T.I. is a convicted felon and recently did a stint in prison for weapons charges. A parent complained to the principal in an email about the rapper's criminal history and stated that he would have never let his daughters attend the assembly had he known ahead of time that T.I. aka Clifford Harris was attending.
Myers wrote an e-mail to Oatts, which read in part: “In the future, if T.I. or any other convicted felon needs to perform community service, ask for parental permission to allow our children to be exposed to these questionable individuals.”
Myers said Oatts replied with the following e-mail: “I thought about asking a guy who snorted cocaine and got arrested for DUI when he was 30 to come and speak to our kids, but President George W. Bush was not available.”
“I could not believe that he would put that in an e-mail or that he would say that,” said Myers.
Farmer contacted Oatts for a comment, but Oatts declined.
In another e-mail from Oatts to Myers, Oatts said: “Mr. Harris has never been convicted of homicide. We would not be able to adequately staff our states general assembly, our U.S. Congress or the executive branch of our government using your apparent standards.”
Do you think the parent's outrage against T.I. speaking at their children's school is warrented? Or do you think race was an issue?
We should all be willing to give people second chances. Especially since T.I. came to the school to speak out against bullying. He was doing something good and should be rewarded for it and not shunned. Society needs to start rewarding good behavior like this, instead of looking into somebody's past and judging them off of that. People mess up and make mistakes. That's life. If they weren't so self-righteous, they would see that he was doing community service and serving his time.
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