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American Students In Detroit In Trouble For Class Of 2011 Sweat Shirts
News report from Dearborn, Michigan:
“At least nine Detroit area high school juniors are in trouble for wearing sweat shirts bearing a design that evokes the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers.”
The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press report a spokesman for the authorities of Dearborn Public Schools believe the shirts worn by the boys on Monday at Edsel Ford High School, members of the graduating class of 2011, is “offensive” and in “poor taste”. The boys are scheduled to meet with the school authorities. News reports say no suspensions are planned.
In defense of the young men who live in a predominately Arab suburb of Detroit, we say perhaps the education officials are a might too sensitive, given the possibility many of the relatives of those same young men have been killed or maimed or displaced because of the overzealous actions of the U.S. government’s disruption in the Middle East.
We like the intention these young men are conveying. We interpret their statement as one of confidence and tenacity of purpose. To us they are saying we are young, determined and we can not be brought down. We believe theirs is as patriotic a statement as one could want from the children of immigrants. No doubt the young men involved in the controversy are American born and wish to show their interest in doing good in the world despite the bigotry and institutional racism they face daily.
Let us not return to the so-called good old days when we were searching for a Communist sympathizer under every shrub and rock. Or to the days when young black males were hunted down and killed for being young, male and black.
Let cooler heads prevail. The CIA, the TSA and the military by their actions are doing more than the terror cell recruiters to grow more really scary bomb igniting young terrorists into this fight.
Let’s not be so sensitive about our situation. Let’s walk a mile in the shoes of some other folks for a change.
After all it’s only a piece of clothing. It’s not a sophisticated missile or even an improvised explosive device.
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