletoed Marxist.
Let’s see if I’ve got this right: SMU asked the daughter of a murdered Dallas cop to make an honorary first serve at an SMU volleyball game, in honor of the fallen officers, but then cancelled the offer after the organization that murdered the girl’s father complained that the offer was “insensitive” to the murderers. Then the school changed its mind again because of bad publicity, and the girl said forget it.
I completely agree.
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