http://news.yahoo.com/principal-calls-st...24955.html

Quote:A star high school athlete in rural Marshalltown, Iowa has been suspended for three football games this fall because he posted a social media image of himself enthusiastically festooned from head to toe in white clothing during school spirit week. In the photo, he made the letter “W” with his hands — which in this case stands for white.

“The actual school chose the colors that each grade would be wearing,” Cathy Van Staalduine explained. “Juniors wore white. So Blair, of course, being active in the school, dressed from head to toe in white.”

She noted emphatically that the “W” sign was for the color her son was assigned.

“Blair says if they were wearing orange, they would have done an ‘O,’” she said.

The mad mother said she talked to the principal, and he managed to call her a racist to her face.

A cursory Google search for “white pride hand sign” and the like shows many fists, some Hitler salutes, some Los Angeles gang signs and a lot of sad losers — but nothing that much resembles a “W.”

I bet fitbud is giddy.

Most of the time these dumb decisions are because idiot bureaucrats tie everybody's hands and force them to make ridiculous positions.

This guy is just a race-baiting idiot and this needs to cost him his job.

Interesting fact: not everything is racist...

(07-17-2014 11:15 AM)Smaug Wrote:  This guy is just a race-baiting idiot and this needs to cost him his job.

Exactly.

I just read the story 5 times and it still doesn't make any sense. Was he suspended for wearing white, for making a "W" sign, or for something else? And if it was for wearing white or making the "W" sign, why would he have been suspended? What exactly is the accusation? My head is spinning with confusion.

I'm offended because I didn't get to dress like that for spirit week when I was in school.

Principal just wants some excitement. How pathetic.

Maybe this W stands for weird. (?)

(07-17-2014 11:06 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  http://news.yahoo.com/principal-calls-st...24955.html

Quote:A star high school athlete in rural Marshalltown, Iowa has been suspended for three football games this fall because he posted a social media image of himself enthusiastically festooned from head to toe in white clothing during school spirit week. In the photo, he made the letter “W” with his hands — which in this case stands for white.

“The actual school chose the colors that each grade would be wearing,” Cathy Van Staalduine explained. “Juniors wore white. So Blair, of course, being active in the school, dressed from head to toe in white.”

She noted emphatically that the “W” sign was for the color her son was assigned.

“Blair says if they were wearing orange, they would have done an ‘O,’” she said.

The mad mother said she talked to the principal, and he managed to call her a racist to her face.

A cursory Google search for “white pride hand sign” and the like shows many fists, some Hitler salutes, some Los Angeles gang signs and a lot of sad losers — but nothing that much resembles a “W.”

I bet fitbud is giddy.

I'm flattered that you always think of me.

I hope he gets fined, permanently suspended from all games, and loses his job.

(07-17-2014 11:39 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  I just read the story 5 times and it still doesn't make any sense. Was he suspended for wearing white, for making a "W" sign, or for something else? And if it was for wearing white or making the "W" sign, why would he have been suspended? What exactly is the accusation? My head is spinning with confusion.

This is what I don't get. I went to school with racists of all kinds...even a guy who was black/gay/gothic(?)/cowboy(not just redneck, but actually rode horses and lasso'd cows)(?) and racist against other black people.

None of them were suspended. I'm sure most people think racists are morons, but is it a suspendable offence?

Maybe he was just re-emphasizing that the Wu-Tang Clan "ain't nothing ta f*ck wit"?