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North Carolina elementary school rewards black student with Confederate hat
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | Monday, January 20, 2014, | By Nina Golgowski

Posted on 01/21/2014 4:03:43 AM PST by dennisw

The 9-year-old boy's outraged mother said she's unable to grasp how her son's school thought it was appropriate to send him home with the hat on his head. 'This stands for a dark time in our history,' Natasha Lea told MyFox8 in tears. A North Carolina mother is reeling after an elementary school rewarded her black son with a Confederate Army hat.

When Natasha Lea's 9-year-old son Jacob got off his Reidsville school bus last week, she said she was absolutely floored by what she saw him wearing on his head.

Natasha Lea said she can't understand why her son's elementary school thought the item was appropriate for an African American boy to wear.

"I did not want to believe that. That a school actually let him walk around as an African American child with a Confederate cap on," she said.

Rockingham County Spokesperson Karen Hyler confessed that the hat was given away to Lea's son as part of a class prize in exchange for "big bucks," a kind of academic currency rewarded to their students.

But the gift wasn't given in a "malicious way" by his teacher, she said.

"Before winter break in December, the class had an auction where students could bid on different items using their 'big bucks,'" she told MyFox8. The grey and black hat shows no markings on the outside but on the inside the tag, seen here, reads 'Confederate.'

The grey and black hat shows no markings on the outside but on the inside the tag, seen here, reads 'Confederate.'

The cap, one of several items donations by families to be used as prizes, was consequently given to Jacob.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: civilwar; tearsofaclown
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To: markomalley

Hey, I wonder why those boys are wearing Yankee uniforms? Could it be that they were actually union soldiers?


41 posted on 01/21/2014 6:20:03 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: DeWalt

Yes. That is why Medea is so loved by blacks AND whites. When my (white) family watches ‘her’ and her family we don’t see black culture we see southern culture.


42 posted on 01/21/2014 6:26:33 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: dennisw

She has the luxury of being able to be offended over a hat because she lives in America. If she were living in Africa because her ancestors weren’t brought to America, she would most likely be struggling just to survive.


43 posted on 01/21/2014 6:29:53 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

New Orleans had a lot of free black businessmen who joined the resistance against the occupying Union forces who were raping and thieving the citizens.


44 posted on 01/21/2014 6:45:34 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: lurk
Folks who are offended are weak.

And filled with pride. It's hard to offend a humble person.

45 posted on 01/21/2014 8:18:50 AM PST by Nea Wood
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To: dennisw
Meanwhile libtard hipsters still like to sport Communist worker caps.


46 posted on 01/21/2014 9:20:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: central_va

There weren’t any black CSA units till the end of the War, prior to that, blacks in CSA units were not combatants, nor members of the military. I would not be surprised if blacks attached to CSA took up the arms of fallen members of their units to fight the Northerners. From contemporary accounts of Northerners, many blacks identified as Southerners, though considerable numbers of escaped slaves became Northern camp followers, as well.


47 posted on 01/21/2014 10:27:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

August 1861

Series I, Volume IV

Colonel John W. Phelps (1st Vermont Infantry)

They—the enemy—talked of having 9,000 men. They had twenty pieces of artillery, among which was the Richmond Howitzer Battery, manned by negroes.

May 1862

Series I, Volume XIV

Colonel Benjamin C. Christ (50th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers)

There were six companies of mounted riflemen, besides infantry, among which were a considerable number of colored men.”

July 1862

Series I, Volume XVI

Lieutenant Colonel John G. Parkhurst (9th Michigan Infantry)

There were also quite a number of negroes attached to the Texas and Georgia troops, who were armed and equipped, and took part in the several engagements with my forces during the day.

July 1862

Series III, Volume II

Richard Yates, Governor of Illinois

Excerpt from a Letter to President Abraham Lincoln:

They [CSA] arm negroes and merciless savages in their behalf. Mr. Lincoln, the crisis demands greater efforts and sterner measures.

Sept. 1862

Series I, Volume XV

Major Frederick Frye (9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers)

Pickets were thrown out that night, and Captain Hennessy, Company E, of the Ninth Connecticut, having been sent out with his company, captured a colored rebel scout, well mounted, who had been sent out to watch our movements.”

Sept. 1862

Series I, Volume XIII

Major General Samuel R. Curtis (2nd Iowa Infantry)

We are not likely to use one negro where the rebels have used a thousand. When I left Arkansas they were still enrolling negroes to fortify the rebellion.

Oct. 1862

Series I, Volume XIX, Part I-Reports

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Wheeler Downey (3rd Maryland Infantry, Potomac Home Brigade)

Question by the Judge Advocate.: Do you know of any individual of the enemy having been killed or wounded during the siege of Harpers Ferry?

Answer. I have strong reasons to believe that there was a negro killed, who had wounded 2 or 3 of my men. I know that an officer took deliberate aim at him, and he fell over. He was one of the skirmishers of the enemy, and wounded 3 of my men. I know there must have been some of the enemy killed.

Question. How do you know the negro was killed?

Answer. The officer saw him fall.

Jan. 1863

Series I, Volume XVII

Brigadier General D. Stuart (U.S. Army 4th Brigade and Second Division)

It had to be prosecuted under the fire of the enemy’s sharpshooters, protected as well as the men might be by our skirmishers on the bank, who were ordered to keep up so vigorous a fire that the enemy should not dare to lift their heads above their rifle-pits; but the enemy, and especially their armed negroes, did dare to rise and fire, and did serious execution upon our men.

June 1863

Series II, Volume VI

(Prisoners of War)

Lieutenant-Colonel William H Ludlow (Agent for Exchange of Prisoners / 73rd New York Volunteer Infantry)

And more recently the Confederate legislature of Tennessee have passed an act forcing into their military service (I quote literally) all male free persons of color between the ages of fifteen and fifty, or such number as may be necessary, who may be sound in body and capable of actual service; and they further enacted that in the event a sufficient number of free persons of color to meet the wants of the State shall not tender their services, then the Governor is empowered through the sheriff’s of different counties to impress such persons until the required number is obtained.

September 1863

Series III, Volume III

Thomas H. Hicks (United States Senator, Maryland)
Excerpt from a Letter to President Abraham Lincoln:

I do and have believed that we ought to use the colored people, after the rebels commenced to use them against us.

Aug. 1864

Series I, Volume XXXV, Part I, Reports, Correspondence, etc.

Brigadier General Alexander Asboth (U.S. Army, District of West Florida)

We pursued them closely for 7 miles, and captured 4 privates of Goldsby’s company and 3 colored men, mounted and armed, with 7 horses and 5 mules with equipments, and 20 Austrian rifles

Nov. 1864

Series I, Volume XLI, Part IV, Correspondence, Etc.

Captain P. L. Powers (47th Missouri Infantry, Company H)

We have turned up eleven bushwhackers to dry and one rebel negro.

April 1865

Series I, Volume XLIX, Part II

Major A. M. Jackson (10th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery)

The rebels are recruiting negro troops at Enterprise, Mississippi, and the negroes are all enrolled in the State.


48 posted on 01/21/2014 10:34:11 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
A black kid riding his bike with a Confederate cap would be an embarrassment and he needs to know

Sorry, bub. I remember, like 25 years ago, a young black night shift janitor at our plant in Massachusetts drove a Miata with a Confederate States Army flag in the front license plate bracket. He had a NH plate on the rear. So here was a young black adult with a rear plate that said "Live Free or Die!" and a front plate that celebrated the Army of Northern Virginia! Al Sharpton would have had a coronary. I never put a political bumber sticker on any car in my life, but I wanted to get CSA Flag flag for my pick-up. My wife won't let me. Okay, I'm whipped, I admit it.

49 posted on 01/21/2014 10:42:12 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: central_va

Thanks!


50 posted on 01/21/2014 10:43:14 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
They [CSA] arm negroes and merciless savages in their behalf. Mr. Lincoln, the crisis demands greater efforts and sterner measures.

I believe the Illinois Governor meant Indians when he wrote "merciless savages".

51 posted on 01/21/2014 10:58:47 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Get one of the Stars and Bars. No one will know what it is. If they ask tell them it is the flag of Puerto Rico. I have a Stars and Bars front bumper license plate.
52 posted on 01/21/2014 11:36:36 AM PST by prof.h.mandingo (Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
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To: prof.h.mandingo

Hey, I know the difference between the Stars and Bars and the CSA Army flag. The Stars and Bars says “I’m a rebel, but I too whipped to show it.”


53 posted on 01/21/2014 3:18:02 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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