Government Slave Journals: Entry 1
Need…water.
I keed. I keed.
About twice a year, the powers that be forget that I’m a government worker.
Government worker. noun. person employed by Uncle Sam who has set work hours, performs the maximum work in the most minimal of fashions, has great benefits and job security, and would like to make big bucks but isn’t a fan of that whole work hard ideal thereby settling for the comforts of working for organizations who’s sole goal is to exist and provide jobs, not exactly complete tasks
Me right now? Glad you asked. Let’s just say me and Hebrew slaves are a little like Bobby and Whitney.
We got something in common. You know, Bobby Brown’s Bobby album was actually pretty good to me.
Anyway, what this means in the grand scheme of things is that I will be actually doing very short posts when I do manage to post, or having guest posters, similar to celebrity posters, only not at all.
Anywho…today while surfing MTV, I found an article about a Colorado middle school banning camouflage clothing as it promotes certain patriotic ideals and with the current immigration debate raging, certain clothing might be deemed divisive.
In a letter sent to parents last week, administrators at the Westminster, Colorado, school explained that the move to ban any clothes with political messages or flags of any sort was for the safety of students. The school’s principal, Myla Shepherd, said that tensions over the immigration issue were recently apparent when more than 20 students came to school wearing camouflage jackets and pants, apparently to show what they call their patriotism and American pride, according to the CBS4 report.
Admittedly, I don’t know all that much about the immigration debate and I’d like to say kudos to the school, and potentialy district for trying to difuse an already explosive situation…but um…
I’m calling bullshit. I’m all for stopping kids from wearing provocative clothing, but banning camouflage just to stop some American kids, in America, from having pride? Fuck that. I know people have beef with patriotism and I have my own beefs, but hell, this IS America right? Are they stopping everybody from wearing any clothing that might be deemed divisive?
Shit, I don’t see anybody stopping hillbilly rednecks from rocking clothing with the Confederate flag which is as divisive as any other symbol. Down south, if you go to school with a bunch of white kids that’s just something you have to deal with, from the t-shirts to the license plates, etc. And we got into fights, a lot, behind that stuff.
It’s kind of funny isn’t it? In a time where doing anything unpatriotic can get you blacklisted, when people do anything that might be deemed patriotic, if it steps on the toes of somebody else’s interest group, all of a sudden we want to cap the patriotism.
I know you have to protect kids, and if they were fighting because some of the immigrant kids (or foreigners) took offense to the American kids patriotism then I suppose you do what you have to do in the schools for safety’s sake. So I’m not saying this is wrong, per se, it’s just…interesting.
In other news, Bonds on Bonds (the new ESPN series) is my new shit. I was already a fan of Barry Bonds even with all the controversy. I like the total spinjob he’s doing with his show to try to humanize himself and gain sympathy. I’m all for biased reporting. Viva la Barry!
So are they stopping kids from even talking about loving America?? Because if that’s teh case, they might as well put a quick end to American History and Civics classes. Lest the accomplishments of a few Americans offend the, wait, who don’t they want in this country again…Oh the Messicans.
it’s IS interesting. You know the thing with school districts, and educators, they have to go with the current political climate because it changes so much. What is inflammatory today won’t even damn matter next Fall. I kind of feel sorry for them because it is a tough balancing act. They really can seem reactive, when they are trying to be proactive. It’s lose-lose. They just want to get through the day with no Columbine shit popping off and no gunplay. It makes me thankful I went to private schools K-12, but at the same time, I was naive to real world shit being insulated so much. The only controversy we had in HS related to attire was when the administration decided that those colorful leather (uh, pleather?) medallions with Africa, or Malcolm X, or something of that ilk were “divisive” to our already lily white academic environment. It was ridiculous.
Kids BEEN rocking camo. It’s not neccessarily a show of patriotism…it’s moreso a fashion thing. Nothing’s wrong with that (even though I can’t rock it cuz I don’t think it looks good on me). Schools and society should focus moreso on ‘hate’ emblems such as Confederate, Nazi, and other hatred symbols as oppose to camo. I feel sorry for any kid who feel like they’re being targeted by another kid wearing camo. It just doesn’t make sense and they need to stand down on that one.
So pretty much, the Ques couldn’t do any community service on the middle school campus huh?
Instead of focusing on their clothes, these schools need to focus on all the dummies they are churning out. US education is awful and they need to step their game up.
Okay, but here’s my question. WHAT IN THE DEUCE IS PATRIOTIC ABOUT CAMOFLAUGE???? I mean I’m no Betsy Ross or anything, but I don’t consider camoflauge – the clothing that ANY soldier wears to hide himself amongst the foliage and underbrush, so he can ambush and kill you… is necessarily so “American.”
And if to this generation America is equated with war, death and sneaky destruction, then dammit, schools aren’t doing a bad job, those kids know more about this country than I did when I was in Junior High.
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