No doubt. I wonder if the reverse situation is also a problem. Are there any white cheerleaders on squads from predominately black schools? 
Posted on 09/14/2002 1:39:33 AM PDT by Michael2001
ASHEBORO -- The Board of Education took no action Thursday on a request by the local NAACP to suspend all cheerleading after the chapter president complained that all of the students on the middle and high schools squads are white.
Wesley Fennell, the president of the Asheboro/Randolph County branch of the NAACP, asked the board to suspend cheerleading activities until a better way of selecting team members could be developed and implemented.
"The current selection process has resulted in the total elimination of African American cheerleaders from the Asheboro City Schools system," Fennell said.
The city schools have cheerleaders for sports teams at Asheboro High, and South Asheboro and North Asheboro middle schools, Fennell said. Total African American student enrollment in the system is 14.6 percent. Another 21.9 percent are Hispanic.
The board did not discuss Fennell's concerns and gave no indication of how it might handle them. Superintendent Diane Frost instead provided a copy of a letter she sent to Fennell on Aug. 30.
"Our goal is to provide a wide array of extracurricular activities for our students," Frost's letter stated. "We hope students will choose to participate in at least one school activity every year, because there is a strong correlation between participation and high student achievement.
"We encourage any student who is interested in cheerleading, or any other activity, to pursue it. We strive to have an inclusive process, and certainly encourage participation from all groups of students."
Fennell said he has also learned that no African Americans participated in selecting cheerleaders. He said that the college cheerleaders brought in to help judge high school tryouts come from predominantly white universities. He said the system should also bring in cheerleaders from historically black colleges.
"This could have served as an opportunity to expose this school system to potential future minority teachers, and to expose Asheboro school students to positive role models of all races," Fennell said.
Fennell complained that the $18 fee charged for Asheboro High School's Blue Comet Cheerleading Clinic to be held later this month could exclude low-income students from participating in cheerleading. The principal told him that no student would be excluded because of an inability to pay the fee, but Fennell said he was concerned that students who couldn't afford it would be too embarrassed to admit it.
"This certainly seems to contradict the concept of an inclusive process," he said.
GPA...what GPA...won't make a difference with these d*ckheads
The truth is that standards of beauty are just standards of non-unusualness.
Nose: big enough, not too big, check.Wow! I'm in love!Eyes: spaced wide-enough apart, not too wide, check
Weight: not a splinter, not fat, check.
The Miss America Pagent gives me the creeps.
Question: do you know why the San Franciso 49ers cheerleaders never wear mini skirts ?
Answer: they would all freeze their balls off.
No doubt. I wonder if the reverse situation is also a problem. Are there any white cheerleaders on squads from predominately black schools?
36.5 % of the student body is a minority. The make up of the schools seem very average as compared to national percentages.
The real question is how many minorities tried out and were "denied" an opportunty.
Wesley Fennell of the NAACP may have a valid point, but is addressing it the wrong way.
Only the best girls should be picked regardless of color or nationality.
The NAACP should be asking the local community to invest in their girls by doing their own clinics for cheerleading.
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Looks like mini-skirts to me...
Sounds to me more like Fennell is looking for his fifteen minutes of fame...
And they sure look like nice legs under them to me... :=)
My thoughts exactly. You know they're hard up (the NAACP, that is) when they have to publicly rant and rave about............of all things..............the makeup of cheerleading squads in public schools.
ROFLMAO....................these twerps are just pathetic.
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