Today’s blacklisted American: Parents sue school and principal for punishing their son for being a football fan
13-year-old J.A., prepped to cheer for his favorite
local high school football team
They’re coming for you next: The parents of a 13-year-old boy, identified only as J.A., are now suing the school principal who suspended their son for two days and banned him from all future sports activities because the middle-schooler had put on black “warrior” face paint under his eyes and on his cheeks, as football players often do and as shown in the picture to the right, in order to properly cheer for his football team at a game.
The principal of his school, part of the San Diego Unified School District, claimed it was “blackface,” though he never interviewed the boy, this companions, or anyone involved before issuing his banning edicts. For example, the boy had not even known what blackface was prior to this event. Moreover, no one at the game had complained or had been offended, and in fact, one black security guard joked with the boy, saying he should have made the spikes on the side higher, covering even more of his face.
“We’re suing the principal directly, the superintendent and then the people who made the decision to rubber-stamp the principal’s ridiculous decision to suspend J.A.,” Attorney Karin Sweigart said.
They want the boy’s record cleared entirely, especially because the principal and the school have so far presented no evidence that J.A. offended anyone at all. They simply made an accusation, and then acted as judge, jury, and executioner. Moreover, the courts have consistently ruled that schools have zero juridiction on the actions of students on their private time. The Supreme Court has also ruled that disciplinary actions must be for behavior that caused a significant disruption at the school itself. J.A. was at a high school event (he attends middle school) after hours, and no one was disturbed at all there.
At his own school all his friends were totally okay with the face paint, and in fact thought the punishment was ridiculous. As his father noted in a television interview, “The kids known the truth.” His father also said this:
I think that anyone who has been to a football game knows that this was not blackface. [J.A.] was with an African-American student that night. The African-American security guard said the spikes need to be bigger. The only people showing absolute racism is the school and the school administrators because there wasn’t even a real investigation. … When I spoke to the kids involved, they had not even been interviewed by the principal. When I showed the principal the picture, he hadn’t even seen it.
I hope they win their suit, but it is important to note how this case once again illustrates the utter bankruptcy of the entire public education system. Not only have the principal and other school officials revealed themselves to be tinpot dictators, quite willing to punish anyone who does anything they dislike, without evidence, they apparently know nothing of basic American law and the first amendment.
That they are so ignorant tells how poorly they have been educated themselves by the entire public education system, from elementary school through college. The education departments in universities that are supposed to prepare teachers properly are instead poisoning their minds.
And yet, we give these fools the job of teaching our kids? It is madness. Every parent should immediately remove their kids from the San Diego Unified School District. Better to home school them — even poorly — than have them indoctrinated with the evil, tyrantical, and bigoted ideas promoted by these ugly buffoons.
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13-year-old J.A., prepped to cheer for his favorite
local high school football team
They’re coming for you next: The parents of a 13-year-old boy, identified only as J.A., are now suing the school principal who suspended their son for two days and banned him from all future sports activities because the middle-schooler had put on black “warrior” face paint under his eyes and on his cheeks, as football players often do and as shown in the picture to the right, in order to properly cheer for his football team at a game.
The principal of his school, part of the San Diego Unified School District, claimed it was “blackface,” though he never interviewed the boy, this companions, or anyone involved before issuing his banning edicts. For example, the boy had not even known what blackface was prior to this event. Moreover, no one at the game had complained or had been offended, and in fact, one black security guard joked with the boy, saying he should have made the spikes on the side higher, covering even more of his face.
“We’re suing the principal directly, the superintendent and then the people who made the decision to rubber-stamp the principal’s ridiculous decision to suspend J.A.,” Attorney Karin Sweigart said.
They want the boy’s record cleared entirely, especially because the principal and the school have so far presented no evidence that J.A. offended anyone at all. They simply made an accusation, and then acted as judge, jury, and executioner. Moreover, the courts have consistently ruled that schools have zero juridiction on the actions of students on their private time. The Supreme Court has also ruled that disciplinary actions must be for behavior that caused a significant disruption at the school itself. J.A. was at a high school event (he attends middle school) after hours, and no one was disturbed at all there.
At his own school all his friends were totally okay with the face paint, and in fact thought the punishment was ridiculous. As his father noted in a television interview, “The kids known the truth.” His father also said this:
I think that anyone who has been to a football game knows that this was not blackface. [J.A.] was with an African-American student that night. The African-American security guard said the spikes need to be bigger. The only people showing absolute racism is the school and the school administrators because there wasn’t even a real investigation. … When I spoke to the kids involved, they had not even been interviewed by the principal. When I showed the principal the picture, he hadn’t even seen it.
I hope they win their suit, but it is important to note how this case once again illustrates the utter bankruptcy of the entire public education system. Not only have the principal and other school officials revealed themselves to be tinpot dictators, quite willing to punish anyone who does anything they dislike, without evidence, they apparently know nothing of basic American law and the first amendment.
That they are so ignorant tells how poorly they have been educated themselves by the entire public education system, from elementary school through college. The education departments in universities that are supposed to prepare teachers properly are instead poisoning their minds.
And yet, we give these fools the job of teaching our kids? It is madness. Every parent should immediately remove their kids from the San Diego Unified School District. Better to home school them — even poorly — than have them indoctrinated with the evil, tyrantical, and bigoted ideas promoted by these ugly buffoons.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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“. . . they apparently know nothing of basic American law and the first amendment.”
Or they DON’T CARE, and choose to ignore them.
As the article notes, they deemed themselves judge, jury, and executioner, and the defendant was assumed GUILTY with no chance to prove his innocence.
“ When I showed the principal the picture, he hadn’t even seen it.”
What is this country coming to, when conviction is based upon rumor or innuendo instead of facts and evidence?
This is what they are doing to Trump, so when Robert says, “They’re coming for you next,” you really are next. JA was.
“The education departments in universities that are supposed to prepare teachers properly are instead poisoning their minds.”
This is what happens when DIE policies outweigh proper education. Now the FAA and United Airlines are planning to hire based upon DIE policies rather than upon knowledge, ability, or competence. If you want a more diverse workforce, don’t hire the people you want, encourage more of them to get the proper education, training, and experience. Airlines hire already experienced pilots, so they need to start with the training grounds, and that means that more need to be educated properly, and that means that more have to be interested in this career in the first place. Someone sees that the cart moves the material and orders more carts without understanding that the horse is the motive power. Thinking that the cart is most important, the someone puts the cart in the front, making it harder to control and harder to see obstacles and the road, resulting in more accidents and less productivity.
If you think we are having a lot of near misses now, in the airline industry, just wait until these policies start to affect their workforces. United is doing this with the pilots themselves, and the FAA “is actively recruiting workers who suffer ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency’s website.”
https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/50263/ (“Contest! When Will The First DIE-Caused Passenger Airline Crash Happen?”)
https://nypost.com/2024/01/14/news/faas-diversity-push-includes-hiring-people-with-intellectual-and-psychiatric-disabilities/
“‘Severe intellectual” disabilities? Severe?!? I think we now know why the FAA takes so long to approve Starship flights. I used to think that it was politics, but now I realize that the people at the FAA truly aren’t as smart as they used to be! Too many of them have severe intellectual disabilities. By design. Intentionally.
What is happening at schools across the country is coming to an FAA facility near you. They really are coming for you next
I meant to include this page:
https://www.faa.gov/jobs/diversity_inclusion/aviation_development_program
Note FAQ #2.
Killing DEI is much easier in the private sector than it is in the public sector:
July 20, 2021
“Trans model makes Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover history: ‘If you don’t like it, you can go somewhere else’”
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trans-model-makes-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-cover-history-if-you-dont-like-it-you-can-go-somewhere-else/
January 19, 2024
“Sports Illustrated’s entire staff told they are getting laid off”
https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/business/sports-illustrateds-entire-staff-told-they-are-getting-laid-off/
The parents should demand a flogging of the principal. A little pain will ensure he never goes woke again.
Related:
THIS IS YOUR FUTURE IF AND WHEN
“This is your preordained future as per elite Democrat globalist visionaries. Seems mundane, but the video is actually a very interesting piece to watch on several levels, hypnotic.”
Read the rest and share it with a friend, you still have friends, right?………………Enjoy them while you are allowed to have them.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/this-is-your-future-if-and-when
Back when I went to college in the ‘70s, the students who went through the education department were enthusiastic and well-meaning but for the most part, not the “brightest knives in the deck”. But back then they were still trying to teach subject matter. Today we have “educators” that are a combination of: enthusiastic, there is only one way to think/believe, indoctrinators. Be afraid.
Wearing blackface (or before that, Klan robes) is perfectly OK for elected Democrats. It is only Republicans — or children — who are subject to such censure.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/northam-blackface-photo/index.html
A pause for perspective. While appreciating the absurdity of all of this, please keep in mind that for some black Americans images of anything having to do with lynchings, slavery, or even Minstrel shows* can still occasion powerful emotions. This is not political but human nature, and it is the unhappy legacy of the all too real story of more than two centuries of overt racism and exploitation** in America. The tragedy is that after so much progress toward getting past the terrible history of slavery and Jim Crow segregation in this country, the radical left never misses an opportunity to dip into this well of darkness and rekindle old fears and resentments for its own ends. It is a testament to our progress that most black Americans, including the African-American security guard at the football game, have gotten past this painful history and respond in an appropriate fashion to what is happening in the present.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show
** Cf, Robert’s book, Conscious Choice
Dr. King, of course, had the vision of a real, post racially divided country in which everyone would be judged by the content of their character, and for a while at least, it appeared that we were well on our way to the kind of uniquely American multi-racial republic that Victor Davis Hanson has written about this in his recent book, They Dying Citizen. I vividly remember talking with a friend as he was traveling to Washington with his family for the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States. For both of us, I think, it was one of those numinous moments when the sun seems to break through the clouds and the voices of our better angels ring out. Looking back, is is easy enough to find fault with the Obama Administration — let us count the ways — but like Dr. King’s address on the Mall, his election was nonetheless a defining moment in our national progress toward reconciliation and unity as American citizens.
Now, as mentioned, the Jacobin left is doing its damnedest to make sure that we as a nation DON’T move past this shameful legacy of “time on the cross” for black Americans and into the sunlight of full citizenship for everyone. If for only this reason, the lies of the left (truly the People of the Lie) need to be resisted and their ambitions thwarted. In short, let us duly acknowledge the checkered history of our past, make the appropriate amends, but do not, in the process, destroy the very institutions freedom and human dignity that — once fully invoked — have been the engines of our progress.
PS — If recent poll results are to be believed, increasing numbers of people of color are abandoning the ranks of the lunatic left, rejecting its woke narrative, and discerning that their futures lie in an ‘opportunity’ society that is truly just, open, and colorblind. Likewise, the old “checked pants” Republican Party is no more***, and it has become the populist voice of working people and entrepreneurs.
***Its vestigial organs on display in such dodo-like creatures as Neocon Nikki Haley (who never met a billionaire donor or endless foreign war that she doesn’t like) and The Gobbler (Mitch McConnell), who barely knows which century he is living in.