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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2015, 10:33 AM Mar 2015

White Parents On Fox News Condemn School's Black History Month Event

A segment on Thursday morning during the Fox News program "Fox & Friends" featured an all-white panel demanding an "apology" from a school district in Virginia for a Black History Month event about police brutality.

The guests — identified as only as Charles and Rebecca, the parents of an 8-year-old in Virginia's Orange County Public Schools district — offered an account of the event and its aftermath. Charles was described as a deputy sheriff.

"Everywhere that we looked were students, high school students, wearing shirts that said 'Black Lives Matter, I Can't Breathe.'" Rebecca told host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. "As I was flipping through my program, it had 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot.'"

"I texted my husband and said, 'I don't know about this.'" Rebecca said. "He replied that I should pull our daughter and come home."

Rebecca said she decided to let her daughter stay at the event, where the girl was scheduled to sing with a choir. But then, she recalled, "Students started coming out on stage saying things like, 'I'm from Ferguson, Missouri. I was told to put my hands up. I did and I was shot seven times. My name is Michael Brown.'"

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White Parents On Fox News Condemn School's Black History Month Event (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
Daughter shows up with a t-shirt that says "I'm being pulled!!" underpants Mar 2015 #1
Yeah you better get your kid out of there ASAP! She might learn something. Rex Mar 2015 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2015 #5
It's a shame that schools would have anything to base a night like that on. world wide wally Mar 2015 #3
Heading should be changed to "White racist parents on fox news" still_one Mar 2015 #4
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
2. Yeah you better get your kid out of there ASAP! She might learn something.
Thu Mar 19, 2015, 10:53 AM
Mar 2015

Better to run to Fuxnews and pretend you are a victim.

Response to Rex (Reply #2)

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
3. It's a shame that schools would have anything to base a night like that on.
Thu Mar 19, 2015, 10:59 AM
Mar 2015

Too bad they have altogether too much

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