I was a judge in a California Bay Area high school forensics tournement last weekend. In the classroom, which I belive was social studies, was a poster of a Cuban stamp, which had Che on it. It was something like this:
Posted on 01/17/2006 9:16:08 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Maryville, Blount County (WVLT) - The issue involving the confederate flag is coming back in Blount County after students at a local high school were ordered to cover up their shirts on Friday with the confederate flag on it.
WVLT Volunteer TV's Blount County Bureau Chief Stephen McLamb has the latest.
More than 150 students at William Blount High School have signed a petition seeking support for the right to wear confederate symbols on shirts and other clothing items.
But students who wore the emblem on Friday say they were threatened with suspension if they didn't cover up.
Some students say they support the right to express their confederate heritage that the school has taken away.
Many students came to school on Friday wearing a confederate symbol but say school officials then threatened them.
"If we didn't they said that they were going to suspend us, but my friend Bruce, they threatened my friend Bruce that if he didn't turn his shirt inside out, they were going to take him to juvenile," says Derek Barr, who started the flag petition.
Barr says he hopes to seek more signatures for his petition but says he's concerned about retaliation from school officials.
Attempts to contact Principal Steve Lafon or Superintendent Alvin Hord were unsuccessful.
The policy may be facing legal action, local Sons of Confederates Camp Commander Ron Jones says they will be assisting the students should a suit be filed against the school system.
That's an asinine statement!
I was a judge in a California Bay Area high school forensics tournement last weekend. In the classroom, which I belive was social studies, was a poster of a Cuban stamp, which had Che on it. It was something like this:
Who mentioned slavery? I didn't. Did I say they were racists? No. The fact is, the majority of people associate that flag with certain ideologies that may or may not reflect the actual views of the displayer. If you choose to communicate with symbols, then I'd assert that using the Confederate Flag sends a mixed message at best. Worst, some may mistakenly think the person is even a racist.
I have no problem with racists or rednecks; who cares what they think or do as long as it doesn't infringe on my liberty or freedom. I don't read the history of the NAACP or really even care about the Southern story. It's really a pretty pathetic chapter in American history which we are much better off leaving in the past. Really, some of the most brutal battles involving American deaths were amongst countrymen. For instance, the absolute massacre of troops at Antietam. 23,000 plus killed, wounded, or missing in one day. Nice proud legacy there. Gotta love that old-school trench warfare. Stories from some of the survivors there sure are ugly, it was just a frickin meat grinder down in that Sunken Road. Oh, don't forget the smallpox, burning and ransoming of cities, etc etc. Damn, I digress, I forgot that I was not supposed to know anything or care. Must suck to be on the losing side doesn't it? A heavy psychological burden to carry.
Well, your phrasing struck me funny. I grew up in Bethesda, BTW.
You don't know your TN history.
Stop spreading misinformation.
Publik skoolz? Maybe we can take a collection on FR to pay for a proper education.
Good to see you on deck, wardaddy.
For instance, check out these yahoos, supposedly from Reston, Virginia in 2000:
Not very convincing, but they've certainly wrapped themselves in the Banner. Of course, the Press will use any instance it can to suggest that anyone flying the Southern Cross is a hard-core, card-carrying racist, such as in Naples:
I will say, there is a much larger source of more official looking KKK photos which make use of the Old Glory than the Battle Flag, though my search is as rudimentary as it could possibly be. But Stainless, by all means, perish the thought that I would spread disinformation. I'll leave THAT to the ADL, thank ya kindly.
Deo Vindice,
~dt~
When I was stationed at NAS Alameda in 1983, I wore my denim jacket with Confederate patch down 14th Street in Oakland. No one cared.
We're on the same side. Deo Vindice!
I wore my Dixie Outfitters shirt in downtown NYC. But then, Mayor Wood almost had NYC secede in 1861!
What's more pathetic is folks who don't know American history. Public school students are getting robbed of an (history) education.
You've proven that you are nothing more than pot-stirrer. As far as the "losing side", I may be a southerner but I am also an American so the only losing side I see is on the Left. As a fine southern woman once said - Kiss my grits!
Not a problem in the least! My apologies for not communicating it more clearly in the first place! :)
The dead on both sides were Americans .
you too SB~!
Maybe you can collect enough to send me to the segregation academy you most likely attended. If the South agreed to abolish slavery, there would've been no Civil War.
If the North agreed to follow the Constitution there would've been no war.
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