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Fight Club Rants Run Rabid Online
   posted 4:40 pm Mon February 04, 2008 - Greenbelt, Md.
Racist, sexist and homophobic rants are apparently all the rage at one school in Greenbelt and those hate-filled messages are prompting calls for the school system to crack-down.

The taunts and threats come from a group called the Roosevelt Fight Club and despite the school's efforts to halt the club, it's still popular at Roosevelt High and on the internet.
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Students say some of their classmates, instead of composing essays, focus of gun violence, homophobia and racism. They face-off in verbal confrontations which wind-up on the internet.

NewsChannel 8 myTAKE - What's Your Opinion?"I watch it on You Tube. It's a lot on MySpace too," said one student.

Janvier Gholson says it started last year and now all you have to do is log on to see a classmate bragging about murdering or maiming someone. "Many many kids many many guys."

"If that's how some people feel, like, I don't think there is anyway we can stop them from doing it cause they do have like freedom of speech. I mean you may not agree with it but we can't stop them," said student Dawnette Samuels.

Regina Thompson's niece told her about the fight club and it's popularity. "She's in tenth grade. She is already been approached by this so this is not nothing now. I'm shaking now.

"I wouldn't want to see my son on anything like that." Sean Anthony's son goes to Roosevelt and believes the fight club is a bi-product of hip-hop culture. "Those the same kind of stuff you hear when you listen to the different rappers you know what I mean?"

The school system says the fight club consists of one clip which keeps getting recycled. It says it reprimanded the students in the video, yet the system admits it is hard to rein in anything once it takes off on the internet. Right now, there's no way of knowing whether the rants have turned into any physical acts of violence.
Latest Comment on Fight Club Rants Run Rabid Online
rooseraider
Alright! WOW! Yall Gave Us A Really Bad Name. There Have Been No "Physical Acts of Violence". and i know this because ive been there at every single one of the battles. We Just Rap. Thats It. Yall sitting here saying we are bad examples of government schools but this goes on with adults. There are famous Rock, Rap, Hip Hop, and even country Artists who have said things to the same extent. You cant blame the government school system. Eboy is speaking on somthing he/her has nothing in common with or will ever know about because he is probably a private school collage graduate who has never struggled his entire life. Dont speak on a subject that you have no clue about. (i have no problem u got a private school education but dont speak on us when you dont even know us) Also you should support the roosevelt fight klub, not degrade it. We are out there speaking our minds (excercising freedom of speech) and not fighting and all you can do is critisize in the worst way. Thats just sad. At least we arent out there killing people or fighting everybody. There are adults that do the same thing we do but they are not on the news for it. I dont really care we were on the news, thats kind of cool but the fact that you just down us for it yet we have a large audience who love to watch it. Thanks for giving us the publicity. I believe you should change your viewpoints on this because your simply wrong. This is coming from a student who attends Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland and I like the roosevelt fight klub. It makes us different that we actually have this type of lyrical talent in our school. it would be different if we were out there beating each other up but this is a regular bunch of children just expressing lyrics that the audience wants to hear. Thanks for reading if you did.

     
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