24 Jan 2019 5:01 pm
Ok you can have your thread back but I'll say one more thing. I guess it's all subjective but I don't think these kids put this make up on and thought let's make ourselves up as minstrels and the parents/teachers never thought their intent was to look like minstrels or they wouldn't have allowed it. I think people think that just because this is from Kentucky that everyone is a bunch of racist hillbillies. But as I pointed out before Covington is a suburb of Cincinnati, is one of the top high schools in the state and has been around for many years, most of the parents of these kids are intelligent and hard working (probably affluent). My step son attended this school.Misty » 24 Jan 2019 4:44 pm » wrote:Honestly I don't care any more.Redrock » 24 Jan 2019 4:37 pm » wrote:I don't care what Snopes says. As I pointed out in the other post on the other thread. That game they are talking about was played at George Rogers Clark High School in Clark County. First, that school doesn't wear uniforms that say Clark County because that's not the name of the school. I posted a pic of their uniforms in the other post.
Second, since that game was played at GRC HS visiting teams would't be allowed to act that way in someone else's gym. If the game was played at Covington Catholic they would but they would be kicked out of a school (or get their asses kicked) if they did that at a school they were visiting. I guarantee that the pic is either bogus or it's not Covington Catholic.
Whoever that kid is, or whatever school he went to, wearing Minstrel Show makeup is wrong.
Seems like a lot of people here do not agree with that, and will not even concede that his makeup looked like the makeup worn by Minstrel Show performers.
Again, I do not blame the kid for not knowing the history, but the adults in his life, who should know better.
Now, if you don't mind, I would like my comedy thread back.
Something else that is also probably subjective is I don't believe the kid were being (purposfully) disrespectful to the Indians. The tomahawk chop is considered fine in many places, and the dancing is know big deal. The were dancing to the drum beat.
Okay you can have your thread back.
