The Aberdeen American News wrote its own opinion piece regarding the removal of a swastika from the Aberdeen Roncalli school building:
School officials tried to remove the graffiti using solvents, but the paint wouldn’t come out of the brick. On Dec. 1 Aberdeen Catholic School System President Jeff Simmons said that a sandblaster would need to be called in.
We were not thrilled with Simmons’ lax response to leaving the graffiti visible for more than a week. Sure, it couldn’t be blasted off, but why not paint over it? Or cover it with a tarp?
It’s good not to give the vandals the attention they crave, that’s true. But let’s not leave Nazi symbols on buildings either, OK?
Thumbs up to Metzinger for doing what the school should have done — shut down racism without hesitation.
Their Facebook page has these comments:
This post is false! They owe Jeff Simmons an apology for what they said about him, he was trying to find someone that could blast it off, and we helped them out. So the one who wrote this story is a complete moron and owes Jeff and Randy both an apology.
This post is false! They owe Jeff Simmons an apology for what they said about him, he was trying to find someone that could blast it off, and we helped them out. So the one who wrote this story is a complete moron and owes Jeff and Randy both an apology.
Randy Metzinger and his fiancé gives us the real news:
While I appreciate the shout out for removing the graffiti let's make no mistake about it, the administration wanted this removed. Both Jeff and Tom were clear in the belief that racism has no place in our world and they wanted this disgusting display removed from the school's walls. From our first conversation to the time I started was about 2 hours so the decision was made quickly. I would like to think we are all on the same team in this situation.
Ok well my fiance is Randy at Sarge's and I contacted Roncolli and they called us back and got us out right away to do it. Whoever is writing this story, please don't use Randy to say that Roncolli wasn't doing what was necessary to have the graffiti removed! This post was not accurate! The only people that did anything wrong in this situation are the people that spray paint the stuff on Roncolli walls. Well and this newspaper that refused to say they screwed up and offers no apology for this comments made.
And...
There needs to be an apology written in the paper for this crap. Get your facts straight. It’s ridiculous that Mr. Metzinger had to come in and defend that actual true story. Shame on you for reporting distorted news... what happened to unbiased truth and ethics??
Great job by Randy but subpar job of reporting American News... Always divisive and always negative.
And we have Cory Heidelberger who is also divisive and negative while putting out fake news. Here is his analysis on the removal of the swastika:
Nazis are bad. The adults inviting out-of-state racists to speak in Aberdeen are a greater threat to our community than the young punks doodling on buildings
Like the Aberdeen paper, Cory is saying those committing the crimes are not the issue, but the victims are. And saying all of those exposing the Muslim Brotherhood's Wahhabi agenda are Nazis is like saying all Muslims are terrorists. Cory Heidelberger continues to be part of the problem with is whitophobic hate mongering. And it looks like there are some people in Aberdeen who are tired of the lies and race baiting as the Aberdeen leftist who proudly but falsely call themselves "free press" promote fake victimhood. The purpose seems to be creating an army of white haters, including Islamists like Taneeza Islam. These activists are playing politics, and not in the business of solving problems in order to make South Dakota better, but instead their work will turn Aberdeen into another component of the Islamic State. It is past time for the Aberdeen American News and Cory Heidelberger to start removing their anti-Christian supremacist graffiti, including their use of "Islamophobes". That word is equivalent to the use of the "N" word. It is designed to denigrate and silence those they don't like and hold a prejudice on.
South Dakota is one big hate group.
Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson has yet to embrace the Muslim registry that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has. Both are vying in the earth hater primary for South Dakota's lone seat in the US House of Representatives.
American wrong-wing christians are far more dangerous to US than the Islamic State or the Muslim Brotherhood.
Posted by: larry kurtz | December 15, 2017 at 09:26 AM
Even when a liberal does something good, the right wing will lie and try to make it bad. SAD.
Posted by: John | December 16, 2017 at 12:27 PM