Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
wait, wait, wait. The place is called "lumpkin"? seriously? Given how stereotypically bumpkin-ish this article makes the place seem, it's really a less than ideal name...
GIT AWF MAH PROP-UR-TAY!
Students in Georgia dess up as the 'Klan'
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GIT AWF MAH PROP-UR-TAY!
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
This is sort of a tough call IMO. On the one hand it seems pretty ridiculous to castigate a teacher for something trivial like this. OTOH it's sort of a disservice to make a big deal out of every time a minority cries "wolf". I mean there are real cases of racism and prejudice out there yet the message seems to be that minorities complain too much over the most ridiculous things.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
It is really no scarier than a couple of frats at Ga Tech back when I went there. They would dress up in their Confederate uniforms and strut around nearly every weekend, replete with swords and girfriends who all dressed like Scarlett O"Hara.
Apparently, one frat has finally banished the practice:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/2010/04/lee_inspired_fraternity_drops.html
I guess they finally realized it wasn't exactly racially sensitive to do so
Apparently, one frat has finally banished the practice:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/house-divided/2010/04/lee_inspired_fraternity_drops.html
I guess they finally realized it wasn't exactly racially sensitive to do so
Mad Man
Your lord and master
Georgians dress up like the clan all the time, how is this news?
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Kind of sounds like over-reaction, in that it's just an interesting participative project idea in that they were filming miscellaneous re-enactments. E.g. what's the difference if they film some students as Nazis and some as GI Joe? Some as KKK and some as black voters, etc.. etc...
If the participation aids the learning, and no one is hurt, why the PC garbage?
The only thing I can see as potentially wrong is that since it was a predominantly white school, it looked like a Klan recruitment. Worth investigating to ensure that the public school and the teacher wasn't abusing kids in that fashion, but other than that, if they gave fair time to many parts of history (WW2, declaration of independence, etc..) then I see no reason to ignore Jim Crow, lynchings, etc.. since that was part of Georgia history.
If the participation aids the learning, and no one is hurt, why the PC garbage?
The only thing I can see as potentially wrong is that since it was a predominantly white school, it looked like a Klan recruitment. Worth investigating to ensure that the public school and the teacher wasn't abusing kids in that fashion, but other than that, if they gave fair time to many parts of history (WW2, declaration of independence, etc..) then I see no reason to ignore Jim Crow, lynchings, etc.. since that was part of Georgia history.
