School's prom/graduation ceremony had a slavery theme

[gollygee]

Yeah really.

http://urbanknowledge.blogspot.com/search/label/prejudice

:scared:

Whose idea was this? This seemed like it would be cute and funny to people? I just have no idea how people get these kinds of ideas.

[bryant69]

1. Well you probably have difficulty understanding it because your brain works properly

Unlike the people who conceived of and performed in this thingamabob.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[hobbit709]

2. It figures

Thumpers!:puke:

[NMMNG]

3. WTF???

What century are we in? :wtf:

[Sonicmedusa]

4. Some people just can't help pining for "the good 'ol days"

Sick.

[nealmhughes]

5. I spent three years in graduate school studying slavery and the South, both Old and New,

and believe me, there is nothing that can be made charming or funny about chattel slavery.

The clothing is absolutely too benign, to begin with, as are the well fed faces and not an inkling of fatigue or loss of control over one's own or family's life. One is reminded of how the darkest part of American history (and I speak of both Continents as well as the islands of the Caribbean as well) can be totally misconstured by making light of a serious topic whose effects reside deep within our national psyche even today.

The stereotype of the happy-go-lucky slave is an image that needs to be erased -- permanently. To think that a pastor would have anything to do with this display, and that faculty, the governance and the students themselves would have anything to do with this disgusting display is beyond my pale of recognition as an educator and scholar, a Christian and a Southerner.

I think they left out the part about the women having to spin a certain length of thread every night before being able to go to their pallets on the ground in their cabins and try to sleep after an entire day of labor from sun rise to sun set, of their children being raised by strangers and their husbands being sold off the place at the whim of the owner.

I am relieved that kids in California came up with the idea, though, frankly, as it exposes the cultural bias that is associated with slavery's descendents is still alive and well throughout the US of A, and not residing in some dark corner of Mississippi alone.

[noamnety]

6. k & r

kicking any lurkers who do these things because they are completely clueless can consider the implications.

It reminds me of people cheering for the glaciers collapsing, without contemplating what they are really deriving enjoyment from.

[BanzaiBonnie]

7. THis is the most disgusting thing I've seen in some time

I can't believe ANYONE would find this funny. THe "slaves" served lemonade --- what a hoot --- yeah, that's really funny.

No doubt they are too busy studying the Bible to study U.S. history. Turns out really good citizens --- NOT.

[formerrepuke]

8. It's an ASSembly of God school........figures.

[unpossibles]

9. well, according to the Bible in my house

slavery is not against Christian values at all.

On the bright side, at least there were no gays or witches they had to kill.

[HardRocker05]

15. exactly. judeo-christian religions have a strong affinity for dominance/submission type relationshi

relationships.

[originalpckelly]

10. And they all look so proud and happy with themselves in their little blackface make-up...

WTF is wrong with this country?

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. UPDATES! (This shit is pretty much happening in my backyard...)

Before this was in the news...


Am local to what's been going on with that church, and posted this last week:
(pics with the captions s posted originally on a public access site by Jim Davis, Youth Choir Director and Associate Pastor)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...


And then my update:
(Al Sharpton was given a heads up and now has the photos ;) )

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

More Update and pics here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1087081&mesg_id=1096141

Be sure to check out the three posted blogs about this church.
Some of the comments left are from people have been used by and left this cult group.

And some are from actual church members trying to defend this gross insensitivity:


http://www.urbanknowledge.blogspot.com

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Meant to add: NAACP PRESS CONFERENCE at that church THURSDAY

It's in the More Update and pic link in my above post :hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. self-delete

[Xithras]

14. Fresno? Figures.

Many modern Californians are unaware of this, but following the Civil War, a huge number of southern families decided to migrate west instead of rebuilding their war-ravaged confederate hometowns. Out here in California, the northern part of the Central Valley was already lightly populated by 49ers who turned to farming, but the fertile and water-rich southern half of the valley was still fairly unpopulated. Southerners migrated there en masse, founding many of the towns that exist today. During the depression and dust bowl era, hundreds of thousands of additional whites poured into the area from the then-highly racist areas of Texas and Oklahoma. Today, the descendants of those groups make up the vast majority of the white population in the southern San Joaquin valley.

I grew up in one of those little towns. I remember watching the Klan march in the town 4th of July parades, and nobody thinking twice about it. I remember the heated arguments about the best way to deal with the "Mexican problem". In many areas, including Fresno proper, an influx of minorities and whites from more urban parts of the state has helped to dilute and drive out many of these racist assholes over the past few decades, but many of these smaller outlying towns still have signifigant racial issues. These attitudes have not gone away, even in "liberal" California.

[ContraBass Black]

16. Is it happening more often, or am I hearing about it more?

[BlooInBloo]

17. (shrug) Par for the course. Black folks are simply a joke to white folks.