School makes today "Trayvon Day" - The Firearms Forum

norahc · 05-25-2012, 01:11 PM

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/05...ool-76327.html

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In an effort to better educate students and their parents about race relations and social injustice, a D.C. elementary school has declared Friday “Trayvon Martin Day.”

Teachers at Malcolm X Elementary in Southeast are using the unfolding case and the story surrounding Martin as part of their "Let's Keep Our Children Safe" seminar.
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Coleman said that every adult who attended the seminar would receive an Arizona Iced Tea and each student would get a bag of Skittles.

hogger129 · 05-25-2012, 05:20 PM

Why would you name a school after Malcolm X? A man who was a racist himself?

RunningOnMT · 05-25-2012, 05:46 PM

What a great idea but how about expanding that and just have an "Azz Hat- of-the-Month" award. Damn I'm tired of hearing about Treyvon. Yes it's a tragtedy, but it was his own bad choices that lead to his death. No one else is responsible and there is no one else to blame, with the possible exception of his parents.

sting75ray · 05-25-2012, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by norahc

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/05...ool-76327.html

I thought maybe they were gonna open season on gang members.

raven818 · 05-25-2012, 08:25 PM

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Trayvon Martin Day declared at D.C. elementary school

Waiting for a visit now, from the HPOSIC.

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race relations and social injustice,

Well, it's nice to once again read about the superior intelligence and insight of those folks who are responsible for our children's education. They have, as a group, decided Zimmermans guilty and are forwarding that information on to the kids ( I am sooooo sick of this crap ).

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Elementary Principal J. Harrison Coleman says that she hopes the lesson will help reduce the needless violence

You already know the 'needless violence' only applies if Zimmerman is found guilty. If not, violence is back on the agenda.

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every adult who attended the seminar would receive an Arizona Iced Tea

Ahhh, we've known all along they all drink that stuff. The first ones free.

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hopes this day makes the students at Malcolm X understand that someone always cares

BS...all they wanted was to get their names pasted all over the media. They succeeded.

Now...just how did the media get that info?

armoredman · 05-25-2012, 08:29 PM

For the record, AriZona ice tea is made in New York...
More grandstanding for political gain, nothing more.

05-25-2012, 05:20 PM	#2
hogger129 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4,064	Re: School makes today "Trayvon Day" Why would you name a school after Malcolm X? A man who was a racist himself? __________________ Samuel Adams once said, "among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."

05-25-2012, 05:46 PM	#3
RunningOnMT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Akron, Ohio Contributor Posts: 4,720	Re: School makes today "Trayvon Day" What a great idea but how about expanding that and just have an "Azz Hat- of-the-Month" award. Damn I'm tired of hearing about Treyvon. Yes it's a tragtedy, but it was his own bad choices that lead to his death. No one else is responsible and there is no one else to blame, with the possible exception of his parents. __________________ "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

05-25-2012, 08:29 PM	#6
armoredman Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Proud to be in Arizona Posts: 1,367	Re: School makes today "Trayvon Day" For the record, AriZona ice tea is made in New York... More grandstanding for political gain, nothing more.