NeoTemplar
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A quick update on the Principal. She's a Jehovah Witness and they don't believe in any allegiance to any nation except to Jehovah's.
Her apparent reasoning for the ban on the song is "The lyrics, she says could offend other cultures and are too grown-up for five-year-olds.
Controversially, Hawkins is allowing alternatives including Baby by Justin Bieber, with flirty lyrics such as: Are we an item? Girl, quit playing."
She's getting a lot of hate mail over this. Daily Mail link pretty informative. From the article:
It is not the first time that Hawkins, a Jehovas Witness, has tried to stamp down on the school's patriotic rituals.
A few years ago she tried to end the tradition of students reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and singing America the Beautiful.
Staff objected and she was forced to back down but it has been noted that she does not herself recite the pledge because of her religious beliefs.
She has in the past been called a tyrant and bully by staffers and was reprimanded in 2010 by the Department of Education after complaints arose that she had called the school racist.
Im black. Your previous principal was white and Jewish. More of us are coming, she is alleged to have said.
Read more: 'You are a filthy, dirty, ugly subhuman gorilla': The shocking hate mail sent to New York principal who banned God Bless the USA from kindergarten graduation | Mail Online
I already knew that but thanx anyway and they say black people can't be racist i'd call that white/jewish comment racist
Who is "they", and when did "they" say that?
They always means the Majority