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When 8-year-old Jaiden Haber appeared at her Amityville elementary school wearing a pink shirt reading "N the 'N-word'! It's Time!", Newsday reports she was sent to the principal's office and asked to change her shirt. Now, her mother and school officials disagree about whether or not an 8-year-old and her shirt should be what prompts dialogue on race.
The ACLU says students should be allowed to wear whatever they want (like that Staten Island kid who wore a confederate flag shirt), but the Amityville's district superintendent John Williams said, "To send a little white girl wearing this shirt into a very diverse district that is almost 90 percent nonwhite was not the way to address this word. It's a lightning rod."
Jaiden herself said, "My mom picked it out. She thought it would look nice on me. I don't know why they made me take it off." And her mother Karen Haber told Newsday, "I never expected it to be blown up like this. But innocently enough, Jaiden's made an impact on society -- maybe even history." However, Jaiden has also said she doesn't know what the N-word is, only that it's a bad word she shouldn't say (her mom says she wanted to keep Jaiden "innocent.")
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The mother should have known better than to endanger her child like that. One can never know when a shirt like that would set off black people into an enraged mob chasing after you throwing rocks and bottles. Some people are just sensitive like that.
Is the little girl mentally impaired? Just wondering based on her looks.
Nice job bringing in the earlier story from today Spear Chucker.
This parent seems to have some serious problems. She seems to be the type of parent who thinks their child is special beyond everyone else and can 'change history' at the age of 9! Way to one up Joan of Arc, that teenie tart!
I always have problems with parents treating their kids like giant bobblehead mascots for whatever their cause is...parents decking their kids in Yankees shirts...Obama shirts...etc. Your kid is not an accessory nor a billboard.
what does that even mean?
A: Wow, look at that white trash
B: That shirt is fug. Who picked out the font?
C: Damn, did I mention how white trash they look?
D: What the hell does that shirt even mean? It's time? It's time for what, and ass kicking?
E: I want to know whatK K-Mart sells this shirt. That woman looks far too stupid to find KKK sites on the internet, let alone ones with online shops.
F: I meant to write "an ass kicking," but I was so flabbergasted by the gap in that girl's grill I committed the mortal Internet sin of improper grammar.
she's just a little girl & you scumbags are making fun of her appearance instead of the mother who bought the inflammatory shirt. amazing.
Karen Haber told Newsday, "I never expected it to be blown up like this. But innocently enough, Jaiden's made an impact on society -- maybe even history."
Jaiden Haber: Girl who made historical impact on society when her attention-whore mom prompted passage of the "Jaiden Haber Child Abuse Act of 2009," which criminalized using your 8 year old kid as a pawn to bring some attention to your own fat ugly self.
"End" the N word? Were it an anti-epithet tee shirt, that'd be ok, right? Like "Don't Say 'Motherfucker,' Motherfucker."
Sure, go ahead and use your daughter as a sock puppet to the world. Just don't blame anyone else if she gets beaten to death.
Parents are so dumb these days.
I can't even figure out what this shirt means. "N" it? Is "N" a verb? The hell are we supposed to be doing, since it's apparently about time to be doing it?
Her mother though this wouldn't cause problems with the school?
Reminds me of Jon Benet's mother.
What does the first N mean?
Her mother though this wouldn't cause problems with the school?
Thought requires a brain...
When said aloud, the first N sounds like "end", especially if you can't speak English.
What kind of asshat would put that shirt on a kid? Seriously people, use your damn brains once in a while.
I'm assuming that the N is a play on "end." It probably is intended to mean "stop saying the N-word."
While I'm generally opposed to any students being sent to the principal's office based on what they are wearing, it does seem that this would create some awkward consequences amongst a bunch of 8-year-olds.
Kid #1 - "You shirt says N the N-word! What's the N-word?"
Kid #2 - "I know! It's [N]."
Kid #3 - "Oooh, that's a bad word!"
Kid #4 - "No it's not, my mommy says it. It means black people."
Kid #5 - (Pointing) "N! N! N!"
I also don't understand why the mom would dress her daughter in the shirt but not tell her what it means.
Today is a great day in American history. I can't wait for my children to read about this day in their textbooks.
Wait a sec, does mom have corn rows?!
Really?
Corn rows are never ok. Never.
N the C-Rows - It's Go Time!!!1!!
N her repro privs.
I really find it disgusting that people who are in their nineties have to be singled out. I do not find the word nonagenarian offensive. And to suggest they should end their lives is just deplorable.
Well got to blame the mom since she put her child in harms way. The kid has no idea what she is wearing. I want to know who sells that shirt. My point being she is wearing that shirt to a school wear the majority of the kids don't look like her. I need to get a kid and put him or her in a "Honkey you dont own me or my family so go over it" shirt. But I need the kid to be in the Hampton's or the UWS for it to be really great
What the hell does this shirt even mean? How do you "N" something? And how do you "N" the "N word"?
This shirt seems like it was made in China. You know what I'm talking about, shirts with English words that mean nothing when put together but look cool on a shirt? Kind of like the reverse of what we do w/Chinese characters here...next this girl's mom is gonna buy her a shirt that says "Lynching for weekend! Happy fun? Dude No problem!"
What kind of idiot puts her kid in a potentially inflamatory shirt without telling her what it means, asking her if she WANTS to participate in that message, and preparing her for any questions or comments she might get? She's a child, not a billboard.
Yep, it's kind of cryptic.
btw - I can't imagine who would be selling a t-shirt like that. Did the mother have it specially made at one of those t-shirt places for her daughter? Strange.
Reading the article would go a long way toward everyone's understanding of this whacked out family.
The mother did some sort of work for a LI company that makes t-shirts, and (probably seeing that she's a moron, as you can tell by the retarded grin on her face in the photo) they paid her with a case of these shirts (that they couldn't get anyone to buy). She actually handed out most of them to kids at her daughter's birthday party.
The ignorant comments here show just how dangerous this shirt is. They show that an awful lot of people can't figure out what it means and have knee-jerk reactions without thinking about it.
@ bxbrian and just_saying:
According to Newsday, "Karen Haber said she received some of the shirts from Intrigue Concepts Inc., of Roosevelt, as payment for work done. She distributed 17 of them during Jaiden's birthday party in school a month ago."
The shirt is on the Intrigue Concepts website for $26. The site claims that the slogan is registered with the US Patent & Trademark Office.
I can't figure out what "N the N word means". I am leaning towards the idea that the first "N" is supposed to sound like "End" which I think is a fine, albeit retardedly articulated, idea.
nincompoop
Only in flowing you don't flowing in flowing.
Nice Newsradio ref, jenspellnogood. If in fact, that's what it was lol
"However, Jaiden has also said she doesn't know what the N-word is, only that it's a bad word she shouldn't say (her mom says she wanted to keep Jaiden "innocent.")"
So you put the shirt on her but you want to keep her innocent? That's stupid.
From what the article said, the mother did think the T-shirt was trying to convey an anti-racist sentiment.
At any rate, the child is 8 years old, she's not the villain here, and she can't be blamed for her mother's poor judgment. It's a lot different than the SI kid with the confederate flag shirt, who was a teenager, knew what his chosen symbol meant and made a conscious decision to wear it.
I don't think anyone here thinks the shirt is meant to be racist and I don't think anyone is blaming the kid.
Imagine the shitstorm if she was wearing Apollo Braun's latest creation "Obama = Hitler".
If the mother would have dressed her little girl in latex, none of this would have happened.
Perhaps the the first N in the slogan was confusing. Plus the whole white editorializing could ruffle some feathers. A better Rodney King-esque why can't we all just get along? approach that would unite while still saving face in the street cred department would be "don't snitch" shirts for the principal and the little girl could be rockin' a N*gga Pleaze, end the N word. My favorite one those was the corporate masterpiece of marketing...Read books...Get brain (Akademiks)