Flag display causes ruckus at Holy Cross

Worcester Telegram & Gazette Staff ^ | Monday, October 01, 2001 | Emilie Astell

[B4Ranch]

These Colors Don't Run!

I am very PROUD of Mrs. Post, she's a True Patriot! She's made from the same fiber as Todd Beamer, a Proud American!

[Spiff]

There was an organization that announced they would represent people who's rights were violated by being told they could not display an American Flag. I saw it posted in FR about a week ago - help me look and we'll get the info to them and Mrs. Post.

[CedarDave]

(In case anyone doesn't know the inference in my previous post:
BS=Male cow manure
MS=More of the same
PhD=Piled higher and deeper)

[Spiff]

Found it!

It was posted here

[Paul Atreides]

It's amazing how many cockroaches you find when you turn on the light!!!

[James Otis]

"...Royce Singleton, chairman of the college's Sociology Department, asked Mrs. Post, a secretary in the department, to take it down.

"She refused.

"He took it down, folded it and placed the flag on her desk, she said.

...

Mr. Singleton acknowledged ... he had taken the flag down,...

"'There is nothing that I can say that will make anybody understand the social context in which this occurred,' he said."

What, ho! We have a chairman of a department of sociology who cannot explain the social context in which some event in which he was involved occurred? Sounds to me as if old Royce is an incompetent buffoon -- and being incompetent is one of the few reasons for which a college can fire a tenured faculty member. Are there any Holy Cross alumni or trustees here?

[Luis Gonzalez]

Memoirs of a Banana Republican: 

Jimmy’s Flag

Click on the Flag.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm sure this guy wouldn't be worried about all the people who would be offended if some students burned an American flag. It is amazing how many people who are born here don't deserve such a blessing.

[alethia]

Why don't these milquetoast liberal "scholars" get it -- we are American, we are patriotic, and we don't give a rat's aXX if we offend anyone by displaying our national pride -- and our national mourning!!!

[deadhead]

Thanks for posting Professor Singleton's e-mail address. I sent a polite message letting him know how I feel.

[ChemistCat]

Near Sumter, SC, there is a cemetary called the Singleton Graveyard where many members of this family were buried from pre-Revolutionary War times to the 1940s. I did a research project on that cemetary and its occupants, from a famous governor with a big monument all the way down to little babies who died and were buried with little monuments to slaves who died and were buried with none. It was a depressing project. The Singleton name has been shamed many, many times by members of the family who could not control their bigoted, misogynist and greedy natures. There were a few members of the family whose lives were good and filled with courage and charity, but there were many whose lives left me deeply depressed and barely able to proceed with the project. It doesn't seem unlikely that this Singleton is a relative--there are many people, black and white, who trace their heritage to this particular plantation-owning family--and if so, he's "gone done it again."

[hellinahandcart]

If they don't like living under our flag, they can move elsewhere. The flag stays!

I think some of these leftist students need to learn a little TOLERAMCE, don't you? Meaning they can just put the hell up with it.

I can't imagine the ego involved, to be offended at the sight of another nation's flag on its home soil(or one's own flag, for that matter). I have a dream that one day I'll be able to spend an entire year in Italy--and if that ever happens, the sight of the Italian flag in Florence or Venice is certainly not going to cause me a nanosecond's concern. It's ITALY, for crying out loud.

We have to stop this nonsense. And if we can only stop it by scaring people $#!*less with our vociferous objections, then so be it. Tell them castigation is the flip side of free speech, which they claim to love. I've had to "tolerate" tons of things I didn't like over the past decade; now it's their turn.

[Re-electNobody]

I hope the numerous similar incidents we have read about open the public's eyes to what is going on in our educational institutions. Maybe a backlash is coming on political correctness. My copy of the Bill of Rights does not say anything about a right not to be offended or made uncomfortable. My advice to these wimpy PC spoiled brats is to get over it.

[The Great RJ]

Any alums of Holy Cross out there? How about withholding financial support?

If this were my alma mater I would be calling everyone I knew from my college days and urging them to write to the college President and withhold all financial support until this idiot were at least censured if not kicked out.

Can you imagine the ruckus if a conservative tore down one of the peacenicks banners because he was offended?

[hellinahandcart]

Tolerance, not "toleramce". (WAAAAAAHH!!)

[TroutStalker]

Here is my email to this guy:

As a professor of the pseudo-science of sociology, you know that you seek to reduce human behavior to it's lowest common denominator.

It is sociologists and their gullible students who glorify cop killers like mumia while dishonoring American heroes like Todd Beamer.

I'm sure you are puzzled that your behavior has created such a stir. Maybe if you studied real science you could learn to do something useful. Considering where your head is now, maybe you should consider proctology.

[B4Ranch]

Thank you for the update on the sorry Singleton family. Margaret Post would be a fine friend. Someone to look up to. I'll bet her husband is darn glad he found a good lady who was willing to accept his offer. Not enough Americans are willing to stand a fight for their Rights.

"Oak trees exist because of a nut who was willing to fight for their ground." Anonymous.

We need more Margaret Posts to teach Americans to fight for America!

[hellinahandcart]

Any alums of Holy Cross out there? How about withholding financial support?

Good luck. I tried to get something similar going with the University of Texas, where both my parents graduated, but it's looking like a wasted effort. THE UNIVERSITIES DON'T CARE.

Mom told me that when she was a freshman at UT in the fifties, they all had to take an oath and swear they'd never become communists :D. Now UT gives tenure to a communist dickweed like Robert Jensen, who just doesn't know when to shut up.

[Fury]

GREAT article.

What this really boils down to is the Professor being intolerant of other's views and beliefs, while at the same time, claiming that the flag being displayed may cause others to be uncomfortable. That's the zany world of "new science" for you.

I hope that Dr. Singleton would be as concerned if one were to display on exhibit a Crucifix immersed in urine or other such provacative scene. We can only hope he would, or perhaps he would claim that the right to express one's self is an important right, indeed.