Update 2:
Hey, it’s “Let’s be a racist black man” Day!!!
An Ann Arbor elementary school principal used a letter home to parents tonight to defend a field trip for black students as part of his school’s efforts to close the achievement gap between white and black students.
Dicken Elementary School Principal Mike Madison wrote the letter to parents following several days of controversy at the school after a field trip last week in which black students got to hear a rocket scientist.
“In hindsight, this field trip could have been approached and arranged in a better way,” Madison wrote. “But as I reflect upon the look of excitement, enthusiasm and energy that I saw in these children’s eyes as they stood in the presence of a renowned African American rocket scientist in a very successful position, it gave the kids an opportunity to see this type of achievement is possible for even them.
“It was not a wasted venture for I know one day they might want to aspire to be the first astronaut or scientist standing on the Planet Mars.”
What, encouraging MY kids and inspiring them is somehow less important because they are white? It is MORE important to inspire black kids because they are black?
That’s racism. Goes both ways dude, and that is a wonderful life lesson you’ve just given all of them.
The idea that the black kids would have their experience lessened by the presence of white kids is racism.
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Update:
Ok, we need to take our nation BACK. The full article is linked there – I suggest you go read it on the NBC site.
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees?
GEORGE KIRIYAMA Thu, May 6, 2010
On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.
Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal’s office.
“They said we could wear it on any other day,” Daniel Galli said, “but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it’s supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today.”
The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts “incendiary” that would lead to fights on campus.
How is it that THEIR holiday supercedes our rights here in America? Time to send them all packing.
Then one student says this:
Freshman Laura Ponce, who had a Mexican flag painted on her face and chest, told the Morgan Hill Times that Cinco de Mayo is the “only day” Mexican-American students can show their national pride.
Laura, your national pride, you little twit, should be aimed at your country. You’re either American or Mexican – pick one but I think I speak for a lot of American when I say you can’t be both.
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A good friend, Enas Yorl… I worry about him.
He’s a WoW Zombie.
No, I don’t actually worry about him. He’s a big boy. It’s fun to pretend that I’m worried for his well-being – but he pops up every now and then. He’s good.
Lemur King's Folly 
Somehow I never managed to forget how to eat while playing WoW. If ya set it up right, you can do 90% of things with only one hand on a mouse. The other is free for Cheetos. 🙂
The whole American flag on Cinco de Mayo pisses me off. As does the other racist you posted on. So when do we get a day just for white people? Oh, is that racist? /snort
Cheezy-poofs! Nothing beats cheezy-poofs when on the computer. All the orange-colored keys make the keyboard more colorful until it all wears off and sticks in the keys. Then it’s time to get a new keyboard.
Don’t you know, Nicole? Every day is White People day!
You know, sometimes I do wonder if half the problem isn’t a lot of folks unwilling to let go of their terminal victimhood.
When teachers think that providing advancement is not something ALL kids need desperately, they’re failing miserably at their job. If they can’t see that every kid needs encouragement to reach their full potential, then they are letting their racial prejudices harm the very kids they are supposed to be there to help.
Y’all, I have been on a holy pisser about this all day. First the stupid cinco de quatro, then this shit in Ann Arbor. Even more of a pisser, the school in Ann Arbor is in violation OF THEIR OWN POLICIES AS REGARDS DISCRIMINATION!!! WTF is wrong with these people???
Oh, that’s right…they are entitled because they are minorities…
I’ve had it…the next FB friend that asks me what I did for cinco de pendejos will get a hearty “FUCK OFF, I’M AMERICAN!!!”
Easy there… whoa… getting all lathered up.
Let’s be fair, Ann Arbor is:
1) about as screwed up as it is possible to be
2) six sigma in terms of left-leaning idiocy
3) a bunch of very mean-spirited people for all they say that they love people and practice tolerance – I spent a year at the UofM on a project and you never met a more hateful bunch if you didn’t approve of every liberal idea they had
So, an Orwellian utopia, seven orders of magnitude, then?
Y’all need to move to Texas…. 😉
Ann Arbor is Michigan’s answer to Oregon’s Eugene. Exact same town only AA doesn’t have the Butte to Butte run, field burning, and evergreens. Or the Oregon Ducks.
Quack Attacks: Often imitated, never duplicated.
Hey, I’m ok Lemur King! The latest blog outage is due to being busy at work, and needing to get stuff done for my drawing class – the last one is tomorrow. Also, a bunch of blogs were banned at work today, but now they’re back. That was odd.
Lordy but there’s been a bunch of off-pissing things in the news lately. Whup! Gotta go – I’ll type at y’all later.
Hey! Don’t go diss’ing my ring-bro Enas!
He has Art-Fu, so watch out. If he’s spending all his time playing WoW, then he’s no-doubt saving all of us from unspeakable dead and hurtage – and not a little inconvenience! – each and every minute he’s not doing something else.
That Am-flag shit is shit.
I hate in their general direction.
Enas – there’s a lot of that going around. A more paranoid McGoo would wonder if “they” aren’t testing the “Information Superhighway Spigot Shutoff” so that when the socialist revolution comes, they can quickly control all that you see and hear.
So Masters have the ringses (my precious)… Lemurgol wantses only to serve Masters well…