Posted on 09/15/2005 10:46:04 AM PDT by conserv13
"What's up with your shirt?"
Those are the words a former senior at Fleming Island High School remembers hearing as he walked from his fifth-period algebra class toward the gym. The 18-year-old, who is not being identified due to his family's concerns of safety, had just taken off his Dixie Outfitter T-shirt, exposing a highly offensive shirt.
"What about it?" replied the 18-year-old, skinny and white.
"Well, you know it's racial," said a black student, now in a group confronting the 18-year-old.
"Yeah. So?"
The undershirt the white student wore had a confederate flag on the front with the words "Keep it flying." On the back, a cartoon depicted a group of hooded Klansmen standing outside a church, waving to two others who had just pulled away in a car reading "Just married."
Two black men in nooses were being dragged behind.
Upset by the shirt, a 17-year-old black student hit the white student in the head. A crowd of about 100 students gathered to watch the Aug. 29 fight before authorities intervened.
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...
".. just the first of many, many altercations for the white kid. All of which he'll be asking for."
Now, that is prejudice! How can you say this kid will be at fault for everything that will happen to him? He might learn a valuable lesson from this experience and turn out to be a great senator, just like Sen. Byrd. Wait- he was just a senator. Not great.
Expecting "class" from the average inhabitant of Jacksonville is kinda like expecting a clean bill of health from a $20 junkie prostitute.
There is. Use < > and < / >, where instead of spaces, you insert b for bold; i for italics; s for strikethru; u for underline, then bracket what you want inflected with the first set of symbols in front of and the last set of symbols in back of.
Example (without any spaces between arrows): Well, we < b>don't< /b> rent pigs.
will appear as Well, we don't rent pigs.
In these days, you can never be too careful. Good luck in that endeavor.
Talk about offensive- your tagline is uuuugggghhhh!
-keep it up.
He should have worn a T-shirt that said something like "The pope sucks." Anyone who hit him would have been thrown out of school. Freedom of speech, you know.
Yes there is. He should have the living sh*t kicked out of him. But OFF campus. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from getting your ass kicked. So you are correct that the black student is the idiot. Right action, wrong place and time.
Citizens have an obligation to rip the shirt from his body and pummel him unconscious. He would be lucky. In the old days he could have been tarred and feathered, which was no picnic.
Dixie Outfitters should contact its publicity folks right now, because the story is getting confused.
Also, I'm sure the message was a left-wing one (meant to disparage white church-going folks as racists) and the black kid misunderstood it. Or maybe he did understand it and was PO'd? We need a little more info on the kid who wore the shirt.
I see your point now. Thanks.
My high school principal was a bantam weight boxer and our wrestling coach. We respected him.
ok. You may be right about the makers of the movie- but just as it doesn't matter who made this guy's t-shirt, it is still offensive. Why does the manufacturer matter? Should the offended people in this story have the right to go after the people who made the shirt...with impunity?
you are right about that. I would like to see someone wear a shirt with "parking lot 3:30" on it.
He may be a good American. We don't know that for sure.
*snicker*
"I finally got a job today"
I hope you are not doing this at work.....
;-)
The black kid made a legal mistake, not a moral one.
The Klan dragging the blacks behind the car was an obvious, real, covert threat.
In the face of a real threat, self-defense is moral.
I'm actually at an internet cafe enjoying the last day of loafing and unemployment. I don't think Whole Foods will like me ringing customers with one hand and freeping on the pda in the other :o)
You're a New Yorker....right?
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