"N-word" now forbidden
We read:
"Second-grader Jaiden Haber was sent to the principal's office -- not for bad behavior, but for her T-shirt's slogan. Last week, the principal told Jaiden, 8, to change her shirt, which read, "N the 'N' Word" and "It's time!"
Jaiden's mother, Karen, 45, said teachers at Northwest Elementary in Amityville should have "seized the moment" to discuss the shirt because it aimed to encourage tolerance.
But district superintendent John Williams said the word's inflammatory effect outweighed the shirt's potential educational value. He said Amityville schools strive to regularly instill cultural lessons. "To send a little white girl wearing this shirt into a very diverse district that is almost 90 percent nonwhite was not the way to address this word," he said yesterday. "It's a lightning rod."
A gym teacher noticed Jaiden's shirt and sent her to the principal, who asked her to change into a school shirt because hers was a "distraction," Williams said.
That violated Jaiden's First Amendment rights, said Tara Keenan-Thomson, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union's Nassau chapter. "All students have the right to wear what they want, and this does not stop at the school gates, regardless of content or how old she is," she said.
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The "N" apparently meant "end" so it was intended as an "anti-racist" slogan. I have long foreseen that usages such as "n*gger" will become banned but I am little surprised to see that it has gone past that and extended to "N-word". The Left have really done a great job of muzzling America.
On the other hand, the Principal may have been right in seeing the shirt as dangerous for the girl. There was a case recently where a guy lost his job because his fellow black employees were upset about his wearing a "clan" badge (he was of Scottish descent). Apparently to the blacks concerned there was only one clan: The KKK. So some blacks kids might have thought the girl was dissing them -- and attacked her for it.
So is the Principal assuming that blacks will behave in dumb ways?
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And the Principal would be correct.
So it's not just a word that's offensive to leftist's, now it's a meer letter? And only a mindless liberal would consider a school that's 90% non-White to be diverse!
Political correctness, and the non-thinking fools who subcribe to it, are destroying this country and the freedoms we cherish! I'm happy to see the NYCLU finally getting on the right side of an issue for a change.
I'm happy to see the NYCLU finally getting on the right side of an issue for a change.
Except they are not only on the wrong side of this issue, they are on the side which is not supported by any legal precedent.
The fact of the matter is that the little girl had no idea what the shirt meant. Quoting the article:
Jaiden said she didn't understand the statement she was making with her shirt. "My mom picked it out," she said. "She thought it would look nice on me. I don't know why they made me take it off."
Karen Haber said she should have explained the shirt to her daughter, but wanted to "keep her innocent.
How hypocritical of the mother to say that the school should have "seized the moment" to teach about tolerance when she herself hadn't taught her own child the message and meaning of the t-shirt before slapping it on her back and sending her out into the world.
If you are going to use your child as a billboard or use her to make a point, at least have the integrity to tell the child the meaning of what she is wearing. Don't leave it up to the schools to teach it, or have it taught on the streets.
The parent is wrong in this situation and the school was within their rights to respond as they did.
If the principal did his job (and his staff did theirs) there'd be no danger to the girls as all the niggas (heck, if they can use the word for themselves, so should we be able to use it for them...) would know the truth about it and not be "upset".
They'd also know that any attempt at harming a little girl (or anyone for that matter) would be dealt with promptly and sternly rather than letting it go unpunished to prevent being seen as "racist".
We will never see an end to the examples of why desegregation does not, and will never work. Those on the left still don't understand that you can not force people to get along, especially when so many refuse.
Generally speaking, blacks don't want to be with Whites, they only want what Whites have, and believe (since that's what leftists have taught them) that Whites are responsible for seeing that they get it.
gitarcarver, you need to get over yourself and get your head out of your ars, if you can!
@3:21
Thanks for the laugh.
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