7/12/2008
Canadian mother loses kids over swastika on her kid’s arm
This is a bizarre story but shows a double standard.
A Winnipeg mother whose children were seized by authorities after she sent her daughter to school with a swastika on her arm says she regrets redrawing the Nazi symbol after a teacher scrubbed it off.
The mother, who considers herself a white nationalist, is fighting the child welfare system to regain custody of her daughter, 7, and son, 2. They were taken away after the girl was sent to school with the swastika drawn on her arm.
Four months ago, her daughter drew a swastika on her arm and went to school, where her teacher scrubbed it off. The mother helped her daughter draw it on her arm again, an act she regrets.
“It was one of the stupidest things I’ve done in my life but it’s no reason to take my kids,” the mother told CBC News.
Child and Family Services case workers were alerted and went to the family’s apartment, where they found neo-Nazi symbols and flags, and took custody of her son. Her daughter was taken from school.
In court documents, social workers say they’re worried the parents’ conduct and associations might harm the emotional well-being of the children and put them at risk.
Although she proudly wears a silver necklace that includes a swastika and has “white pride” flags in her home, the mother, who can’t be named to avoid identifying her children, denies she’s a neo-Nazi or white supremacist.
“A black person has a right to say black power or black pride and yet they’re turning around on us and saying we’re racists and bigots and neo-Nazis because we say white pride. It’s hypocrisy at its finest.”
This reminds me of Barack Obama’s black separatist church and how black nationalism of the Malcolm X sort is treated with the brushoff. Hannity had asked Reverend Wright if the ‘black value system’ was replaced with the ‘white value system’, wouldn’t that be considered racist?
It IS hypocrisy at its finest; and although this happened in Canada, you have to wonder when it’s going to start happening in the US.
I was reading an article the other day at Tech Republic: Five off work activities that could get you fired that speaks to this.
Most of the states in the U.S. operate under an at-will employment policy — unless you’re a member of a federally protected class, you can be fired for any reason. It may surprise you what a company could fire you for.










July 13th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
This story made http://detentionslip.org! Voted #1 for crazy news in education.