Reply #30: Before everyone gets their panties in a wad [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

My kids attended Waxahachie High School.
It is NOT a redneck town full of racists. There are alot of nice people in this town. I cannot think of one incidence of racism during the entire time we lived there.
There are a substantial number of minority kids in this town of all varieties and they were equally represented in clubs and organizations. It is NOT a small school so I could understand one of the kids not knowing another kid's name.
My daughter marched in the Macy parade with this school and the band alone has over 300 kids in it and I would venture to say that some of them did not even know each other's names--even as close as they were.
I don't believe this was anything more than a stupid mistake done while putting together a yearbook, which isn't an easy task.
It was wrong--no doubt, but I have a hard time finding that it was malicious after having lived there.

On edit: One of their students that went to school with my kids was killed in Iraq. He is of Albanian descent. This is what these kids do in remembrance of him, even though his family moved and he ended up graduating in Ft. Worth. Do you think if this town was redneck and racist, that they would celebrate the life of a minority student?

http://www.tascosoccer.org/2006Tournaments/Women/2nd_annual_ervin_dervishi_memori.htm