HS cheerleaders hold up sign says "Hey Indians, get ready for Trail of Tears pt.2"

[Calculating]

Now I'm not usually a total SJW type, but how in the hell did ANYONE think this was a good idea?

Hillsboro, OH (WCMH) — What was supposed to be a friendly game of football between two rural southern Ohio high schools started with controversy over a banner cheerleaders displayed on the field.

After traveling to the Hillsboro Indians stadium, the Greenfield-McClain Tigers cheerleaders held up a banner that said “Hey Indians, Get ready for a Trail of Tears Part 2.” The sign drew backlash online.


The Trail of Tears is the name for the route that thousands of Native Americans traveled when the U.S. government forcibly removed tribes from their homelands in the southeastern United States in accordance with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. More than 4,000 Native Americans died along the route.

A response to the banner appeared briefly on the Greenfield-McClain High School Facebook page saying:

Tonight an event occurred that does not reflect the values or beliefs that we try to instill in the students of McClain High School. An immediate apology was issued to both the principal and athletic director of Hillsboro High School. We would also like to apologize to the citizens of Greenfield for the poor reflection on our community. This matter will be addressed internally.”
The statement has since been removed from Facebook. NBC4 reached out to Greenfield Exempted Village Schools and Greenfield-McClain High School and has not received a response.


http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/29/greenfield-mcclain-cheerleaders-spark-controversy-with-racially-insensitive-banner/
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[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Anyone Involved With That Insult Should Be Removed From The Squad & Expelled.

[blm]

2. Ignoramuses

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[Egnever]

3. Two rural southern Ohio high schools

Not hard to figure out how this happened.

[Journeyman]

4. Hopefully, this will prove a learning moment for the cheerleaders, indeed for the student body . . .

high schoolers are rarely very astute and need insight and guidance more than chastisement in their academic understanding.

My first thought was, what the hell were the adults supervising these students thinking when they allowed this? And what kind of crappy history do they teach at Greenfield-McClain? If we're to be incensed at anything in this incident, it should be at the supposed "adults" in charge, both for their supervisory misconduct and their failings in academia.

[semby2]

5. Expel

Expel those kids. They and their parents will get to experience their own tears.

[NobodyHere]

9. And this helps anybody how?

Seems to me that these kids need school.

[Judi Lynn]

14. It might encourage them to realize you don't mock people who have been tormented,

enslaved, tortured, murdered, and violated in every possible way.

Maybe once they learn what should have been taught to them long ago, by learning respect for others, through common sense, and through membership in the human race, maybe they can teach those who feel it's downright cocky and cool to put down people who stand up for those downtrodden, and abused, and destroyed by greedy assholes.

[JI7]

6. fucKing scumbags. is it any surprise trump gets as much support as he does ?

[RadiationTherapy]

7. Have an assembly, set up a projector and screen, call in the history teachers,

and teach.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. +1000

It might not get to all of them, but it might help some of them.

[rockfordfile]

10. HS kids did this? Who put them up to this?

[surrealAmerican]

11. This is one reason why naming your HS team ...

... "the Indians" is a bad idea. How about keeping the stereotyping out of high school sports?

[spanone]

12. this country has some mighty fucked up people

[Initech]

13. Racism is dead in America, don't you get it???