An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Has EVERYONE Lost Their Freakin’ Minds????
The guy dressed in the suit and tie, smiling and shaking a bevy of hands, caught Grayson Thomas’ eye.
Grayson wasn’t alone. Teachers and other students at Stevenson Ranch Elementary School couldn’t take their eyes off the lunchtime visitor, either.
Grayson, a fifth-grader at the campus near Santa Clarita, Ca., noticed the gentleman’s outward characteristics: Tall and lean. Good looking. Charismatic. Charming. Energetic.
Then he made a fatal error: Grayson, 11, pulled a little “made you look” joke on a schoolmate seated next to him, saying something along the lines of “Obama’s visiting our school today,” referring to the magnetic figure holding court nearby.
If ya look close, there is a startling resemblance. So? What’s the problem?
According to Grayson’s dad, Darren Thomas (who provided the previous details), what happened next was scary: Word of his son’s Obama-Schauble comparison spread to Schauble’s daughter, Shelbi, who was sharing lunch with her newsman father. And Shelbi was uncomfortable with Grayson’s statement, saying it felt racist.
“It felt racist”? What the blazes does THAT mean???? Is it the kid’s fault that people are ignorant? An elementary school kid evidently has been ‘taught’ that anything another kid has said ‘feels’ racist, and I will blame the Obama look alike and his spouse. Does she resemble Michelle? Do I care? Obviously not!
Then a teacher was summoned, then the principal, Candace Fleece, then the Newhall School District superintendent, Marc Winger. And that very afternoon, Nov. 4, Grayson was kicked out of Stevenson Ranch for good, his father says, for implying that all black men look alike.
Unless someone left something out of this story, I do not see anything that implies that is what the kids meant. The two men DO look very much alike, and a 10 or 11 year old kid would notice that, without any implications.
Winger apparently revealed a bit more to a local radio news site, which quoted him as saying, “It’s not what [Grayson] said, it’s how he said it…I can tell you that there was history and that the student had been counseled and we met with the parents.”
It’s besides the point, says Darren Thomas, that neither Winger, Fleece, nor Solomon—not even Schauble or his daughter—were within earshot to evaluate “how” his son originally stated his Obama-lookalike comment. The kicker, Darren says, is that school officials had no basis for determining that Grayson’s comparison implied that all black men look alike. And then they punished him.
You know what they say about assuming, right? Assume…makes as ass out of u and me! And this bunch has certainly shown themselves to be total asses! As do ALL the ‘politically correct’ morons!
