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Posted on 06/05/2012 1:35:17 PM PDT by smokingfrog
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. —
When Trey Gainey drove his pickup truck to school Monday morning, he didn’t expect to be met in the parking lot by school officials telling him to remove a Confederate flag flying from his antenna.
The Richmond Senior High School junior said he flies the flag every weekend, and decided to leave the flag on his truck on his last day of classes before finals start.
Gainey has a belt buckle that says “Redneck” and a horn that plays “Dixie,” so there is no mistaking how the teen identifies himself.
“It’s just my Southern heritage, you know. I was born and raised down here and [it] wasn’t nothing racist, just me,” he said.
But when he drove into the school’s parking lot, school officials made him take it down.
“I’m like, ‘What have I done wrong?’ you know,” Gainey said.
So, the teen told the school officials he would not remove the flag.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsoctv.com ...
Bro’s under the skin!
Exactly, the war on the South stated at the same time as the war on Christmas, Christianity, Western Civilization, men in history and so on, it was when suddenly, rewriting the textbooks and removing all non-liberal symbols became all important to the left as they started remolding America, and reshaping the meaning of everything.
You betcha. And skin is all it is.
My ancestry stretches back to three different continents, and I've got one ancestor (that I know of) who served with the Confederacy.
Thank goodness my mom and dad raised me to be an American first.
There are still little groups of pale faces going around trumpeting their ignorant racial supremacy wrapped in Dixie regalia, and they catch all the attention whether or not they deserve it. (They probably like the bad publicity. It bolsters their bully creds.) Good on you for successfully telling your fears who’s boss. Our worst enemies are sometimes inside rather than outside.
We just gotta keep pushing back, Ansel. The left has had a good run in this country, but the majority of Americans are now on to their plans to remake our great nation in the mold of their utopian delusions.
It will never be, but we will have to remain vigilant and willing to fight back, to keep it from being so.
True dat, but they're a vanishingly small minority of white Southerners. I'd almost be willing to bet that most of them aren't even from the South. I'm not worried about 'em.
Good on you for successfully telling your fears who’s boss. Our worst enemies are sometimes inside rather than outside.
Wisdom...
If there was a racially baited dust up on school property, guess who would get blamed for it. In a way it’s no-win. Out of consideration, our redneck pal really ought to have stowed the Dixie flag (especially if it was a humongous one like shown in the Channel 9 photo) before leaving the truck in the lot. But upon return, put it back on and hit that Dixie horn upon exit to the public street.
There is. Blacks of my grandparents' generation were almost universally Republican. All four of my grandparents voted R until their dying day, even as they watched their children and grandchildren being sucked into the Democrat fold.
The shift toward majority Democrat affiliation was hard on blacks of that generation. In time, they just didn't talk about politics with the young folks. They simply kept it private, and continued voting for the 'party of Lincoln', as their parents had.
In my day, the 8% (or so) of us who are staunchly conservative Republican, are openly reviled and spat upon by other blacks. Water, meet duck's back. My real brothers and sisters are those who believe in this country and the Founders' vision.
It is to cry. What Simon Legree could not whip away, what the KKK could not intimidate, white liberals (hypocrites all) purloined with their honeyed words.
Should I and plenty other boys have been prevented from wearing black band T-shirts in high school because we may have been satanic?
I don’t know how sensitive you are to the media, it’s bias, and propagandist manipulation, for me it is something that I have been sensitive to and studied since my youth.
If you are tuned into it you may have noticed that Texas is starting to get the treatment that all these PC (non PC?) things started getting 40 and 45 years ago.
The casual, isolating, mildly degrading/insulting, negative associations, comments about Texas are cropping up throughout media and popular culture, and in news.
They are just sprinklings now, just starting to form drops here and there, but it is definitively happening, Texas is on the way to being portrayed as a pariah, they can’t totally do Texas like they did the South, but it is something that you are old enough to witness this time.
It is similar to Clarence Thomas, they can’t destroy Texas, but they can take some of the sheen off of it and make it harder to casually use it as a counterpoint to California and New York governance, without getting soiled with some of the baggage that the media is striving to attach to it.
They want to contaminate it for mention in polite company.
The devil you say?
Damn, brother. You made me choke up with that. If there's a post of the month award, I nominate that one for the prize. You just shrunk a thousand word essay down into two sentences of distilled truth.
BOOYAH!
Not all of us New Yorkers are Liberals.
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Put some ice on it.
If teachers and the administration thought you were being disruptive by doing so, they would have a good argument. However, in most places that would not be the case.
The SCOTUS in past decided that in most places, local standards defined what was pornographic or not. Perhaps it is time for them to reach a similar decision about schools.
As it is today, one hothead and their family can disrupt an entire school through litigation that goes federal, be it over school prayer, what is published in the student newspaper, what they wear, who they want to take to the prom, etc., etc. But enough is enough. The SCOTUS needs to do something to end these endless nearly identical federal court cases.
I know.
I was thinking of Manhattan, the Networks and the heart of liberalism that lives in the city, I think of LA as the goofy, shallow liberal center of the West Coast, but see New York city as the hard nosed, intellectual center of liberalism and blue blood liberal power.
The casual, isolating, mildly degrading/insulting, negative associations, comments about Texas are cropping up throughout media and popular culture, and in news.
Yes, I've seen it too, but I don't think it's all that new. As a native Californian, I can tell you that there's long been a perception out there that Texas is a somewhat backward, overly conservative, flag waving, hickish place, filled with narrow minded Christians and empty headed yahoos. Not all Californians think of Texas that way, but enough do, that the viewpoint is noticeable.
My own views of Texas only improved because I was regularly in conversation with like-minded patriots and conservatives out here. In time, I came to see that all of those 'negatives' that liberal Californians looked down upon, were actually superior virtues, and that they set Texans far above the degraded and decrepit culture out west.
Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's because I'm just a bit biased toward my adopted state, but I see the cultural stock value of Texas rising in the minds of Americans.
It's an odd thing, but after living in California for half a century, I never experienced any home sickness for the place when we relocated to Texas. On the other hand, I had to make a trip out of state in our first year here, and I was absolutely sick with longing for Texas while I was gone.
Like I said, I might just be a tad biased :-)
What snobbish arrogance. You didn't just insult me. You insulted at least half the people who regularly post here when you called the people of the South, "losers".
How dare you talk to us like Bill Clinton talked to his rape victims?
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