Thug day

[Starr]

Students at Highland Park High School dressed as gang members, rap stars, maids and yard workers this month during homecoming week—a tradition one Dallas civil-rights leader says is racially insensitive.

On senior Thug Day, students wore Afro wigs, fake gold teeth and baggy jeans. On Fiesta Day, which was to honor Hispanic heritage, one student brought a leaf blower to school. :rofl:

“The scary part of something like this is you have to wonder how long these kids will continue to think this way,” said Bob Lydia, president of the Dallas chapter of the NAACP.

“These kids will be leaders of this country one day.”

No students were punished, according to Highland Park High principal Patrick Cates. Fewer than a dozen students were asked to remove some of the clothing—bandannas and gold necklaces. The student with the leaf blower was asked to put the tool in his car.


Senior Katie Braden, who said she wore a LeBron James jersey that day, said she had heard that other high schools have a “Highland Park Day,” when students dress up to make fun of Highland Park students. She considers it all in good fun. “It’s not like we called it ‘South Dallas Day’ or anything,” she said.

Lauren Perella said she wore a “wife-beater” tanktop and tennis shoes with only one sock. “We’re just having fun,” she said.

Katie said the theme days had been a subject of conversation among students recently, and that she’d heard that some teachers were offended. She said the student who showed up with a leaf blower crossed a line.

“I thought it was funny, but that’s probably offensive,” she said.

Elizabeth Carlock, the senior class president, said there’s nothing racist about Thug Day.

“We had a ‘Country Club Day’ last year, and I don’t see any difference between dressing up in country-club style and dressing up thug,” she said. “We weren’t being racist. It’s Highland Park tradition.”


“The reality is that they’re ignorant of the lives of nonwhites—it’s like a parallel universe,” said Charles Gallagher, a sociology professor at Georgia State University who studies white perceptions of race. He has tracked the recent rise of racially themed events, such as so-called “ghetto parties,” on university campuses.

“You have a community of adolescents who live in a complete white bubble,” Dr. Gallagher said. Many Park Cities residents refer to their community as “The Bubble.”

“If they have interactions with blacks or Hispanics, it’s typically someone serving them a soft drink or the Mexican who cuts their lawn.” Highland Park High’s student body is about 94 percent white. The school has six black, 65 Hispanic and 32 Asian students.

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Call the diversity police. The school is 94% white, that is a travesty! Maybe they need to start bussing in some niggers from the ghetto and spics so these racists can see and appreciate these fine colored folks and the rich diversity they represent. Then maybe they will learn how completely untrue and ignorant these stereotypes are..........uh, never mind.

[Excorcism]

Funny thing is, most stereotypes wouldn't exist unless there was at least some truth to them.

[Starr]

Funny thing is, most stereotypes wouldn't exist unless there was at least some truth to them.


Yeah, most stereotypes do not just come out of the blue like a lot of people want to think they do if they are negative. Many are going to come from dealing with or observing a reality, sometimes they may get somewhat magnified, but the reality is still going to be there, nonetheless.

[Hakluyt]

That stereotypes may have some basis in reality does not justify perpetuating them, especially when it's understood they're false or harmful. Shameful behaviour on the part of degenerate suburbanite moderns.

[Excorcism]

That stereotypes may have some basis in reality does not justify perpetuating them, especially when it's understood they're false or harmful. Shameful behaviour on the part of degenerate suburbanite moderns.

ya, I agree. It is a bit odd on the teenager's mentality about the whole thing. I guess they are conditioned to their society and didn't really say any harm in their depictions. It doesn't seem like the students were trying to be offensive at all. In the society I grew up in, you would basically be kicked out if you were to make such depictions. Although there would of course be people laughing, if not publically, then at least privately.

[Starr]

That stereotypes may have some basis in reality does not justify perpetuating them, especially when it's understood they're false or harmful. Shameful behaviour on the part of degenerate suburbanite moderns.


It is funny, but somewhat childish I suppose. I also wonder how many of these kids also listen to rap, watch MTV and think niggers are cool,etc. At least some of them, no doubt. How is this harmful and to who? the tiny percent of minorities in the school? The students who participated? Since these stereotypes exist I fail to see how depicting them in this way is any more "harmful"(I obviously disagree with harmful) or even on the same level, in any way, then the existence of the stereotype, itself. And these stereotypes, since they do, as you said, have a basis in reality, are going to continue to exist, without really needing anyone to perpetuate them. Society? That would be a pretty funny answer since people probably wouldn't even be hearing much about this if the usual people weren't bitching and crying about it.

[Berianidze]

That stereotypes may have some basis in reality does not justify perpetuating them, especially when it's understood they're false or harmful. Shameful behaviour on the part of degenerate suburbanite moderns.

Agreed. Even outside the stereotyping, the gangsta rap subculture has become a white suburbanite passtime. I bet if you could look up the statistics of gangsta rap albums sold, the majority of purchasers would be white, middle class. The sell-outs and house-negroes such as 50 cent, Jay-Z, and the likes are the ones dishing out this nonsense culture of degeneracy and embracing criminal activity. It's harmful and a complete disservice to the black community when these people (gangsta rappers) are being defined as the predominent feature of an entire people or culture. I think the ultimate blame lies on the gangsta rappers and the suburbanite scum who buys into this.

[Fade the Butcher]

On Fiesta Day, which was to honor Hispanic heritage, one student brought a leaf blower to school. Hilarious.

[Sinclair]

If I got a nickel every time I saw a kid at my school who could use with pulling their pants up, I would be making at least 2 or 3 bucks a day.

I think a good reality TV show would be a black guy humilitating rich white kids who try to act like poor black kids. It would provide a sort of relieving catharsis on so many levels. In one episode, he could dress up in a full 3-piece suit with a top hat and monocle, talk in a BBC-British accent, and berate any white kids who said he wasn't acting black.

I mean, honestly, it's rather offensive, it's stupid, it's annoying, it's a waste of time and money... "Slumming" in all its forms is just plain idiotic.

[1-800]

Highland Park is in one of the richest neighborhoods in the country.

They used to charter a jet (!) to fly their water polo team to the East coast to play in tournaments, since there are only one or two high school water polo teams in Texas.

[Starr]

I think a good reality TV show would be a black guy humilitating rich white kids who try to act like poor black kids.

LOL. I would pay good money to see that.:p

Wealthy white kids trying to act like black ghetto thugs, because they are "cool" LOL. It doesn't get much more pathetic, then that. Send them to the ghetto for one day and they can see how cool niggers are. Maybe they will make some new friends.

[Sinclair]

LOL. I would pay good money to see that.:p

I really think that this show could make money. It could be called "You're Not Black Like Me" or something. I actually think that it would be a good thing... It would make the wiggers the butt of ridicule. It's just pathetic on so many different levels to see a bunch of rich kids whose daddies are lawyers standing around in their ridiculously expensive branded clothing acting like they're all gangsta.

I mean, a culture that's an unfortunate result of poverty and lots of nasty social conditions is bad enough... Does it have to be fucking reinforced by the business world, and used to sell shit? Ghetto culture and the way it's been marketed could be seen as a real denunciation of capitalism, I think.

I'm not a racist or WN or whatever the flavour-of-the-week term is, so I don't approach it in a "TNB" manner. My biggest problem with the whole thing is that Canada, where black-white relations have historically been much better, gets its "black" popular culture, its views (Though they may be not spoken about) of blacks (Toronto is not inner-city Detroit), its views of the police (The Toronto police, while they do behave unfairly towards blacks statistically, are not cloned from the genestock of the cops who beat Rodney King and the cops who shoved a broomstick up Abner Louima's ass) from the US.

And the worst bit is that there is no mainstream political group that will be able to fundamentally change things. I've got my fingers crossed that Toronto's plans to create and fund social programs work, but that sort of thing will probably be viewed as costing too much money: Cheaper to just write some welfare checks, really. Addressing fundamental issues is too messy, too unpleasant, too expensive, and takes up too much time.

:mad: and :( in equal measure.

[Felix the Cat]

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[Probably maybe]

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I like the main music theme on the background. :cool:

[Excorcism]

I like the main music theme on the background. :cool:

music? I think you're hearing things...again. :D

[Probably maybe]

music? I think you're hearing things...again. :D

Yep, music is following me around. Blame satan, he doesn't have a life at all. :mad:

[Vindex]

Next dress like a nigger day, they should embrace the liberal stereotype of niggers. All students show up to school wearing wallstreet exec suits, and carrying mensa cards, speaking perfect english and listening to classical music.

Instead of bitching about White kids who are just monkey seeing, monkey do about the niggers that mtv and society have crammed into there heads 24/7 for most of there life. Why not put the blame where it really rests on the wallstreet and jew co. But that would be rug above reactionary.

[Vindex]

I would like to see a show called "wheel of Justice" where White Race traitors are forced to spin a wheel and whatever section the needle stops on is how they get theirs. Some sections of the wheel would be, woody the enlightened liberal, equality now,stop hating, universal brotherhood, love sees no colour, tolerance, jesus loves me, no justice no peace, stop Racism and money hunger. And a possible "wheel of wigger" for the beyond hope terminal wiggers. Where they get roped to a combine wheel and then it gets switched on.



I really think that this show could make money. It could be called "You're Not Black Like Me" or something. I actually think that it would be a good thing... It would make the wiggers the butt of ridicule. It's just pathetic on so many different levels to see a bunch of rich kids whose daddies are lawyers standing around in their ridiculously expensive branded clothing acting like they're all gangsta.

I mean, a culture that's an unfortunate result of poverty and lots of nasty social conditions is bad enough... Does it have to be fucking reinforced by the business world, and used to sell shit? Ghetto culture and the way it's been marketed could be seen as a real denunciation of capitalism, I think.

I'm not a racist or WN or whatever the flavour-of-the-week term is, so I don't approach it in a "TNB" manner. My biggest problem with the whole thing is that Canada, where black-white relations have historically been much better, gets its "black" popular culture, its views (Though they may be not spoken about) of blacks (Toronto is not inner-city Detroit), its views of the police (The Toronto police, while they do behave unfairly towards blacks statistically, are not cloned from the genestock of the cops who beat Rodney King and the cops who shoved a broomstick up Abner Louima's ass) from the US.

And the worst bit is that there is no mainstream political group that will be able to fundamentally change things. I've got my fingers crossed that Toronto's plans to create and fund social programs work, but that sort of thing will probably be viewed as costing too much money: Cheaper to just write some welfare checks, really. Addressing fundamental issues is too messy, too unpleasant, too expensive, and takes up too much time.

:mad: and :( in equal measure.