by DL-Online
Grand Forks demonstrator praises school action against students in KKK garb
February 27, 2013 at 3:03 am in DL-Online
Danny G. Holwerda Jr. stood at a street corner near Grand Forks’ Red River High School on Tuesday, holding a sign with the phrase “Racism will not stand.” Continue Reading
Right on Danny…right on!
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I stronlgy recommend a read of UND Professor Weinstein’s column from todays Forum. It will make you think.
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/391596/group/homepage/
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I wonder if the one thumbs down you got was because someone had their hood on backwards and missed the thumbs up box?
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It greatly disappoints me to see the percentage of thumbs down. Racism and apathy are alive and well it appears.
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For those who disagree with me I am honestly interested in your viewpoint because I must be missing something given how many there are. Please post something to help me understand.
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First they would have to check out FauxNews talking points.
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As someone who has lived here for more than 40 years and is not a ‘white christian’, I can assure you that racism is indeed ALIVE AND WELL here
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Grand Forks had a thriving KKK chapter made up of the city fathers decades ago. Also, the Jewish cemetary is located on the north side of Gateway. At one time that was outside the city, since GF had an ordinance prohibiting the burial of Jews within the city limits.
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WOW!! I post this yesterday, and the GF Herald does a huge exposé on the KKK in ND today. Guess none of the people mentioned in the article advertise in the Herald anymore.
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Yeah, only 80 years too late.
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Well, the silence is deafening folks. Small, very small.
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Not looking for an excuse for these actions but when I first saw this newstory I just wondered if they had missed that particular history class or has the quality of educaton slid that far that they were completely ignorant of what they were portraying?
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The version of the story I’ve heard is that several other students with presumably the same or similar educational experiences are the ones that noticed what these three were doing and told them to take the hoods off.
While I’m certainly not saying that “unpleasant History” receives the same attention as “feel-good History” in today’s classrooms, I think the fact that a lot of the other students recognizing that the act was offensive says something.
The kids that did this are likely not *fully* aware of what their wardrobe represents, but I don’t believe any sort of explanation that includes, “We didn’t know….”, either. If youngsters nowadays weren’t so tech-savvy and clever, (i.e. able to cover their tracks), I think it would be very revealing indeed to take a peek at their computers/tablets/smartphones browsing history to get an idea of how they settled upon a design for their wardrobe…..
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