They should move cause LIVING NEXT TO A REFINERY AINT GOOD FOR A CHILD! Sounds like they got almost got sued earlier and changed for a while and changed back. http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2003-04-24/news3.html/1/index.html Stung Seven African-American girls tried out for the Texas City Stingarettes drill team this year. None of them made the squad. BY ZOE CARMICHAEL feedback@houstonpress.com When Kristi Columbus cried after she was not chosen for the Stingarettes drill team at Texas City High School last month, her father initially put it down to disappointment. But when his 15-year-old daughter, an honor student who has her future as a radiologist mapped out, told him she wanted to drop out of school or transfer to a less racist district, Karl Columbus started listening. "My daughter shouldn't have to be fighting these battles," said Columbus, 57. "These battles have already been fought. I have done my best to raise her by myself since her mother passed, and I don't want things like this to hurt her." Blocks away, Mike Roberson was holding a similar conversation with his tearful daughter Chelsea, another honor student who didn't make the team. Chelsea and Kristi took dance lessons together in preparation for tryouts for the team, which performs half-time routines decked out in short sequined dresses, cowboy hats and boots. The girls practiced drills, high kicks and splits for hours a day on quiet streets in front of their houses and in their living rooms, hoping to become Stingarettes. When Roberson found that none of seven black girls who tried out had made the team, he was worried. When he discovered that all of the judges who chose the team members were white, he was even more concerned. "At the risk of sounding stereotypical, I think something is wrong when not one of seven black girls can make a dance team," said Roberson, 39, who owns the Cabo restaurants downtown and on the Richmond Strip. "That is like seven black guys who can't make a basketball team." . . .
Outside of Mr. Roberson's racist quote about basketball and blacks, this article is not newsworthy whatsoever. Mr. Roberson accuses whites of being racist, then uses racial stereotypes in his basketball analogy. Hypocrisy at its finest, ladies and gentlemen. No where in the article does it mention the quality of competition, nor does it mention the quality of the dancers who did not get selected. Racism continues to be cited as an excuse for failure. When will people assume accountability for their actions? Not everyone in life is successful, and no amount of social handouts will change that.
Texas City stinks, Its like Pasedena, Seriously, I worked in the Mall of the Mainland for about a month. I swear, when I drove off the highway you could smell the stinch, and as soon as you drove back on, it went away. I'm not kidding.
You get used to it after a while. What the article also fails to mention is that HUNDREDS of girls try out for the Stingarettes each year....only seven black girls tried out? If that number were in the 20-30 range, the racism argument might be valid. You want racism? Travel down 646 to Santa Fe High. I also love this part of the article... Janice Weatherspoon filed a complaint charging racism against the school district after her daughter Jayla was not selected as a Stingarette by an all-white group of judges. The school redid the tryouts under the supervision of the Texas Education Agency, Weatherspoon said, and with a diverse panel of judges, Jayla was chosen. I went to school with Jayla back at TCHS, and she wasn't selected not because she was black, but because she's a fat ass...There were actually a couple of fat chicks that whined when they didn't get selected, but the white ones couldn't cry racism... Now, I'm all for equal rights and everything, but I can tell you that looking at a 200 lb. chick dance in a drill team outfit doesn't exactly pump you up before a big football game...
I remember we had much bigger girls on the drill team in my high school. There were about 3000 people in my high school in Alvin at that time.
Easy, man! All I can say is that wasn't the case in MY high school or college. OK, maybe high school but not college! Of course the drummers got all the hotties
We didn't have many african americans on the dance squads or cheerleading squads either when I was in high school. I'll attribute that more to the fact that McCullough High(now Woodlands High) is about 85% white though. But it was okay because the suburban girls were pretty ******* hot so no one was complaining.
Yes, the band will take anyone. In my high school band we had plenty of fat chicks, we even had a midget(maybe a dwarf). The midget was a good marcher, but she did have to take long fast strides to keep up with the rest of the band.
I'm not even gonna mention the racism present at my high school, but here's a hint: Someone already mentioned my high school in this thread. FWIW, I moved away from there 3 days after I graduated and never intend to move back.
Until the policy was changed my senior year the school I went to had open Cheerleader tryouts and the squad was chosen by the student body. It was an unspoken truth but common knowledge that the student body had a self-imposed rule that you voted for the 6 hottest girls trying out and then you voted for the worst candidate trying out. It was also fairly common knowledge that my class was full of anti-establishment types who frequently voted against the norm, usually for their own amusement. How else can you explain that my sohmor eyear I was voted as the class homecoming duchess (yes I am male, no I was not running for the position). For details see this thread
Well, you do generally have to be able to carry a tune and play an instrument reasonably-well enough to be in the band, but you are correct that in the band, looks aren't important. And I don't know about you all, but when I was in high school and in college, we had more than enough hot chicks in the band. Sure the cheerleaders and drill teams had higher concentrations of hot chicks, but the band was never lacking.
Plus, band chicks were usually smarter than cheerleader and drill team chicks. Never hurts to have a brain to go along with the T&A...
