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 ...
i still like your tag-line.
free dixie,sw
but Aztlan shirts are ok
but Gansta Rap shirts are ok...
I think there is a big difference between those and a KKK shirt showing Klansmen dragging two black people behind a car!
It looks like he got what he wanted - a fight.
I don't think an Aztlan shirt would last long in my hometown. In fact, when the whold "chicano" Aztlan thing started in the '70s, my dad was employing a bunch of high school kids in his little side construction business. Some of the hispanic ones got into this Aztlan/Brown Beret stuff and refused to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance at school when it came over the loudspeaker. My dad heard about it and fired them.
Can you say "Code Red?"
It is all racist.
Spike lee is a racist.
Kayne west is a racist.
The KKK is a racist.
all evil.
I don't recall Spike Lee or Kanye West advocating lynching, or actually lynching people. The KKK has.
Why does anyone expect free speech on PRIVATE forum sites anymore?
Because they sell themselves as open forums.
That is what attracts posters and gives them traffic. They typically tolerate just enough dissent from the party line to keep a few rabble rousers alive. Just to keep something that looks like a discussion going. In fact no discussion of the facts will be tolerated on any forum.
The moderator will ZOT the rebel scum.
What makes a poster a rebel depends on the forum.
Conform or be cast out.
Be cool or be cast out.
Spike lets the NOI speak for him..
AND worse he DENEGRATED our sacred dixie battleflag, for which so many HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of southland's valiant HERO-MARTYRS bled & died.
he should have been told that at his mother's knee! OBVIOUSLY, his basic education is sorely lacking!
imVho, he deserves MORE than "a punch in the nose"!
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
Interesting. A columnist for the paper at the university I attend wrote an extremely bigoted article mocking Catholics. Am I justified now in beating the crap out of him, or is this just another case of it being dependent upon who is offended? Hey, they were fighting words.
free dixie,sw
Believe me, there are times when I agree that a good punch in the kisser can straighten things out. I am just pointing out that we are quicker to "not side" with the freedom of speech issue on "this issue" than if it were anything else. I believe the white kid did this to get a rise out the other students- to perhaps see how much he could get away with. I doubt that ANYONE in an American public school wouldn't expect to get at least what he did for wearing the racist shirt. I just think that we either want free speech or we don't. Also, we need to make sure we apply the same logic to other similar situations.
I remember when he had an NOI "Praetorian Guard" escorting him in public. Then again, it might have been publicity for the cinematic epicac, Somin X...
I agree. But, I heard someone make the comment about the burning of the stars and stripes. He that burns the flag, has the right to do so, freedom of speech and all, but I have the right to punch him in the face. Both kids should be punished, at least a few days off from school. Nothing more, since both were standing up for their rights.
You are right.The vast majority of rap lyrics rant on about killing OTHER BLACKS,or,in their terminology,"smoking n------"
Most gangsta rap pretty much IGNORES white people.
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