students showed up in 'White Pride' shirts

[brassmonkey]

"Color Wars" was always supposed to be a way to promote school spirit and good-natured competition between classes at Polson High School in Montana.

On its surface, the concept is simple: Each class gets assigned a color - black for seniors, white for juniors, blue for sophomores, green for freshmen - and the class with the most students dressed in their assigned color on "Color Wars" day is declared the winner.

There had never before been a problem with the long-standing Homecoming tradition at the rural Montana school, about an hour north of Missoula, according to Polson District Superintendent Rex Weltz.

Until 2016.

This year, Polson High is in the national spotlight after two students - one male and one female from the junior class's "white team" - showed up to the annual Homecoming rally last Thursday wearing T-shirts with "Trump 2016 White Pride" written on the back.

The shirts, whose messages appeared to be hand-lettered with black marker, also included "offensive and inappropriate" messages on their fronts, Weltz said.

Photos showed that the front of the male student's shirt was covered with a Confederate flag and large red letters that spelled "REDNECK." On the front of the girl's shirt was handwritten in all-caps: "WHITE POWER."

The two students were asked to change clothes immediately, Weltz told KPAX News. But by then pictures of the students had hit Snapchat and Facebook and were soon widely circulated on social media, prompting shocked and angry responses far beyond Montana.

"We are better than this," tweeted one woman who included a link to a news article about the controversy. "Don't defend this kind of 'spirit.' #montana"

"Horrified by the racist actions of people in my hometown," tweeted another person.

In a statement last week, Weltz called the incident "inexcusable."

"The Polson School District does not and will not tolerate harassment or discrimination in any form toward any person," Weltz wrote. "As a District we are disappointed in the actions of those few students and will take appropriate action based on our policies and procedures, which may include discipline for the individual students. We applaud the students who stood up against this conduct and will continue to educate all of our students about our policies and practices forbidding discrimination in any form."

The district has not identified the students and Weltz did not respond to a request for further comment Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana chimed in on an issue that "quickly got out of control," and reminded people that both the Confederate flag and the "White Power" slogan are "symbols of hate and intolerance."

" . . . It is important to remember that, while all students have First Amendment rights, schools have the authority and the responsibility to prohibit speech that is harmful to other students, and to maintain a safe learning environment," Caitlin Borgmann, executive director of the ACLU of Montana, said in a statement. "This incident sadly reflects how we are failing our children in teaching them mutual tolerance and respect for those of different backgrounds."

Borgmann said the ACLU of Montana would be investigating the Homecoming incident and making sure Polson High School had appropriate anti-bullying and anti-racism policies in place.

Meanwhile, she encouraged anyone who was outraged - or who saw similar racist messages at the school - to protest peacefully or write a letter to the district superintendent.

"Document everything," Bormann advised in the statement.

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[mineistaken]

Another race mongering copy paste by donkster.

[nico-t]

Anyone with a normal functioning brain can see what their intention was: These two are libsters, like almost every weak minded brainwashed student. And they thought it would be funny and controversial to grab this tradition to ridicule the (establishment and MSM-created) image of the 'average Trump voter' by dressing up as redneck racists with Trump 2016 texts. Although the parody is simplistic and based on lies, i still think this is acceptable - everyone has the freedom to express themselves.

The brainwashing of these 2 was obviously highly successful, since they probably really think only 'stupid racists' vote for Trump the racist. This is already retarded because Trump is as racist as my left shoe - the media only calls him that without any arguments, because there aren't any.

Ironically, their 'own people' of course take offense to this: SJW libsters cannot deal with parodies or jokes, and to make it worse anything with race is like a red flag to them, so to them these 2 fellow libsters who were trying to parody a racist Trump supporter, are now racists.

Libsters caught in their own politically correct vicious cycle. I love it.

[crockett]

Originally Posted by nico-t

Anyone with a normal functioning brain can see what their intention was: These two are libsters, like almost every weak minded brainwashed student. And they thought it would be funny and controversial to grab this tradition to ridicule the (establishment and MSM-created) image of the 'average Trump voter' by dressing up as redneck racists with Trump 2016 texts. Although the parody is simplistic and based on lies, i still think this is acceptable - everyone has the freedom to express themselves.

The brainwashing of these 2 was obviously highly successful, since they probably really think only 'stupid racists' vote for Trump the racist. This is already retarded because Trump is as racist as my left shoe - the media only calls him that without any arguments, because there aren't any.

Ironically, their 'own people' of course take offense to this: SJW libsters cannot deal with parodies or jokes, and to make it worse anything with race is like a red flag to them, so to them these 2 fellow libsters who were trying to parody a racist Trump supporter, are now racists.

Libsters caught in their own politically correct vicious cycle. I love it.

[SBJ]

time to ban all white t-shirts!

[MiamiBoyz]

#whitetshirtsmatter

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by SBJ

time to ban all white people!

[CaptainHowdy]

Freedom of speech ...

[oppoten]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

how about white hoods?

[Speigelau]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

White Lives Matter

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by oppoten

how about white hoods?

[onwebcam]

[jsmih]

What moron picked white and black as two of the team colors, given the current political situation?

[SBJ]

Originally Posted by jsmih

What moron picked white and black as two of the team colors, given the current political situation?

it's been going on for many decades.. Seniors are always black t-shirts and if you wore a black t-shirt on spirit week or day and you weren't a senior they would rip it off you.. BUT NOW it's racist to have color spirit days?? Fuck that and fuck the PC Police!

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by SBJ

it's been going on for many decades.. Seniors are always black t-shirts and if you wore a black t-shirt on spirit week or day and you weren't a senior they would rip it off you.. BUT NOW it's racist to have color spirit days?? Fuck that and fuck the PC Police!

Its rainbow shirts now.

[Joshua G]

heres a bright idea. when i was a kid, the adults taught us to brush off & ignore insults. but in todays radical PC culture, one must absorb & obsess about the insult, talk about slavery & jim crow, & resurrect the once stripped down meaning of the southern cross.

remember the 70s when lynard skynard had a confederate flag behind them at all their shows? there was no race whining about slavery back then.

& what these kids did would never have gained press 20, 30 years back. This is all the civil rights movement has left. race whining about a flag, & the words white pride on a T shirt. there is nothing left but rare bad cops, & flags. thats why liberals are so shrill & desperate.

[Joshua G]

if liberals are mad in any way about the 2 words white pride on a t shirt in 2016, it is because they were TAUGHT to be mad at it, not because there is any actual white supremacy in this country. we know this to be true because nobody accused the kids of actually being racists.

simple as that.

[nico-t]

Originally Posted by jsmih

What moron picked white and black as two of the team colors, given the current political situation?

it are colors. Of shirts. Don't fall for the PC race agenda and definitely don't accept it.

[celandina]

Just a reaction to the movie just released

[MakeMeGrrrrowl]

Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy

Freedom of speech ...

That immediately made my vagina hurt.

I don't know what it is, but it reminds me of a speculum that they would have used back in the day during a pelvic exam.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by MakeMeGrrrrowl

That immediately made my vagina hurt.

I don't know what it is, but it reminds me of a speculum that they would have used back in the day during a pelvic exam.

that rust would give you lockjaw