ALABAMA SOCIAL PROGRESS UPDATE

Here’s a recent slice of life from Alabama:
Last week, Brian McCracken, the assistant vice president of a Boaz, Alabama cheerleading team, wore a Ku Klux Klan shirt to a North Alabama Youth Football & Cheerleading League practice. Under an illustration of hooded Klansmen, the text read: “The Original Boys In The Hood,” a reference to the 1991 film “Boyz N The Hood,” which focuses on gangs South Central Los Angeles. McCracken’s friend, Brian McDowell, who is not a coach for the team, joined him at the practice sporting a “White Pride” shirt. Volunteer cheerleading coach Kayleigh Tipton complained about the racist shirts to Kenny Jones, the commissioner of the North Alabama Youth Football & Cheerleading League. Guess who they got rid of? Kayleigh Tipton. The next time volunteer Tipton showed up at practice, Boaz’s cheerleading vice president – Brian’s wife Melynnda – asked Tipton to not come back. “I’m just disgusted because I feel like I didn’t do anything wrong besides make a complaint that should have been kept private to begin with,” Tipton said. “I asked why and she could not give me any reason.” Eventually, both Brian and Melynnda McCracken resigned, but the Tipton family says the damage has already been done – to the kids who had to witness the racially-inflamed drama first-hand. “It’s hard for a bi-racial child that is 4 and 5 to understand what racism is,” Kayleigh’s husband, Cody Tipton, said. “It just outrages me and a lot of other parents but no one will stand up to it because of the consequences their children will get.”
* Brian McCracken? More like Brian McCRACKER.
* Sweet Home Alabama!
* Another bad sign: The head of the Cheerleading League is called the Grand Wizard.
* Then the guy said, “It was wrong and we have a ways to go. I guess we all have crosses to burn – I mean to bear.”
* Sure, it’s 2016 in Alabama but there are still pockets of 1958.
* Then the guy said anyone who thinks things have changed is just whistling Dixie.
* Darn, I wish they’d get back to the traditional hatred between Auburn and the University of Alabama.