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

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?

Those were paid actors, trying to push a very dangerous narrative that will cause unrest.

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.

Cancel Culture

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

Rome, GA is in MTG’s congressional district.

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?

I’ve seen them pop up on some Brit tv shows also.That flag seems to get around.

it puzzles me that there was a great reverse migration of POC back to the same south that chased them out 80 years before.