Give that parent blue ribbon.
TI and his handlers fail to realize that there is a correlation between school systems in metro Atlanta that tend to have a certain standard that shows via their academic results and others who are more inclined to allow him to be a featured speaker at a school assembly. Henry County is one of those school systems that have received a significant influx of parents (Black and White) who "flew" from other schools.
For many schools with high standards they don't need Clifford "T.I." Harris to come to their schools to talk about anti-gang or anti-bullying or anti-violence. They merely need to point to him, the messages delivered via the product of his work that has made him rich and famous and the jail time that he has served over the years to send a clear message to the students without him setting foot on campus. The worst possible outcome is that T.I.'s visit will become a "career day" and thus they will follow in his footsteps.
The actual article that details the conflict is very interesting:
First the parent's saga:
A Henry County parent is complaining he wasn’t notified when Atlanta rapper T.I. was invited to speak to his children’s school.
And he was shocked by the response the school’s principal gave him.
Tom Myers declined to talk to an AJC reporter about his concerns, but told WSB that he wanted to know ahead of the March 5 anti-bullying assembly that the rapper would be appearing at the school.
Myers was upset that T.I., a convicted felon also known as Clifford Harris, was speaking to students at Woodland Middle School.
“Had I had the opportunity to not let them [my children] go, I would have had them sit out,” he told WSB.
T.I. served a year-long prison sentence last year on federal gun charges for trying to purchase a machine gun. As part of the condition of his release, T.I. was required to serve more than 400 hours of community service, including speaking engagements at schools.
In an e-mail to principal Terry Oatts, Myers said he told Oatts to give parents a choice of whether to “allow our children to be exposed to these questionable individuals.”
Now the principal's response:
Oatts’ reply, according to e-mails provided to WSB: “I thought about asking a guy who snorted cocaine and got arrested for DUI when he was 30 to come and speak to our kids, but President George W. Bush was not available.”Blogger's note: We all know that if someone were to make reference to President Obama's admitted past cocaine use the person making the statement would be subject to attack. Many are praising the Bush comments as "tell the truth and shame the devil".
Myers said he was floored.
“I could not believe that he would put that in an e-mail,” the parent told WSB
Now let's inspect a few things about Woodland Middle School
I have to give credit where credit it due. Woodland Middle School is doing what it needs to do to educate its children.
You had better believe that I would make a public spectacle upon learning that my children's school invited a potty mouthed rapper to an officially sanctioned school program. Without due public shaming I am not sure if TI and the rest of the "Hip Hop Voice Of The Street Pirates" will get the message.
Most certainly Democrats who cry bloody racism when their adversaries say the N-word yet invite entertainers who make liberal use of the word on stage to campaign for them for their power to pull in the Black vote have little problem with allowing a felon who recently exited jail to come into the schools as a credible source.
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- A Group Of Black Fathers Walk Their Children To School
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If education is indeed so important why aren't these castles where our jewels are created protected from ignorant influences?
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