Do you have a source for the direct connection between a basketball game from a few years ago and the Covington Catholic High School students who did nothing wrong?
My issue is the environment. Any school that allowed white males to wear full blackface is questionable one. I’ll be looking for condemnation from them at any moment.
Too bad… here’s a tip… don’t jump into a discussion that you haven’t read up on. You could have avoided that silly “my power went out and I can’t call it a blackout. Blackout is racist” post.
Oh so when a Muslim blows up a bunch of people or runs over some kids with a van of peace I guess we can start saying “all Muslims” and demand a condemnation from all of Islam.
I don’t think it’s fair to say the kids did nothing wrong - referring to the MAGA hat kids.
(And you guys do realize that all the statements and addition footage has been written and released by a professional political PR firm, right? Those kids didn’t write those reponses and commentaries.)
The video in which the kids harass a girl passing by, and the one in which they mock the tomahawk chop and dance around like boobs displays disrespect, at least to me. The video of the stand off strikes me as disrespectful, but it’s less clear cut in my mind.
You of course may view the same videos and reach a different conclusion. This is truly one of those things that has no easy answer.
People are digging into the school and kids etc…simply because this is what we do in america. We dig around and try to throw mud and soil others, in hope of winning some idiotic game we don’t even realize we are playing.
It’s a shame, but here we are.
I suspect some are digging into teh school to suggest the behavior they perceive as ignorant is part of a larger pattern, supported by, or even taught by, their super conserative school.
I have to admit, with or without the MAGA hat videos, a picture of kids in black face tickling a black competitor strikes me as insensitive, and would not be the image I would want promote for a school or organization I was associated with. Even if it is part of some larger tradition as one poster here claimed, I would suggest banning that tradition.