Posted on 11/20/2001 7:01:17 AM PST by SocialMeltdown
HAMILTON, Ga. – Parents angry that their children were suspended for wearing shirts with the Confederate flag persuaded school officials to place a similar ban on a clothing brand popular among black students.
A group of eighth-grade girls, who were told not to wear shirts with the Confederate symbol because they might offend other students, defied the order Friday and brought additional shirts for other students.
"It was enough to cause a disruption," Susan Andrews, superintendent for Harris County schools in west Georgia, said Monday. "They were suspended for defying authority."
But some parents complained that if white students were not allowed to wear the flag-emblazoned shirts, then black students should not be allowed to wear the hip-hop FUBU brand.
FUBU, which stands for "For Us, By Us," is a New York-based clothing company founded in 1992 by four black men. The brand features vibrant colors and oversize styles.
Ms. Andrews decided Friday that neither FUBU clothing nor shirts with the Confederate flag would be allowed this week at Carver Middle School. She said she would let students wear the FUBU brand after this week if it didn't cause a disturbance.
Ms. Andrews said she did not consider the FUBU brand comparable to the Confederate flag but decided to ban both to help ease tensions.
You go girls..
BTW: This New York "Yankee" (who is, ironically, a Mets fan) remembers well how us metalheads couldn't wear some of our shirts because of vulgarity, while the black kids were allowed to wear Malcolm X and black pride t-shirts.
The funny thing is, I see a lot of white kids, especially back in New York, wearing FUBU.
I have said it before and I will say it until I turn blue in the face. Public (i.e, GOVERNMENT) schools have NO RIGHT and NO "AUTHORITY" to set dress codes of any kind.
Parental rights bump!!!!!!
I thought you "neo-Confederates" claim this isn't a "white-black" thing, and that all the slaves in the South left the plantations to join the Confederate Army, fighting alongside their white Southern brethren blahblahblahblah...
So which is it?
He was right.
This is not Gen X - these kids have become irreparable trash.
prambo
Think about it. If you're forced to live in a community in which your 'white' skin color makes you stand-out like the moon at midnight, maybe you might choose to try to fit-in as best you can.
Wearing 'black' cloths may deflect racial criticism and create a kind of racial solidarity where, if you can't be black, at least you won't get your head knocked in.
No you will just get your head knocked in to so that your fabulous FUBU/Nike/Tommy Hilfiger wear can be taken. What I find amazing is the amount of FUBU stuff marketed in demographically white suburban department stores to be sold to white kids to wear to class in their overwhelming white schools. It is the most insane form of rebellion. Paying $69.00 for one pair of jeans (that are sagged down past the hip level); to be worn with the $45.00 oversized shirt to go to class to look the hiphop part (after you get dropped off by mom in the family minivan).
If you think that is nuts, DON'T get me started on Tommy Hilfiger babywear.
It's wearing a visor upside down, as if trying to catch rain water.
I wonder if you can trace it back to fast food resturants.
I can imagine an urban teen being given a visor and taking the stance that, ' if i have ta wear it, i might as well wear it my way '.
I once worked at a hotel that had a dance club that attracted a largely black clientele. Most of the men dressed to the nines and DID NOT come in the hip hop clothing that I see white kids wearing when they go out.
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