Monday
Feb092009
Because Every Movement Needs a Motto: "Reinstate the Jonesboro 8"
Monday, February 9, 2009 at 8:31AM The Blogmother 
Today the parents of the Jonesboro Dance team are supposed to meet with the inept Clayton County School District Officials, who threw their daughters under the bus when Clayton County School Employees failed to properly supervise the student under their tutelage. The girls have since been ostracized and are being subjected to a hostile educational environment where Clayton County School officials apparently are allowing them to be referred to as "sluts" and "hos" everyday at school.
Seeing as how the Black folks in Georgia have a consistent history of running to the aid of young people who have committed "youthful" indiscretions like having sex on school property and having sex with unconscious teen girls while videotaping a drug fueled orgy (Genarlow Wilson), we here are WAOD are wondering where the marches are for these young ladies on the dance team. They haven't violated any laws that we are aware of so why have they not been wrapped in the warm bosom of the Black community in Georgia that has an unlimited amount of tolerance for all other types of juvenile debauchery. Do the people of Georgia believe some teens are worth saving and others are disposable? We don't know, but this just looks really BAD.
Since every movement to save Black youth from the consequences of their actions needs a T-shirt and placard, we went through the trouble to come up with a slogan for the Jonesboro dance team. We've coined them "The Jonesboro 8". Not to be confused with the "Douglasville 6" or the "Jena ^ (n-1)" We've also come up with a nifty chant in the event somebody decides to march for these young ladies. (2,4,6,8, re-in-state the Jonesboro 8!" We're anxiously awaiting footage of the massive demonstrations on behalf of these young ladies being able to attend school unmolested by their classmates, teachers, and administrators.
WAOD is currently in contact with Rev. A. L. Clock of the Bedside Baptist Church about possibly having some type of virtual rally for these young women. A virtual rally is like a rally, except you're "virtually" there.
Yes, that is a 3D model that I whipped up as part of my ongoing animation studies. The orange chair is a nice touch don't you think :)
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Awesome! I am behind this 100%. Hopefully I'm not alone.
What this school district needs to worry about is their accreditation status? Yeah, they lost accreditation last year. Hope they are working that out.
I support this! Girls keep your head up!
I would love to see this community support these young ladies in very evident manners. They are not the enemy. They need the outcries of parents, administrators, community leaders and national support.
A little help from the national media would help also.
Let's see what happens...
Count me in...this is some ol' BS....
I can't believe that it has even gotten to this! maybe Im young and jaded, desensitized maybe, but thier performance was not that shocking! I talked to my sister ( a former dancer) about it, all she was concerned about was the lack of choreography and the terrible transitions (though she did gripe about the butt tootin) ! but we went to school in Chicago for some years, sadly alot of the inner city schools do not spring for choreographers, or trained coaches. And thier parents can't afford to send the girls to the training camps, to develop technique, or execution. BUt yeah I digg the movement. Perhaps besides seeing they get reinstated, we could fundraise to send them to the dance camps, and afford the input of a credible choreographer.
I can dig it. ;-)
I'm down with the "Reinstate the Jonesboro 8" movement.
I live in Joneboro and my wife is a teacher in Clayton County. The problem with the accreditation was the old school boards fault - they have since been fired and a new board has taken over. As far as the dancers are concerned - from what I understand by talking to people around town (teachers, administrators, parents, etc) a parent (mother) of one of the dancers was the choreographer and leader, but the girls had a lot of creative input, no teachers or faculty. The reason they were "thrown under a bus" is because everyone seems to be worried about offending the state while they are trying to get the accreditation reinstated. I know, it's not a justifiable excuse but there it is! The district was doing well when the accreditation was lost - we all got punished for what a few ignorant people (school board members) did. Why? Because white folks want the land that we live on - it's cheap, easy access to the airport and no traffic concerns. But, that's a whooooole nother story!
Are you serious? How about we save our rallying for people who have been truly wronged. The parents and school administers had no problem allowing these girls to present themselves as adults. So why not let them take their punishment like adults.
@candy I am actually surprised you are the first person to ask. Thre are about five clues in that post that
scream SARCASTIC! satire! parody!
But since you are unclear,
I a mocking theknee jerk reaction to automatically turn every juvenile delinquuent into the next Montgomery Bus Boycott. The foolish beief that advocating for someone requires that they be faultless. Thus our penchant to minimize bad acts.
I have no intention of marching, and I thought that was clear with the virtual march statement.
I am deadly serious when I point to the double standard of defending one group of teenagers while throwing the other out to fend for themselves.
I am also concerned that they are attending school in a hostile enviroment.
If you want to treat them like adults then apply that across the board. If they were adults going into a place where they are being called sluts and ho's, then the sexual harrassment case would already have been filed.
I didn't create this hypocrisy, the Black folks in Georgia did. I am just pointing it out.
This entire fiasco is ridiculous, but itclearly demonstrates a glaring double standard.
Any one who read that post and concluded I was picking up a placard should immediately stop reading this blog. I beg you to!!!!
I am deadly serious when I point to the double standard of defending one group of teenagers while throwing the other out to fend for themselves.
I am also concerned that they are attending school in a hostile enviroment.
If you want to treat them like adults then apply that across the board. If they were adults going into a place where they are being called sluts and ho’s, then the sexual harrassment case would already have been filed.
I didn’t create this hypocrisy, the Black folks in Georgia did. I am just pointing it out.
This entire fiasco is ridiculous, but itclearly demonstrates a glaring double standard.
I dont want to come off as negative, cause I like your blog, but sometimes you are so illogical and so negative towards black people.
There is no double standard. I am NOT for calling young ladies names, but being called names by your classmates is a FARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR cry from being locked up.
So people can organize against the criminal justice system, racist police officers, unfair sentences, and overzealous judges, but what or WHO are they going to boycott or call out on those young ladies behalf?
Unless one is saying that it is the TEACHERS or school administrators who are calling these girls names or are allowing other students in their presence to call these girls names, or they aren't willing to punish those students who do call those girls names, what you have are teenagers being VERY mean to their fellow students.
And how do you hold "black folks" in Georgia responsible for anything?
Do you honestly believe that anything but an extremely small MINORITY of black people were involved in any protests on behalf of any young men?
There are MILLIONS of black people in GA, how many do you think did ANYTHING in some protest?
@iamme73 I could call you names too, but its not even worth it.
if you don't think there is a double standard then don't read a blog called "What About Our Daughters" The whole point of the blog is that there is a disparate treatment. The needs and concerns of Black women and girls are often ignored or marginalized as you did in your comment.
If you don't see a double standard then fine! I see one and so do many other people who read the blog.
There ARE MANY double standards in the treatment of black women/girls, and there is a double standard in this case, just not the one you tried to point out.
I am against the WHOLE idea of calling names and judging young women based on their sexual behavior, style of dress, or the dances that they perform. That is where the double standard in this situation rests.
This society and the people in it allow young boys MUCH more latitude in their behavior before they are criticized, and boys are almost NEVER called names based their sexual behavior.
The post about these girls have brought me out of lurking.
When I first read this post, it screamed "satire" to me. I was once confused and now I have seen the light. Don't expect me to get all self-righteous any time soon.
After seeing that video, I don't know what made me more upset, the fact that they were called sluts or that horrible mess they called a dance routine they did.
Please let me know when the T-Shirts are available :)
*clicks the x and goes to class"
Hey Gina,
Loving the satire :-)
I agree in a sence
this cause is worthy of action but insted of a rally we need an actual freedom fighter rather than the owner of this website (no disrespect intended) to assemble and plan maybe someone who actually knows these young women much like Myself.