YAHOO - A video of a high school cheerleading squad is going viral for all the wrong reasons.
The Lumberton High School cheerleaders are under fire for their 9/11 themed cheer routine, which features audio from live news reports from the day of the attack, the song “God Bless the USA” and comments made by President George W. Bush.
The Lumberton High School cheerleaders are under fire for their 9/11 themed cheer routine, which features audio from live news reports from the day of the attack, the song “God Bless the USA” and comments made by President George W. Bush.
The squad, from Lumberton, Texas, performed the routine on Friday, the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
One of the cheerleaders shared the video on Twitter, writing “The Lumberton cheerleaders would like you to watch our appreciation & acknowledgement for the ones effected [sic] in 9/11.”
The tribute has been met with mixed emotions, while some say the performance left them speechless, others have called it tasteless to be tumbling to the sounds of audio reports from the day the towers fell. The LHS cheerleaders have performed a 9/11 tribute routine every year since 2002, and this year has been no different. The squad’s coach, Lauren Sheffield, told Buzzfeed News that she and the cheerleaders take the routine “very seriously.”
“We do this because we believe it is very important to honor and remember the first responders, those who gave their lives, and those who still mourn the hole left by lost loved ones,” she told Buzzfeed.
Regardless of reactions, the 9/11 tribute video has been viewed on Facebook more than 23 million times to date and has been shared over 700,000 times.
One of the cheerleaders shared the video on Twitter, writing “The Lumberton cheerleaders would like you to watch our appreciation & acknowledgement for the ones effected [sic] in 9/11.”
The tribute has been met with mixed emotions, while some say the performance left them speechless, others have called it tasteless to be tumbling to the sounds of audio reports from the day the towers fell. The LHS cheerleaders have performed a 9/11 tribute routine every year since 2002, and this year has been no different. The squad’s coach, Lauren Sheffield, told Buzzfeed News that she and the cheerleaders take the routine “very seriously.”
“We do this because we believe it is very important to honor and remember the first responders, those who gave their lives, and those who still mourn the hole left by lost loved ones,” she told Buzzfeed.
Regardless of reactions, the 9/11 tribute video has been viewed on Facebook more than 23 million times to date and has been shared over 700,000 times.
I can't think of anything less appropriate for a September 11th tribute than a cheerleading routine. Maybe a performance by the Lumberton High School twerk team. That's about it. This Lauren Sheffield has got to be the worst cheer coach in history. Nice idea lady. Nothing gets the crowd going quite like landing a prop and elevator while the sounds of the World Trade Center collapsing echo through the gym. Seriously what an idiot. That spirit fingers lunatic from Bring It On is a better cheer choreographer than this dope.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not outraged. I'm sure the coach and the team had the best of intentions. You just have to be smarter than this in today's world. If you give people a window for an inch of dissension they'll pick it up and run with it until you go viral. To their credit at least they didn't do that thing where they keep a ridiculous permanent smile on for the entire routine. And it's true that they have done a 9/11 tribute like this every year.
Literally the exact same routine three years ago and nobody said boo. Selective outrage at it's finest. Nobody is offended by anything until they're told by others that they should be.
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