Georgia high school marching band spells out racial slur, parents demand expulsion

[workinclasszero]

By Joshua Rhett Miller

November 5, 2018

Marching band members at a Georgia high school are facing disciplinary action after spelling out the word “c–n” instead of their team’s name during a halftime show at a Friday football game, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Musicians from Brookwood High School in Gwinnett County inexplicably arranged themselves during its game against Lakeside High School to spell out the racist term using instrument covers that are typically assembled to display the word Broncos in reference to the school’s mascot, according to a letter to students and parents from the school’s principal.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2018/11/05/georgia-high-school-marching-band-spells-out-racial-slur-parents-demand-expulsion/amp/

[John Fante]

1. The Trump Youth.

[workinclasszero]

5. Yeah.

What happened to that post-racial America after President Obama was elected?

[RockRaven]

2. "it was an accident"

will be their pre-arranged excuse, and any deplorables in their school admin and community will buy it.

[Freedomofspeech]

3. My God...

Thank you, you vile imbecile tRump.

[workinclasszero]

7. Trump kicked over every rock and commanded

the race haters to come forth into the light.

Trump is the pied piper of flith.

[bullwinkle428]

15. "America is a nasty old mattress, and Trump is the black light, illuminating

all of the stains"...John Fugelsang

[MissB]

4. Can I buy a vowel?

I’ve apparently eaten too much lead this weekend; I can’t figure this one out.

Clearly the band members should be expelled.

[robbob]

8. I'm with you

C..n? No idea! The article says it’s an old slur similar to the “n” word, if that helps...

[Luciferous]

9. I'm thinking 2 o's?

[MissB]

10. Oh!!!!

Okay I guess that makes (horrific) sense. Ugh.

I was trying a u, but that wasn’t working.

Thanks.

[Luciferous]

11. It took me a minute because I was thinking u as well.

[brush]

12. Bingo. The OP makes it seem like a 3-letter word instead of 4.

The racism is just out in the open now.

[Guppy]

6. I am actually a little surprised

Brookwood is 8 miles from my house. It is between Buckhead and Chamblee and is pretty urban. It is usually ok and Lakeside high is where my dad's was and were my brother went to high school.This is not typically a place I would expect this.

[BigmanPigman]

13. That is more proof that he is giving everyone license to be openly racist.

Before they were hiding it, maybe even to themselves. Now people who never thought of themselves as racist are "going along" with the peer pressure to be racist. This is how Nazism started too.

Don't forget the teachers who dressed up as The Wall and Bandito Mexicans with the words Make America Great Again proudly written on the front of their costumes. They were reprimanded however this is the new empowerment that racists have under the fake prez.

Here is an article and photo...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11357125

[Hortensis]

14. My grandson is in a middle school in Gwinnett County, Guppy,

which has a nicely diverse student body. His 2 best friends are black and naturalized Vietnamese. They all went trick and treating together the other day.

Most of this band was almost certainly not involved, though who knows if others heard rumors and held the "blue line." The word spelled out has 4 letters, and 4 of those were included in the one they were supposed to spell, "Broncos." So 7 students were definitely involved out of several dozen.

[Guppy]

17. Yes Gwinnett has come a long way

My parents moved here in'73. I have been very familiar with the local community for a a long time.. Gwinnett used to be all white and now it is very diverse.

[Hortensis]

18. I've not tried to look up any studies that might have

evaluated the benefits and negatives involved, but his class has been together since kindergarten, is doing through middle school together, and will enter high school together. Though they don't have all the same classes at the same time, all their rooms, even gifted classes, are in the same little hall they don't leave.

A very different kind of segregation, and very limited range of experience for these kids who grew up with their moms driving hem to play dates, and I hope it's overall good for them.

I can remember first day in a new town, got to the school all right by myself (municipal bus I think but could have been bike), standing in the hall lost, scrutinizing a school map trying to find my next class. The sprawling, multi-level, freakishly-corridored school on both sides of a street was notorious for getting lost in, and students laughed good naturedly as they hurried by, but many of them had long hikes to distant hallways themselves and not enough time to get there.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. Never be surprised by racism. Never.