AZ School's 'Redneck Day' sparks anger

[BDKJMU]

"School's 'Redneck Day' sparks anger
The event meant to build school spirit at Queen Creek High School instead has angered civil rights leaders in Arizona.

PHOENIX -- When members of the student council at an Arizona high school organized a schoolwide "Redneck Day" and encouraged classmates to dress — and spoof — accordingly, they hoped to build school spirit leading up to prom week.

Instead, "Redneck Day" at Queen Creek High School has angered African-Americans and civil-rights leaders and touched off a debate about free speech, social stereotypes and good taste.............................."
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[BDKJMU]

People are too damn hyper PC sensitive....

[AZGrizFan]

Most offensive to Kirby and others was that one student chose to wear a Confederate flag — for many a grim reminder of slavery and segregation.

"The Confederacy represents the horrible institution of slavery, and that is a direct attack on African-Americans," said Steve Montoya, a prominent civil-rights attorney in Phoenix.

The Rev. Oscar Tillman, president of the Maricopa County NAACP, who grew up in the 1940s in the South, said: "Our community knows what that flag represents. ... A school is supposed to be for education and showing people where we come from, our history, and to try not to go back to some things."

Lindsey said the student wearing the Confederate flag was pulled aside by an assistant principal and asked to change his clothes.

"It was no ill intent," Lindsey said.

The student, who is from a state where the flag is more prevalent, did not see a negative connotation, the superintendent said.

"It was explained to him that in Arizona, we look at it differently," Lindsey said, adding that Redneck Day was mostly uneventful.

Sweet JESUS. THIS is why racism and bigotry still exists. Bigotry is enabled by reacting to this childish shit like these morons did.

[∞∞∞]

Am I missing something here? The complaint isn't that the students were stereotyping rednecks as racists, but that racism was brought into the school because they dressed as rednecks.

So they have a day based on false stereotypes which are incredibly offensive, then complain about racism that they've essentially created because of their own stereotypes? Please correct me if I'm completely off here.

[AZGrizFan]

Am I missing something here? The complaint isn't that the students were stereotyping rednecks as racists, but that racism was brought into the school because they dressed as rednecks.

So they have a day based on false stereotypes which are incredibly offensive, then complain about racism that they've essentially created because of their own stereotypes? Please correct me if I'm completely off here.

Those complaining were OUTSIDE the school.

[CAA Flagship]

Am I missing something here? The complaint isn't that the students were stereotyping rednecks as racists, but that racism was brought into the school because they dressed as rednecks.

So they have a day based on false stereotypes which are incredibly offensive, then complain about racism that they've essentially created because of their own stereotypes? Please correct me if I'm completely off here.

No. No. No.
You are complete off base here.
They are upset because nobody looked like this:

[AZGrizFan]

I'm still waiting to see something like this in Texas.

[psychoCAT]

Once whites are a minority in this nation, you can kiss America goodbye. When no law and order are prevalent and there is no reason to succeed, well, don't say we didn't warn your ass. Glad I'll be dead and gone.

[psychoCAT]

Am I missing something here? The complaint isn't that the students were stereotyping rednecks as racists, but that racism was brought into the school because they dressed as rednecks.

So they have a day based on false stereotypes which are incredibly offensive, then complain about racism that they've essentially created because of their own stereotypes? Please correct me if I'm completely off here.

No because blacks CAN'T be racist. I swear that we could give blacks and hispanics every fucking thing that we as whites have ever earned and the motherfuckers still would find something to fucking complain about. Goddamn, I can't wait to move to northern Idaho someday.

[CAA Flagship]

Once whites are a minority in this nation, you can kiss America goodbye. When no law and order are prevalent and there is no reason to succeed, well, don't say we didn't warn your ass. Glad I'll be dead and gone.

Aaaaaaaaand, he's back!!!!!

[CID1990]

As a person of Scots Irish blood I am deeply offended at the wanton use of the term redneck in a derogatory sense.


Sent from the center of the universe.

[SuperHornet]

Once whites are a minority in this nation, you can kiss America goodbye. When no law and order are prevalent and there is no reason to succeed, well, don't say we didn't warn your ass. Glad I'll be dead and gone.

Where have YOU been? That's been a done deal here in Cali for a LONG time. And that hasn't turned out so bad (except for LA/SF politics, which turn more on ideology than ethnicity, anyway).

[ASUG8]

Where does the NAA-Redneck stand on this? I should think they would be the most outraged.

[kalm]

Where does the NAA-Redneck stand on this? I should think they would be the most outraged.

They're organizing a million redneck march on the capital as we speak!

[ASUG8]

Where does the NAA-Redneck stand on this? I should think they would be the most outraged.

They're organizing a million redneck march on the capital as we speak!

500,000 F150's doing donuts on the National Mall

[kalm]

Am I missing something here? The complaint isn't that the students were stereotyping rednecks as racists, but that racism was brought into the school because they dressed as rednecks.

So they have a day based on false stereotypes which are incredibly offensive, then complain about racism that they've essentially created because of their own stereotypes? Please correct me if I'm completely off here.

No because blacks CAN'T be racist. I swear that we could give blacks and hispanics every fucking thing that we as whites have ever earned and the motherfuckers still would find something to fucking complain about. Goddamn, I can't wait to move to northern Idaho someday.

Ahhh, North Idaho, where the under-privileged white trash blame their woes on the coloreds while collecting PA. You'd fit right in.

[Ibanez]

As a person of Scots Irish blood I am deeply offended at the wanton use of the term redneck in a derogatory sense.


Sent from the center of the universe.

As a Southerner i'm offended at being labeled a redneck and racists solely due to my geographic location.

[Vidav]

As a person of Scots Irish blood I am deeply offended at the wanton use of the term redneck in a derogatory sense.


Sent from the center of the universe.

As a Southerner i'm offended at being labeled a redneck and racists solely due to my geographic location.

It's not just due to your location.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

That school should have filed a lawsuit against the NAACP for being bigots and homophobes.

Leave it to the NAACP to get a pass while taking a shot at "Queen" Creek High School. I know what they were really doing and it is sickening.

[CID1990]

As a person of Scots Irish blood I am deeply offended at the wanton use of the term redneck in a derogatory sense.


Sent from the center of the universe.

As a Southerner i'm offended at being labeled a redneck and racists solely due to my geographic location.

Well you DID spend a few years in Myrtle Beach.


Sent from the center of the universe.

[Ibanez]

As a Southerner i'm offended at being labeled a redneck and racists solely due to my geographic location.

Well you DID spend a few years in Myrtle Beach.


Sent from the center of the universe.

Actually Conway.

[CID1990]

Well you DID spend a few years in Myrtle Beach.


Sent from the center of the universe.

Actually Conway.

That's not better.


Sent from the center of the universe.

[UNI88]

As a person of Scots Irish blood I am deeply offended at the wanton use of the term redneck in a derogatory sense.


Sent from the center of the universe.

It's your turn to be oppressed so shut up and take it like a man.

[Ibanez]

Actually Conway.

That's not better.


Sent from the center of the universe.

Yes, it is. It's more wholesome

[JohnStOnge]

I'm still waiting to see something like this in Texas.

If you're in Texas and you're not seeing a pretty good load of extremely attractive women you must be in an unusual location. I say that as someone who has lived "next door" in Louisiana most of my life and went to a school near the Texas border so that a pretty good number of Texas females went there.