The reason why I was surprised to see this on Black And Right. You don’t hear about Jefferson High School in Lafayette, IN, unless you live in Lafayette or Indiana. (Jeff has won a few state basketball championships, the reason I put Indiana).
Was I surprised by what happened in the video,?No! I went to high school at Jefferson. Yeap, this same one. I graduated from Jeff In 1976. Before i graduated Jeff was starting to have security patrol the school on the outside, due to vandalism from another high school. Things get pretty stupid around basketball tourney time. There were fights between students here and there. Sometimes a student did cuss a teacher out. (Jefferson isn’t a inner city school thing like in New York City.) So I wasn’t too surprised about assault.
Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Quiet. Not even a peek. I haven’t even seen anything in the newspaper about them. I am thankful about it.
Perhaps, the other Occupiers should go this way.
I’ll tell you why I was surprised. I knew the Occupy movement was all over the United States. I have been paying attention. But here in Lafayette and West Lafayette, Indiana, I hadn’t heard too much about any Occupiers.
Because back in the latter part of October, the highlight of the Occupiers here was a march. It was peaceful. I didn’t hear anything about them after the march. It was like they disappeared afterwards.
Then today in Lafayette and West Lafayette’s local paper, I read about Occupy Purdue. Journal and Courier, said about the Occupy Purdue: “a muted movement at Purdue University”. No, wonder, I haven’t heard about Occupy Purdue. Here is a actual Occupy being quiet.
“Purdue students and others are holding public meetings and showing films to discuss ideas and agree on points of action. Occupy Purdue is a collection of students and recent graduates focusing a view of social justice through the lens of higher education.” According to Eric Weddle, who wrote the article I read on Occupy Purdue.
Now, do you understand why I was surprise?
