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Black student says deputies removed him from graduation ceremony for wearing African kente
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 27, 2016 | Amy Graff

Posted on 05/27/2016 12:07:02 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A black Northern California senior says deputies removed him from his high school graduation ceremony on May 24 for wearing a kente cloth meant to express his African heritage.

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To: artichokegrower

Article didn’t specify if the High School has rules about graduation attire.

If so, too bad for the graduate.
If not, too bad for the school.


41 posted on 05/27/2016 1:32:07 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: artichokegrower

Schools have been really cracking down on stuff like this. Most notably barring uniformed military personnel from wearing their uniform for graduation.


42 posted on 05/27/2016 1:46:18 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: artichokegrower

They wouldn’t have thrown him out if only he called it a “Toby” ...


43 posted on 05/27/2016 1:49:19 PM PDT by x
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To: artichokegrower

Would a student wearing an American flag sewn on the back of their gown be allowed in the ceremony? I doubt it.


44 posted on 05/27/2016 1:55:29 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: old gringo

They’re making a new one with more bad Whiteys and more heroic blacks.


45 posted on 05/27/2016 1:56:23 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve been to lots of graduations and there is always one group with no decorum, no civility, no solemnity...it’s just another opportunity for huge collections of people to act up and scream “LOOK AT ME.”

But I won’t identify said group.


46 posted on 05/27/2016 2:00:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: artichokegrower

Maybe I should be allowed to wear a bear pelt and head to express my European Neolithic heritage.


47 posted on 05/27/2016 2:07:18 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

How might the school have treated a graduate wearing the traditional garb of a US Marine?


48 posted on 05/27/2016 2:11:23 PM PDT by DPMD (o)
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To: artichokegrower

There was a story a few weeks ago about a marine who wasn’t allowed to graduate in his dress blues.


49 posted on 05/27/2016 2:56:52 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: old gringo; Safetgiver
Here is one form of a kente cloth stole:

Here are others:


This would be like my people wearilng their tartan kilts and knee socks with a knife stuck in the top to graduation:


50 posted on 05/27/2016 3:15:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Kente cloth comes from a small region, Ashantiland in Ghana, as you have indicated. Yet African-Americans routinely cry about not knowing their heritage due to slavery. Ethnic groups in Africa number in the thousands. What are the chances he knows he is Ashanti? Oprah claimed she was Zulu (southern continent) until Henry Louis Gates pointed out that she was off by maybe three thousand miles (her ancestors were mainly Kpelle, western Africa in what’s now Liberia, and Bamileke, Cameroon, also on the Western coast, where most of the slave trading took place.


51 posted on 05/27/2016 3:24:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: artichokegrower

Sorry Bro, if a Marine can’t wear her dress uniform for her HS graduation, you are not wearing your Kente. Not even in San Fransicko.


52 posted on 05/27/2016 4:30:39 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Albion Wilde

And if you are a true Scot, your nether region will be breathing fresh air.


53 posted on 05/27/2016 4:48:35 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: hal ogen

I think you’re splitting hairs. Wrong is wrong.


54 posted on 05/28/2016 8:04:44 AM PDT by A Cyrenian (Don't worry about stuffing the bus or filling the fridge. Try filling the Church.)
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To: Albion Wilde

thanks george


55 posted on 05/28/2016 8:54:28 AM PDT by old gringo (a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys monkey.)
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