http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/confederateflag/ en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:25:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388266/posts Paul Schupska knows his history. Over the years, his vast collections of baseball, World War I and II and antique toys have been displayed at community public libraries throughout the area. Whether it is a vintage GI Joe or an authentic World War II map used by Allied forces in a European bunker, Schupska prides himself on the completeness of his displays, on telling as much of a complete history as possible. When he recently showcased his World War II collection at the Pasadena Public Library on Fairmont, the Nazi insignias were part of that story. He has shown several... Pasadena Citizen News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388266/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:25:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2309802/posts Does the Confederate Flag offend you? http://www.sodahead.com/question/537677/does-the-confederate-flag-offend-you/ I came across this question asked at SodaHead.com that has produced a lively discussion with over 2500 comments. I thought I would post it here at Free Republic and see if it gets a similiar response. SodaHead.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2309802/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2290693/posts Monday, July 13th, in the year of our Lord 2009, is the 188th birthday of American legend and Southern Hero--Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2290693/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:53:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287176/posts CLEMSON — The ACC has halted its plans to hold its conference baseball tournament in Myrtle Beach, citing failure to reach an agreement on the Confederate flag issue. In May, the ACC awarded the event to Myrtle Beach for 2011-13, expressing a willingness to look past the NCAA’s ban of predetermined championship events being contested in the state. On Monday, the league announced it had given the event to Durham, N.C. (for 2011, 2013) and Greensboro, N.C. (for 2012), confirming a report by The State that its plans had changed. Clemson coach Jack Leggett - Mary Ann Chastain /AP Do... www.thestate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287176/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:40:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270630/posts CUMBERLAND, Md. — A dispute has erupted in Cumberland over the distribution of a brochure that purports to explain the history of the Confederate battle flag in Allegany County public schools. AP/FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270630/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:25:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270413/posts Should the U.S. keep a closer watch on white supremacists? Yes No Poll is in reference to an article about flying the Confederate Flag at taxpayer-funded events. South Florida Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270413/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270316/posts Civil rights groups on Thursday put city and business leaders here on a 30-day notice that unless they meet a list of demands – including a ban on the display of the Confederate flag at taxpayer-funded events – they will be subjected to protests and boycotts. South Florida Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270316/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:23:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256184/posts HOMESTEAD—The Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP has set its sights on NASCAR, Homestead’s major national attraction, in its fight against the Confederate Flag. The civil rights organization will first reach out to officials with the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, seeking to enlist their help in efforts to ban the controversial symbol from city-sponsored events. If that does not work, however, NAACP officials say they will consider a boycott and protest march at the NASCAR events slated for Nov. 20-22 at the Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway. NAACP officials on Wednesday said they are drafting a letter to NASCAR Chairman... South Florida Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256184/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 12:09:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175227/posts A federal appeals court ruled that a Missouri school district had the right to suspend a student who wore a cap depicting a Confederate flag. The ruling Friday by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis said schools may restrict First Amendment rights "in certain limited circumstances." It affirms a lower court ruling from 2007. Bryce Archambo was 14 when he was suspended from Farmington High School in September 2006, after wearing a baseball cap depicting the Confederate flag with the words, "C.S.A. Rebel Pride, 1861." The district said the flag was associated with racism and feared... BND.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175227/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:21:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165197/posts MARYSVILLE, Wash. - At least three students were suspended from Marysville-Pilchuck High School after displaying the Confederate flag. Ray Hauser, spokesperson for the school district, said one incident occurred in October, and another just last week. The students say the flag is a symbol of culture and heritage, but the school district says it's also a symbol of hatred. Hauser said the students are aware of school policy, and when the administration learned of the displays, the students were called in for a discussion and suspensions occurred immediately. Eighteen-year-old Ethian Allen is a senior at the school. Over the past... Northwest Cable News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165197/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:05:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129263/posts A few weeks ago, as I was walking across the campus of UNC-Wilmington, I heard an old familiar sound. A rap song was blaring from the general vicinity of the university amphitheater. I heard the n-word broadcast loudly (from over 100 yards away) so I decided to walk over to investigate the source of the racial epithet. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129263/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088408/posts The leader of the state NAACP said Monday that the group's boycott of South Carolina over the Confederate flag on statehouse grounds is gaining traction in Hollywood, but Lonnie Randolph declined Monday to name drop, saying an announcement would come in January. Using its offices in Hollywood, Baltimore and South Carolina, leaders of the civil rights group have been aggressively courting actors and film executives since calls for a renewed economic sanction was announced during the NAACP's national convention in July. The new plan calls for asking actors and movie studios to shun the state's efforts to lure film makers.... Myrtle Beach Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088408/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:53:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062255/posts CLINTON, Tenn. — Likening the case to the racial discord of the mid- to late 1950s in Anderson County, county school officials on Thursday night said this week's U.S. federal court hearing over a student's right to wear the Confederate flag symbol is being funded "by outside sources." "Regardless of what you read there's a lot more to it than our enforcement of our dress code," John Burrell, Anderson County Board of Education chairman, said during the county school board's regular monthly meeting. At the meeting's start, Anderson County school board members spent approximately 20 minutes in an executive session... The Oak Ridger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062255/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056973/posts TAMPA, FLA. - Chip Witte doesn't consider himself a Rebel. He doesn't hang Dixie battle flags in his living room, nor does he wear one on the back of his leather jacket. Yet when the Tampa motorcycle mechanic saw the world's largest Confederate battle flag unfurl above the intersection of I-75 and I-4 in June, he felt a jolt of solidarity with the lost cause and lost rights that he says the battle flag represents. "I think it's great that they're allowed to fly it," says Mr. Witte. [Editor's note: The original version misidentified the highway intersection.] The Christian Science Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056973/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:11:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059078/posts TEMPLE TERRACE — Bart Siegel, an outspoken advocate for the display of the giant Confederate flag near the intersection of Interstate 4 and I-75, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot in his Temple Terrace home Thursday. Siegel, 50, was a Republican accountant who penned long letters to newspapers and verbally sparred with columnists. In 2000, he announced his desire to "stir things up" by running against then-Hillsborough Clerk of the Circuit Court Richard Ake, a Democrat unopposed since 1986. Siegel lost, but kept stirring things up. In the face of a protest, Siegel professed his love for the... St. Petersburg Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059078/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056479/posts Chip Witte doesn't consider himself a Rebel. He doesn't hang Dixie battle flags in his living room, nor does he wear one on the back of his leather jacket. Yet when the Tampa motorcycle mechanic saw the world's largest Confederate battle flag unfurl above the intersection of I-10 and I-4 in June, he felt a jolt of solidarity with the lost cause and lost rights that he says the battle flag represents. "I think it's great that they're allowed to fly it," says Mr. Witte. Despite years of boycotts, schoolyard bans, and banishment from capitol domes, the Southern battle colors... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056479/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 22:47:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026987/posts In Minnesota, three government high school seniors were suspended and banned from graduation ceremonies for a prank involving Confederate flags. The principal says they were suspended for violating the school district's anti-discrimination rules. The Bloomington Kennedy High School says that three male students brought the flags onto school property. They were apparently suspended after "carrying and waving" the flags in the parking lot as parents and students arrived at school. Something tells me there is more to this story. Ok, here we have a government school that has suspended some students for bringing a freaking flag on school grounds. There... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026987/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:24:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026856/posts At least one of the Bloomington Kennedy High School students suspended Tuesday, June 3, for displaying a Confederate flag had been warned about doing so after an earlier incident. Rick Kaufman, Bloomington Public School's executive director of communications, said three students who participated in the flag display have been suspended and won't be permitted to take part in Kennedy's graduation ceremony tonight, June 4, at Target Center in Minneapolis. At least one of the suspended students had been warned against displaying the flag following a previous incident, said Kaufman. He declined to give details but said the student must have... SUN NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026856/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 02:30:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026617/posts BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) ― Flying the Confederate flag has long been controversial in Southern states but now it's causing a heated debate at Kennedy High School in Bloomington, Minn. Three seniors who displayed the flag will not be allowed to attend their graduation ceremony Wednesday evening. "It was sitting like that in the parking lot," said Justin Thompson, as he held a Confederate flag that was hanging from a pole inside a pick-up truck bed. On Tuesday, three seniors, each with a rebel flag on the back of their pick-ups, parked at Kennedy High School. "I'm just a country type... Breitbart/WCCO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026617/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:09:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026064/posts Three high school seniors have been barred from Bloomington Kennedy High School's graduation ceremony tonight at Target Center because of what the school district is calling a prank involving Confederate flags. Rick Kaufman, a spokesman for the Bloomington School District, said three male students brought the flags onto school property Tuesday morning. He said they were suspended after "carrying and waving" the flags in the parking lot as parents and students arrived at the school. Bloomington Kennedy senior Kellie Rezac is a friend of the three boys and helped organize a protest outside the school earlier today. Rezac said the... Minneapolis StarTribuine (aka The Red Star) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026064/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:40:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026020/posts Three seniors at Bloomington Kennedy High School will not be allowed to walk in their graduation ceremony after driving to school with confederate flags flying from their trucks. Seventy-five other students showed up at the school Wednesday morning to protest the action taken by the school against Justin Thompson, Joey Snyder and another student. "I figured, you know, we’re seniors, it’s the last day of school…we didn’t mean any offense by it," Thompson said. Added Snyder: "We didn’t look at it as racist or anything." But school officials feel that flying a confederate flag violates the school’s student conduct policy.... KAAL-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026020/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:32:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024450/posts TAMPA, Fla. -- A giant Confederate battle flag -- believed to be the world's largest -- may soon be flying near a Tampa highway intersection. A Confederate heritage group called the Sons of Confederate Veterans plans to fly the flag that measures 30 feet tall and 50 feet wide. The group said it expects to have its flag in place by 2009. "I'm surprised that they would allow something like this to go on in Hillsborough County," county NAACP President Curtis Stokes told the St. Petersburg Times. The group has building permits but still needs $30,000 to complete the project,... local6 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024450/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:47:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024322/posts TAMPA — Next year, a giant Confederate flag may tower above the tree line near the junction of Interstate 75 and Interstate 4. The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants drivers in the Tampa area to see the massive flag — 30 feet high and 50 feet long — atop a 139-foot pole, the highest the Federal Aviation Authority would allow. It would be lit at night. With the pole already in the ground and building permits in hand, the group is on its way to having what it calls the "world's largest" Confederate flag in place by mid 2009. The... TampaBay.com...St. Petersburg Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024322/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:26:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981097/posts Does the Confederate battle flag represent heritage or hatred? The answer is yes. It represents a heritage that included hatred. Walker County (Ga.) Messenger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981097/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:38:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1979695/posts They will tell you the Civil War was not about slavery. Remind them that the president and vice president of the so-called "Confederate States of America" both said it was. They will tell you that great-great grandpa Zeke fought for the South, and he never owned any slaves. Remind them that it is political leaders - not grunts - who decide whether and why a war is waged. They will tell you the flag just celebrates heritage. Remind them that "heritage" is not a synonym for "good." After all, Nazis have a heritage, too. The Salt Lake City Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1979695/posts#comment Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:37:49 GMT