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Re: Student apathy, Feb. 27
Editor: I would like to commend principal Steve Cox on his actions. Frankly, sometimes epithets might well be what is needed for youth of today who punctuate with such words.
Principal Cox, back in (I think) 1969, walked out of a recreation center dance in Dade City along with several others in response to the recreation director telling a young African-American that he could not dance with a white girl. The center was emptied, leaving a band and no dance, much to the dismay and chagrin of the director.
That's the kind of man Mr. Cox is, and I fully support and respect his actions.
Steve is a true credit to his community, and he need not apologize to anyone for his actions.
Re: Student apathy
Editor: Why I have apathy is based on the considerations that I don't know about the Civil War. I don't know about discrimination in the early 1960s. I don't know anything about civics or history even though I live in a supposed open society. I don't read the newspaper, books or anything that does not give me instant, fast pleasure.
Heck, I don't even know who I am, much less anything that goes on around me.
As long as I get what I want, I don't care about the black teenager who had a rope put around his neck; it did not happen to me.
As for the loyal deputy, who happened to be black and was shot dead for no real reason, I don't care. It did not happen to me.
I have to be in this class only because it's Black History Month and needed the sleep more than the learning experience. Don't challenge me or I'll blow up the school, kill any who get in my selfish way, and I want my allowance increased. Black History Month, is that a new rock-rap group?
What do you mean when you say I disrespect Native American culture? We just dress in Indian clothes, drink when we parade and have a party beating the sacred drum used in religious ceremonies.
Heck, it's just some good old white boys and girls out to have fun at the taxpayers' expense.
I don't care we don't pay for the cost of city police to maintain the disorder we cause.
I don't care about some good old boys raising the rebel flag over our school; I don't even know why anybody would find that offensive as no one was hung? What do you mean I have to take the FCAT test? You mean I have to know something? Well, that is not my way of thinking.
I've got rights also, and I don't care about respect, responsibility, rudeness, rowdiness or others' rights as long as they don't bother me.