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https://www.tricityrecordnm.com/articles/a-lakota-graduates-plume-was-cut-from-her-cap-the-farmington-district-remains-silent/
SO, to sum it up quick. A Lakota graduate had her cap taken from her DURING the national anthem.
(Why a Karen wouldn't be hated by conservatives for walking around during the anthem and NOT standing with her hand on her heart is beyond hypocritical)
Even worse, many news outlets left out that they cut her feather off of the hat and tossed the hat in the lost and found. No feather to be found.
This town is on the border of one of the biggest Reservations in all of the United States, and this Monster had the audacity to do what I would call a strait up hate crime.
zappyguy
God damn, that missed call icon gave me a heart attack.
Drix1942
prufock
I understand the story, but what's the context of the picture? Is the woman who stole the hat the one pictured?
dontcallmesurely
You are correct so I'd say you got it 👍
Dannyalcatraz
Just a reminder that bigots aren’t all the same. My college roomie was from SD, and mused that most of the racism up where he lived wasn’t directed at blacks, Hispanics or Asians, but instead targeted Native Americans almost exclusively. As he put it, it’s like the clashes during American expansion into the West never ended.
illmeetyouin2129
I know this isn't the point, but the beads and feather made the cap look so nice! Hard to imagine anyone being annoyed or mad about it.
arumunus
They had to find it in the lost and found themselves, from what I read, after the ceremony.
They said some of the beads were missing too from the bead work. Read the mom saying that they put prayers on those beads as they work them onto the cap- so it was essentially like missing prayers.
On a cultural aspect, this is all kinds of absolutely fucked up.
giganticroboticpenguin
Another example why MMIW is still a huge problem.
VashTehStampede
Colonizer thinking that needs to be squashed.
CodeWarrior
Its definitely a non-native way of thinking, this "we want uniformity" paradigm that they espouse. What the hell is the point of that in a high school setting? As a former US Army soldier, I get uniformity is certain situations. Standardization can have very beneficial impacts of a group that have an important mission or who need to be cohesive. These, however, are high schoolers getting ready to embark on the next stage in their lives. Just let them be themselves, including cultural heritage.
PinkyTheUnicorn2
Pretty sure everyone should be allowed to be their own cultural heritage, so long as it isn’t actively harming others, which this obviously isn’t.
CodeWarrior
I am fully down for that.
bloxxing
perhaps time for another governor to be barred from tribal lands.
dontcallmesurely
What's the governor got to do with this? Last I checked the state rules regarding this are on the students side.
RigidGristle
ArgJargon
Charged, not convicted.... It makes little difference to me, but be prepared for the 'Ack-Acktually!' from actual Mormons. Its enough to provide cognitive dissonance for them to just dismiss handy little facts like 'He was a fucking con artist FFS.'
Cargobiker530
South Park was too kind.
tr26
Also a water diviner!
SwiftyGuy
Ok, but what does Mormonism have to do with this?
backrideup9
They stand with them, but didn't render immediate and substantial justice. We're far passed the point of reason. They'll never stop on their own.
bananaspitz
Ok internet- go find that Karen
thatlazylizard
DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. She better lose her job, and I hope she gets sued in some shape or form.
LordHosk
$5 says she gets a 1 month suspension (over the summer) and sets up a go fund me which gets say... $80,000 pumped into it from conservative nutjobs.
SergeyPrkl
this is why gofundme etc. are straight illegal in civilized countries.
FermentTheRich3000
In the US, it's a big part of the healthcare system.
SergeyPrkl
Begging...
nero4ty2
Hs admin are so fucking self important, nothing about some little graduation ceremony is going to matter in 6 months, if it’s not hurting anyone let kids be kids, hs graduation is literally their last chance
AnonOmis1000
God I'd fucking throw hands with his bitch.
bripi
I have taken a vow of non-violence but I'd be ready to renounce for this bitch.
NKato
So would I. I have no patience for such cuntsplats.
bripi
What's missing here in the sum up was that this was done BY TWO FACULTY MEMBERS. The mother asked to remove the feather herself **and the a-holes just cut it off in front of her**. This was *absolutely* a hate-motivated turn of events. What a couple of cunts.
Shoutrr
i bet the karen did all this because she was upset this girl "didn't go back to her country"
gardenias
Name, shame, and complain to their employers. These people need to be socially Darwin'd.
happyrabbitzz
Depending on the kind of feather, there might Federal charges available. Native Americans have unique rights when it comes to some plumage.
alpacasaurusrex
It was an eagle feather. It was given to her by a tribal leader/family member. The school district is calling over their own white dicks to apologize. It’s gross.
CaptainYesterday
Might even be assault, theft, destruction of property. We paid for our own caps n gowns when I graduated. So, not hers to touch.
lurkmoarjono
come on dildo of consequences......
fishbicyclerepairman
Nice detail. One can only hope.
QuintinParry
If she chooses to this is going to result in a brutal lawsuit for the school in question.
happyrabbitzz
I really hope she does; it could set her up well for whatever comes after.
JiffyGee
Please please please let it be a bald eagle feather! *crosses fingers aggressively*
alpacasaurusrex
It was.
JiffyGee
happyrabbitzz
redkintoba
The traditional graduation garb is based on european clergy. This is lowkey colonial BS at it again
SamuthNBS
The idea that one traditional dress is sacred but another is BS is a bit shit, although defacing either should be criminal. Here we don't even have high school graduations, and universities often dispense with the garb for everything but photos anyway. And we don't play the national anthem at any point, or make people salute it.
redkintoba
Tradition is a slippery slope. One is a religious garb and the other is there for the sake of tradition. Neither is questioned but one of those has aged into dogma. So in the very least, the natives have seniority.
Zyrixion
Always is, sadly.
kushezz
I graduated from a British university operating in a castle since 1451. As traditional as they come. Last point of the dress code from graduation guidance was "or national dress". This one's not on us.
redkintoba
European schools were designed to break students and form them to obey the status quo. Prefects were specifically invented for that purpose. Penalizing someone for the sake of uniformity seems a bit out of touch for a place of learning IMO. And Im pretty sure this one is very much "On us." Or at least on our forefathers.
kushezz
There are prefects in university? But the point I was making is these traditional establishments with 600 years of "we've always done it this way" are very much capable of change. Mine will put any name you like on the student card regardless of what your passport says, which then replicates to all systems. We don't start the day with prayers. Tuition is free. Women are admitted. Protests are not discouraged. Can't use them to justify transatlantic shittyness any more.
redkintoba
Prefects can start as early as 5th year into college anyway. You are correct that these schools CAN change at any time. But I think if you need to point out that your school doesnt have manditory prayer and admits women, I think youve proven what the existing precident is with those schools.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Their argument 'it is a uniform' is a great one... for the US Army... not for high school kids trying to become individuals...
Zyrixion
You see, that's the problem. You're not supposed to be individuals, you're supposed to be uniform, uncomplaining cogs in the machine.
howimetyourauntrobin2
Exactly!!!
LordHosk
The story even says other students had decorated their caps and gowns, she was the only one singled out.
DarkZoma
I wouldn't even count it as one. Basically a one-time dress you wear for a one-time event.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Yep... my guess is they allowed other individualizations but attacked hers cuz it wasn't Christian enough.
Hemelsblauw
I just read it's losely based on European Clergy attire. But it's an American tradition, definitely not a European one. We wear what we like at our graduation.
gallowglacht
It is. The first universities grew out of established cathedral schools, initially designed to train clergy. Over time they began to teach law and medicine as well as theology as clerics were the most literate class of people. Later they added science in the form of natural philosophy and maths. And over time carried on secularising and adding subjects without there really being a hard line of where they stopped being a religious institution.
bippityboppitybuttsex
I went to a graduation, of a public high school, here in Chicagoland a year ago, every kid decorated their mortarboard or was wearing ribbons and buttons and scarves... the kids who weren't were called out for being lame.
As it should be.
FallenJester
Meanwhile the army has camo yarmukles and turbans for the religious folk for the uniform...
bippityboppitybuttsex
Which are both in AR 670-1... they are part of the uniform.
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30302-AR_670-1-000-WEB-1.pdf
FallenJester
Right, if even the military can make religious exemptions for different attire, then a flipping school? Come on. But even then, we had a Jewish guy in the brigade, and some ignorant nco would always get on his for wearing his yarmulke in the chow hall.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Yeah, that NCO was a giant pop-up target for an EEO complaint...
bippityboppitybuttsex
I was a Jewish kid in an infantry battalion in USAREUR, I asked for Yom Kippur off and was told to put in a leave request and that it would prob be denied.
Asked the chaplain and got 2 days off (no leave), and they set me up to go to a synagogue in Regensburg (one that had been burned down in 1938 and rebuilt in 1947)... got rickety, rickety wrecked with some Russians during the break fast.
FallenJester
Man, Germany would've been great. I was a medic, so I technically could have gone to ANY base.
Fuckin Ft. Sill. Awful place.