Posted on 09/15/2016 5:06:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Michigan school district called the historic “Betsy Ross” flag a symbol of hate and profusely apologized after students displayed the flag at a recent high school football game.
“To wave a historical version of our flag, that to some symbolizes exclusion and hate, injects hostility and confusion to an event where no one intended to do so,” wrote Forest Hills Public Schools Superintendent Daniel Behm in a letter to parents.
The controversy surrounding the 13-star flag erupted on Sept. 9th during a football game between predominantly white Forest Hills Central High School and predominantly black Ottawa Hills High School, MLive reports.
Forest Hills students not only waved a “Betsy Ross” flag, but they also displayed a Donald Trump banner (behavior guaranteed to get you labeled deplorable).
At least one parent was “shocked” to hear students chanting, “USA” and wearing red, white and blue.
Oh, the horror.
“You can’t deny the overt, intentional racism and intimidation,” said Briana Urena-Ravelo, co-founder of the Grand Rapids Black Lives Matter group.
Ms. Urena-Ravelo, who represents a group that specializes in overt intentional racism and intimidation, told television station WOOD that the students intended to be racist.
“For these white kids from a white school to bring out a flag of the colonies with the ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump flag to a game with black students on the field, it’s all very obvious,” she told the television station.
Parent Matthew Patulski wrote a scathing Facebook diatribe – accusing students of “brandishing these symbols of nationalism and white supremacy.”
Supt. Behm fired off a wordy, two-page letter lecturing folks in the district about their “privilege” and apologizing to the inner city school.
“Whether our privileges are derived from the circumstances of our birth, our race, our geography, our work, or our wealth, our blind privileges can produce a poverty of perspective and understanding,” he wrote.
“Injecting partisan politics into a community football game and into a commemoration of the events of September 11th is inappropriate,” he wrote. ‘Parading our current United States flag in a manner that is inconsistent with proper etiquette is disrespectful to all who have served our nation.”
So let’s look at the facts:
1. The students wore red, white and blue because it was a “red, white and blue” theme night.
2. The students traditionally wear red, white and blue to commemorate Sept. 11th.
3. There are no local news reports of students using any sort of derogatory or racially offensive language.
4. The Betsy Ross flag is not racist.
5. A Trump “Make America Great Again” banner is not racist.
6. Supt. Daniel Behr is a pinhead
Parents and patriots in the Forest Hills Public Schools district should rise up and demand that the superintendent retract his offensive letter and apologize for smearing the brave teenagers who dared to show their American pride.
Oh, by the way – Mr. Patulski also took great offense because the students were chanting, “Go Green! Go White!”
“We were all quite taken aback by these loud chants,” he wrote.
That’s because the school colors are green and white, you self-righteous nincompoop.
Yes, but she’s right about one thing — you can’t deny the overt, intentional racism and intimidation coming from BLM.
They blame, they threaten, they riot and destroy black towns.
Interestingly enough, she likely has NO IDEA of the utilitarianism of a “nose ring”.
Knock yerseff out honey!
Never trust a woman with a hyphenated name.
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Dear Ms. Urena-Ravelo, Matthew Patulski, Superintendent Theresa Weatherall Neal, and Superintendent Daniel Behm,
G-D- but you are stupid.
Sincerely,
Servo1969
Suppose a straight white guy said “I want to make black girls cry”.
Do you think WOOD TV would consider that person credible? How about the Supt. of Schools?
People have become the more ignorant than I ever thought possible......SMH
Al Reality reinforcing the hatred of America.
:: With all due respect, the solution is not to name call. The solution is to refute an obviously weak argument ::
I hope this is tongue-in-cheek.
Patriots must be up front!
Even WFBuckley threatened the piss-ant socialist Vidal with physical violence.
Our current POTUS told his supporters, “we bring a gun”. Your appeal to “refute a weak argument” stands NAKED to the current social order.
If you ascribe to the words you posted...you will be among the first to be put in the box-cars headed to Yuma.
Nope. She’s just an opportunistic criminal.
BLM - Black Thugs Matter.
Right. Like any of the people who were “offended” even recognized that flag. Like they know JACK CRAP about history.
Another day, another tick in the Perpetually Offended column.
Yawn.
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Every time I see someone with a nose ring it’s all I can look at. It matters not whether it’s on a nice person or a person who is not so nice. All I can do is stare at it.
And I never try to hide it either. They put it there because they wanted people to see it and, well, I’m seeing it. If they get uncomfortable I start asking questions about it like - do you have to clean it? - is it irritating? - did it cost a lot? - do you have to take it out to sleep? - has it ever gotten caught on anything? - stuff like that. I don’t care at all.
I just can’t help it. It’s right in the middle of their face. How am I supposed to ignore that?
The real problems are Behm and Patulski.
The appropriate response should have been to ignore BLM or even to laugh at them.
Really? "Spook"? Someone is flaunting their devisive leftist privilege.
Behm needs to be fired. Pronto.
:: Before you try say I’m just paranoid, a sissy, a do-nothing Black liberal looking to be offended or whatever other dismissive, paternalistic sexist racist shit you’re going to use to dismiss me ::
And, so without prompt, she describes herself!
Ain’t she somethin’!
Hillary Clinton (and Barack Obama before her) was endorsed by COMMUNIST PARTY USA.
Her supporters are deplorable and this man is a pantywaist liberal and probably a red diaper doper baby.
Our kids are under attack. This is one of the most blatant attacks I’ve seen yet this week but the damage to kids across the country is destroying the future of America. I shudder when I think of the America in store for my grandkids.
So-called “academics” are often the stupidest people you will ever meet.
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