The Cobb County School District said Tuesday it’s halted the rollout of a new logo for an elementary school after parents pointed out similarities to Nazi iconography.
The logo for East Side Elementary in Marietta depicted an eagle, the school’s mascot, over the initials ES. The Nazi eagle, which was developed in the 1920s and later became a symbol for white supremacists worldwide, depicts an eagle holding a swastika in its talons.
Parents were notified of the new logo on Monday. It was chosen to “represent the eagle soaring into excellence and to honor the history of our great school,” the message to parents said. The district has been working with all schools to create logos, the message said.
The logo drew condemnation on social media.
“I don’t want to see my kids wearing that on their shirt,” said Mike Albuquerque, the father of two students who will attend the school next year. “Really it’s a big oversight of the county and everyone involved in the process who reviewed that, to not call out the fact that this looks like Nazi iconography. Or maybe, who knows, somebody did call it out and it wasn’t heard.”
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Georgia’s second-largest school district said in a statement Tuesday it had halted the rollout of the logo and was reviewing necessary changes.
“We understand and strongly agree that similarities to Nazi symbolism are unacceptable,” the district said in a statement. “Although this design was based on the U.S. Army colonel’s eagle wings, stakeholder input has been and continues to be important to our schools.”
East Side Elementary is located across the street from a synagogue.
The logo controversy is only the latest related to antisemitism in Cobb schools. Last month, a group began posting hot pink billboards around metro Atlanta that are challenging viewers to fight antisemitism, in part in response to incidents last school year in Cobb.
Graffiti depicting swastikas was found in two Cobb County high schools during the Jewish High Holidays. Several Cobb middle school students were disciplined earlier this year for sharing antisemitic imagery on social media.
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“If Atlanta is too busy to hate, why is there a swastika at my kid’s school?” reads a billboard that went up on Briarcliff Road in Atlanta.
Antisemitic incidents in Georgia more than doubled between 2020 and 2021, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. Georgia tallied 49 incidents in 2021.
“This is not the first time Cobb County schools have been tone-deaf to antisemitism,” said Dov Wilker, director of the American Jewish Committee Atlanta region, in a statement about the logo. “Pretending that antisemitism doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. The children who attend Cobb County schools — and their families — deserve better.”
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Pizza Delivery Man Rescues 5 Kids From Burning Home
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“When emergency workers responded to a call about a fire in Lafayette, Ind., last week, they witnessed a house engulfed in flames and a man leaping out of a window with a child in his arms.
The man was later identified as Nicholas Bostic, 25, a local pizza delivery man who is now being hailed as a hero for rescuing two children and three teenagers from the burning house.
Bostic was seriously injured during the rescue and had to be flown to nearby Indianapolis for treatment of severe smoke inhalation and a large gash on his right arm, according to a press release from the Lafayette Police Department.
A few days after his ordeal, Bostic had recovered enough to recount his story to police.”
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Let’s talk about systemic failures in Uvalde….
Mother Tells Harrowing Story To Get Her Teenage Daughter An Abortion
QAnon/GOP Senate Candidate Charged With Filing False Report Of Child Trafficking At Maryland Adult Bookstore
The republicans of today have no decency or sense of decorum. They don’t live in reality, they make stuff up and lie as well as they breath. They are gang thugs who think winning at any cost is the goal. If it harms those they don’t like that is a plus benefit for them. We can not let these people take over the government, we must vote Democrat in the midterm elections no matter what. We have to have a functioning government for the people, not an oligarchy that uses government to produce their profit at the expense of the public. Hugs
Baltimore’s CBS affiliate reports:
Ryan Dark White, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland under the name Jon McGreevey, has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was forcing a young girl to perform sex acts on men, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office now says the story was made up. “It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office that a man and a young girl between, 10-12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said.
Law & Crime reports:
Sheriff Gahler added, “It is even more appalling that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction – nothing more.” This swipe is apparently aimed at Andy Kuhl, who is running for Baltimore County sheriff as a Republican.
Kuhl told Law&Crime in an email that in his opinion, this was as political smear campaign against White–whom he called McGreevey–ahead of the upcoming primary.
In a statement, he called him a credible informant, told Law&Crime he showed up to the July 7 interview unannounced on White’s behalf, and accused detectives of strange behavior, such as messages about there being good news in the case. He told Law&Crime on the phone that he did not respond to those messages.
White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting. That’s him with Kuhl in the video below.
“It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
Welcome to the New Republican Party.
Todd20036 K Elmquist • 12 hours ago
It’s not new, just the hoods are off
teeveedub K Elmquist • 11 hours ago
Making up stories to further their political agenda is all the Republicon party has. It’s their brand. This scumbag is just aligning himself with the party’s core values.
Soooo, he was caught at the bookstore and made up this crazy story to make himself look like a kristjun?
“White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting.”
Cops and politicians are always hassling that bookstore. (Or so I’ve been told)
It is okay for Republicans to go around with two names, the one they have on official records and one they chose for themselves, a nickname or whatever they’re more comfortable using.
A trans person choosing a name for themselves?
Oh, no that can’t be allowed. It would be “confusing”. It goes against someone else’s religious beliefs. I’ve even seen it said that trans people changing their names snarls up the legal system, somehow making it impossible to conduct a complete criminal background check if or when necessary to do so..
MTG: Non-Biological Parents Are “Fake Mom And Dad”
“So let’s talk about children. Children are in the greatest danger in America today because traditional family values are being destroyed.
“The idea that mom and dad together – not fake mom and fake dad, but biological mom and biological dad – can raise their children together and do what’s right for their children.
“Raising them to be confident in who they are and in their identity. Their identity that they’re a child by God.” – Marjorie Taylor Greene, speaking to far-right troll Alex Stein.
Stein first appeared on JMG in March 2022 for a deranged “assassinate Putin” rap before a Texas city council.
This week he made headlines for sexually harassing AOC on the steps of the Capitol. Since then he’s been rewarded with appearances on many right wing shows and podcasts. Like Greene, Stein is a COVID denialist.
I’m adopted. They made it clear to me as soon as I was able to understand that I was adopted.
Not like it wasn’t obvious… I’m brown, they were very white.
They were not Fake in any way.
Phil in Colorado KaneHau • 7 hours ago
I had a well-meaning co-worker who knew that I was married to a guy and had just adopted a baby who was mixed race. She asked if we were going to tell him he was adopted. I just looked at her until the light bulb came on. 🙂
cheakamus KaneHau • 5 hours ago
And above all, they chose you!
Caitlyn Haiku KaneHau • 4 hours ago
Actual family is based on who you care about and who cares about you, not who you might be biologically related to.
Wait, don’t these wackos insist that outlawing abortion is fine because women can just give up said babies for adoption?
This!!! It’s like they don’t even listen to their own damn arguments. Christ they piss me off!!
amy cuscuriae Sarah • 7 hours ago
But those children created in sin must bear that for the rest of their lives: bastards. /s
That’s what they say. What they really want is to punish both the mother and the child for the mother’s sinful act.
Mark Cross • 7 hours ago • edited
So…stepparents, foster parents, and adoptive parents are fakes.
And of course, that makes the Virgin Mary’s Joseph a fake dad too.
When I think of fake dads, I’m more inclined to think of a Herschel Walker kind of dad that plays no role in their child’s life.
I’m sure there are parents–re-married widows and widowers, divorced and re-married, parents of adopted children, and a dozen other combinations of parents who are not biological–who would be happy to disagree with you, Marge. This is why you sound like such an idiot when you speak, dear.
