A 12-year-old Star Wars fan has been told not to wear his Stormtrooper t-shirt to school, because it shows a character holding a blaster.
Colton Southern arrived at school on Thursday wearing a t-shirt with the logo from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The film, which opens on Friday, is one of the most hyped premieres this year.
But his teachers at George Junior High School in Rosenberg, Texas told him that the t-shirt was inappropriate and he had to cover it up, and not wear it again.
“It’s political correctness run amok,” said Colton’s father, Joe.
“You’re talking about a Star Wars t-shirt, a week before the biggest movie of the year comes out. It has nothing to do with guns or making a stand. It’s just a Star Wars shirt.”
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Apparently, it was just a white kid since the media has not exploded with stories of some version of racism.
Is there a point at which we can demand they use common sense. Its a bully tactic think as I think or else.
Good grief:
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/12/14/melissa-harris-perry-star-wars-is-racist-because-darth-vader-was-voiced-by-a-black-guy-who-turned-good-and-white/
@Wordsmith: they find racism in everything what a sad existance
@Wordsmith: I was listening to her rant and how she made every comparison between evil and black (which existed long before the butt-hurt epidemic spread throughout society) and I wondered, who was it, exactly… which “brown-ish” people was it that INSISTED upon being called BLACK rather than any other ID?
Is that OUR fault? Or, Darth’s?
Now there are grumblings about China being racist by minimizing Boyega in posters. Was that motivated by racism or something apart from it? Boyega’s image is quite prominent in this Tiawan subway.
Stumbled across this guy’s opining: