Posted on 10/03/2021 8:21:48 AM PDT by rktman
Students at Racine Lutheran High School in Racine, Wisconsin, are facing discipline after wearing red T-shirts with the slogan “Trump’s Wall” on them to a pep rally for homecoming last week, sparking protests among fellow students.
The Journal Times reported:
Just like most high schools, Racine Lutheran High School celebrated homecoming with spirit week, complete with a volleyball tournament and designed shirts. One team opted to wear shirts with a brick design and the phrase “Trump’s Wall.”
A group of minority students called attention to the incident and wore all black in protest. They also met with administration Friday and plan to do so again on Monday.
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While the shirt designs did not receive the necessary approval to be worn at the game, the students wore them underneath other clothes and revealed them right as they went to enter the court. Racine Lutheran Executive Director-Principal David Burgess said the students were then given alternate shirts to wear and would face disciplinary action.
Local Hispanic advocacy groups, including Forward Latino and the League of United Latin American Citizens, approached the school, according to a statement by the school quoted by Milwaukee-area CBS affiliate WDJT.
It is not clear what students meant to convey with the T-shirts; one of the students appeared to be mimicking gang signs with his hands. Some accused the students of racism.
There are renewed calls for a wall along the southern U.S. border — President Donald Trump’s signature project, halted by the Biden Administration — as hundreds of thousands of migrants continue to pour across it.
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Disciplined for free speech? But if it was Mexican or homosexual, they would be celebrated.
I’m sorry...It’s just not wrong to wear that shirt.
Wear Trump shirt-——you are in deep trouble.
Wear BLM or LGBTQ shirt-——praiseworthy and funded from school tax money by the school to promote a “we care” attitude.
Very true. You usually have to shoot your way out. Too many sheeple suffering from normalization bias. And worse, still think they get ‘news’ instead of propaganda and indoctrination from any of the media. They’ll go along to get along and not make waves right up to the ‘showers’.
“It is not clear what students meant to convey with the T-shirts”
....real head scratcher.....
face disciplinary action
Just like the kids protesting by wearing black t-shirts I presume.
The school team is the Crusaders? I’m surprised the muslim students have not forced the school to change the team name!
The left celebrates when “students “ carry their political messages and are horrified if they carry any opposition.
Had they worn Charles Manson, Che Guevara, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot.... t-shirts they would probably be ignored or applauded by the school administrators!
Disciplined for free speech? But if it was Mexican, **Haitian, Afghani**, or homosexual, they would be celebrated.
But Bernie or “I’m with Hillary” shirts would have been just fine I bet...
It has taken longer than I thought it would but the youth of this nation appear to finally doing what they always do: rebelling against authority and the status quo.
Teenagers will accept only a limited amount of authority before they push back, regardless of the issue.
Pleased to see there are still some rebellious teenagers in the USA.
Had the kids worn pro abortion shirts they’d be given a pass.
1st amendment me thinks.
Build the wall. kep ILLEGALS the hell out.
Union ‘teachers’ and administrators will work at ‘getting even’ with these students and their parents. Thugs are as thugs do...
Patriot free with Zyklon-B - a terrible future awaits.
I’ll bet BLM, Antifa or Gay rights tees would have been AOK.
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