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November 5, 2018
Marching band members at a Georgia high school are facing disciplinary action after spelling out the word cn instead of their teams 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 schools mascot, according to a letter to students and parents from the schools 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
(3,479 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)What happened to that post-racial America after President Obama was elected?
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)will be their pre-arranged excuse, and any deplorables in their school admin and community will buy it.
Freedomofspeech
(4,227 posts)Thank you, you vile imbecile tRump.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)the race haters to come forth into the light.
Trump is the pied piper of flith.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)all of the stains"...John Fugelsang
MissB
(15,812 posts)Ive apparently eaten too much lead this weekend; I cant figure this one out.
Clearly the band members should be expelled.
C..n? No idea! The article says its an old slur similar to the n word, if that helps...
Luciferous
(6,085 posts)Okay I guess that makes (horrific) sense. Ugh.
I was trying a u, but that wasnt working.
Thanks.
Luciferous
(6,085 posts)brush
(53,843 posts)The racism is just out in the open now.
Guppy
(444 posts)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
(51,627 posts)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
(58,785 posts)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
(444 posts)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
(58,785 posts)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.