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NAACP addresses cheerleading (suspend local cheerleading because squads are all white)
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| 9-13-02
| MARK BRUMLEY
Posted on 09/14/2002 1:39:33 AM PDT by Michael2001
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To: gunnedah
As a cheerleading coach for 10 years, I disagree totally with your statement. How are you going to fill spots on your team if you HAVE to full a "quota" of people from different ethnic backgrounds? What if there aren't enough people of that background to fill those spots? What if they are and these people aren't the best ones for the team? Do you think that the NFL has some kind of a requirement? or the NBA? How is that fair to those people who have tried their hardest and are the best at the sport to not get a spot on the team because there is some white,Hispanic, black, native American, oriental, or someother person that tried out. Why should anyone HAVE to make it on a squad just because of the color of their skin?
You are a racist.
To: <1/1,000,000th%
Why would the school suspend a sport that helps student athletes because the NAACP doesn't like it? Get over it. Stop being so negative and enjoy life. People like you need something like a hobby. Maybe you should try cheerleading.
To: hellinahandcart
coughcough::insider::coughcough
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:15:20 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Rush may be "show prep for the media", but FR is show prep for RUSH!)
To: cheercoach101
I may be a racist according to your way of thinking but by mine you are stupid. I was being sarcastic and by no stretch of the imagination do I think a reasonable person could not have seen that. I do not believe in being PC!
To: Michael2001
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. It would be hilarious if a judge agreed with him and shutdown basketball and football programs as well until only 14.6 percent of those teams were African American as well. The NAACP would be fuming.
To: Michael2001
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:25:26 PM PDT
by
Hotdog
To: Michael2001
"Total African American student enrollment in the system is 14.6 percent."
This might explain why there are no black cheerleaders....
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:25:34 PM PDT
by
FeliciaCat
(Life is to short for ugly shoes.)
To: Hotdog
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:27:01 PM PDT
by
Hotdog
To: Michael2001
Thia ia awful... a grave injustice.
I hope this is resolved...and soon.
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:29:32 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(This is it. We either win and prevail or we lose and get tossed into that dustbin W mentioned!)
To: cheercoach101
Wow... hook, line, and sinker! LOL.
Welcome to FR.
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:32:45 PM PDT
by
Jonx6
To: Constitution Day
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06/04/2004 12:33:12 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: cheercoach101
LOL!
Welcome to FR!
I'll have to get a calendar out and see which comment you're responding to.
To: af_vet_1981
It would be hilarious if a judge agreed with him and shutdown basketball and football programs as well until only 14.6 percent of those teams were African American as well. The NAACP would be fuming.Once again I agree with you.
Mark it down.
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:34:32 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
I am in a much better mood today. Yesterday I was very cranky. ;)
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:35:34 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Rush may be "show prep for the media", but FR is show prep for RUSH!)
To: Constitution Day; Rebelbase
You have a bad cough though.
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
Maybe these will clear that up:
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:40:53 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Rush may be "show prep for the media", but FR is show prep for RUSH!)
To: Michael2001
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posted on
06/04/2004 12:42:10 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(This post meets the minimum daily requirements for cynicism and irony.)
To: cheercoach101
LOL! Like the guy ahead of me said, you took it hook line and sinker!
To: Ciexyz
Expand the cheerleading squad immediately by adding qualified Black and Hispanic students. But that's the point others on this thread have been trying to make. Many minority girls don't qualify for various reasons. "Qualifying" doesn't just mean looking nice in a cheerleading outfit. Today, cheerleaders do more than just stand on the sidelines and wave their pom-poms around. A cheerleader usually needs to have gymnastic, tumbling, and drill skills that often take years of practice and training to acquire.
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06/04/2004 1:03:26 PM PDT
by
usadave
To: Constitution Day; Howlin
There's a slight problem, in that I agree with this one. LOL
But damn, this thread is almost two years old.
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