Gunn High School Sings Away Hate Group

[kas125]

Run time: 03:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEiwBCpiA0E   Posted on YouTube: March 31, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheWorkingGroup Views on YouTube: 35   Posted on DU: April 01, 2010 By DU Member: kas125 Views on DU: 4143

 
one school's response to Westboro Baptist Church.

[earcandle]

1. NIce, thanks for sharing.

[kas125]

4. You're welcome! I really believe that the kids of today

will change the world. My boys simply can't believe that there are old people who care if someone is gay or a different skin color, they just do not understand it. We may not have stopped war and corporatism yet, but we did raise great kids!

[crim son]

15. I second that.

There is hope in our children, no doubt about it.

[efhmc]

18. The real difference is that we were taught both overtly and

covertly by our parents and society to believe these things. Responsible parents had to make it part of their children's education to say these ideas were wrong. Now it seems the bigots are the ones having to ram their wrong ideas down their children's throats.

[AlbertCat]

21. were taught both overtly and covertly by our parents and society

Well, it has been shown that parents and home life have negligible effect on these things. The environment out side the home has an almost 50% influence ( the other is genes).... think of immigrants who's kids grow up without any accent their parents may have but end up with the accent of their adopted country.

This of course does not mean parents have no effect on kids behavior, it's just the environment outside the home has a far greater effect.... and the kids themselves effect the parents' behavior more than the other way around. Parents are also effected by the outside environment.

So kudos to the environment we all have created!

[peacetalksforall]

2. Can someone repeat why the Westboro people were there? Maybe my mind wandered. By the way, I would

watched the entire music event 0 even if it had been an hour. Congrats, students and leaders!

[beac]

22. Apparently, they are going all over protesting at various schools and universities.

They know that education is their #1 enemy. (Sorry, Satan!)



(edited for typo)

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. Not sure why they were at this school but they are protesting high school plays

They were here in November protesting at our neighborhood high school because they were putting on RENT. It was awesome, the kids organized a huge protest and the TV news aired only pictures of the high school kids, none of the Phelps group. Loved it!

[paulkienitz]

35. why Gunn...?

One thing that's been suggested is that Gunn came to their attention because there was a cluster of suicides there a while ago, which made the news.

I bet this event at the school has probably reduced the likelihood of more kids feeling suicidal. When you feel like you're part of a positive and purposeful community that does something you can be proud of, you're probably going to feel more like life is something you can handle.

[sakabatou]

3. Hey, that's my high school!

Go Gunn!

[psychopomp]

45. I went to Paly

:toast: :smoke:

[drmjg]

5. Tears filed my eyes

As a teacher, to see kids "get it" is a joy!!! Some people have not come to accept joy and love, some fear it. These kids welcome it and share it. :pals:

[BigBearJohn]

6. This is very effective. We need more smart people like this. Bravo! K/R

Those kids were marvelous.

[Maraya1969]

7. That was wonderful. And what a great town!

[demwing]

8. This is the proper response to the DUers who say that Dems should avoid going on FOX

that the best response is no response.

Bullies love silence. They thrive on it.


NO MORE SILENCE.

[bowens43]

9. Thank you students of Gunn!!

That was beautiful!

[rasputin1952]

10. So many for tolerance love and respect...

so few for hate.

The WBC diminishes humanity...those kids were great...:D

K&R :kick:

[AlbertCat]

23. The WBC diminishes humanity.

In a strange way, they present a target....to run away from and avoid. Thanks WBC for showing us exactly how NOT to behave.

[rasputin1952]

31. I'd rather confront them, and on my terms, not theirs...

While I might be tempted to go into them with same nasty spirit they show...I would hold back, keeping an even temper and laugh at them...take their perception of "power" away...they are evil personified.

[ro1942]

11. Wonderful news,thanks for posting

[Sky Masterson]

12. I think I got a bug in my eye.

That was awesome! :applause:

[Vermontgrown]

13. Education

is the way to a knowing soceity. Without education we'd all become ignorant teabaggers. That is why the right wing would love to pull the funding rug of education out form under us all. Privatizing schools would be a way for the righties to do that or at least start to do that. Thank God there are educators that are out there, like at Gunn, with this understanding in mind. Go Gunn...

[eagertolearn]

19. I agree we have to protect education from being controlled

by those who only want to educate what they believe. Gunn school is a wonderful example of kids who have been raised by openminded parents and the teachers who have not been told what to teach or believe. There our still many area's where parents try and conrol their schools and what their students are allowed to learn so the kids are still anti-tolerant because of this. I feel sorry for the kids who are not taught tolerance because if they ever decide to leave their small world they won't understand what is going on in the big world when everyone else around them is tolerant. Thanks for this wonderful tape...I need to see that the youth are learning tolerance because they aren't being taught that where I live.

[mzteris]

41. what if your local school board is

rw hatemongers?

Then what are you going to do?

[eagertolearn]

43. Many have to deal with this and I think we just need to hoan up on the state rules and

make sure the schools are following these.

[mzteris]

44. Wake County NC was recently completely overrun

by fundies -

They are doing away with the system that best "integrated" students. It was based on income - NOT RACE, and was a great model for ensuring equity. They also have a lot of magnets (not sure what will happen to those...)

It'll be interesting to see what happens there. Charter public schools and homeschooling are popular options already.

[Amaya]

14. wow... this made me emotional

maybe there is hope for us.

[Jokerman]

16. That was awesome!

[CLANG]

17. The really beautiful thing about this is they completely nullified

the hate of the Phelps clan. They must have been very disappointed that people weren't yelling at them and condemning them. Completely defused the situation and took away any power that WBC wanted to exert.

Love is Love!!

[sallyseven]

20. most young people can figure it out

before their parents can. They absorb things more fairly. Tea Parties and wing nuts do themselves in.

[bongbong]

24. Great job!

This was a great idea. I found it interesting that the songs being sung (at least the ones in the vid) were all 60's songs. The music is still changing the world.

Suggestion: If those nutjobs show up at another school and there is a similar Love Demonstration, have a really big sign (like the one held by numerous students in this one) read: "We will pray the hatred that satan has filled you with leaves you!" That'll really rile them up! :evilgrin:

[lumpy]

30. This is so heartening. Brings the 60s and 70s to mind when

kids like these were showing their humanity and letting the world know that they cared. Hope more young people get in the swing of things.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

25. "gay? fine by me" t shirts seen in video available HERE:

I am sure you noticed the manys students wearing "gay?fine by me" t-shirts in the video. They come from the Atticus Circle, a straight/gay solidary org that works with schools. You can buy the shirts to show YOUR solidarity here:

http://www.atticuscircle.org/catalog/184

http://www.atticuscircle.org/catalog/185

[katandmoon]

27. K&R for the kids

[The Wizard]

28. A very positive response

to a turd in the punch bowl.

[Uncle Joe]

29. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kas.:thumbsup:

[paulkienitz]

32. Gunn High class of '77 - go Titans!

This was a high-class school back in the day (before Prop 13 cuts)... my class included a number of people who ended up becoming big brains in the Silicon Valley boom.

Westboro definitely stepped into the deep end of the liberal intellectual secular humanist queer-loving pool here.

I think I have more school spirit today than I ever did while attending. Scarlet and black!

[go west young man]

33. Great vid thanks for posting.

I wish there was a school like that in Georgia where I am so my son could go there. Unfortunately they have rough public schools here or Christian schools. Only 2 sad choices.

[DollyM]

36. always a third choice . . .

Homeschooling . . . we raised a wonderful, loving, kind young man due to being able to home school him. We aren't religious "nuts" as some people think all homeschoolers are, we just wanted our son to be in a safe environment, which his public school wasn't.

[The Wielding Truth]

34. Anyone see this on the national news? It's better than any teabag rally.

Yet the Hate mongers get covered and the socially redeeming actions are ignored.

Good on these people!

[blaze]

37. Best response EVER!!!! n/t

[Hansel]

38. Maybe the Coffee Party movement needs to organize Gunn Rallies

of their own.

[Not Me]

39. Kudos to Gunn H.S. for setting a new standard.

I am so proud of you guys!

[AtheistCrusader]

40. These kids are far better humans than I will ever be.

I am in awe.

[teknomanzer]

42. Read Matthew 7:5 mister Phelps...

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

You have a lumber yard in your eye Mr. Phelps - it is called hatred and it has made you blind.

[BlooInBloo]

46. :) the kids are alright.