Confederate Flag Fight Rises Again in High School

WVLT-TV, Knoxville, Tennessee ^ | 1/17/06 | Stephen McLamb

[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.

[puroresu]

Sorry for sticking you with those commies! :-)

I'm just making the case that it was those commies who were the genesis of the current war against the Confederate Battle Flag. Their loony fringe stance exploded into a national campaign in 1993 when Senator Moseley-Braun did her staged protest on the Senate floor, playing the race card, and it succeeded in turning half the GOP senators into quaking masses of cowardly jelly. The Rats knew they had a new issue to use as a tool to split the GOP, insult the GOP's largest electoral base (which is indeed the South), and set the left up for a future war against the U.S. Flag and the Founding Fathers.

[M. Espinola]

In terms of Turban Durbin, since I am not a mind reader you might want to call him and ask him why he votes the way he does.

[M. Espinola]

I just wanted to say that it was Liz (Lez) Holtzman-person who was one of the one's most responsible for the MS (Mzzzz) term, and "person" nonsense as in "fire-person" instead of "fireman" or "mail-person" in relation to "mailman" pushing this nation toward extremist terminology.

I realize the subversive communists try to attach themselves to various causes in order to infiltrate and brainwash, in saying that does make the cause any less noble.

[mac_truck]

I'm just tired of the constant PC whining about the CBF.

So am I. So knock it off, and take your race based identity politics someplace else. Got it?

[puroresu]

A) I don't practice race-based identity politics, and you know that.

B) You don't own Free Republic.

Anything else?

[CrZyReDNeK]

if you make suit you should win cause they try to ban it at my school to but failed