Arrest warrants issued for parents who cheered high school graduates

[hamsterjill]

46. Please do not make appropriate behavior at an event a racist issue.

I clearly stated that I do not think these people should have been arrested.

But please do not make the fact that people should be expected to behave in a certain manner at a distinguished event a racist issue. It is not. The arrest very well may be racist. The expectation of good behavior is not racist.

There are plenty of people whose children have had a hard time getting to that stage with a cap and gown. Certainly that includes some black families. But there are others, too, namely POOR children - of all colors whose parents may have been particularly proud.

When you accept an invitation to an event and that event has posted rules, it is inconsiderate to disobey the request to act in a certain way.

No, I will not "fuck order". There are times when order is important and necessary. Graduations are one of them so that each person crossing the stage can have his/her name heard without that name being drowned out by others cheering for another graduate.

Perhaps at your graduation there were no posted rules as to expected behavior, but at this event (the one the subject of the OP), there were.

Now again...the arrest of these individuals should not have happened. Asking them to leave (and them complying by leaving) was.