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Was a 5th Grader Kicked Out of His Elementary School for Saying a Local Newscaster Resembles Barack Obama?

Nov. 18, 2011 10:53am Dave Urbanski

Parent: Grayson Thomas Kicked Out of School for Saying News Man Looks Like Obama

Grayson Thomas, in a photo taken by his father

The guy dressed in the suit and tie, smiling and shaking a bevy of hands, caught Grayson Thomas’ eye.

Grayson wasn’t alone. Teachers and other students at Stevenson Ranch Elementary School couldn’t take their eyes off the lunchtime visitor, either.

Grayson, a fifth-grader at the campus near Santa Clarita, Ca., noticed the gentleman’s outward characteristics: Tall and lean. Good looking. Charismatic. Charming. Energetic.

Then he made a fatal error: Grayson, 11, pulled a little “made you look” joke on a schoolmate seated next to him, saying something along the lines of “Obama’s visiting our school today,” referring to the magnetic figure holding court nearby.

It wasn’t Obama, of course. But from Grayson’s point of view, Chris Schauble—morning co-anchor of KTLA 5′s TV news program in Los Angeles—did possess a demeanor and countenance similar to the president’s.

According to Grayson’s dad, Darren Thomas (who provided the previous details), what happened next was scary: Word of his son’s Obama-Schauble comparison spread to Schauble’s daughter, Shelbi, who was sharing lunch with her newsman father. And Shelbi was uncomfortable with Grayson’s statement, saying it felt racist.

Then a teacher was summoned, then the principal, Candace Fleece, then the Newhall School District superintendent, Marc Winger. And that very afternoon, Nov. 4, Grayson was kicked out of Stevenson Ranch for good, his father says, for implying that all black men look alike.

The Blaze asked school officials and Schauble for comment to little avail. Schauble did not respond to interview requests. School board president Suzan T. Solomon noted “regret” over “misinformation out in the press” regarding the ordeal but declined further comment. Fleece’s office referred the matter to Winger, who offered that “there are two sides to every story” but declined further comment, citing student confidentiality issues. He provided the following statement:

The Newhall School District regrets that untrue statements have appeared in the media. The District adheres to the privacy requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) as amended (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99), California Education Code sections 49062 et seq., Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution and all other applicable federal and state laws and regulations that safeguard a student’s educational records, privacy and confidentiality.

Winger apparently revealed a bit more to a local radio news site, which quoted him as saying, “It’s not what [Grayson] said, it’s how he said it…I can tell you that there was history and that the student had been counseled and we met with the parents.”

It’s besides the point, says Darren Thomas, that neither Winger, Fleece, nor Solomon—not even Schauble or his daughter—were within earshot to evaluate “how” his son originally stated his Obama-lookalike comment. The kicker, Darren says, is that school officials had no basis for determining that Grayson’s comparison implied that all black men look alike. And then they punished him.

“How can you assume the intent of a child?” Darren asked. “This is the thought police. [They're] not God; [their] bureaucratic brain[s have] melted into a mush of political correctness.”

Darren first spoke to Principal Fleece, whom he says assured him that Grayson’s past misbehavior—which included stealing school supplies from a campus store with other students and minor classroom outbursts—had nothing to do with the decision to permanently kick him out of the school.

Rather, Darren recalls Fleece explaining, Grayson made the Obama-Schauble comparison in a “teasing” and “mocking” way…and the school deals with racism very seriously. (Darren adds that Fleece contacted Schauble and apologized for Grayson’s remark.)

Darren Thomas says he next spoke with Winger, whom he said backed what Fleece told him and added that he was doing Grayson a “favor” by not noting racism on the paperwork revoking his interdistrict permit, which “returns” Grayson to his school district of residence. (“Failure to maintain acceptable behavior” is one reason the Newhall School District stipulates for revoking such a permit.)

Darren says he “begged” Winger to note racism on the paperwork, adding that “if it were that huge of a problem, wouldn’t you let the next school know?”

According to Darren, he asked the California Department of Education to open an investigation on possible civil rights violations in regard to Grayson’s situation, and he may pursue legal action as well. (Darren says Liberty Counsel, which handles civil rights cases from a religious freedom and family values perspective, been in touch with him.)

Darren says he met with school board president Solomon last night, but a resolution—namely, a public apology from Fleece and Winger—seems remote. The Thomas’ aren’t interested in Grayson returning to Stevenson Ranch, either. (He now attends Tesoro Del Valle Elementary in Valencia’s neighboring Saugus Union School District.) In the end Darren says he hopes—at the very least—that similar incidents don’t befall other students.

“[They]‘ve empowered a young girl, and all kids connected with this girl,” Darren says, “[to believe] that ‘If I don’t like you, all I have to do is say racism and you’re done.’” (He said the student who told Schauble’s daughter about Grayson’s comment does not like Grayson and, in fact, sent him harassing text messages the following Monday, Nov. 7, celebrating his dismissal. Darren says he’s turning over the texts to law enforcement and school authorities.)

“Is it because my son is from Alabama originally?” Darren says he asked Winger. “Is it because Schauble is someone of importance? In Grayson’s group of friends, every single one of them is of a different ethnicity—Korean, Vietnamese, black, white, Hispanic. Our home has always been open to a wide range of people.”

That includes Julian Eubanks, a childhood friend of Grayson’s mother who bunked with the Thomas family for the first six months of 2011 while he looked for acting work.

Julian Eubanks, seated behind his friend Grayson, having fun at dinner

“As a man of color and a close friend to this family, I am [offended] that such a grotesque accusation could be made against any of them, especially my ‘G-Man’,” Eubanks recently commented on a blog. “The so called adults in control of this situation have handled it horribly…they need to intervene and clear this young man’s name.”

(h/t: The Miller Brothers, Christopher Hopper)

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Comments (697)

Diablo4965
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:27am
They do look alike, and im sure that if say Mike Tyson was standing there, Grayson wouldn’t have even made a comparason to Odumbo.

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- YoungBloodNews
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:07pm
  Silly child, HOW DARE you compare Dear Leader to anyone but black jesus!
  
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- Marci
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:24pm
  The thought police. Period. Insanity, pure insanity.
  
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- Mr_Ozzy
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:28pm
  This Anchor looks more like President Obama than the guy who portrays Obama on SNL. Guess they’re a bunch of racists on SNL?.
  
  If this Anchor had any credibility, he’d meet with this kid and put this issue to rest.
  
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- Jim
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:29pm
  So much for freedom of speech! Do we really still have the first amendment or is it pick and choose what everyone thinks should be free speech… AMERICA, WAKE UP before it is too late. Once we lose our freedom, we will NOT SEE it again. If you do not care for your own life, look after your children’s future. This is a good example of free speech… or is it? Hmmm… I think we are slowly being pushed into socialism. Kinda like the frog put into cold water and turning up the heat, doesn’t it?
  
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- chips1
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:29pm
  They both seem to look like Jimmy Walker.
- Shiroi Raion
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:32pm
  I just wonder how we get so many dimwitted teachers in our public schools. Is being a pinhead a requirement these days? I heard this secondhand, but I heard a new ART TEACHER was recently fired after teaching for nine months at my nephew’s school, because she WASN’T TEACHING ART, but instead just yacked everyday about how great Obama was.
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:33pm
  They both look like Marxists .. hmmm.
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:35pm
  Once again, ethnic warfare wins for blacks. Copare a black to a black and say they look alike, you are labled a racist. How freaking nice. SUE THE FREAKING SCHOOL, SUE THE FAMILY THAT MADE THIS HAPPEN.
  
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- mils
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:48pm
  the school needs to have the white naacp cause a stir…put this on the national news…there will be a defender of little white kids out there?!…
  a white naacp..hahahaha YEAH THAT WAS FUNNY….like a white caucus or white college fund etc…
  nobody cares if this school was WRONG…pull their funding do SOMETHING~
  
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- ltb
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:49pm
  Racist quotes from Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father”:
  
  “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
  
  “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”
  
  “There was something about her that made me wary, a little too sure of herself, maybe and white.”
  
  “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
  
  “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
  
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  The tax payers in that school district need to overwhelm the next school board meeting and demand a public apology on the local newscast from the principal and teacher. If the tax payers choose to sit on their butts and do nothing, they and their children deserve what they get.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:55pm
  In the child’s defense…Barack Obama Sr was indeed a serial filanderer…maybe he has a paternal association to Schauble too, hence the resemblance to Obama Jr.?
  Immigration authorities and Harvard officials, jointly determined the Barack Obama Sr’s behavior was so questionable as to warrant termination of his visa and his residence at Cambridge.
  “[...]They were apparently having difficulty with his financial arrangements and couldn’t determine how many wives he had”. [...]…”in view of the above, it is recommened that his (Barack Obama Sr.) application be denied; that he be placed under docket control ; and given until July 8, 1964 to depart”.
  
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- BonnieBlueFlag
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:55pm
  There are 500 comments about how this was not racist, and therefore an injustice. That is why we are losing freedom to Big Brother. *Who Cares* if it was racist or not? Maybe being racist is part of my religion. Certainly the Muslim religion is racist toward Jews. Certainly the Jewish religion is racist toward “Goyem” (a word for gentile which means cattle!) Religions and ideologies are no different. It is all just thoughts. Thoughts about truth. Thoughts about ethics. Thoughts about the “big questions.” Just thoughts, and some should not be more protected than others. Each human has the right to his own mind, and how dare any so-called authority figure try to reach into an autonomous brain and try to fix it or punish it. Thoughts and speech are NEVER crimes. Crimes are crimes. There is a difference and we better learn it. If you concede that racist thoughts should be punishible, then all they have to do is call your thoughts and speech which they don’t like “racist”. Hello! They already do! And given enough time to repeat this lie, eventually everyone will agree with the lie!
  
  You better embrace the verbal rebels in our midst sooner rather than later. Do not fall into the trap of calling everyone a racist, sexist, homophobe or what have you. Bigots are people, too and they have just as much a legal right to their thoughts as you. Eventually your ideas will be as branded as theirs, so do something NOW while you still can.
  
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- JMorcan
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:07pm
  Administrators who suspend kids without cause should be permanently banned from managerial positions in the public education system. This is extremely damaging to students who can’t fight back.
  
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- TedPearson
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:11pm
  On http://celebrity.picadilo.com/ Obama looks like these guys.
  Jim Carrey , Dwayne Johnson , George Clooney , Paul Walker and Roman Polanski
  Is that a racist website?
  
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- abbygirl1994
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:13pm
  I suggest we take a moment of our lives and call KTLA-5 and voice our opinion
  or you can go to KTLA-5.com and at the top of the screen is a contact button. leave a message where it says Morning News.
  Or call this number:
  Prime News: 323-460-5333
  
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- Brizz
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:14pm
  Probably better off not being at that school anyway. Time to homeschool.
  
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- drattastic
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:18pm
  Since when did being racist ( which this is clearly and laughably NOT ) become illegal . There are plenty of openly racist Blacks ,Latinos ,Asians etc…but somehow if you have white skin you are now singled out for even the smallest and even innocent things . I for one will say whatever and think whatever I want and if you want to label me a racist ,GO FOR IT. Because I’m sick of the PC double standard horsecrap. I suggest everyone do the same.
  
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- satostud
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:24pm
  hERE IS JUST ANOTHER OF A LONG LIST OF REASONS THAT I REMOVED MY GRANDCHILDREN FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  
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- JohnHW
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:34pm
  Maybe she was offended BECAUSE he looks like Obama?????
  
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- quickstudy
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:35pm
  How dare you compare ANYONE to our great leader Obama. You are not worthy!
  
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- Jomil48
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:43pm
  the kid is white so of course he must be a racist, forget the fact that they resemble each other. I’m fed up with this polictical correctness crap.
  
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- GONESURFING
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:44pm
  Unbelievable what some PC idiots will do these days. One of the worst forms of racism is making charges of racism when there is none.
  
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- theEmirOfGroofunkistan
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:45pm
  so, even if he said all black people look alike that would simply be an observation. Someone else may have a different opinion, but the kid is allowed to have his own – and that’s not even what he said. He said that specific person looked like another specific person. Good Lord. What really happened here is the school saw that he was white and immediately assumed that what he said was racist because when a white person makes an observation about a black person, the intent is ALWAYS racism. The principal should be fired for racism.
  
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- ishka4me
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:49pm
  they do look similar. One would think it was a compliment. I havenever seen anything negative of presidnet Obama’s appearance. This will be resolved quickly because common sense will prevail.
  
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- SLOWBIDEN
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:58pm
  my question is when did racism become illegal? if i want to hate someone than I can. If anyone has a problem with it than thats there problem
  
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- My Two Cents
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:02pm
  When see a photo of Obama it evokes images of the bottom of a trailer after a trip to the stockyard.
  
  Lots of BS.
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:06pm
  If anything the kid is paying the man a compliment for his good looks, nothing derogatory here folks. Just over sensitive school reacting with a knee jerk response because of the local persons celeb status. But we are seeing patterns developing out their regarding group think mentality. We believe there may be violence so you boys wearing those USA colors must go home. So four latinos in a school of mostly White kids are threatened with violence for wearing Mexican colors are told to go home….how would that be. The pattern is one of a reverse racism against anglos.
  
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- jonrod
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:08pm
  I din’t know whay Schable is complaining hell he’s better looking than Obama. But getting back to the school violating Grayson’s constitutional rights, I can see an awfully big lawsuit against the school and its principal. Go for it Grayson, sue the hell out of them.
  
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- Fool
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:26pm
  Chris Schauble kicks Obama’s rear. He’s got a much better voice, he’s better looking, and from what I’ve heard, he’s a genuinely nice person. So, since these are the only talents Obama has, Schauble would do a better job–well, anything’s better than the Obama disaster–than Dear Reader.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:28pm
  MR OZZY. My thought exactly, I was thinking the anchor looked more like Obama than the guy who mimics him on TV. Even a child can see the similar looks. This whole thing is so dumb and the stupid school district out in the middle of no where is making a big deal of nothing. How small.
  
  They ought to be out chasing coyotes and try to get anything but cactus to grown in their sand.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:30pm
  What a burden the newscaster must endure. Perhaps cosmetic surgery could make his life easier.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:38pm
  I don’t know…. I may have to rethink my ideas on evolution, cause these “adults’ sure seem to indicate that devolution exists.
  
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- amrcn
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:52pm
  Sue the hell out of the school for racism.
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:55pm
  only in the uninformed. stupid. U.S. would have some moron kick a smart kid out of school. i’m thinking he would be better off out of the system. if he knows how to read , write and do basic math he will be more informed than anyone in his school, the white house, the senate and most universities in the country. jeez we have come to the end.
  
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- Hollywood
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:00pm
  Your comment re Odumbo is VERY offensive! I am going to report your comment to Walt Disney Movie divison, to see if they want to launch a lawsuit implying DUMBO is comparable to Obama.
  See where this can take us all??
  
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:35pm
  As a white person in America today, I can only say that smartest (perhaps not the best, but smartest) policy to use with regards to race relations is to ignore all black people.
  Do not look them in the eye. Do not speak to them. Do not respond if spoken to.
  To do otherwise opens oneself to all sorts of ugliness and hardship.
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:39pm
  Looks like they’re upset because their programing isn’t work even on 5th graders.
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:42pm
  After a feeding kids a steady diet of Obama sandwiches(“balogna”and” cheese”) they still can’t complete geta 5th graders brainwashed.
  
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- beebacksoon
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:45pm
  Hey, Grayson looks like my grandson! Does that make me racist?
  America – get the stick outta your rear-end. There are FAR more important things to put your emotions and efforts into than this. Grayson is a child! A CHILD!
  
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- tallguyjgg
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:31pm
  so much for the freedom of speech, the freedom of independant thought, the freedom to express yourself how you want to, the freedom of choice, the freedom to say things without the fear of reproach or retaliation. I think this family not only needs to sue the school, but sue the family of the child who told Schauble’s daughter whatever they told her for defemation of character.
  
  This PC crap has gotten so far out of hand it is destroying this country! Not allowed to say merry Christmas, have to say happy holidays? Not allowed to have in GOD we trust becasue it deals with religion? Not allowed to say that someone of one race looks like someone else? I for one think that blacks look “similar” as do asians and whites. ITS BECASUE OF OUR ETHNIC BACKGROUND AND NOT A RACIST COMMENT!!!!!! Wow… And even if this is what the child meant (which cannot be proven becasue to invade someones brain is still against the law… for now) there is nothing wrong with his statement. Are you not allowed to compare apples to apples? Does each apple look identical? How about oarnges? Are all oarnges identical? NO? But we group them the same and call tehm the same? I guess we are just being racist to our fruit too….
  
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- Watchingtheweasels
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 4:48pm
  Not much room for American citizens in California anymore. Certainly not in California public schools.
  
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- getalong
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:22pm
  Bluebonnieflag
  
  Well said! With freedom comes choice and the possibiliity of good and evil always exist in the choice.. The Tea Party seems to be very quiet these days despite the untruths that are being said about the group. If we could only engage in a thoughtful debate with the OWS and find what we do agree on, and more importantly honor the rights of a person to speak their mind despite what they say. Lies are always found out, but truths remain the same. We must confront the communiism that is propagating in this country at an amazing speed and the outright lies that are being accepted as fact. Insisting on facts from the representatives of OWS to back up what it is they are preaching or indoctrining into OWS around the country. .And we need to be prerpared with the truth to win the great debate. .
  
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- carbonyes
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:55pm
  They are about to get their pants sued off, and even in a liberal state like Kalifornia, the school will have to pay through the nose on this one. Serves the ba$tard$ right!
  
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- the hawk
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:00pm
  I did’nt know being racist was a crime, sometimes you cant help what you feel, like being a crime to be gay,……maybe you turned racist after experiencing reverse racisim (like there is in My old home city Cincinnati that lead me to leave) I’m not racist…I notice a person maybe black like I notice a woman is usually not a guy…………Grew up with many african friends,we had a blast for many many years.Now it’s not safe for me to go to their neaborhoods……I’m now a ******* ! They will call you that on the streets right to your face as if their asking for a fight ! Was not going to raise my kids in that hate ! Moved way way north……..And all is Cool real Cool….sometimes down right freezing !
  THEY JUST RAILROADED THIS KID ! Where is the White naacp? Why would that be so political incorect? there has to be a balence, cant be when only one party can complain ! Eric Holder !
  
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- 1389AD
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:19pm
  Okay. If they keep kicking white kids out of the school because the white kids are supposedly “racist”, then what will be the end result?
  
  Just askin’.
  
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- navypop
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:23pm
  wow , whites can’t say anything or someone thinks its racist
  
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- Bucknutpete
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:25pm
  This is a general comment, not a reply. This picture Does resemble the President. This picture is of a very good looking man. The President should be gratified by the comparison. If the pic were of someone grotesque or ugly, it could be soemwhat offensive. To make this something about race..this is outrageous. Lesson learned kids and parents, in public school, sit down, shut up, and be indoctrinated.NO QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS! or you are out, lucky he and his parents weren’t sent to a re-education camp. Give them another 4 years and who knows…
  
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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:34pm
  That kid is a Racist. He doesn’t like that Obama is Half white.
  He doesn’t like that Obama is George W. Bush’s 11th cousin, twice removed.
  Seriously, They don’t look alike.
  Obama is Ugly-goofy and the other guy is nerdy-goofy. Big difference.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:03pm
  You mean the, “National Association for the Advancement of Caucasian People”?
  
  Now here’s the kicker…. The NAACP is the, “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” but you can’t call black people “Colored”. The NAACP can use the term in their title but don’t you dare use that word unless you’re black. Just like the “N” word. I hear it all the time when black comedians do comedy skits.
  Why doesn’t the CBC (Congressional Black Caucus) call themselves the “Congressional Colored Caucus” the CCC? Or the “Congressional Colored Caucus People” the CCCP, that’s what they are acting like. Russia. Just listen to Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson-Lee and Hank Johnson.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:09pm
  It’s probably better that this young child is not going to that school anymore.
  
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- burkanuck
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:16pm
  “And Shelbi was uncomfortable with Grayson’s statement, saying it felt racist.”
  
  I’m sorry but…WHAT???!!! Because this stupid little immature child said that something she heard fifth hand “felt” racist, another kid gets expelled? This is absolute insanity.
  
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- ConstitutionalThinker
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:17pm
  I’m the dad of Grayson Thomas and I want to personally thank everyone for their support. This will be an interesting week and I trust God will give us the wisdom to do what is right. Thanks to the dave urbanski for covering our story. Blessings to all.
  
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- just lil old me
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:22pm
  I would think he would be proud to be told he looks like Obama! Isn’t he the greatest person alive today?
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:56pm
  These school administrators are total ignoramuses. Google “other race face recognition” and you will see there have been years of research trying to understand the phenomenon of why people in ANY race group have an easier time recognizing individuals in their race group then in other race groups. There are studies that show skin color is a contributing factor but not a major one. Facial characteristics…differences in eyes, or nose or lips or whatever. This phenomenon is seen in blacks, Caucasians, Asians everyone. Personally when I saw the photos I thought the newscaster was some relative of Obama. And I can tell you I don’t have a racist bone in my body. Somebody needs to educate these so-called educators rather then beating up with this PC garbage on this kid!
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:55pm
  Omg!
  
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- Cosmos102
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:15am
  Wha? Huh? The news anchor’s daughter thought saying her Dad looked like Obama, sounded racist. Clearly the girl doesn’t care for Obama. Tha’t's why the school expelled the little boy who made the comment. The comments sounded too “Republican”.
  
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- NukeHaze
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:08am
  Expelling a 5th grader for stating that “made you look” comment about a man resembling the president of the country visiting the school just shows you how uneducated many of our educators in chief truly are. Where is the ACLU for defending this troubled, misunderstood, and apparently psycholigically handicapped young boy? I am sure there are far worse things being said in that school than “hey look, the President is visiting our school today… I am telling you that’s him!”
  
  Yet apparently if there had been any question about him accusing him of being a black Jew such as was Sammy Davis, Jr., that might have even been acceptable. These double standardized doubletalking politically correct spineless progressilibs need to move to a socialist country so they can have everything they want and then see that they cannot say anything they want to anymore else they will not be alive there to speak it. the first people that would be done away with in socialist and communist societies are the very useful idiots abusing their free speech thinking they’ll somehow be protected or immune because they are educators or journalists. The free speech we all covet so highly will be the first thing to go.Good luck with expressing creativity or the “news” without government censorship and crying about oppression. History has shown it’s not tolerated. So the question is then, “Why would anyone who covets free speech ever want sociocommunism which destroys individual expression, thought,
  
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- johnlee
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:39am
  Well,well,well. This remind me of my Civics teacher,a brilliant woman. She said , “some people are ignorant to the fact that they are stupid”.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:29am
  Looks like this has the makings of one helluva lawsuit, hope they really stick it to these thought police PC idiots!
  
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- Mousey
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:25am
  lolol
  
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- Servant Of YHVH
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:15pm
  I say that the people living in that district does not have the right to claim to be an American, fair, godly, christian or caring or anything like that if they do not all stand up en masse and DEMAND that every single one of those people running that school is fired and banned from ever being around children ever again. Also, every single person should protest and while I do not promote boycotting, boycott that station and the news organization until they fire him.
  
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- boncarbo7
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:26pm
  The only racist I see here is the school board. It was a child’s comparison for God sakes.
  
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- AmeriCat
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:59pm
  Sharia Law!
  
  Americanized interpretation of the Muslim belief system,
  written in the Quran………and ruled by Sharia Law…
  
  No images of Muhammad….or death!
  But now Americanized…
  No image comparisons to Obama….or expulsion!
  
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- pcj
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:21pm
  If they treated every kid who made a careless or stupid remark like this, the schools would be empty in a hurry. Gee, it used to be that if you goofed up, the teacher told you that it was unacceptable behavior and not to do it again, then life went on….If it had been a heavyset man with white **** and a beard, would he have been in trouble for remarking that Santa was visiting us today?
  
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- PAFFVINTAGE
  Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:30pm
  DRATTASTIC says, “Since when did being racist ( which this is clearly and laughably NOT ) become illegal . There are plenty of openly racist Blacks ,Latinos ,Asians etc…but somehow if you have white skin you are now singled out for even the smallest and even innocent things .”……………….Tell me about it! I used to be part of a local city history profile on Facebook. Last time I went to look, there were no posts about history but a massive tirade of racist (black on white) posts. I couldn’t believe it & had no idea why. Every racist hate thing you could think of was posted (and not just one individual was doing it). How about send a counseler to their houses to tell them how evil it is! I left no comments, rather thought it was wiser to leave the group. Nowadays, you’d have to worry about someone getting your name and burning your house down because they assume you’re racist. And even if someone were racist, in a free society they’d have the right to be. See, we have double standards now. Seems blacks can be as freely racist as they like but a white cannot. They can say what they want with little done about it. They can have black tv channels, black pageants, black this/that but if a hint of a white beauty pageant or anything like that were to show up, there’d be rioting in the streets. It’s ridiculous. We are individuals and the powers-that-be have successfully allowed some to collectively go after others for the least little thing. Putting people in groups
  
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- vieteravet
  Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:44am
  If I say Obama looks like a turd, is that racist – they’re both brown!
  
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- Theman22
  Posted on February 26, 2012 at 10:07pm
  That is so dumb what kind of liberal school does that
  
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troopsupporter
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:27am
We decided to home school half way through 4th grade. It has been the best decision we ever made. Our school systems are so screwed up as well as the people who run them. The teachers are great, its everyone above them that I worry about. They definitely have an agenda and it is not good.

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- abbygirl1994
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:30pm
  The teachers are not great.. most of them lean to the left and are the ones screwing up our kids.. God help us!
  
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- Jomil48
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:34pm
  to Abby, teachers lean left because that is what they are being taught in our socialist colleges, if they question the professors they fail. to solve the problem Home School Your Child
  
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- 1389AD
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 6:23pm
  Here’s another reason to homeschool: it erodes the insidious power of the public employee unions.
  
  NO recovery from the housing bubble until ALL public sector unions are GONE
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 7:00pm
  @troopsupporter
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:27am
  We decided to home school half way through 4th grade. It has been the best decision we ever made. Our school systems are so screwed up as well as the people who run them. The teachers are great, its everyone above them that I worry about. They definitely have an agenda and it is not good
  ****
  I’m with you, have recommended to many parents to home school because of similar problems, most if my grandkids are home schooled now! If God grants to deliver our country from this agenda, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH THE DEPT OF EDUCATION, AND ESTABLISH SCHOOLS IN A HISTORIC FASHION!
  I hate the state’s effort to constantly put the kids into larger and larger school districts far from home; I remember too well as a 5 yr old, that huge building with all those kids. (3 floors and about 180 kids in 12 grades.) I was very intimidated despite having 4 older brother and sisters there that first year. Imagine the shy kid bused or driven 5-100 miles from home to a school with over 1000 kids (no matter how few grades) and you can understand the gangs which spring up to help them combat the feeling of aloneness! BRINGING BACK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS, MIGHT ACTUALLY ELIMINATE THE INFLUENCE OF GANGS BECAUSE PARENTS CAN BE MORE INVOLVED AND GET TO KNOW STAFF! Discipline could improve with just this fact!
  
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- PA-FuBo
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:00pm
  Home schooling is the way to go.
  I just asked my 9yr. old son “What do you see in these two pictures?
  ….His reply..”it’s Obama….(said like,..Duh!’ you need to ask me that, can’t you see for yourself?)….
  
  And fot the record, he is mixed race and definitly not a racist. Simply stating a true fact.
  
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MONICNE
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:26am
I say let the Taxed Enough Already party decide this issue.

We know racism when we see it.

And this is NOT Racism!

TEA

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- TMink
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:57am
  I agree, it was not racism. It never is. That is the cover up strategy. He was expelled for joking about Obama. Plan and simple.
  
  Trey
  
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- 1chancey1
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:21pm
  Encinom I see you are still playing your little games.
  
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- Kankokage
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:32pm
  Don’t bother with Monicne A.K.A. Encinom, A.K.A. Sleazy Hippo, A.K.A. Alec Baldwin. Leftists have become so desperate in these times that they will actively fight against anything logical. The greatest racists in this country are those that think that, because blacks and other “races”* look different from white folks, they are somehow inferior and need all sorts of special treatment.
  
  *I use the term “race” in quotations because the term evokes bigotry itself. Regardless of how one looks, they are the same species and therefore the same family as every other human. “Race” is a construct to isolate and engage unrighteous dominion over others, using convenient physical differences as a weapon.
  
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- Obama_Sham
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:43pm
  Look, one of Encinom’s split personalities is posting…
  
  Aren’t we the lucky “village”… Our village idiot has several personalities… Encinom/ Monicne/ Tifosa/ Oldphoto78/ Your Sensei/ JZS/ Unbothered/ Simpletruths… I wonder how many more times the mind of our village idiot is going to splinter… Don’t worry Encinom (or whatever other name you are currently responding too), when you go to the looney bin, you and Auntie Nancy can be roommates…
  
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- MONICNE
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:45pm
  Hey Sham,
  You have quite the conspiracy theory going. We know you are a major troll that incites the easily excitable with lurid tales of liberal mischief. But you cannot explain the legion of actual humans out here that disagree with your narrow views. So you lump us all together into a supreme omniscient being. Mindless follower types (Hi! Kankokage) eventually join in.
  
  TEA
  
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- grabyrgun
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:01pm
  hey enimacom… get a life.
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:33pm
  @ MONICNE
  
  And, given that you cannot cite actual proof that the bulk of America stands against the TEA party, your delusions of numerical superiority are nothing more than a scare tactic that has no effect on real TEA party members. You have no justification, no allies, no purpose, no plan…no hope.
  
  I cannot but pity you for your disguised cries of help that are being clouded by the brainwashing and conditioning that you have been programmed with by your puppetmasters. I sense a kindred spirit in you, one that wants to look past the obvious logic faults and bullsj1t it has been fed for decades, unable to stand on its own for fear of repression.
  
  Stand with us, Encinom. Release your mind from the restraints and hatred programmed into you by the Left. You know what the future holds if you continue walking this errant path. Come to the light, it is calling to you…
  
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- Maji
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:28pm
  Are you saying all liberals look alike???
  
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Depressed_American
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:26am
These school officials NEED to be fired. We all know the TEACHERS UNION will protect the teacher’s “rights” no matter what….. The Teacher, Principal, and whom ever is supposed to be teaching/caring for this CHILD, ARE NOT doing theirs jobs!!!! This is an 11 year old child!!!! Heaven forbid that a CHILD blasphemes against the GOD Obama.

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- pamela kay
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:33pm
  This little boy was not making a racist comment. This shows that there are no boundaries as far aqs the progressives go. But against an 11yr old child? This is so ridiculous and if I were this childs parents I would sue the school and anyone else involved. Why don’t our candidates bring up issues such as this to show folks how low the progressives will go? Had this child been black or Hispanic it would have been considered a Cute statement and would have been something to laugh about. So they have the right to take the innocence of a child and turn it into a racist agenda? This is such a disgrace and injustice.
  
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- Wayne
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:44pm
  Children are not racist it is the school teachers they are the ones that should be KICKED out.
  
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gbfreak
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:25am
Here is the contact info for Stevenson Ranch Communist Manifesto Elementary.

Since the Federal Government insists on being involved in our local schools, lets use it to to our advantage. Since public schools now receive Federal funding, we all have a stake in this. Let’s flood them with our voice!!!!

Stevenson Ranch Elementary School
25820 Carroll Lane
Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381

661.291.4070 661.291.4071 (fax)

~ Candace Fleece, Principal ~

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- This_Individual
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:33am
  Thanks. And since I live nearby, I’m going to pay the school a visit.
  
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- Faith1029
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:51am
  This is so disgusting. You can’t even open your mouth and say anything anymore. This is a child. Sue the school and fire whoever was involved in expelling this young boy. And send a message to this school with your comments on this issue.
  
  Bill O’Reilly, Hannity, Greta V, Rush L, and many others should make sure this story gets on the air to show this country what these people are trying to pull.
  
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- Jehovah Rules
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:14pm
  If you’d like to just send them an email voicing your opinion on the matter, here are their email addy’s:
  cfleece@newhall.k12.ca.us
  mwinger@newhall.k12.ca.us
  
  I’ve already fired mine off.
  
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- madasblazes
  Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:15pm
  The scariest part to me is that the child was “taken aside and counseled”.
  They mean “re-educated”.
  “Diversity training” for children.
  Michelle Obama: “we must change the way we ‘think’, what we ‘say’.”
  NOT ME! NEVER!
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:24am
A Girl in the School my Pappy taught in said he looked like Clark Gable. Guess they should have thrown her out for sexual harassment and Threatening to kill a teacher since Clark Gable has been dead for some time now.

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- vandyman84
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:42am
  You said “dead!” That’s uncivil tea-******…wait. No, Flea Baggers are uncivil. And they control the PRC’s schools.
  
  And for those of you who don’t know, that’s People’s Republic of California.
  
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momrules
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:24am
The boy has learned some valuable lessons at the hands of people who he is supposed to respect.
1. If you are a white American you may not ever say anything about a black person unless you are praising them even if what you say isn’t racist.
2. Your constitional rights end at the school doorway.
3. You may NEVER say anything about Barack Obama that can be screwed around to SOUND racist.
4.Be careful of who you trust.

I personally think the kid was complimenting Obama, Chris Schauble is an attractive man.

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- 71FOREVER
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:28am
  I agree with you MOMRULES,
  
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bharris0
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:23am
The list thing we need teaching kids are a bunch of sht-for-brains liberals.

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- chips1
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:38pm
  The school just taught a 5th grader how to be racist. Bet he avoids blacks in the future.
  
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aaron@home
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:23am
could anyone make heads or freakin tails out of what that text was supposed to say? if this is how people are beginning to “talk” to each other its no wonder crap like this happens.

oh and yes the principle is an idiot

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UlyssesP
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:22am
But they don’t look alike! Look at the side by side. Obama has an inverted triangular shape to his head like the classic grey alien with the big soulless eyes. The other guy is more of a standard variety human skull shape.

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- finky555
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:17pm
  Now that is funny. Didn’t realize the problem was aliens.
  
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- 4theRepublic
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 12:54pm
  They look alike to me… not identical, but alike! If I saw them in person at separate locations I bet I’d have to look twice. Anyway, this is BS.
  
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BrandyWilson
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:20am
PC Madness!….sums it up!

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lukerw
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:18am
Yup… the kid thinks and compares… so, he is a Racist! Discrimination is a Brain Function… that allows you to differentiate a Stone from a Bus, or to reason alike objects… and is used in IQ Testing! PC Idiots!!!

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- zorro
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:45am
  My son is always being told he looks like me. Who knew? This whole time those people were just being racist. I can’t believe it….
  
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- lukerw
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 3:57pm
  @ZORRO
  See… it is your fault :)
  
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millerfam4
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:17am
I hope the parents fight this to the very end. This has been the plan of progressives and liberals for years to take over the school stystems and produce generations of like minded people.

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Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:16am
I can’t see how any administrator that thinks of themselves as a reasoning being could take actions like this. This case illustrates very well why we need a voucher system so we can send our kids to the type of school we wish. The leftist run public school system is becoming an outrage and an abomination.

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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:26pm
  Your absolutely right. If not the voucher system, then, home school and refuse to pay school millage on property tax bills.
  
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- midnightvelvet
  Posted on November 26, 2011 at 12:51pm
  As soon as your precious non liberal school receives the voucher money, the federal government then has the “right” to come in and tell them what and how to teach. Vouchers are a trojan horse.
  
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NewLife56
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:14am
My eyes have been rolling for months now at the PR junk that has overtaken our Nation, Obama, and the Divided States Of America

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stoptheliesbho
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:11am
eff this school board! eff this principal! eff the news anchor for NOT responding to this RIDICULOUS accusation! i guess comparisons aren’t allowed anymore from CHILDREN. how innocent this was – and how unbelievable that adults let it get that out of hand.

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- sWampy
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:17am
  He looks shifty and untrustworthy to me, I can see how you would easily mistake the 2.
  
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- 71FOREVER
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:32am
  Good point STOPTHELIESBHO. The schoolboard says that there are lies out in the media about this. I wonder if the bullies in town got the news reporters fired for being racist too?
  
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RLTW
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:10am
It’s obvious this family is right wing and doesn’t understand there place.
SARC

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:10am
Its pretty simple actually. Reverse the president to a Caucasian and the News Person to a Caucasian and make the same comment about how the president is visiting the school because how they look so much alike. The issue is the sensitivity level of all concerned and that of the daughter who heard the Caucasian boy make a comment such as he did. Doesn’t matter what he said, it would be taken the wrong way because of racial sensitivities now ingrained into many a minority and taught as a matter of fact. Wow! He does look a lot like BHO! So what!

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garyM
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:09am
I see the favor too, I’m glad I’m not still in school!

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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:09am
This is pure fascism from the commies in California.

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- This_Individual
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:29am
  Actually, it’s pretty surprising seeing as though Newhall is a conservative town. So you can keep your generalizations.
  
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- Blackhawk1
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 2:14pm
  This_Individual
  
  Newhall may be a conservative town but this happened in a Public School (run by liberals) in one of the most Liberal States (and financially bankrupt) in America and the Public Education system in this country is the indoctrination wing of the Democrap party.. The generalization made is therefore justified.
  
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Mannax
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:09am
Ok, the editors of the blaze as well as the girl who sent the text messages need to return to remedial English.
Other than that. I think the school district is looking at a lawsuit that they can’t win. I hope that they sue the school district and the reporter’s family for defamation of character.

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ares338
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:08am
The principal is a coward!

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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:13am
  Thoughtcrime…..doesn’t this kid read Orwell?
  
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- afishfarted
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:14am
  so schauble FELT it was racist?!?! So now, according to this story, if someone FEELS like it was racist you’re in trouble ?!?!
  “Scotty, beam me up. THere’s no intellegent life here”.
  
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- Bill in Texas
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:21am
  That principle needs a PC attitude adjustment.
  Kids are kids. You correct the behavior with the help of the parents. Not by throwing the kid out of school. This is a 5th grader and kids of that age usually say what is on their minds.
  
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- Freedom1984
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:28am
  Yeah… I “FEEL” like committing a crime. (so lock me up, I must have the intention of actually committing the crime).
  
  This world has gone to pieces……. I would rather live with a Klingon, rather than with the many morons who run our country.
  
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- Nightjar
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:48pm
  Thought the same thing. Don’t think the kid did anything wrong. Who ever decided that child fate should be ashamed of themselves.
  BTW,why is it OK to critize all other former Presidents yet not Obama? Hey people this guy is just NOT Jesus.
  
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HorseCrazy
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:07am
really? going to make an expample out of a 5th grade boy for what you perceive to be racist? He is a CHILD put your big boy pants on you TV schmuck and teach your whiny little daughter to get a little bit thicker skin. our society disgusts me. atleast this boys parents are not handling this the way I would be had that been my son.

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BrerRabbit
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:05am
Speechless. Best that way!

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Gonzo
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:04am
Reverse the races of Grayson and Schauble and it’s just a kid being a kid, as this should be.

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:12am
  Except there would be marches and rioting in support of the kid…
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:15am
  Exactly, reverse the races and you wouldn’t even have heard about this. I think the family should sue the school and I think the Principal should be fired…..
  
  Plus, why wasn’t the little girl who sent the text saying they had a party at emma’s house to celebrate him being expelled…why isn’t she being expelled and emma who through the party?
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:22am
  Correction….should have been “threw” not “though”
  
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- WhiteFang
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 11:25am
  “Kids say the darnedest things” – Art Linkletter
  
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- BuzzardSays
  Posted on November 18, 2011 at 1:48pm
  Is taking offence what we live for? I have a right to say anything I wish in the public forum and everyone else has a right to ignore me in the public forum. This is the First Amendment baby. I do not like a dang thing Obama says or does. I think he is the worst president this country has ever had inflicted upon itself, by its own hand. The black reporter has an unfortunate cross to bear in having any resemblence to BHO and so should let his **** grow out and grow a beard if his heart is so easily knocked off his sleeve as to be compared against Flash of Lightning-Good Looking-Cow Dung. <-What BHO's name is equal to if looked up.
  
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