White Houston Memorial High School students dress up for “ Thug Day”

[Col.IndianaLongnuts]

HOUSTON — Students at Memorial High School sparked controversy after turning a spirit week event into “thug day.”

As many as 30 students went to school Tuesday dressed in chains, jerseys, fake tattoos, and corn rows, before administrators announced they would cancel the rest of spirit week.

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[John Dunbar]

this is fine

 

[TaySan]

*cringe*

 

[Dream Machine]

Looks at all these chavs

 

[Deleted member 249]

Sigh

 

[WedgeX]

Oh Lord.

Spoiler

and is that a Space Jam jersey??

 

[Doggg]

Ehhh....

 

[HamSandwich]

*cringe*

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This. Def racist but even more cringier.

 

[Slayven]

It's a small thing but I appreacite no black face

 

[Vyrak]

Came in expecting black face, going to chalk this up as progress.

 

[nsilvias]

i expected worse

 

[excelsiorlef]

that's white about what I expected when I clicked this thread

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Those "hip hop" Enzo Amore tights.

 

[Mahonay]

 

[Cantaim]

This has been making the rounds on my local Houston twitter feed. It has been quite the journey.

 

[Tempy]

Could've been way worse I guess.

 

[Green]

Respect to the Space Jam.

 

[Allforce]

I mean, a lot of them actually got the clothes for the era right....

 

[Mona]

why are they biting their pinky?

 

[collige]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

The local community reacts.

"Look, I think it was an over-reaction by people," said Todd Forbes, who graduated from Memorial High School in the early 1980's. "I think it might've been inappropriate, but the school over-reacted, too. And if that's racist, then I must be missing something."

Other former students of the school found the attire more offensive.

Robert Boyd, a Memorial High School graduate, commented on a private Facebook group, "If you can't see how 'Thug Day' is obviously racist, you might be from Memorial HS. (Class of '81 here.)"

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[TAJ]

High school me would have dressed as a cop.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Edit: Beaten

 

[Deleted member 13496]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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Hooooly shit hahahaha.

 

[Protein]

Cop with a Punisher tattoo would have worked better.

 

[Violence Jack]

That 3rd picture looks like some Spirit Halloween "Thug Costume" advertisement.

 

[Deleted member 11822]

It's a small thing but I appreacite no black face

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came here to say the same thing. still yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

 

[SugarNoodles]

Was the administration disappointed

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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oof

 

[UltraMav]

I was prepared for the worst.

 

[Col.IndianaLongnuts]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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Lmao so true and so savage

 

[CopyOfACopy]

looks like a space jam costume party

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I guess. Is this some Houston culture that I am unaware of?

 

[jroc74]

It's a small thing but I appreacite no black face

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Was thinking the same thing:

i expected worse

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[chuey]

Looks like Gathering of the Juggalos

 

[TickleMeElbow]

So they basically showed up looking like RiFF RAFF lol.

 

[Deleted member 11822]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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HAHA!

also

 

[Cordy]

Since I saw it was from Houston I didn't expect blackface. Shoutout to Paul Wall. A lot better than it could have been.

 

[Cordy]

So they basically showed up looking like RiFF RAFF lol.

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Riff Raff's from Houston so that's another reason.

 

[Bakercat]

Can't wait to see terrorist day

 

[Lopez]

I hope these pictures follow these dummies for a long time

 

[jroc74]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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Cot damn.....I don't even know how to respond to this...

 

[Nephtes]

100% less black face than I expected.
Still pretty gross.

Sad.
Not one person dressed up as a bad guy from Double Dragon or Final Fight... All of which would have been appropriate thug costumes.

 

[Christian]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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Fuuuuuuckckckckck!!

 

[Mr. X]

Baby steps, there's no black face

 

[Firewithin]

whats with the celtic and thunder girls biting the pinky thing?

 

[Shadybiz]

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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Oh DAMN. Brutal but true.

 

[WedgeX]

100% less black face than I expected.
Still pretty gross.

Sad.
Not one person dressed up as a bad guy from Double Dragon or Final Fight... All of which would have been appropriate thug costumes.

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Or the bad guys from the B:TAS intro.

 

[DJGolfClap]

Cot damn.....I don't even know how to respond to this...

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With concern for America because it's accurate and nothing is being done to stop it.

 

[Etrian Oddity]

Someone get down there and beat those kids' ass

I saw this pop up on my Twitter and saw this uncomfortably savage reply:

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-- nevermind, ass-whooping injected. goddam

 

[808s & Villainy]

White people SMDH