PhillyBirds
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So out of the blue today, I remembered an incident in high school and wanted to know if anyone's seen anything similar.
I was sitting in math class and a black student walked in wearing a big white T-shirt with a picture of Nat Turner on it and some quote at the bottom. I seemed to be the only person in the room that was alarmed and offended by this.
For those of you who don't know who Nat Turner was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
Immediately after class I went to the main office to voice my opinion. The administrator I spoke with neither knew who Nat Turner was nor seemed to care after I explained it to him. He acted concerned, but dismissed me with some ambiguous dogmatic lecture about "free speech."
It boggles my mind that white people would not be wildly offended by this. He wore a shirt that, in essence, glorified Turner's senseless murder of helpless white civilians.
I often see people wearing T-shirts with various people on them, but this was infuriating to me that my opinion was met with dismissive lethargy from the school administration. Sure he's protected by "free speech", but not when it infringes on my general feeling of wellbeing.
Any thoughts? Sorry for the rant.
I was sitting in math class and a black student walked in wearing a big white T-shirt with a picture of Nat Turner on it and some quote at the bottom. I seemed to be the only person in the room that was alarmed and offended by this.
For those of you who don't know who Nat Turner was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
Immediately after class I went to the main office to voice my opinion. The administrator I spoke with neither knew who Nat Turner was nor seemed to care after I explained it to him. He acted concerned, but dismissed me with some ambiguous dogmatic lecture about "free speech."
It boggles my mind that white people would not be wildly offended by this. He wore a shirt that, in essence, glorified Turner's senseless murder of helpless white civilians.
I often see people wearing T-shirts with various people on them, but this was infuriating to me that my opinion was met with dismissive lethargy from the school administration. Sure he's protected by "free speech", but not when it infringes on my general feeling of wellbeing.
Any thoughts? Sorry for the rant.