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.
I am with you an our ancestors fight, his was my great-great grandfather:
http://www.civilwarpreservations.com/newmus183.html
I don't need a flag that has been hijacked to remember my heritage.
THIS was my great-great grandfather...
I don't live in any Commonwealth, I'm a lifelong Marylander.
che guevara, la raza, black panthers..
yeah, those are all ok.
Gee, you make it sound like a curse.
If it is a curse, then I have it, being one myself.
Many of my neighbors are minorities. Fortunately, most of them are of sufficient intellect to evaluate persons based upon their character and demeanor rather than upon the display of an ancient banner.
I'm sure there are those who want to be "victimized" by that flag, though.
Ah, that makes sense. In that case, my hat's off to ya, and my apologies for the misunderstanding.
I live in the Atl & to hear the 'N' word a hundred times in 3 hours just go to the Georgia Dome on any Sunday the Falcons are in town. Difference is; it's the blacks using the word in every sentence. Maybe it's a southern black thing?
ROTFLOL!! and they call us who raise that banner "PREJUDICED"!
LOL--that's a whole other thread...
I just calls 'em as I see em'.
I guess one wouldn't go round wearing a white sheet or a swastika and then get offended that somebody got the wrong idea, I guess? Or are people just 'prejudiced' against swastikas?
You're right. The last time I heard the word in profusion was from blacks in my high school in the 60's.
..And, I wasn't calling you or anyone else prejudiced. But dang, if you don't want anyone to think you are queer, don't go to the pride day parade in your gold lame'!
My ancestors on my Mom's side fought under the confederate flag and I'm proud of my heritage!
The KKK's hijacking of the American flag was unsucessful.
Blame it on hollywood or no, the battle flag has been lumped in with the "segregation forever" crowd since the '60's, adopted by modern racists and I am afraid it is gone. Wave it if you wish, it's a free country, But don't fool yourself as to what others think when they see it.
Praising and honoring Traitors is no way to fight leftism.
####Praising and honoring Traitors is no way to fight leftism.####
They weren't traitors. They simply wished to go their own way, just as the American colonists did earlier.
Whose descendants are the most patriotic? Those from Dixie or those from the Dixie-bashing Yankee lands of Massachusetts & Co.? Check the election returns (you can start with the 2004 election) to find out. Who voted for President Bush and who voted for Hanoi John Kerry?
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