I guess he was just left out in the sun too long. I mean come on, it’s right there in the term African-American. As he says himself, it’s his way of connecting with his heritage, which was broken and obscured by the fact that his ancestors we taken to America as slaves. Get off your racist high horse already.
What he was wearing was neither disruptive nor offensive, unlike your previously offered loincloth.
The only people making a big deal about it are the administration and yourself. We aren’t annoyed if someone wants to represent themselves.
We’re not buying into your outrage culture.
How would the school officials react if a male student with a strong Scottish heritage had worn a kilt? Would a dude in a pleated dress be considered a distraction?
However, by replying, you’re buying into everyone else’s outrage culture.
So does that make him or her a “social just warrior”? Cuz surely you can’t be one, amirite?
Hey, Guairdean is Native Viking American and he’s proud of his ancestors who ran around in loincloths and horned helmets in the ancient land of Jackassia.
Such noble manly warriors!!
So you think the flag of a slave holding republic that triggered a civil war, the most violent war in American history, is the equivalent of a kente cloth?
Vikings didn’t, you know, actually wear horned helmets.
He doesn’t think they’re equals. For him, the confederate flag is superior.
Not that I think you don’t know this, but the sad thing is, many people do think they’re equivalent, or claim they are (while knowing they shouldn’t also say that they’re actually not equivalent, because one is “noble” and the other is savage, primitive, dirty, etc.). Pretty much as @M_Dub just said.
e.g.,
Yes they did! Don’t oppress Guairdean’s proud heritage of cosplay!
Can another ethnic group take me as a refugee from whiteness, please?
I’m sure the pinks would gladly take you in!
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A classic!
Your imagination is your own to control. If you want to find the person actually responsible for your imagination, look above the bathroom sink. We’ll wait.
TIL “Student” is an ethnic descriptor. Who knew!?
Not just a slave holding republic, but a slave holding republic built explicitly on the position of white supremacy which they explained and wrote about in great detail as their justification for their violent revolt. That revolt was a conflict to protect the institution of slavery with slavery justified by a claimed inferiority of black people. “Heritage not Hate” is the purest form of cognitive dissonance. The token of a violent conflict mostly forgotten until it was resurrected in the 50s to fight the Civil Rights movement, and originally flown as a battle flag to violently protect the perpetuation of slavery justified by white supremacy is inherently a hate symbol.
This really interests me.
So you’d agree it would be OK for him to wear the kente cloth if he was an African citizen? And you’d agree there was excessive use of force shown by the school administration if they had an African national taken away by LEOs for refusing to take it off?
