Student ejected from ceremony for graduating while black

[LeopardSeal]

@d_r

When they take a group photo, and the person next to him shows the photo to her grandmother, and the grandfather asks, why does the guy next to you get to wear the big colorful sash and you don’t, what does she answer? He’s making a ceremony shared with his classmates just about him.

[Phrenological]

Oh my god we might have to have an informed discussion with someone!

[LeopardSeal]

@Phrenological

Oh my god we might have to have an informed discussion with someone!

Think of how hard it will be for them to explain that he’s wearing it as part of his heritage. I weep for them, and the difficulties they’ll face.

[Phrenological]

That’s not the sort of world I want our childrens growing up in. And what will grandmother think, to know that someone doesn’t respect the sanctity of the high school graduation rite? If that is not respected, is there an America anymore? My friends, let us return to a time of great America, where African-Americans were best represented by cereal box mascots instead of full-fledged members of the community. Homogeneity is the goal, enforced with the fullness of the law. Can’t we make America great again? All that I ask is that we help them understand respect with force and violence, truly they will be enlightened by our freedoms.

[LeopardSeal]

@Phrenological

let us return to a time of great America, where African-Americans were best represented by cereal box mascots instead of full-fledged members of the community

What about schools, can we get separate ones for them as well? And don’t forget about separate water fountains while we’re at it. (/S, in case anyone didn’t catch it)

[Guairdean]

Does that mean I can celebrate my Viking heritage by wearing a horned helmet? How about celebrating my Native American heritage by wearing a loincloth? Maybe I could blend a few of the others into something unique? I’m part of the great melting pot and my pride is in my American heritage, not a heritage that is passed down in name only. Graduation is, as the song implies, Pomp and Circumstance. It’s a time to follow through with the traditions and rituals of the ceremony. it’s not a time for political statements. I wish the young man well in the future, but he’s in for quite a shock when he finds that the world won’t bow to his whims.

[LeopardSeal]

If you knew anything about your “Viking” heritage, you’d know that they didn’t wear horned helmets.

[Phrenological]

[quote=“Guairdean, post:365, topic:78756”]
Does that mean I can celebrate my Viking heritage by wearing a horned helmet? How about celebrating my Native American heritage by wearing a loincloth?[/quote]This is a great example of your personal ignorance, but I don’t understand what the bad movies you watch in lieu of reading books on history have to do with the topic at hand.

[CaptainPedge]

TIL Dress codes are inherently racist. Who knew?!

[anon15383236]

@Guairdean

I’m part of the great melting pot and my pride is in my American heritage, not a heritage that is passed down in name only.

RTFA[quote=“Guairdean, post:365, topic:78756”]
Graduation is, as the song implies, Pomp and Circumstance. It’s a time to follow through with the traditions and rituals of the ceremony. it’s not a time for political statements.
[/quote]

RTFA!!

[Phrenological]

@Guairdean

Graduation is, as the song implies, Pomp and Circumstance. It’s a time to follow through with the traditions and rituals of the ceremony

School graduation ceremonies are much more of a joke than the ceremonial garb you’re mocking.

And no, being 1/32nd Irish and wanting to wear a shamrock would make you a moron, it is not celebrating a legacy of “culture”.

The cap and gown is the “ethnic garb” of your tribe.

[nemomen]

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[Phrenological]

Where do these unhappy pinks come from, anyway?

Are they just in it for the ironic FSM/Cthulu ornaments? The cool tools? I’m curious sometimes how these people stumble across BoingBoing in the first place.

[anon15383236]

@Phrenological

Where do these unhappy pinks come from, anyway?

As in, white people?

I haven’t heard that usage in a long time. If that’s who you mean, well, the racially aggrieved ones are all over the place, and the internets is a place to let off some of the steam that comes from being “the real racial victims these days, etc.”

[Phrenological]

Enforcing white, Eurocentric dress can absolutely be racist/colonialist, you stunning maverick of unique butterfly rugged individualist thought.

[Phrenological]

In the Subgenius as-apart-from-Yetikin sense. Meant to indicate milquetoast and unenlightened, more speciesist than race specific.

[Guairdean]

Nor is this young man African. If he were an exchange student, or if he had immigrated, it would be different. He simply wanted to stir things up, and he was successful.

[anon34697667]

@Guairdean

Does that mean I can celebrate my Viking heritage by wearing a horned helmet? How about celebrating my Native American heritage by wearing a loincloth? Maybe I could blend a few of the others into something unique?

Please post pictures of yourself in your loincloth and psuedo-Viking helmet. I look forward to learning more about your heritage and cultural ancestry of White Racist Douchebag Jackasses.

[Guairdean]

No, it’s simply an example of using a culture that I have no real ties to as a “cause celebre.” He wanted attention, and he received it. Step 1 - Get yourself kicked out of graduation, Step 2 - ???, Step 3 - Profit.

[anon15383236]

@Guairdean

He simply wanted to stir things up, and he was successful.

Yeah, no doubt right? I mean come on, he’s a black man refusing to follow a rule. You know how THEY are. Surely his only motivation is to stir things up, and his extensive, well-considered reasoning to the contrary is nothing but a lie:

“I wanted to wear my kente cloth as a representation of my pride in my ancestors, to display my cultural and religious heritage,” he continues. “As my particular cloth was made by Christians in Ghana, where the kente cloth has been worn by royalty and during important ceremonies for hundreds if not thousands of years.”