Oh the horror!
For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated Thanksgiving by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and sharing a feast. But on Tuesday, when the youngsters meet for their turkey and songs, they won’t be wearing their hand-made bonnets, headdresses and fringed vests.
Parents in this quiet university town are sharply divided over what these construction-paper symbols represent: A simple child’s depiction of the traditional (if not wholly accurate) tale of two factions setting aside their differences to give thanks over a shared meal? Or a cartoonish stereotype that would never be allowed of other racial, ethnic or religious groups?
“It’s demeaning,” Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, wrote to her daughter’s teacher. “I’m sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation’s history.”
Mr Mus-TARD.
Aren’t you really Mr FUCK-TARD?
#11
Well then other gems of inaccuracy we should allow grade school children to engage in like our ancestors:
Blacks are inferior
Women are the weaker sex
There are canals on Mars
The moon is made of cheese
Bumps on your head show who you are
Menthol cigarettes are good for coughs
Yep lets let them have fun with that and enjoy those great years of the past where gullibility and prejuidice were part of american dream!
Sit back down, go back to watching your TV and open another beer. That’s all you’re good for.
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The lesson these kindergartners are learning is that it is wrong to have fun dressing up in costumes. Probably that it is wrong to have fun of any kind.
These kids are kindergartners for Christ’s sake! Let them have fun while they’re still kids. They’re too young to learn political correctness now anyway.
#33
Accuracy to you must mean heating the brown spot. Could you wait till the little boys are at least out of trainers?
#22
I can see that you are a mental giant giving equal billing to people who crossed vast oceans and battled for wealth with people who believed that cutting out the fucking heart of a child with a lisp would cause the sun to shine!
Brilliant!
#35 – ‘dro
>>Stop telling us about your Obama fixation. Go
>>to your home’s Obama shrine and leave us sane
>>people alone.
“My” Obama fixation, ‘dro? Read the post I was replying to, pendejo.
Your posts make no friggin’ sense at all, ‘dro. As I have told you before, “Si no tienes nada que decir, no digas nada“. Capisce?
Let’s see if anyone can pick up on the “heating” the brown spot!
#36 – FedEx
Testy, testy, testy! I knew you were going to be annoyed at having the similarities pointed out to you.
Your potty-mouthed rantings do nothing to divert attention to the basic poverty of your argument.
Rant on.
This is just for YOU Mr Mustard:
RUSH!!!!!!
#38 – FedEx
Not fair! Most people don’t have the same sexual proclivities as you, and would not know the meaning of that phrase.
Oh by the way, counter my argument to #22 in my post #36…
You know Mr Mustard…. Why else do they call you Mr Mustard?
#7, Fukup
im sure the same lliberals complaining would have no objections to these two boys wearing nothing but leather chaps to school…
So, you want these little boys to only wear “leather chaps” to school. Geeze you are a sick bastard. You think you are funny but can’t even spell “liberal”.
Effen diddler, you belong behind bars with Bubba. After a couple of hours with him you’ll never want to see some kindergartner’s butt again. Leather chaps or no leather chaps.
#36 Fedup
I take it that if that child with a lisp had some oil or other worthwhile shit to steal, it would be OK to go smite em?
Its a different sort of barbarism, I’ll grant you that, but its still barbaric.
#42 – FedEx
>>Oh by the way, counter my argument to #22 in
>>my post #36…
I have no idea wtf you’re talking about, FedEx. If you have an argument to make, make it.
Nobody’s going to play hide-and-see with your rambling, incoherent posts, trying to connect the shin bone to the knee bone to the thigh bone, or #22 to #36 to #666.
All your wacky gibbering about brown spots and people “crossing vast oceans and battling for wealth”. Get a grip, boy. You’re sounding like a drunken chimpanzee.
Just what I suspected. Stupid ass liberals that can only focus on race, sexual orientation and Rush Limbaugh.
The facts suggest that at the time of this get together the local natives were by far the stronger party and ended up providing most of the food. The pilgrams were trying to make friends.
To compare the locals, at the time, to slaves is to show just how little you do know.
Typical holier than thou nit wit that doesn’t know jack about what they are talking about.
Some of you might want to look up some data being shared about Plymouth Plantation.
This story makes me want to punch someone.
#47 – FedEx
>>Just what I suspected. Stupid ass liberals
>>that can only focus on race, sexual
>>orientation and Rush Limbaugh.
Those fixations describe neocon tightasses to a T!!
And don’t forget about Ann “Two Dollar Whore” Coulter, with her broken, wired-shut jaw.
Tee hee!
You’re losing it, boy. Better have a glass of warm Ovaltine and go to bed. It’s a school night.
Yeah, but the comments are hilarious.
#40 – FedEx
Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto! Ditto!
What about drawing a turkey by outlining your hand? Is that going to be banned as well by PETA supporters as a depiction of animal cruelty? When will the madness end?!?!
BTW, I remember being one of the Indians at our school Thanksgiving festivities. It was way more fun than being one of the quiet, pious Pilgrims. Woo Woo Woo!
oh, and yet again – I am glad I am not a parent, because I could not sustain the hysteria of
(1) my kid not being allowed to dress up as a pilgrim; or
(2) other kids dressing up as pilgrims around my kid.
No doubt I would be distracted by losing my job or 2/3 my 401(k) disappearing or some other foolishness.
gotta love how absurd all this crap is.. (if of course, your allowed to observe absurdity still)
simple solution: ban any law/doctrine/precedent that allows any type of “feelings” or religious freedom to be a factor in judgment. tangible facts only please.
-that should reduce overblown melodramatic headlines lawsuits by 90%
we should neuter both the “feelings panzis” and the religious nuts, who both are tearing apart the quality and fabric of life across the entire planet.
-stepping back and looking at the big picture…
Earth has got be the laughing stock of the galaxy.
-no where else does a group of (supposedly) sentient beings willingly destroy themselves over intangible delusions of the mind..
both side should just GET OVER IT and grow the F up..
-s
panty bunching warning…..
Claremont CA is 73.48% white so it’s gotta be a white thing. But wait a minute, Obama got elected so it’s gotta be a black thing.
Or maybe, a bunch of moms with too much time on their hands are arguing over something stupid at their kid’s grade school. Gee that’s never happened before, right?
And maybe it was picked up by a reporter on retainer who scored a powder puff story and made it sound like a controversy. That would never happen, right?
“Good thing nobody wants to dress up as a witch.
They BURNED those fuckers.”
No they did not. Burning witches is a continental European thing. Anglo-Saxon societies used hanging. Get your historical stereotypes right.
In the First Thanksgiving photo-op shown at the top of the page, the new Pilgrim President-elect reaches out in reconciliation to embrace the Native American party candidate whose policies have been rejected in the recent election.
My revisions of history are as good as anyone’s 😉
#58 – Mr. O’Hara
>>No they did not.
Had you read a few messages down, you would have noted my admission of misspeaking:
“Yeah yeah. So they hanged them from the neck until dead. Different means to the same end.
Point is, they ended up deader than doornails.
# 19 Fedup said,
“I agree. Ruining a culture and civilization of a group of people who cut each others fucking hearts out and chopped off heads to appease the Gods if it didn’t rain for a fucking week is a terrible travesty. Oh how much better the world would be if we still had these glorious people still around practicing their “culture”.”
I’m not so sure! What we have now south of the US mainland is pretty much a poor, corrupt lunatic culture. Were I Spanish or a Christian I would not be proud of what was “done for” the natives there. That crazy culture would make for an interesting vacation spot, don’t you think? Couldn’t be worse than what we have now.
My boy (1st grader) came out to the carpool line today in a construction paper “pilgrim hat”. I thought it was pretty damn cute, and he was right proud of it. Didn’t bother me a bit, and by the standards of what passes as a conservative on this blog, I’m a pretty liberal guy.
QB (#57) hit the nail on the head:
“Or maybe, a bunch of moms with too much time on their hands are arguing over something stupid at their kid’s grade school. Gee that’s never happened before, right?”
BINGO!
Also, would someone kindly cut out Fedup’s heart so we could get a little sunshine in this here blog?