Confederate flag brought to Anderson Co. school in fallen student's honor, sparks controversy [SC]

WSPA News7 ^ | November 30, 2018 | Nicole Ford

[servantboy777]

Preservation of Southern history / heritage...consider joining Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Don’t let the liberal revisionist pervert and rewrite history.

Southern soldiers fought with valor and honor for the cause of the Confederacy.

http://www.scv.org/new/

[elpadre]

Any controversy or racial division is not caused by the flag. It is because of the narrow-minded protesting students and their supporters.

[BenLurkin]

“My son’s an African American student who’s never dealt with this and he’s not upset.”

Then what in the world is the problem?

[upchuck]

Thin skins.

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[BenLurkin]

Saw that. Attributed it to bad journalism.

[upchuck]

Bunch of these folks need to grow up.

[miss marmelstein]

Erasing history and disrespecting descendants of soldiers and their families does no one any good. People need to toughen up and ignore what they do not like.

[miss marmelstein]

LOL!

[servantboy777]

Oh how I wish the days when folks could joke around and make light without some @$$hat gettin all nutted up or lil snowflake gettin the ol panties in a wad. lol

What really gets me, revisionist attempting to alter/pervert historical facts. What chaps me even more...these wussies that swallow this indoctrination hook, line and sinker rather than study/research on their own to disprove or support a position. Parroting someone else’s lie and upholding it as your own truth.

[JesusIsLord]

Padgett is best described by his friends as patriotic. So those grieving friends tell 7News they honored him on Monday at the high school by donning confederate flag shirts and taking a group picture with a flag.

Patriotic? Patriotic toward what? It would be fair to conclude that the friends of the deceased understood their fallen friend's love of the confederacy by how they dressed to honor him. The confederate flag represents the confederacy and rebellion against the United Stated. It is not a patriotic American symbol. It is a confederate symbol. The symbol of American patriotism is the U.S. flag.

[dljordan]

They are trying to wipe out any vestige of Southern heritage because it’s easy. When we’ve been stomped on and ground underfoot they’ll start on someone else.

[patro]

Correct. To add to it, the CSA doesn’t even exist any more. It’s been gone. Long gone. You can’t support or inherit something that’s not existent.

[ontap]

“’It’s demeaning to African American students because of its history,’ said Erica Gantt who is Pendleton mother of four.”

https://www.theblackloop.com/black-man-confederate-flag/

[NotchJohnson]

My son goes to a high school in SC. It is a diverse bunch. It is good to see there are still boys with testosterone that drive big trucks and have rebel flags. It isn’t about whites or blacks it has become a lifestyle of southern masculinity and patriotism. They hunt, fish, work in trucks, wear boots, listen to country music and maybe have a confederate flag. In the other side if he coin you have boys who only wear Vineyard Vines.

[Svartalfiar]

It’s demeaning to me that you can’t figure out if you are an African or an American.

Madison Rising - Before the Hyphens Came

[MayflowerMadam]

Yeah. And what about us British-Americans?

[thoughtomator]

I know the family. They don’t need media attention right now.

[rockrr]

Young whites today are probably more polarized than they were thirty years ago; they see clearly that their race is used to wage economic war against them, and young people I’ve spoken see very clearly that nobody on “the other side” wants an honest discussion about race - they just want to lecture whites and be paid as compensation for being born another color.

I agree, although this observation clearly goes against conventional "wisdom".

I live in Western Washington - about as far from southern "good ol boys" as one can get. So it was especially amusing to read this "hate" article on one of the local news sites:

Swastikas, racist and homophobic Wi-Fi hotspot names pop up on phones during school assembly.

Now, I seriously doubt that any of these kids are sons of the south or are mindful of "heritage, not hate". I'm amused that they have discovered the iconography that disturbs the "establishment" and are (literally) waving it in their faces to mock and trigger them.

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[onedoug]

The Rifleman, “The Sheridan Story”.