Snowflake alert!
Posted on 02/02/2016 2:14:13 PM PST by BBell
Andre Perry, a New Orleans education consultant, said he was shocked on Sunday (Jan. 31) afternoon when he noticed that his 5-year-old son had caught a necklace of Mardi Gras beads studded with plastic Confederate flags, thrown from a float in the Krewe of Carrollton parade.
"When I noticed what he caught," Perry wrote in a text message, "I took them away from him."
Perry, who is African-American, said that he later did his best to help his son understand the implications of the symbol. He also posted a photo of the beads on his social media account, which attracted a flurry of sympathetic responses.
Perry said that he and his son were watching the parade from the Gallier Hall stands, at the invitation of the mayor's office. He suspects that since the beads were tossed at the place where Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who was not present, often greets parades, the gesture may have been a comment on the mayor's proposal to remove Confederate monuments from the New Orleans landscape.
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"I want this to be a place where he is welcome," he said. "But they're throwing hate at us."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
...a New Orleans education consultant....
Someone needs to kick his ass and get his mind right!
That's the essence of being a leftist. "Seldom right but never in doubt"
My pleasure :-)
Snowflake alert!
Me. It was a daytime parade through a nice part of NOLA. The day time parades are family friendly. Now a night time parade down bourbon street, that’s a whole other animal.
A good portion of the beads and other stuff that are thrown is recycled. We save beads and use them again the next year. People make money picking up beads after the parades, sorting them, and selling them.
No kidding. I’m reaching for some Tramadol as we speak...
If that doesn’t work, try some damitol
Well said Sasparilla me too lmao.
i’ve only seen the other animal and that was 30 some years ago.
Can’t imagine now.
Cool beads. Way better than the cheesy naked lady or pot leaf beads.
Racist Chinese and sweatshop labor.
That looks like “cultural appropriation”!!!! It’s a “trigger event”!!! It’s a “microaggression”!!!
lol
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