Posted on 04/25/2012 3:56:16 PM PDT by Stoat
MEMPHIS, TN -
(WMC-TV) – A Mid-South teen is banned from prom for wearing a dress that resembles a confederate battle flag.
"It wasn't done to offend anybody," Texanna Edwards explained of her dress. "It was done just for the sole fact that I just wanted a rebel flag dress because I thought it was cool."
But the principal at Gibson High in West Tennessee did not think it was cool. Edwards, a senior at the school, tried to wear the dress that she helped design to the prom Saturday night. She also wore a rebel flag necklace.
"He told us y'all have to leave because the dress is inappropriate," Edwards said.
Texanna, who plans to become a veterinarian, said she almost cried, "I felt like it but I was more mad."
She says she does not understand why the dress was banned because students in school wear rebel flag shirts, hats, and belt buckles.
"I don't see the point of not letting someone in their one-and-only prom, senior prom. The year they graduate. Doesn't represent anything bad," Cody Beasley, a fellow student says.
LaShantay Beverly, also a student, agrees.
"Other people wear the same stuff to school but they don't get kicked out of school on that basis," she said.
"It was heritage not hate. She didn't go in their to make nobody upset or anything like that," says student Brittany Donald.
Gibson High principal, James Hughes, refused to talk with WMC-TV.
Last year, Texanna wore a camouflage dress to the prom.
She says the whole thing has been blown out of proportion.
I moved last year from Seattle to a little fishing village on the Georgia coast. It was a good move.
Looks like the principal didn’t get the memo that the Confederates lost the war. Or is he just a poor winner?
I guess she did not want to go.
Have you gotten used to the heat yet? That is pretty much the only thing that worries me about such a move...as a Seattle native, I'm acclimated to 55 degrees with a light, irritating drizzle for nine months of every year and I was VERY impressed by the heat and humidity of The South. There were days when I would step out of the air-conditioned stoatmobile and all I could say was "WOW!" as the heat hit me like a sledgehammer ;-)
The thing I miss most is my favorite Asian restaurants.
Yeeesh! Just tell her it makes her ass look really big! Problem solved.
I appreciate your reply, thank you. I guess I will just have to give it a try and see how I fare. I appreciated the incredible friendliness, graciousness and patriotism of Southerners (among many other things) so much that I’m willing to make an effort to make it work.
I know a thirty something mom named Arizona. Ma Barker’s actual first name.
She really screwed up. She should have worn something politically unoffensive at school, like Che Guevara, a hammer and sickle or a Muslim star and crescent moon. A dress with GW’s head on a platter would probably be unoffensive as well.
You can wear anything you want as long as it only insults white Christians.
“Hmmm, I could probably use this one again” ;-)
When liberals do things like this, it’s “bold”.
When liberals don’t do it, it’s hate.
Liberals SUCK.
(sorry Mods, if that’s too honest please pull the post)
If this is true, then winning a lawsuit is certain. She should be happy - that school administrator just paid for her college degree.
If a gay male had worn the Confederate Dress would it have been OK??
I assume so...
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