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Students protest school ban on T-shirts with Confederate flag emblem
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/7/02 | DIANE STEPP

Posted on 09/06/2002 6:44:16 PM PDT by stainlessbanner

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To: stainlessbanner
Out of over 1600 Cherokee High School students, the black school enrollment is 37 students.
41 posted on 09/07/2002 6:27:38 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: FreedomFriend
My correction. There are only thirty seven black females. There are forty one black males for a total of seventy eight black students in an over sixteen hundred school population. That's a little over three percent of the school population.
42 posted on 09/07/2002 6:38:18 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: PAR35
Hope you're hitting them straight...I dang sure ain't.
43 posted on 09/07/2002 8:35:43 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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To: Non-Sequitur
There are a lot of northerners that now reside in Cherokee County. It's an upper-middle class suburban county, and it has become home to many people from closer-in suburbs, as well as people from all over the country.
44 posted on 09/07/2002 9:20:07 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: FreedomFriend
As a former teacher in DeKalb and Rockdale Counties, I'm appalled at the stupidity of these boards.
45 posted on 09/07/2002 9:27:25 PM PDT by buckeye63
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To: buckeye63
I agree, the school boards are crazy. They give approval to outright historically inaccurate textbooks, as well as a host of other bad things.
46 posted on 09/07/2002 10:01:10 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: FreedomFriend
There are a lot of northerners that now reside in Cherokee County.

Fine, but what difference should that make? I'm as Yankee as they come and I see no threat in anyone wearing the confederate flag on their clothes, displaying it on the truck or flying it from their home. Why should anyone feel threatened by it?

47 posted on 09/08/2002 4:19:04 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
I don't know why. Most likely, though, this was a local schoolboard that bowed out to political correctness. I agree with you.
48 posted on 09/08/2002 8:35:33 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: Non-Sequitur
doggone you, N-S!

every time i think you are lost & beyond hope, you say something actually 1/2-smart.

ROTFLMAO!

for a free dixie,sw

49 posted on 09/08/2002 11:32:35 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: FreedomFriend
that is EXACTLY the goal of the hateful damnyankees!

but never fear, the PALEO-confederate familes will NEVER end our struggle for LIBERTY! there is only ONE TRUE CAUSE.

FREE DIXIE now,sw

50 posted on 09/08/2002 11:35:59 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: Non-Sequitur
BECAUSE it is the NATURE of damnyankees, halfbacks & scalawags to cause trouble about ANYTHING!

any cause will do for these useful idiots, morons & HATERS!

for a FREE dixie,sw

51 posted on 09/08/2002 11:38:45 AM PDT by stand watie
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To: stainlessbanner
""to preserve peace and tranquility among our students and to ensure teaching and learning can take place. . . ."

Through censorship? I don't think so! The only way this can be justified is if the school requires uniforms. These students need to let it be known that racist, liberal whining offends THEM! I hope some law suits are in the works against the schools in question.

52 posted on 09/08/2002 11:47:48 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty
SEVERAL are in the works, both separately and individually!

free dixie,sw

53 posted on 09/08/2002 12:11:38 PM PDT by stand watie
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To: stand watie; stainlessbanner
Here's the letter I sent. Too strong? Not strong enough?

"Mr. Sebring; You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves! You do not deserve to call yourself southerners OR Georgians. I thank God that when my daughter was in school that I was able to find alternatives to subjecting her to the kind of despicable, bureaucratic bullshit that left-wing NEA automatons inject into the government indoctrination camps laughingly referred to as public schools. I hope the parents of the students who were forbidden to wear the Confederate flag, a proud and noble symbol of Southern heritage, black and white, will sue everyone involved in this flagrant disregard of the first amendment (you do know what that is don't you? Or were you "educated" in public school as well?) You know, there are a growing number of Americans that are sick to death of being offended brazenly and constantly by the likes of bureaucratic brown nosers in the interest of keeping the very few from being offended in the slightest. Don't you see the hypocrisy here? If you are so dead set against kids displaying the Confederate flag in school, then make it a policy not to allow ANY emblems or slogans and quit picking and choosing which students do and do not have the right to free speech.

A concerned citizen and grandparent."

54 posted on 09/08/2002 12:15:48 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: zeromus
"i thought we were supposed to be teaching the kids tolerance"

Tolerance of the liberal issues. Surely you realize by now that tolerance is a one-way street. Silly! What were you thinking?

55 posted on 09/08/2002 12:32:06 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: mysonsfuture
While I agree that it absolutely should have national exposure, keep in mind that "hot spots" like this attract the Jesse Jackass Jackson racists like sh*t attracts flies.
56 posted on 09/08/2002 12:38:07 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: stainlessbanner
Bump to my southern brothers.....
57 posted on 09/08/2002 12:38:37 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: weikel
"Whats next banning the Duke's of Hazzard?"

Well, they did try banning the flag on the General Lee before the movie came out.

58 posted on 09/08/2002 12:39:59 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: stainlessbanner
" I am shocked that they wish to be contacted at their homes....seems a little odd."

They have probably never been FReeped before. They may change their minds after this. I hope they regret the day they made this decision.

59 posted on 09/08/2002 12:49:22 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: FreedomFriend
"then southern heritage may be eliminated altogether."

Not as long as there is a proud southerner who draws a breath.

60 posted on 09/08/2002 12:51:10 PM PDT by sweetliberty
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