no but it shows some of the blatantly stupid things that folks are teaching their kids...
Michael Dinowitz wrote: > Central Florida 7th grader called racist for wearing Palin t-shirt > > She's only 12 years old but Ashleigh Jones is feeling the heat of this > election year. > That's because the seventh grader at New Smyrna Beach Middle School was > called a racist by classmates for wearing a pro-Sarah Palin t-shirt. > Jones is volunteering at the Republican Headquarters in New Smyrna Beach. > The Palin t-shirt was a gift from her fellow volunteers. > "Some of the students were calling me racist because I was Caucasian," she > said. "I wanted the Caucasian man to win. And I told them that's not true. > It's my freedom of speech, it's my opinion." > Jones' parents say they aren't mad at the school they just want everyone > including their daughter to voice their opinion constructively. > Officials with Volusia County Schools said there were no referrals or > complaints to the office about this incident. > Ashleigh said that more of her friends are expressing their views by wearing > political t-shirts and she plans to wear hers again. > > http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Detail;jsessionid=C393FA07F5B66CA03C21B95E55E6EF60?contentId=7664724&version=6&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.14.1&sflg=1 > > Hm, I wonder if the reverse is true and a black student with an Obama shirt > is a racist as well? > -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer Office of Research Information Systems Research & Economic Development University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone:(919)843-2408 Fax: (919)962-3600 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275195 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
