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Didn?t see it posted, so I apologize if it?s already been discussed.
This performance by the Forrest Hill Band at Brookhaven is inexcusable. Glad to see FH responded by suspending the band director:
https://www.wlbt.com/2018/10/06/comm...n-high-school/
WTF. Fired not suspended should be the penalty.
Heads should roll for that shit. ****ing disgusting. Director and principal should be fired immediately and the kids involved expelled.
The band director and the principal should both be fired, today. That's just disgusting.
My question is, why did the Brookhaven fans not go off on the band that night?
What are you saying? Storm the field and beat up kids? They did the right thing which is document and complain to the proper authorities. Terrible taste and folks will lose their job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutt the Hoople
Generally high school bands just do one show per year, so this would have been something planned and rehearsed for months and not a direct response to any incident in Brookhaven.
None the less, they obviously should have been more sensitive and edited that part out of the show out last night. You have to show basic common sense and decency in these situations.
Nike is shipping them new band uniforms.
The band should be suspended from further MSHAA activities.
That part of the show should have never been in the performance to start with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
It's sad how our children are being indoctrinated in this fashion. Public education $ going for this type of hatred. For the sake of our nation, let's hope a non fake news outlet spreads as much of this incident to the rest of the country.
I'm saying that the Brookhaven fans there weren't too upset with the show.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeastMan
if the races were reversed, the kids would probably be charged with a hate crime.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg
Maybe. But I'm not going to judge an entire band based on one still photograph out of context. You could do that on a lot of high school and college band performances and get the totally wrong idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by somebodyshotmypaw
Again though, they clearly should have not performed the scene in Brookhaven, given recent events. Gotta be smarter and more thoughtful than that.
Maybe. ??? One still photo? Again though, ???? Gotta be smarter? ya think?Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
61's Turn.
The people in the band have very little to no say in what type of music they play. I certainly didn't want to do the Madonna show when I was in the band.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mutt the Hoople
Halftime shows are just filler for halftime. It shouldn't be to make a political statement. What Forest Hill did was tasteless and wrong.
When that still photo has band members holding machine guns and people laying on the ground it's hard for it to not be a bad look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Band director I suspect will be fired. What sucks this will be all over every media out let nation wide.
Were they making a political statement though? I haven't seen anything that gives any context to the photo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
In the article it says they were depicted as holding SWAT team members hostage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Yep?Quote:
Originally Posted by HereComesTheSpiral
What was the theme of their halftime show? Was this a reference to a scene from a movie or music video? Sorry, but I find it incredibly unlikely that a high school band would just make "anti-police" as a theme to their halftime show, and even if you don't find that hard to believe, I don't really see how nurses and doctors fit into that theme.
Anybody that works for a school should know that is not allowed. I teach and our students aren't even allowed to DRAW pictures of guns much less perform a show with fake ones. This is a huge no no in school nowadays.
And then to add in where they were performing that's just not smart at all.
I'm not sure. I was speaking more in general terms rather than about the specific halftime show. My point is halftime shows are supposed to be about entertainment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
The interesting thing to me that I did read was no one from Brookhaven had any idea that they were going to do that. That leads me to believe that there may have been some intent there. Bands can put in sets like that well within a week of the game. And I know my high school band director would watch our opponents bands halftime show- not sure if that's the norm. But it seems like someone would have known.
I think the halftime show had something to do with the film John Q. The Band director should have held off the performance for that night.
Al Sharpton and CNN would be there as we speak. Pretty damn sad what this country has become. And that goes for both conservatives and liberals. Hate is overflowingQuote:
Originally Posted by somebodyshotmypaw
I consider it much worse than tasteless and wrong. I'm thinking / saying it was downright criminal. This cancerous narrative plaguing our country has basically posted open season signs on cops as record numbers of their deaths continue to pour in. This "show" if you wanna call it that was to promote murder. Spinning it as something else is sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
What I read was the theme was from the movie John Q, but why have that as a theme? Most of these students probably weren't born when that movie came out and it's not like it's a classic movie.
This. Kids have been expelled for bringing fake guns or even water guns to school.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdDawg
Yeh let’s give them a pass since it was probably based from a movie. Jesus manQuote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
This is true. I'm not even sure if the James Bond show my high school band did my freshman year would be allowed either because we had these big plywood guns the flag girls has to twirl.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdDawg
I'm hoping it DOES get to as many nationwide media outlets as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Lambert
It shouldn't have been done. Period. It was just wrong. Common sense and decency has to come into play. Smh
Not a free pass - the director needs to be more sensitive in the future. This was an appalling gaffe on his part.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg
However, we shouldn't push a false narrative that the band was performing an "anti-police" halftime show or that they were making fun of the murdered police officers in Brookhaven.
That's a really weird theme.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbowski
Not a free pass? in the future? what future? as a band director? gaffe my ass. false narrative? WTF else could it have been?Quote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
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Are you the band director? No I doubt you are so you don’t know what the message was. Sorry, but after cops were killed the same week and then they perform this shit, this was intentional. But yeh, thanks for your explanation of events KapQuote:
Originally Posted by Quaoarsking
Take it to Fox and make sure they know about it Greenhead. They can't silence us!!!
Are you the band director? Do you not see the logical breakdown in your post here? I can't possibly know the motivation because I'm not the band director, but you can?Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenheadDawg
I was involved in marching bands for over 10 years, so I know how they work. I know that high school bands perform 1 show per year and that Forest Hill would have been doing this show all season and the decision to do so would have nothing to do with events in Brookhaven that happened over a month after they started performing it.
Yeah! Let's make our own state look bad to advance a false politically-charged narrative! That'll show us!Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbowski
Already done. Not by me but it’s been done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbowski