Students Fly Confed Flag, Black Students Punished For Protes
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After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest
Last week, a group of students at Coosa High School in Rome, Ga., were filmed waving the Confederate flag and hurling racial slurs.
Newsweek reported that the four students filmed were carrying the Confederate flag in favor of "farm day" on school spirit day, which led up to homecoming.
They did not face any repercussions.
In response, many students said the school did not do much to reprimand the students carrying the flag, and a protest was planned to bring awareness to the problem, CBS 46 Atlanta reported.
However, the school administration suspended several students who were planning the protest. Student protesters told CBS 46 that only Black students were suspended.
"The administration is aware of tomorrow's planned protest," the administrator said over the intercom before the planned demonstration. "Police will be present here at school and if students insist on encouraging this kind of activity they will be disciplined for encouraging unrest."
Two white students participating in the Friday protest were not suspended, even though they claimed to be as disruptive as the Black students, CBS reported.
In Floyd County, which includes Coosa High School, 8 percent of Black students were suspended, the highest percentage of any race, CBS reported.
According to county data, Floyd County is made up of 70 percent white people, 14 percent Black people and about 8 percent Hispanic people.
It sounds like yet another example of racism = good, opposing racism = bad.
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Last week, a group of students at Coosa High School in Rome, Ga., were filmed waving the Confederate flag and hurling racial slurs.
Newsweek reported that the four students filmed were carrying the Confederate flag in favor of "farm day" on school spirit day, which led up to homecoming.
They did not face any repercussions.
In response, many students said the school did not do much to reprimand the students carrying the flag, and a protest was planned to bring awareness to the problem, CBS 46 Atlanta reported.
However, the school administration suspended several students who were planning the protest. Student protesters told CBS 46 that only Black students were suspended.
"The administration is aware of tomorrow's planned protest," the administrator said over the intercom before the planned demonstration. "Police will be present here at school and if students insist on encouraging this kind of activity they will be disciplined for encouraging unrest."
Two white students participating in the Friday protest were not suspended, even though they claimed to be as disruptive as the Black students, CBS reported.
In Floyd County, which includes Coosa High School, 8 percent of Black students were suspended, the highest percentage of any race, CBS reported.
According to county data, Floyd County is made up of 70 percent white people, 14 percent Black people and about 8 percent Hispanic people.
It sounds like yet another example of racism = good, opposing racism = bad.
Is there a link to the story?
Smells kinda like an invented controversy.
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Smells kinda like an invented controversy.
Isn't that what you say about every single well-documented racist incident posted on here?
https://www.insider.com/black-students- ... rt-2021-10
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-h ... est=prebid
https://thehill.com/changing-america/re ... -at-school
https://www.essence.com/news/coosa-high ... rotesters/
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Dang, people still support the confederate flag? That's rough.
The sole reason of the Confederacy was the enslavement of black people. One of their VP's even made a speech about it. I don't think everyone who flies it has bad intentions. Some people use it just to express southern pride. But the flag was originally used as a symbol for a racist movement. The flag may not be racist itself but it's connection to slavery and other forms of racism throughout history is more than enough to disqualify it from respectability.
One of the more common defense's of the flag is that you can change what a flag stands for. I don't think that's very good reasoning as that is very narrow-minded. Going by that logic, can't you apply that to other flags, such as the Nazi flag for example?
I'll wait for more information before passing judgement, been burned too many times by outrage bait headlines that later turned out to be more complicated than advertised.
Funny enough, I flew a stars and bars at my middle school in the late 90s (in a black neighborhood in Seattle no less) as part of an in depth civil war history project, and no one batted an eye, it wasn't considered even slightly controversial back then. My class did this thing for a whole semester where we role played as the Union and the Confederacy (2/3 of the class was Union, 1/3 Confederacy, to reflect the numerical breakdown of the nation), and we "fought" through assignments, tests and quizzes, and "esprit de corps" through costumes and flags that we wore and flew throughout the school.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, my school was one of those magnet schools where they placed a gifted program in a low income neighborhood to promote "diversity" or some such (in practice, the gifted program was largely white, Jewish, and Asian, within an 85% black regular school and caused constant conflict), and literally no one ever had a problem with the civil war project despite all of the confederate paraphernalia involved in it, it just didn't carry that sort of cultural valence at the time. I saw the same thing at gunsmithing school in the early 2000s, the black guys from the south at the school (there weren't many, but they were there) had more flag stickers on their trucks and toolboxes than anyone else, it was purely seen as a regional pride thing at the time. To put an exact cultural date on it, Larry the Cableguy had just become popular, and the his catchphrase "git-r-done!" over a stars and bars was everywhere, it was just a southern thing.
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That's the usually deflection they try to use.
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There’s even a Dixie in Utah.When I visited a friend in that area I saw quite a few confederate flags, bumper stickers etc..,
https://www.google.com/amp/s/kutv.com/a ... tahs-dixie
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the students said administrators suspended only the Black students involved in organizing the protest, even though other non-Black students involved told WGCL-TV they had also been disruptive and argumentative with school administrators.
A lot of schools in America seem to turn a blind eye to their students using racial slurs at sports events or posting racist videos so this doesn't particularly surprise me. but....
How stupid are the school adminstrators.
1. Isn't protest a civil right for all Americans?
2. Why select the black students for suspension?
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/kutv.com/a ... tahs-dixie
I see them in Canada semi-frequently. One of the guys at Honda had one tattooed on his chest.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/kutv.com/a ... tahs-dixie
I see them in Canada semi-frequently. One of the guys at Honda had one tattooed on his chest.
Canadian confederates?
I thought the Brazilians and southern US states are the only ones who miss the "good O'l dayshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33245800
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I see them in Canada semi-frequently. One of the guys at Honda had one tattooed on his chest.
Canadian confederates?
I thought the Brazilians and southern US states are the only ones who miss the "good O'l dayshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33245800
In Canada I assume one of two things (not mutually exclusive), Southern diaspora and/or white supremacist.
So far I've only met one guy who actually was from the South (well, actually KY) and he was indeed a white supremacist although he had an obviously complicated relationship with it as I got to know him.
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